skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Switzerland, some of the people most concerned about MSG in their Chinese food grew up in households where pretty much the only seasoning used was Aromat. You would also find it next to the pepper and salt shakers in simpler restaurants for decades. Aromat is mostly MSG, and yet, no cases of "Swiss Restaurant Syndrome" are known in the medical literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromat

At least the Swiss own their MSG addiction and are listing Aromat as part of their "culinary heritage": https://www.patrimoineculinaire.ch/Produits#449
>Entirely possible to without any Apple anything

Yes, I understand this, but if you are already part of the Apple ecosystem it's an excellent integration.
Big example here in Denver, cut off historically black/hispanic neighborhood straight down the middle. Plus added a big leaking chemical refinery, dog food plant etc. The smells and pollution and asthma have had generational health effects.

Links to read below. #2 specifically has moving images/graphics.

They're currently expanding... to be fair they will add a small amount of benefits to 'bridge the gap' like a small park over a new small lowered section (but i think like only a couple blocks wide).

But it's still an expansion and the construction is bringing even more problems & nuisance.

Plus mostly young, mostly white expensive new construction apartment buildings have been creeping north and displacing a lot of historically black low income families. I think infilling and repurposing some of the old warehouse type space is good but the inequity is undeniable.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/47.22/in-denvers-latino-neighborh...
https://denverite.com/2016/10/08/air-quality-legacy-issue-el...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/denver-interstate-70-e...
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/30/asthma-elyria-swansea-...
> San Francisco, DC, and NYY, and see how much people jaywalk without a worry.

I'm only familiar with San Fransisco, but the speed difference between a car in San Fransisco and a human is often pretty slight. Bicycles are usually the highest speed object.
Film and phone is where I am too. Film is to take picture when I have the time. The phone is to capture moments as I always have it with me.
I did not notice. I just walked as I normally would in the USA. :-)
So you don't normalize walking where you're not supposed to.
The Power of Pure HTTP
You could have put TempleOS into that bucket too, but unfortunately the author is no longer with us. RIP Terry :(
not a jq expert but do
a) get to explore random huge files sometimes as json.
b) may care when the structure (but not the values) change.

so a jq utility[] that spits out all the jq paths for a json files helps in both cases.

[] https://github.com/TomConlin/json_to_paths
Ok, so I'm employee #17 and you, the founder, come to me and say "ska, you should really sell 172 of your shares and give the money to the company". Same goes for other investors.

Now your CEO has to horse trade with every investor in the round, and also every existing investor and every employee. Everyone who agrees to the scheme effectively gets diluted, but anyone who refused to go along effectively gets a "free" anti-dilution adjustment. So the incentives are all wonky.
> Keep in mind that the 20000 death number is highly inflated because it include death with covid not just due to covid.

Although 20 thousand people's cause of death is listed as COVID-19, about 27 thousand excess deaths occurred already in Florida, and that'll probably be closer to 30 thousand by New Year.

So, rather than 20 thousand being "highly inflated" as you propose it's likely a considerable undercount.

> But for sure some unemployment is caused by lockdown due to simple logic: if you don't allow business to open due to lockdown, the worker wouldn't have job.

Unemployment is being caused largely by the economic slowdown, and by significantly reduced footfall, driven by inability to control a pandemic.

Of course in New Zealand that's largely restricted to just one sector: International tourism, whereas in Florida their whole economy is constantly being kicked in the head by the policies you admire and will be for months to come.
In the march/april stage of the pandemic, I chose to shop at such "shi-shi" places exclusively because a) there were no lineups, b) their non-frozen supply chain meant they had to sell meat or it would rot, c) they were owned by people with families in the neighbourhood/city, and d) the higher prices kept out hoarders, panic buyers, and the mentally ill.

On the last point, there was almost always some psycho causing problems in the regular supermarket because it appealed to their sense of drama and got them attention. The extra %15-20 was worth avoiding the risk of an altercation.

