skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love involved topics, so thanks for the short flashlight.

The link from monsanto via corn and hfcs to sweetened peanut butter and hfcs jam was especially interesting, and funds buying and then leasing out farm land is especially, umm, sweet.

How come we've never labeled leases or patent licenses 'tax'? How come we only consider irs as unjustified money deduction? When in reality irs/taxation is the only lever to feed the skimmed cash back into the pockets who actually did the work?

The older I get, the better I understand the new deal.
How much of these attacks could be avoided by moving away from Microsoft Windows and EXE execution model? What is the cost of going back to thin clients?
Repair is only a factor because it contributes to device longevity, but iPhones have the longest average device lifetimes in the industry by a long way. In theory they could make it even longer but it's a relatively marginal issue in environmental terms. I agree there are other reasons that make it desirable as well and every little helps, but the fact remains iPhones have industry leading overall environmental impact.

“..researchers found that brand, an intangible property, is more important than repairability or memory size in extending the life of a product.”[0]

The article found that Apple phones last on average a year longer than Samsung’s.

[0]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181016142434.h...

Another estimate puts Apple device lifespans at 4 years 3 months.[1]

[1]https://www.zdnet.com/article/iphone-ipad-mac-heres-how-long...

The average for all smartphones is estimated as from 2 to 3 years, but bear in mind that includes many Apple devices, so non Apple devices must average the low end of that.[2]

[2]https://www.coolblue.nl/en/advice/lifespan-smartphone.html
The way you have laid out this problem makes it seem similar to the naval piracy issue in the Age of Exploration. You have small, untraceable actors launching both ad-hoc and privateer-style attacks on large national and corporate entities.

Everything you suggested seems valid, and as you pointed out both the carrot and the stick are needed. The European powers enlarged their navies to absorb the surplus of unemployed sailors and used the enlarged navies to hunt the remaining pirates. British naval dominance (followed by American naval dominance) is what makes naval piracy comparatively rare today. I reckon a similar strategy would work digitally (put the best talent in golden handcuffs and hunt down the rest), but I'm not sure anyone has the resources, political will and the national interest right now.
What?

It's no longer "ongoing", as it was fixed and has been for some time. This is noted elsewhere in this thread, too. You can't try to claim someone has no credibility then wade in with incorrect facts.

The TouchBar is bad and I wish they'd remove it, yeah.
I don't think there will be many statues of David Cameron once all the scores are tallied up.
Relevant https://xkcd.com/1968/
Thanks for the feedback, I certainly appreciate and see your point.

The first iteration had “YouTube”,”Netflix “ etc. the users complained that it was a lot more verbose. :-)

So, still tinkering with it. May be have them as sub texts so that search becomes easier for them.

And for YouTube, we just added it as streaming. I agree it’s not obvious.
This is cute, but I still hope they fired that asshole who was pushing bots over with a hockey stick.
Regulation won't get rid of the exploitation. Capitalism is the source of it.
*don't see any from the Youtube Partner Program. They're still free to get sponsors and run their own advertisements. That just requires, you know, work.
The fallacy of applying statistical measures to individuals. That fallacy has a name, which I cannot recall
shocking == clickbait
"It hasn't been definitively confirmed which online mapping service, if any, the Kim family used for directions."

What a garbage story. An online mapping service could have caused this. But we don't actually know.

ADDED: And as I noted in another comment, they were in fact just using a paper map (which is what I remembered being the case at the time).
There is a noticeable tendency for people with strong feelings on this topic to make up strong narratives about what they think they're seeing on HN. In fact, it's an extremely noticeable tendency.

This was a mundane case of merging threads, which is bog standard HN moderation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25574136. I could have just changed the URL on the other one, but preferred to go with the submitter who actually posted the story first and also posted the original article, in keeping with the site guidelines ("Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.")

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not true that violent games are trying for realism with the violence. There are a couple of series that went down that path, such as Soldier of Fortune, but most of them don't feature anything beyond blood and "rag doll" physics.

The stories of most of these games are close to a hero fantasy. Having the people you shot scream in terrible agony as their organs fell out wouldn't exactly work with that theme.
Cities not being that overweight just means that rural areas are more than 73% overweight. That's the craziest thing to me. Low urban overweight numbers require the overweight areas to be 80+% to catch up.
Bipedal robots aren't a great match for battlefield situations because they lack the ability to do proper decision making and are very expensive.

The dogs might be more usable, but even then modern conflicts are not really based on ground war. I don't think those have any significant value over a an actual drone.

Now a fleet of tiny quad-motor drones with a few bullets? That could work in high-density urban environment an quickly render guerilla warfare impossible. This project comes to mind: https://www.darpa.mil/program/offensive-swarm-enabled-tactic...
That is the cutest drone!

