skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The taxes on sugar have nothing to do with corn. Corn producers do not need HFCS to stay in business, they have ethanol when they need a subsidy; less than 5% of US production goes to HFCS, but the rest is basically split 50/50 between animal feed and ethanol.

Sugar imports are taxed so that US producers (cane in FL & LA, sugar beets in the upper midwest and upper great plains states) do not have to compete with cane sugar from Brazil and Mexico. It is as simple as that.
Work on a problem you enjoy , avoid bad companies
The important to thing to realize about Pandermix was that the rate of people impact was so small that even if we followed 50k phase 3 participants over 10 years, we wouldn't have uncovered the issue.

The narcolepsy issue was never going to be uncovered before it was rolled out large scale.
Are there specific downsides to Word Online compared to Docs? I imagine collaborative editing might not be as good, but how bad can it really be?
No https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580637
Ah, "alternative theories"...

The sources to support my claims are everywhere. You are claiming that I am not providing sources that water is wet.

Just look up information on your country finances and borrowing, these are usually public information. Look up treasury bond, guilt, etc. These are all extremely basic stuff... Econ 101.

Even the simple existence of bonds and bond auctions demonstrates that foreign nations do use financial markets to borrow and that they do have creditors.

It seems to me that it is used to provide a backing to political agendas by those who have exhausted other, failed, ideas.
When the UK government (and most governments at this point) increases borrowing to record level to pay for the Covid crisis this demonstrates that borrowing is used to pay for spending.

If the money borrowed goes into spending it cannot be that it is to remove money from circulation...

What I called out as patently false is indeed patently false.

I'd be also wary of any theory that calls itself "modern". That's a classic rhetorical trick to imply correctness and that those who do not agree are not modern...
You can use Apple Maps via DuckDuckGo.

As far as I know, you can't use it anywhere from apple.com directly.
Finding the best streaming setup for a virtual Christmas
Is that some plot to sell bucatinis?

I have some bucatinis left, should I put them for auction?
Learning how to cook. Its a great hobby and you get better every time you do it. Its a creative process and nothing is more relaxing for me after a long day spent staring at screens than cooking a nice meal.
Mobile is getting increasingly important. I'm writing this from an Android tablet.
Kind of looks like a big coin: https://www.google.com/search?q=jeton&client=safari&hl=en-us...
Do you mean the simple construct

someFuture.map(someFunction)

My understanding is that this only runs someFunction when the future has completed?

This blocks the entire of someFunction until all the values are ready. You haven't adapted someFunction to work with futures at all - you're simply not running it until all the futures are gone and only normal values remain which you then pass into it!

Imagine someFunction comes from a library so cannot be modified trivially, takes three values, and can run successfully with the first two completed values while the third completes. What would you write with map to do that?
Not sure why you have been downvoted, yours is the only correct translation.
A lot of people here are too young to remember the overwhelming influence Microsoft had on the industry. As such they can't grok the intention of the essay.

If Microsoft introduces a new product today, a new browser, a new toolset, a new standard -- even a new OS -- it Just Doesn't Matter to most people. You can be perfectly content ignoring them entirely and if it eventually rises through the market naturally, maybe then give it a bit of attention.

In Microsoft's halcyon -- smaller revenues but exponentially more influence -- Microsoft's every move shifted industries. You'd sign up to every beta program and read every tea leave to know what they'd do before it kills your product or renders your work futile.

That Microsoft is very much dead and buried.
Matlab, yes. Matlab code can be versioned, and opened in VIM for independent review. It can have unit and integration tests. It can also often be run in alternative implementations with few changes, such as Octave.

Excel? You'd be lucky if Excel N-2 can properly handle the file, much less an "alternative implementation" such as LibreOffice Calc.
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Microsoft value has increased by FOUR Microsofts since 2012.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1197685264006574080
The collaborative part is still quite buggy. Lot’s of time documents we are working on will revert while you are working on them for who knows why. Very annoying when it happens with legal documents.