The contempt some people have for local shopowners who provide services that are actually worth a premium is shocking, albeit typically british.
> Is every program with variables a "fuzzy logic" program?

No. The point is not that a variable can take many distinct values, it's that it may have multiple values with differing degrees of membership.

"John's height is 178cm" is a crisp statement. It comes from a crisply measurable domain, being length. I can verify if it's true or false, to a given level of precision.

"John is medium tall height" is not a crisp statement. It represents that John is partly "medium" and partly "tall", at the same time.
This is also the same reason that payday loans are predatory. You are giving someone a loan who has been rejected by all other credit institutions. The only reason why you are giving that person a loan is because you want to take advantage of their weaknesses and make a profit out of their misery.

The only real way to help is by giving out money that they don't have to pay back.
I think there's going to be many different Venn diagrams of combining OOP and FP. Someone should identify and name them. Immutable data is hard in languages that don't support it unless you're happy with a 80/20 solution.
Your statement is true because of the "sometimes" but how does it apply to this case? I thought it was a good expression of what the author meant to convey.

(Which is that you can get the most benefit from mainly adhering to a principle, while full adherence has intense costs)
I realize that this is probably an unpopular opinion among techies but I really wish people would post information on a website and then link to it from Twitter. At the very least, double post it. I don't use Twitter and actively block it and Facebook's various websites from my router and VPN. Additionally, reading long threads on Twitter or back and forth replies for a non-regular Twitter user is taxing.
Respecting sovereignty and supporting dictators in maintaining power are separate things. One does not imply the other.

Our 401Ks are not amoral tools. They provide necessary resources that companies use to grow. A publicly traded company in our country should not be allowed to support oppression, genocide, exploitation, and other violations of human rights anywhere. If we allow it, we are all complicit in crushing the lives of others. We are culpable for their suffering.

> In the field of modern business, so rich in opportunity for the exercise of man's finest and most varied mental faculties and moral qualities, mere money-making cannot be regarded as the legitimate end. Neither can mere growth of bulk or power be admitted as a worthy ambition. Nor can a man nobly mindful of his serious responsibilities to society view business as a game; since with the conduct of business human happiness or misery is inextricably interwoven. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. "Business — The New Profession", La Follette's Weekly Magazine, Volume 4, No. 47 (November 23, 1912), p. 7.

The right, just, moral, and American thing for Facebook to do is to treat Vietnamese people the same way they treat western people. Ban people who abuse the reporting system. Ban folks that dox others. Push back against unreasonable government demands. Provide comprehensive privacy features for vulnerable folks, with local-language instructions and how-to videos. Facebook would quickly get banned in many places and the company would make less money. This hasn't happened yet because of the greed and callousness of Facebook's leaders, the greed and cowardice of Facebook's employees, and the U.S. doctrine of shareholder primacy.
You realize that with the drive-by-wire systems in (most) modern cars, when you press the accelerator, you are sending an electronic message that "asks" a computer to increase the speed of the car - there's no mechanical linkage from the pedal to a carburetor and/or fuel pump, right?

Similarly in many cases with windshield wipers, headlights, windows, temperature controls, etc.
If bike and pedestrian traffic is that dense, they should lower speed limits and install speed bumps.
The enthusiasm behind my statement was really about the internet enabling people to be creative in never before seen ways. I have a high need for novelty. Using DMCA as a defensive shield in games gave me the hit of novelty I crave, so I was feeling that when I commented. Ordinary life generally doesn't provide people with novel ways to be creative. Many people do it, but not in a way that is as easily accessible to me. Somewhere out there is a structural engineer with a solution that would blow my mind if I knew about it.
response from cygx is completely missing the point about control vs selection

Because your comment I responded to was arguing something different - namely, the number of required assumptions.