I have one of these https://www.eachine.com/EACHINE-E10W-Mini-Quadcopter-Wifi-FP..., which is roughly the same size.

It has a functional camera which records to a micro SD card. The image quality is crap, but you can't expect much at $29.
It’s basically when you have depend on a 3p library that you discover 3 days before release has a crucial bug and the only way to deal with it is to copy and paste huge swathes of library code into your app, tweaking the bits you need to while leaving the rest there, that you don’t understand, possible bugs and all ... but don’t worry there will be 1.1 in a couple of months ...
It took me a few seconds to figure out that this isn't a "Raspberry" product. I don't know if the "Pi" name is protected but even if it isn't it's pretty misleading to use it.
Can't this attack be made impractical with some heuristic? For example, only accept 0-conf transactions if a given number of nodes have this transaction in their mempool. (I'm thinking of both BTC and BCH)
Another solution: plugging attack vectors, like users ability run arbitrary non-sandboxed binaries. Server-side systems and thin clients are almost bullet proof. No virii for Chromebooks.
That's a bummer. It's extremely unfortunate that the moat of medical training serves as an excuse for audiologists to not listen to sound engineers; they tend to end up with excellent understanding of the human ear but very little of the underlying physics.
Here's a Tesla 2020 Q3 investor update https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/4E7BR9_TSLA_Q3_2020_Updat...

The numbers:

- increased service locations 12% YoY
- increased mobile service fleet 8% YoY
- increased supercharging stations and connectors 32% YoY

They are clearly building more service.

During quarterly conference call Musk stated that he believes service is the biggest driver of sales and that Tesla will invest in that. So contrary to what you claim it's on the roadmap.

Many people are over the moon with Tesla service given that mobile service comes to you and they can do fixes without you even there. That's something no other car maker does at scale, as far as I know.

Did you have a personal experience with Tesla's bad service or is it just amplifying FUD from other people?
> So what's the main barrier to using these industrially?

Battery technology.
BMI in no way gauges fitness or health. Another reason it's lazy and disingenuous.
I don't think that this issue is specific to the food service sector. I think the reason healthy food is hard to find in America is the same reason that the only way to have a healthy social ecosystem online is to painstakingly develop it at a grassroots level: corporate interests have taken over. The second that a corporate entity takes hold, growth is made the only priority and the system will naturally develop insidious patterns which abuse our most pathological tendencies. Let's refactor your comment using social media:

> Isn’t it strange how the only way to have a meaningful discussion on the internet is to spend hours researching and filtering through a sea of clickbait/porn/fakenews/gossip?

> Every social media website is unhealthy. Most well-known forums are unhealthy.

I think the unfortunate reality is that we will continue to slip into these patterns until we stop responding to them. It's a self-perpetuating cycle. We all need to strive to find out what healthy means and crawl towards that. Unfortunately things will continue to spiral out of control to the degree they need to for us to change, and sadly some people will be lost along the way.

Other possibilities:
* Food is now abundant. The whole idea of healthy food is relatively new. Only the very rich used to be overweight, but now even the poorest can afford enough food to become obese
* American food is heavy and fatty as a matter of tradition. Burgers, fries, fast food are all cultural artifacts most commonly associated with the US.
* Multiple generations of Americans have been raised in front of the television and have deep seeded emotional imprinting from fast food marketing (happy meals!)
It solves the coloring problem by not having a coloring problem in the first place. Maybe I should have said "avoids the function-coloring problem".
From the wiki link:

When the road was upgraded, the route was changed to bypass the section from Kyubeme to Kadykchan via Tomtor, and instead pass from Kyubeme to Kadykchan via a more northern route through the town of Ust-Nera. The old 420 km section via Tomtor was largely unmaintained; the 200 km section between Tomtor and Kadykchan was completely abandoned.[6] This section is known as the Old Summer Road, and has fallen into disrepair, with washed-out bridges and sections of road reclaimed by streams in summer. During winter, frozen rivers may assist river crossings. Old Summer Road remains one of the great challenges for adventuring motorcyclists and 4WDers.

A picture with an explanation:
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/481952e93a2fed32c94a09bd...
Archival...

Imagine saving BILLIONS of [data points](face,interactions,vids,text,etc) per person on hot or warm? NOPE

Life history will be on tape in the archives of such...
I think of it as a mainstream acceptance of a morally repugnant word-view ...
Channel 4 is in the middle of a series on recent archaeology in the Amazon[1], free to stream if you're in the UK, for the rest of us there's always torrents...

1: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/jungle-mystery-lost-king...
It’s the data, not the developers.
George Soros
Do you know if the technique for rendering the graphs is similar to the one he outlines at the end of this article? https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distance/distance.ht...
Were they older citizens?