I understand that they had a harder problem working from where they were and trying to make it cloud, versus GDocs starting cloud from the ground up.
Indeed, people struggle with? Adam Savage (53 years old) navigates that pile of rocks without problems, while controlling the robot. Never even needing to use his hands.

The work Boston Dynamics does is extremely impressive, but they've been at it since 1992. Each year they make small and incremental changes. But its still a century away from a human, dog, or cat. Not a revolution, just slow and steady evolution of knowledge, software, and hardware.
If there was any such evidence, it would only be known to a small subset of people who work at Google. The only thing anyone else has to go on is very general privacy policies and Google employees commenting on forums! The public only has an absence of evidence, not evidence of absence.
Radiohead was not an "indie" until they were already huge from several traditional label-distributed albums. They're more of an Activision.
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Long Covid [audio]
HEIF
It's irrelevant for 90% of the users that use a computer to read email, browse facebook, twitter, and dozens of connected apps. I don't think my mom has installed an application in the past 5 years.

My workflow includes locally installed IntelliJ, Confluence, Jira, GitHub Enterprise.
It sounds somewhat similar to Sheldrake's morphic resonance ideas.
Perhaps they meant this https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20700698/microsoft-penta... ?
You don't consider if they run using Proton?
And what are the constraints? Maximum amount of parcels in bags (based on metric volume, weight or other limits) or carriage class (1, 2, 5 day delivery)? There's a tonne of variables.
I guess checksums are ok for many applications if USB implements resending of data at the protocol level. For high-speed cameras it might be problematic though.
Yes they are. Technically though it's not mixed. All arriving audio data is dumped into a single buffer. Mixing would now be a great way to get rid of the stream's choppyness.

now that so many users are playing simultaneously, I'm a bit annoyed that some leave the website open and stream silence.

Wondering how I could get a user a fair slot to perform now...

Anyways, the stream has become a great source of entropy now :D
would love to see this too. even just 3-5 years ago
>To be clear, the Agora is not a centralized network.

I'd read the comment you linked and am aware of that.

My comment was addressed to the poster to whom I replied.

Agora seems interesting, although I think the requirement for external dependencies (a git repository) makes it less viable as a platform.

I get that it's necessary to have standardized formats for data -- especially in a decentralized environment.

I also get that markdown/git is a ready resource for that.

However, it seems to me that unless one is willing (and able) to set up their own git repository/server on their own (physical, VPS or cloud) hardware, you're getting decentralization of Agora on the back of centralized git platforms -- which kind of defeats the point of a decentralized platform.

Unless your only target set of users are developers and other technical people with the resources to host their own git instances, forcing the use of git repositories will limit both interest and adoption.

Removing such a requirement (or baking git into the platform) would go a long way toward making Agora more attractive, IMHO.

I am most certainly not trying to discourage anyone from using Agora, nor do I think it's a bad idea.

In fact, I think it's quite interesting. Thank you for working on this and I wish you much success with it!
The Ugly Business Tactics Adopted by Google in 2020
If this could be used to build a Python interpreter that runs anywhere, and maybe even be combined with PyInstaller, then this would solve one of the most annoying problems of Python as a systems programming language.
That's basically the core of managing without authority. If you want people to do something but they don't report to you, then it has to seem like a great idea that will benefit them. All the better if they think it was originally their idea and get to claim the credit.
A series of small essays on Netflix long-term strategy for kids content
I've been reading HN almost every weekday for the past six years. It's been consistently great. I have been looking around for other communities (e.g. on subjects such as psychology, physics, economics, basically anything) that have managed to replicate this success. Yet to find a single one that maintains this level of discourse. I'm sure it's in no small part thanks to the moderators.
ViennaSuperiorCourt: Facebook can skip GDPR consent but must give access to data
They work disturbingly well for normies.
Awesome to see it solved! May I ask how Satoshi himself was chosen? Does he have connections to the game founders in some way?
How is money not speech? Jeff Bezos is able to buy the Washington Post (or multiple TV stations if he wanted) and can say anything he wants under the guise of free speech.