Due to confinement, the existence of quarks rests on quite a lot of them.
Thanks for this! Seems about in line with what I have been reading elsewhere
They would've lauded "continuum logic" just as heartily. But everyone else sees "fuzzy logic" and immediately makes jokes or dismisses it out of hand.

Names matter.
A HUGE amount of political spend is 'non profit' 501c___ shadow entities. hard to define the political line & the FEC regs and 'magic words' are pretty stupid. way easier to just ban it all for now.

FB opened GA I might guess (hope) they open it all after the inauguration
"commercial centers with speed limits around 45 MPH.

I can't imagine how a "commercial center" could have a road with a 45 MPH speed limit. Lowering that to 20 would solve most of the problem.
If you mind your own business and don't act stupid, most places are perfectly safe.
I'm really really glad it didn't. Once you get into looking at advanced ruby with all the implicit eccentricities it starts looking a whole lot like the Perl of old.
I thought that entropy was increasing
How much was he/she paying a month to keep it up? Why not ask for donations/people to subscribe?

I mean, I don't personally use and I don't know anybody who does but...
Humanity failing to become a technological civilization. Maybe continuing as a species, but Amish style.
300k a year is very standard for five years of experience.
I kind of wonder, in a half-assed amateurish way, if the underlying reality of our universe isn't just an extremely rare random fluctuation in a fluid-like medium at thermodynamic equilibrium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
They have been. Apple has returned over half a trillion dollars to shareholders over the past 6 years or so. They have pledged to be cashflow neutral going forward. They do still have a monster cash reserve, but they are also very good to shareholders at the same time.

Edit: corrected an order of magnitude error in figures! Thanks umeshunni
That's the problem with criminalizing basic activities like walking. Law enforcement becomes the entity that decides who gets in trouble for breaking the law.
Are they changing f=ma though? Or F=Gm1m2/r^2?

As far as I know, the mond models still require something equivalent to dark matter in order to work
Would a full-cabin CarPlay beat other luxury EV interfaces? I think that's the question. Auto manufacturers produce sub-par software interfaces. Is there a luxury EV that runs purely on android or produces a software interface as good as Apple's?
This comment implicitly rests on the fallacy, learned the hard way by Tesla, that making electric vehicles is just like making any other electronic thing.

When is the last time an electronic mfg had to deal with a billion dollar lawsuit because they didn't follow industry best practices for design like Toyota did after the acceleration scandal? Does Apple have experience with the NHTSB or other relevant regulatory agencies? Sure, there is a lot of gatekeeping in the auto industry, but it's for good reason. Cars can and do regularly kill people. It is not the same as making an iPhone.
Vera Rubin would approve. Despite making a lot of the critical rotation rate measurements on spiral galaxies [1,2,3], it seems as though she was never particularly happy with the interpretation of this result as dark matter:

> "If I could have my pick, I would like to learn that Newton's laws must be modified in order to correctly describe gravitational interactions at large distances. That's more appealing than a universe filled with a new kind of sub-nuclear particle." [4]

[1] http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1970ApJ...159..379R/...

[2] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980ApJ...238..471R7

[3] https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.astro....

[4] https://scientificwomen.net/women/rubin-vera-86
Tesla's biggest threat isn't Apple. It's the other automakers making enough EVs that they don't need to purchase credits from Tesla anymore.

Tesla is profitable, but every single one of its quarterly profits is still the result of selling credits to other automakers, not from the sale of its cars. In that regard, Tesla joins such luminous counterparts as Fiat (1.4 million profit on accounting charge) and Hyundai ($140 million quarterly loss) as the only "major" automaker which doesn't make money selling vehicles.
Hey just curious can the posts be downvoted on HN
> with a chemically fueled disregard for the world,

a law against it doesn't stop that kind of person.