Israel has opened up vaccinations for healthcare workers and anyone above the age of 60.

There are a few other groups getting vaccinations as well - I don't know all of them, but I know of some people working in nursing homes or other similar jobs.

In addition, there are people hanging around the vaccine administration centers at the end of their workday, and hoping that they have leftover vaccinations that would otherwise expire. Apparently, some people who otherwise wouldn't get vaccinated are able to get the vaccine that way.
Everyone is slowly getting there, some countries (UK, Arab countries) faster, but the development seems to be unstoppable.

In my country, never particularly known for being thin, I can see a definitive negative development since the 1990s. Morbidly fat teenagers were basically nonexistent then. Now you meet them all the time.

IMHO the worst offenders are soft drinks, which have zero satiating effect and consist of a mass of liquid sugar. Coca-cola used to be expensive here in the 1990s (compared to a median wage), now it is cheaper than beer, our typical lower class drink.
What employers can I ethically support without damaging exploited workers? Do I need to only patronize worker co-ops, partnerships without non-partner employees, and sole proprietorships?
Something you have, something you know, and something you are.
Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 mutation requires stricter measures to avoid large new wave
Do laws matter if you cannot enforce them? No.

The legal system does not work very well for international crime.
Professional athletes, along with most people who work out 4+ days / week, have their own more advanced/expensive ways of determining their own personal weight and judging where they should be, factoring other measurements like muscle mass percentage. They also make up a very small percentage of the US population. For everyone else, it's a decent approximation of weight.

As anecdata - I'm on the opposite end of the physical activity spectrum to Tom Brady, I'm also 6'4" and the heaviest I've been is about ~210 lbs. I was definitely starting to feel "a bit too big" at that, and would confidently say I'd feel overweight at 225 lbs, so the scale doesn't feel massively miscalibrated to me.
You can lose 10 kg in 20 days of not eating anything but electrolytes, so it's definitely not one-way ratchet. It's just difficult to do so. Once you eat anything with calories, you disrupt your 100% fat burn and it makes you totally miserable as the body switches over to energy preservation, while with 100% fat burn you feel plenty of energy.
The poses are programmed, but the balance can't be. At least.. if they would be that would be a significant achievement as well I think. So the robots have target poses they should approximate, but how to get there, and without falling over, that's seriously impressive.
It likely uses piLibJS https://www.iquilezles.org/code/piLibsJS/piLibsJS.htm, a small framework created by Inigo Quilez and used by Shadertoy
Maybe when everybody has gbit+ upload speeds at home. I know I would host a lot more things from home if I had better upload at home.
Dear whoever deals with this in i.t. next time you come up with a company or product and name it some pre existing object but now it's a service. Stop. It's a terrible decision. Go back to the drawing board. Short flick through this and I see both cider and slime and neither have any correlation to what the words mean. It's a royal pita that tech has gone this way.

Can anyone actually explain why this naming method has grown in popularity?
I believe this is why it's important to have your own domain name, so you can have your own website with content you create and control. If you just want to make funny cat videos (or something similar) then YouTube is probably not a bad choice.
It's part of the HN guidelines to avoid political topics: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I would imagine Apple et al get a pass since they are strong interests of the audience here.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
I don't think it's quite as clear as that.

Let's start with the simple case: in a democracy, people vote to affect policy. There's a referendum, and the will of the majority of the people voting in it determines the outcome. Easy.

Now, going in a more sci-fi direction, as a thought experiment: imagine that an evil mastermind invented mind control, and used it to ensure the majority of people voted a certain way in said referendum. Technically, I guess this would still be a democracy -- but in name only. In reality, the will of a single person determines the outcome.

Pulling back into reality, obviously we don't have mind control, nor an evil mastermind concocting schemes. We do know that if trusted people in positions of power abuse that power to outright lie, and spend very large sums of money to pursue a specific goal, then the will of these people will end up having a noticeable effect on the will of the population. If someone manipulated you and convinced you of something that wasn't true for their own hidden goals, is it still really your will that you're enacting by voting for it? or have you been tricked into enacting someone else's will?

So while by a surface definition of democracy, any of the above processes are democratic because they allow people to vote, a functional democracy relies on a well-informed populace -- we knew this even in Jefferson's time ("wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government").
Show HN: Sock Drum – kick drum in your sock for live performances
A large part of the income distribution differences result from wages being very compressed around the median for a given occupation in Europe. For most occupations in the US, the top 5% earn much more money than the median person in their occupation (or the population generally), even for occupations like waiters and cleaners that we don't think of as high-paying. This creates a different set of expectations culturally; everyone knows at least a few enterprising people that make a surprising amount of money doing nominally low-wage, low-status work and therefore having access to a visibly comfortable life.

