skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vegans don't consume any animal products, whereas vegetarians typically eat no meat but may eat dairy.

Ethical vegetarians are vegetarians for primarily ethical reasons. For example, they may think meat-eating causes excessive suffering (I fall into this category). Most Western vegetarians are ethical vegetarians, but some people are vegetarian for medical or religious reasons.
I already explained why that's not the case. Not everyone has the capacity to work charitably, as much as that would make for a better world, and resorting to "this is bad let's completely get rid of it" completely ignores the intermediate state required to transition to that utopia.
I have no opinion on the merits of Git-style branches vs. Mercurial-style branches (mostly because I haven't really used the latter, either), but Mercurial has supported Git-style branching (termed "bookmarks") for quite some time now, too.

Other than that, I like not having to deal with the additional complication of Git's staging area in Mercurial (anything I personally did with the staging area I can replicate much better with Mercurial interactive commit feature), plus Mercurial's evolve extension, which turns commit amending, rebasing and all other kinds of history editing into non-destructive operations.
I think (and I believe the parent poster does too) that math becomes relevant when things are starting to scale. Sure, creating an MVP of FB can be done quickly with minimum knowledge of maths. However, if it starts attracting a lot of users, suddenly algorithms and theory becomes very very important to minimize cost while optimizing performance.
Digital signatures definitely could have helped.

However, the email addresses/domains were very carefully chosen, as was the text of the emails.

It's pretty clear that whoever is involved either knows most of these people or had extended access to their emails.

You should read the article.
Why Taiwan? China has had even fewer deaths per capita and much larger much more connected population.
Live Coding “Greek Temple” (2019)
On the other hand, it gets easier after the first time, and you can do it where and when you choose to.

I prefer to do some repairs myself, because I don't like waiting for my mechanic. Replacing the brake pads took less time than driving to the mechanic and returning home with public transit. Hell, I spent more time in their waiting room than changing my oil.
Moderna has received a lot of government funding despite not ever making a profit as a private institution.
This is what frustrates me - I would love eInk panels, or a reader in a larger format than your standard kindle and kobo affair so I could read textbooks properly.

An A4 or slightly larger eReader should have existed (and not cost ridiculous money) years ago.
It's not rendering "3D worlds". It's transforming a handful of triangles and mapping them to 2D. (Good) font rendering alone would be above it's capabilities.
Another option for generating gradients is using cosine based pallets [1]. And a nice implementation [2].

[1] https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/palettes/palettes.htm

[2] https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/color/#cosine-gradients
QtCreator might be worth trying. It's focused on Qt apps, but it's a general C++ IDE. KDevelop is another one. I don't know if these would fit your purposes or not, but I'd be interested in hearing.
As mostly said in the article, the first and biggest expense is taxes. However, taxes amount heavily depends on location you live and possible tax optimisations you can use in your position.

For example it may vary in 10x+ times between entrepreneur/nomad in low tax jurisdiction and hired worker in high-tax jurisdiction. Maybe it's smarter to choose country (state in US case) with lowest taxes/highest return than suffering from 30%+ cut.

I agree with the author about skills in general, but not every thing we do apart from the job bring us joy and satisfaction. Sometimes it's more convenient to just pay for the work.
I wouldn't call myself an "ethical ovo-lacto vegetarian" because it sounds pompous, but it's basically what I am. My position is that raising and killing animals for meat is unjustifiable by any reasonable ethical or environmental standard. However, it is possible for dairy and egg production to be ethical, even though it often isn't in practice. So, I try to source eggs and milk from producers who minimize suffering. For example, I could get eggs from a local smallholding where I can see for myself that the chickens live fairly good lives.
The Breakdown of Nations by Leopold Kohr (1957)

Kohr presents his theory that the larger (physically) a government the worse it is. He laments how size has been ignored by political scientists, and that the pursuit of political unity is actually the pursuit of tyranny. He argues the ideal political structure is the sovereign city state, especially with regard to democracy. It’s not the best writing, but it completely changed my perspective on government.

The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō (1906)

Essays on tea, its history, and its relation to Japanese aesthetics. Also includes commentary on art, and the cultural relationship between East and West.
This seems to be similar :
https://lunchclub.ai/
Yes I remember there was a time when Dev C++ especially Orwell fork made much sense. I am talking about now though.
>"nearly 25 percent of the population in the U.S. [takes] acetaminophen each week"

my guess: half of half the population takes them 4 days every month, eg menstruation pains.
> It really isn't, and failing to understand what a scientific paper is shows a crass and fundamental misunderstanding of what science is and how it works.

Again, you fail to differentiate between what things are in practice and what you think they should be. I agree with you on how things should work, but not how they actually work in practice.