And the rest of the world does pretty much fine without strict jaywalking laws, which doesn't mean that there are no laws regulating how pedestrians behave when interacting with street traffic, just that crossing a street safely isn't be default illegal. (and most people have the self-preservation sense to figure that out). It's also easy to create situations where not crossing a street at all is extremely impractical, and flat-out banning it then is not a good idea.
At what point does assumptions built upon assumptions approach being completely incorrect & useless?
At the time of posting the front page of voat has the following threads:

A moment of silence for all the FBI glowniggers that just got laid off. - https://voat.co/v/funny/4170215

If you go back to Reddit, you're a double niggerkike - https://voat.co/v/whatever/4170129

Plus a whole lot of misinformation and other crazy mixed in with comments that make youtube look like a bastion of intellectualism. It doesn't look like anything of value has been lost.
My apologies, I think I read what I was replying to wrong.
Do developers really understand HTTP?
Voat was founded as a neutral free-speech platform. After alt-right extremists were booted off reddit, they found a new home there. The site was bombarded by /pol/ chan culture, and after that nobody else of other political persuasions really wanted to join. Kind of like that "paradox of intolerance" meme. Free speech platforms usually end up becoming extremist platforms.

I remember going on voat a couple years ago and the front page was filled with anti-Semitic and white nationalist propaganda, and racial slurs were everywhere. Even non-political subverses had an alt-right tinge. It was truly the culture that dominated the site.
How does pinning submodules give you the same benefits as a package manager?
The Skeleton Lake
I like this idea. I'm an organizer of the New York Emacs meetup (https://emacsnyc.org/), and we had had "Hack Night" meetups as one of our formats. Those worked ok, letting people work on things either together or alone. We did a standup at the beginning, where people said what they wanted to work on, or could help with.

I like the idea of putting this on a whiteboard; it makes it far easier to remember what people are interested in -- and more importantly, _who_ is interested in a topic.
> The way a market works is people find ways to serve people at a price they can afford. When you always force others to pay for the cadillac service for them, no one bothers to find cheap ways to provide healthcare.

How can you be so twisted up about this? Americas system is the expensive one, everyone else's is cheap, and controlling costs better. Medicare may not be doing a perfect job but again it's controlling costs better than the private sector. What you are saying is strictly and objectively false.

Healthcare is optimized and improved in single-payer states, because there's still budgets.

You're defending the worst system out there from a cost perspective, and not top 20 in outcomes. And you're doing so by saying the system other countries are successfully using to control costs would fail to control costs, and using this to defend American's failure to control costs? You're telling me Canada is doing a bad job of controlling costs when it literally costs half as much per capita? Because their rate of cost growth is in line with their peers while America's is way, way beyond?

Your mental gymnastics are giving me a headache.

> Venezuela is just a difference of degree. The same effect is seen in everyone's lack of R&D spending outside the US.

And that? Also false. Venezuela is a difference of degree? What on earth are you talking about.

R&D spending? Guess which healthcare companies spend the most on R&D? It's not the American ones. It's all the European ones. #1 is Switzerland's Roche. #4 is Switzerland's Novartis. #6 is France's Sanofi. #9 is the UK's AstraZeneca. #10 is the UK's GlaxoSmithKlein. [1] This is yet another failed talking point.

Guess which country developed the first COVID vaccine? Germany. BioNTech's vaccine was paid for by Germany's government. Pfizer took $0 of US money and is productionizing a Turkish immigrant in Germany's German government funded research work.

You're just not right about this one, time to move on lol.

[1] https://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-report/top-10-pharma-r...
Los Angeles has several examples, which I personally attribute to red-lining in the 1930s that led to current transportation policy and infrastructure choices.

-Boyle Heights was a predominately Latino community in east LA, which had the East LA interchange built right through it (I-10/I-5).

-Communities along what is currently I-105 were opposed to the construction since the 1970s for the typical NIMBY reasons, and these communities were predominately Black.

And the reverse:

-CA-2 was supposed to route from Silver Lake to Santa Monica via Beverly Hills, but community opposition prevented the freeway from being built and is why there's large parts of LA (mid-city/Melrose) that are far away from a freeway.