I think "poor" is relative to cultural expectations, so I am not sure how to measure that over different geographic regions. The infamously poverty-stricken regions of the US, like Appalachia or Mississippi, really do have serious systemic poverty but even the middle-class there is often viewed as poor by the standards of other regions. However, the lifestyle afforded by the 40th percentile household income in most European countries would identify as "poor" in much of the US, despite being definitionally middle-class. In much of the US, "poverty" is primarily associated with social problems like drugs and crime, not economic resource issues per se outside of a few sparsely populated regions, which isn't that different than what I see in Europe. I grew up in abject poverty of non-social kind, which is pretty rare in the US. In hindsight, I think the government did a reasonable job of handling that case.
We let them get too big economically. We let them into the western world trading economy under the hope that they would normalize into a western-like democracy with liberal ideals. That has obviously failed.
They've probably trimmed the price somewhat since 2016: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26359/the-pocket-sized...
Node.js test runners performance comparison
The reason 1 of the countries did not sign on is they use a bunch of them to prevent North Korea from invading South Korea
Not sure why you were downvoted.

My recollection from the time was that GPS mapping wasn't involved and, in fact, the Wikipedia article says: "Mrs. Kim told state police that they had used a paper road map, an account supported by the Oregon State Police, which reported that the Kims had used an official State of Oregon highway map. Mrs. Kim later recounted that, after they had been stuck for four days and were studying the map for help, both she and Mr. Kim noticed that a box in the corner of the map bore the message: "Not all Roads Advisable, Check Weather Conditions"."
I was hoping it would infer the structure automatically, quite unfortunate that this seems to require annotations to get any real value out of it. I wonder if it could be adapted to use something like ctags/LSP/tree-sitter for that purpose.
Kinto, minimalist JSON storage with synchronisation and sharing abilities
You're ultimately buying ops-per-dollar.

It seems like Intel could create a pretty compelling offering. Especially since AWS, Azure, and GCP all seem to be giving them the strategic middle finger.
BMI is valid for the vast majority of people. If you're no in the gym for a least an hour 7 days a week BMI is good enough for you.
Scales are common, fabric tape measures are rare; and, even men's jeans no longer correspond to their inch number. Learned that one the hard way this year.
I don't think it necessarily means non-rechargeable. Since charging usually takes a long time, generally in the field you carry a bunch of batteries charged ahead of time and swap them as needed.
The article mentions that "Apple initially attempted to acquire Corellium in 2018". Any idea why the deal fell apart?
To the tune of Childish Gambinos "This is America": This is globalism

This was always the point of offloading to other countries. Less regulations, lower wages, less powerful workers and workers unions, and higher profit margins. Ross Perot was right but nobody listened to him. Apple isnt unique, and this isnt the first time. Its systemic.

So tired of the trope of accusing anybody critical of globalism of being an isolationist. Protectionism is a valid and needed (to a certain degree) approach for all nation states, ours included.
Why did you think it was necessary to explain your thought process?
I am not in Germany and you are not Hitler, well, I hope. Why do I need to do that? Journalists can publish things without evidence to backup their claims, and I cannot describe what I think?

No, I don't believe there are forced labour. I put it this way. In another BBC report regarding the cotton workers a few weeks ago, the source (newspaper scan copies) has shown that in the past, companies import workers from neighboring provinces, and this year, to help the local economy, they make sure jobs will be provided to locals instead. You can still see those on BBC websites. It is not translated into English of course.

When I say independence, I probably mean extremism
I think there's a fetish for this "don't trust your anecdotes" reply, when the reality is more nuanced.

People will trust their anecdotes because in general they are right to. They don't need a double blind study to figure out that placing their hand on a heated element is a bad idea.

The question is whether the Bayesian confidence an individual places on their anecdotal knowledge is appropriate or not. In this case, plenty of people have a ton of personal experience with the subject matter, a ton of friends and colleagues with experience, and little to no evidence to suggest the contra factual is true.

Does that mean they're certainly right? No. But it certainly lowers the bar to evaluating yet further evidence of the position already held; why waste the time? If a study was released that was solid evidence that games did cause a significant uptick in violence, then examination would be warranted.

I know a bunch of people are going to take a contrarian position, but we operate in the real world with the same time complexity restrictions as the machines we work on. You don't need a double blind study to determine how to position your head while tying your shoelaces in the morning.
> But I'm wondering if it brings enough other advantages that I shouldn't view it that simplistically.

So to start with, Phoenix LiveView really is a game changer, you should have a look at Elixir just for that. This is the talk which really bluffed me when I first saw it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI.

For the other upsides, I like a little bit better the way everything is architectured in Phoenix, there's much less magic and it's easier to follow the data flow and what is going on.