All the actual science in the paper doesn't matter to the outcome. When Boris Johnson goes in front of the public and claims that this virus "might be 70% more contagious" and that therefore more lockdowns and travel restrictions are needed, he's drawing on papers like these.

If the paper just presented data and refrained from drawing scary conclusions like "there will likely be a huge resurgence unless...", it would be a different matter. Notice all the weasel words such as "likely" or "probably". It's easy on the conscience to make poorly supported predictions by just adding some words that make the claims technically weaker.

> It really isn't, and it boggles the mind how easy you come up with conspiracy theories to find alternative explanations to obvious and undisputed facts.

You're now diverting into strawmanning and baseless accusations. There is no conspiracy and I never claimed there was. There is human behavior, which is fundamentally not rational or scientific. One scary sentence in a paper has more impact than all the carefully aggregated data. Dramatic conclusions drawn from weak data make the headlines. This happens all the time and you must've noticed at some point yourself. If news headlines were based on fact, cancer would've been cured hundreds of times over, every year. It's only when you look at the details that the data doesn't hold up. Why would it be different for COVID-19, of all things?

> In fact, you should think your assertions through. I mean, you're somehow accusing a scientific paper of being rubber-stamped facts while at the same time complaining it's propaganda? Come on.

There's nothing mutually exclusive about something being "scientific fact" and "a (de-facto) propaganda tool". For instance, there's scientific data that shows that people of African descent have lower IQs than those of European descent. This data is being used for propaganda purposes by white supremacists. To the outcome, it just doesn't matter how weak the data is or what the intentions of the authors were.
i think that it not the end of maps.me, I believe that new owners can achieve the best results
The IRAs most successful bombings targeted the financial hubs with plenty of warning so they cost massive monetary damages, but no loss of life.
It's kind of funny being 30 and loving Pokemon. I have been dying for a good Pokemon game since I was a kid. The GBC games were addictive, but I wanted something that would feel more interactive and require realtime battle skills. The RPG-style battle mechanics got really old. Pokemon Snap was and still is magical, but the user was stuck on rails. Pokemon Stadium was at least 3-d, but the battle mechanics were the same. I fantasized about having an open world with the battle mechanics of Super Smash Bros. A BOTW-style Pokemon game would be just incredible!
My Fighter Terminator Is Top Fighter on FaaS Wars
The market for self diagnostic medical technology is going to boom at some point. It will be a long time before we have an AutoDoc, but until then, diagnostic equipment and diagnosis automation are something to keep an eye on and possibly invest in. Very few doctors will see it coming, because they don't want to believe that they can be partially automated.
[Serverless] Graph databases

[Scripting Language] Infrastructure as code tools

Genetic Programming

Functional Programming

Neural Networks / Differentiable Programming

Cognitive Architecture

Reinforcement Learning

Causal Statistics

Array databases

Bitemporal data

PostgreSQL schema migration tools

Functional GraphQL directives

CRDT/ORDT frameworks

WASI/WASM as a replacement for Docker
Show HN: Run Neural Style Transfer Offline on Your PC
AI allows combining the content of one image with the style of another to create artwork. Neural Style Transfer (NST) advancements made applications like this possible using deep neural networks to power up the style transformations.

This application is using the Windows ML api for inference.
It is indeed frame-buffer as suggested by many and not Facebook.

See https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nintendo... for more information.
Self-Hosted Gitea on Vultr Using K3s
Brainie – Music patterns to improve deep work, relaxation, and sleep
Ok well that is science fiction at the moment. The way you are talking about it and sections of the internet talk about it, like it just around the corner.

Alright fine, in the world where we have infinite energy and resources yeah sure everyone can go off and do whatever the hell they want.
now i dont see the problem with it, there were many unknowns who did unreal things.
In most ruby projects we already maintain two files for every class; the class itself and its matching test/spec.

Something I've wondered about rbs files since I first heard about them is, can we combine rbs descriptions with our unit tests?

That would seem to make sense to me and help support TDD/BDD.

Otherwise I'd probably stick to Sorbet in-line type definitions for ruby.
Does it have a step by step debugger with automatic variable visualisation? If it had that feature then it would be a killer ide for c++.
Out of interest, which would you choose on balance in a scenario in which the lab meat tasted the same, cost the same and came with the same food safety aspects?
I think having a mandatory auction + proceeds rebate system is better and then whoever holds it can write indefinite contracts/licences.

For example, imagine you get 100% rebate of auction proceeds untill year 5, then it drops 1% per year:

- at year 5 it's nearly impossible to do a hostile accquisition because you have a 100x advantage and only lose 1% of highest or second highest if it's a blind auctio.

- by year 25 you have to pony up up to 20% FMV per year just to retain monopoly. And only have a 5x advantage vs a competing bidder.