-I-710 was intended to connect Long Beach to Pasadena, but the city of South Pasadena protested heavily in preventing the freeway from being built and closing the gap. This litigation occurred up until the late-2010s when the CA State Assembly and Governor Newsom ended the 710 project once and for all.
You probably won't hit the out of pocket maximum unless there is a complication. When my wife and I had our first, I was making decent money, still the hospital wrote off the entire bill through their financial assistance program.
My DSLR had a hard limit of 30 minutes video time, but I suspect this is because of the software issues, not mirror tension per se.
<raises hand>

My interactions with Tesla service since acquiring my Model 3 in December 2018:

(1) Install rear spoiler (out of stock when car originally ordered - free service)

(2) Upgrade self-driving computer to version 3 (free service given the car had the FSD option)

(3) Rotate tires

All three were performed at my home, at my convenience, by a tech who just showed up and did his business without needing my attention.

Car and experience have been great - so good that my wife leased a Model 3 in 2019 and will be replacing it with a Model Y when the lease expires.
At least in NYC, talks are overwhelmingly the most common meetup structure.
I love hollywood
I think Herbalife may get a bit of a Streisand effect here. I never would have heard about them having toxic product issues in India without the legal threats.
I love hollywood. They need more of my money.
See also https://pbfcomics.com/comics/youll-be-ok/
Monads are mainly hard to grasp because Monad is a terrible name and all explanations overly convoluted
Personally, I'm looking forward to a car that wears out after two years, has a glass trunk, no user serviceable parts and only allows iRadio and iTunes.
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Ah yes who can forget the Armed Postal Forces and the Teachers Brigade. The Fire Fighters Battalion really whipped the enemy in Iraq. It's strictly not true that privatizing these would risk losing a monopoly on force.

It's not anarchy to pay the fire department to put out your fire. It's libertarianism. Just like paying your doctor to splint your leg.

Even if I agreed with you, whether it risks losing the monopoly on force or not doesn't make it any less a socialized service.

This might be a fun read for you: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
This is a perfect example of mixing science and opinion, and we should be scolding "scientists" who do this without clarifying which is which, not lionizing them.

The only definitively factual statement he makes is in the first tweet:

"One of the key questions about the new variant (B.1.1.7) is whether there is conclusive evidence that it is more transmissible. I don't think we are absolutely certain yet"

Everything else is speculation. He says that founder effect is not likely because the virus is spreading widely, nationwide: this is a hypothesis, not a statement of fact. He says that there are reasons to believe that the mutations are associated with structural regions known to be important to transmission: this is a hypothesis, not a statement of fact.

He then says that because of these two unproven hypotheses (which he implicitly believes), one should "change your priors" on how likely it is that this strain is selectively advantaged. Certainly, one can "change their priors" based on personal opinion, but that doesn't mean that other informed scientists don't have different opinions.

What this guy is doing is citing the (limited, non-definitive) evidence that we know, and then saying he has an opinion about what it all means. That doesn't make it factual.

Without well-controlled cell-culture or animal studies that show that this strain is out-competing other strains in vivo, we don't have solid evidence either way. Trying to predict the organism-level impact of point mutations is a fun parlor game, but no more or less definitive than asking a sports fan which team is going to win on Sunday.
On some distros, /tmp is a tmpfs (ramdisk) anyways. Which of course I discovered when building a package that was bigger than my installed memory (really big package on Arch Linux, which both mounts tmpfs there and then uses it as the default makepkg location).
Amidst a global pandemic and economic recession, this draconian copyright law gets stuffed into the rear end of our public relief bill? I think this is some smelly bullsh*t

We must remember that copyrights were meant to expire; the system was made to create a rich and robust public domain from which American citizens could tap into for art, inspiration and culture.
That probably was a tax/duty thing, the EU treats (treated? not sure) cameras that can record over 30 mins or so as video cameras which have higher fees.