- the remaining fraction if paid back to consumers as basic income, can be thought of as a

- losing an auction doesn't hurt your buisness operation if you wrote yourself a perpetual contract

- auction loser is compensated less every year the contract ages and therefore has strong incentive to sublicense

- government and trade groups can buy out key patents at fair prices

- defensive patent pools still work, trolling is riskier
Haha why not just increase the threshold at which you get taxed? Same end result except no one gets money for doing nothing. Those on low incomes get to keep all their earnings.
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Unless you are doing something novel, not so much imo. I generally trust standard approaches and tools, I'm not trying to write my own encryption, right, or reinvent wheels. You can often get by with no real understanding of the underlying math, just what you put in, what you get out, and what that generally means. Lots of respect to you math geniuses who make it all possible. I'd rather play and prototype stuff than perfect and get into the nitty gritty. But math in programming is great for learning and understanding, it being actually applied.
It's all depending on the domain you work in. When working as a web/app frontend developer I've barely ever needed any real maths knowledge beyond basic algebra. As a backend developer, I've had to read up on certain select algorithms. As a game developer I've had to study a bunch of trig, pathfinding and search algorithms.

It also depends on the stacks you work with of course. If you are doing doing a lot of Haskell for example you probably want to understand category theory and lambda calculus and whatever.
Synthetic Biology: A Primer

Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell

(the second for systems biology)
Is it possible to host static websites on Amazon glacier
I know it can be done on s3 , ec2, and cloudfront

any others besides those three?
I met him in person in 2019 in Palo Alto, as a consequence of me being a big fan of his work in the field of Computer Science. He seems to be a really nice and smart individual.
Yes, it is dismissive. That's because I'm not seeing anything new. Block apps and use CBT. Got it. Dopamine fasting seems little more than a patently absurd misnomer.

I've done this stuff numerous times in my life and it already goes to by the name "digital detox" more or less. It also was always only a temporary thing. Nothing life changing. Good and refreshing every once in a while. Heck, just get out and go camping.
I would contest every point.

Ethical: cruelty is bad, so responsible production of meat is preferred but there’s no reason why killing animal for food should be bad, such that same argument can’t be applied to veggie production.

Environmental: grass fed meat is very much preferred to monoculturing the crap out of our planet. Animas are part of life cycle of the environment.

Health: crappy grains have done way more health damage than crappy meats. Also focusing on meat exclusively, skipping organs is unhealthy. Saturated fats aren’t as bad as you’re told (only in combination with sugars). Red meat doesn’t cause cancer (smoked foods do). Lots of myths around nutrition.

Taste: highly subjective.
I would say computer science is useful, but as in any craft, you can get by without a theory.

Confusingly, CS is considered to be a branch of mathematics, but it is still quite different from "traditional" (up to 19th century) math (linear algebra, calculus). I have a slightly different philosophical view, I consider CS to be on equal footing with most of traditional mathematics. In my view:

- Traditional math (which came mostly out of physics and geometry) studies primarily infinite but countable structures (functions on countable sets, infinite series). The finite structures are often considered trivial, and the uncountable structures are considered to be too large to have practical importance.

- Computer science (gosh I wish there was a better name of the two disciplines) is concerned with finite structures which are too large (in practice, functions on sets with more than 2^32 elements) to be represented by enumeration. In analogy to finite/countable/uncountable sets distinction in traditional math, small structures that can be enumerated in practice are trivial in CS, larger structures (infinite ones) are pretty much impractical, and they are simply universe in which we operate. (This leads to algorithmic languages, which are essentially descriptions of arbitrarily large finite sets.)

- There are other branches of mathematics, logic, category theory, algebra, which are concerned with building bridges between the two above subareas, which are probably many.

My point is that for (theory of) programming, you need computer science (focus on large finite sets), and study of infinite sets is less useful. But historically, it's not how mathematics became subdivided, and it is a distinction useful from applications of mathematics, not mathematics as a general study of structures (regardless of size).
Yes, Ointerest and Quora are types of site that Google should really punish hard. Account requirements is something that should move sites outside the few top pages...
That would be strange - why would Twitter give him a preferential treatment? Any source you can provide?
The author talks about his past experience, so did I. Back in 2014 the 1500 Euro Mac was beaten in image manipulating workloads (Adobe stuff) by a PC of the same price range.

Today, for a proper answer I'd had to check specific benchmarks and compare prices. If noise is no problem (e.g. separate tech room backstage, where the power amps live) used server hardware could be a reliable and performant option on the cheap.
> caffeine

I had a chat with my chemist about why a small bit of caffeine was in the more expensive brands of acetaminophen / paracetamol. I asked if it was used as a kind of pick me up to feel more awake.

He said that the dose of caffeine was very very small and not for that, but it actually helps the paracetamol work better or faster.
If you do not have a subscription to Nature: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-02...
> Well, surely anyone can already guess what happened... After just a couple of days, I came upon a long forgotten enemy: eye fatigue. Blurry vision, trouble focusing it, and a light headache.

Is this actually a common problem? I've never had this with even 12 hours a day in front of a screen, or is this just luck?
This is just my own personal take on things; I'd definitely recommend reading up on the differences between Waterfall, Agile and the V-model (and Spiral model). Note that you'll see it said that the V-model is based upon Waterfall, which is somewhat true, but it's not necessarily incompatible with Agile. You can combine the two and go all the way down and back up the "V" in sprints or "product increments", but you do need the resources to do all the revalidation and reverification at all levels each time, and this can be costly (this is effectively what the Spiral model is).

In terms of deciding if meticulous up-front design is necessary (again my own take), it depends upon the consequences of failure in the requirements, specifications, design and/or implementation. A random webapp doesn't really have much in the way of consequences other than a bit of annoyance and inconvenience. A safety-critical system can physically harm one or multiple people. Examples: car braking systems, insulin pumps, medical diagnostics, medical instruments, elevator safety controls, avionics etc. It also depends upon how feasible it is to upgrade in the field. A webapp can be updated and reloaded trivially. An embedded application in a hardware device is not trivial to upgrade, especially when it's safety-critical and has to be revalidated for the specific hardware revision.

For filesystems the safety aspect will relate to maintaining the integrity of the data you have entrusted to its care. Computer software and operating systems can have all sorts of silly bugs, but filesystem data integrity is one place where safety is sacrosanct. We set a high bar in our expectation for filesystems, not unreasonably, and after suffering from multiple dataloss incidents with Btrfs, it's clear their work did not meet our expectations. We're not even going into the performance problems here, just the data integrity aspects.

I can't say anything about the tools I use in my company. There are specialist proprietary tools available to help with some of the requirements and specifications management. I will say this: the tools themselves aren't really that important, they are just aids for convenience. The regulatory bodies don't care what tools you use. The important part is the process, of having detailed review at every level before proceeding to the next, and the same again when it comes to validation and verification activities.

Often open source projects limit themselves to some level of unit testing and integration testing, which is fine. But the coverage and quality of that testing may leave some room for improvement. It's clear that Btrfs didn't really test the failure and recovery codepaths properly during its development. Where was the individual unit testing and integration test case coverage for each failure scenario? Where the V-model goes above and beyond this is in the testing of the basic requirements and high-level concepts themselves. You've got to check that the fundamental premises the software implementation is based upon are sound and consistent.
They didn't say "leisure" they said "fundamentally important activities." Activities that are currently, for the most part, not compensated. Examples include all sorts of things involving childcare or education. Stuff which has almost incalculable value to society but the purchaser and the beneficiary are two different people, if there is any money changing hands at all.

Somewhere out there there are hundreds of thousands of people who could be force-multipliers working as mentors to students. Instead they're working for $20/hour doing rote work that has only marginal or even negative utility.
Targeting infrastructure can be terrorism as well, it does not require aiming at killing people.

Terrorism is unlawfully using violence, especially against civilians, to achieve a political aim.
The problem I think is that JWT is just a small puzzle piece of a great artwork that is identity and auth. It is overly complex (not without reason) and people don't put in enough effort to learn the whole picture (and it just isn't thought in schools) and just want to use something quickly for their current problem. Which is why they pick JWT and don't understand the host of related technologies - OAuth2, OIDC, JWK, JWE - just to name a few.

I don't see a reason why I would ever want to use auth=none for anything as at that point JWT is just base64 encoded json but I may be too deep in the identity world by now.
How far is it practical to move hot/cold water?

Could a big pipeline (say 5 yards diameter) be built between the north and south of the US to bring icy water for cooling in Texas and take back hot water to heat detroit?

Pipes could be tapped in any place for water too, ending per-state water shortages while other states have flooding...
Fun fact: Freud once spent a summer in Italy dissecting 400 eels in a futile search for their testes.
I partially agree and partially disagree with you.

I think most of the problem is people treating him (or Tim Ferriss) like a God, and his thoughts as the Holy Bible.

For example, tons of people in Silicon Valley praise "Sapiens" by Harari. When I finally read it, I quickly realized that I knew most of his stuff from other books. Surprised that Naval loved that book so much - but as a consequence, many people have bought and read and praised the book.

I don't know if he's a narcissist person, and I am not sure he's not humble. I think he partially suffers from the same problem that plagues Sam Altman: they both come across in a certain way, because they don't seem to have the social skills to present their persona and give justice to the nice parts. I think it happens when you think most other people are super smart and introverts like you.
My CS tutor at university used to say that calling the discipline "computer science" is like calling chemistry "test tube science" :).
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