I don’t have Jeff Bezos’ resources, but if I buy a single television ad to advocate for my position I should be regulated?

I don’t see a difference between media companies publishing material and overt partisans buying advertisements.
And is it successful?
Well, there will be one hit now that you’ve assumedly uploaded a photo for them to use!
Show HN: EtymologyExplorer – visual navigation of word family trees
Unsub has to be there. It's literally illegal to use it in the UE.
I visited some fantastic painted caves in Southern France 2 years ago, around Les Eyzies (where you can visit the extremely famous Cro Magnon, and close to Lascaux). The most impressive is the cave of Combarelles. It's a cramped and wet tunnel where only 5 persons and a guide can enter at a time. Lighting is mostly from the guide's lamp. You're literally watching the engravings on the wall at 50 cm.

It will probably be closed to visits forever now. Like Font-de-Gaume, the last cave with polychrome paintings open to the public (you had to come at 8AM to have any chance of entering: it's limited to 40 people/day).
This is a great way to get your domain added to blacklists for spam. I'd at least call it out in the Readme.
> Please explain HN moderators?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:
> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

that said, I believe the ranking algorithm penalizes submissions with many comments but not-so-many upvotes, and non-links are weighted less anyways
Maybe I linked the wrong page, but I have used its API before, it does have a built-in database even with all the names of celebrities marked already.

It used to have a free trial on web too, but it's gone now.
I recall somewhere in the 2002 timeframe having a discussion with someone that worked at Microsoft. The anti-open source attitude, and the anti-innovation attitude more generally, made Microsoft a place where you only took the job for the money I was told. It was a dark place to work. Your job was to protect the status quo, and that meant you were supposed to prevent progress. I had a hard time believing it at the time, but it was probably true.
Isn't this somewhat mitigated by the introduction of std::optional<> in C++17? By using it optional<T> instead of T, you can allocate storage while deferring initialization to a latter time (using emplace() or operator=, if T is either moveable or copiable).
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Hello! Creator here. This app shows word evolutions in a visual format similar to a family tree. I made this because I'm really interested in how words relate to one another. For example "magnanimous" can be understood through its relatives "magnificent" and "unanimous"

Working on it has been both a blast and a slog (~6 years on & off). I used DL NLP (thanks fast.ai!) to convert written etymology paragraphs into a database of words and connections. The accuracy is roughly 99%. There are about 1.4M words and 1.3M word-pair-connections across 13k languages. The most interesting thing has been finding Proto-Indo-European roots, like "h₂enh₁", which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning "breath", that has about 1k modern day descendants ranging from "nose" to "anemone".

I've had about 30k downloads since 2017 and I'm making a modest amount from sales of premium (to removes ads), which I'd like to grow. I'm thinking maybe another visualization style that's only available in premium? So I'd be very appreciative of any feedback at all!
Sure makes sense. There are multiple layers to deep learning:

The math and proofs.
The algorithms.
The software tools/frameworks
Building NNs with those tools.

All of those have different levels of conceptualization and utility.

As some extreme examples: Anyone can build an iPhone image classifier drag and drop today. That’s one level. Developing an alternate to backprop is another level.
Everyone has the benefit of hindsight now. Having read a little bit about Anders Tegnell, I believe he is making decisions in good faith, and you can't ask for more than that. Trying to apply his expertise to the problem.

The majority of countries out there have made slip ups. Australia, which has fared better than most, had several "The Ruby Princess" and a hotel quarantine breach. They're still managing to tear each other apart politically even though the total deaths for Australia (pop 25 mil) is 909.

In some ways I think we've gotten off lightly with this pandemic. It could have been Ebola, or with similar survival rates.

We've actually proved as a global society that we can all pull in the right direction -- vaccines, etc. Has it been perfect? Not even close. Has it been worse for minorities and lower socioeconomic groups? Absolutely.

We can only hope, and plan that some of these things are a catalyst for changes that protect us next time, and make the world a better place in general.
I won't try to dispel this notion; I think your opinion is valid. I'll just say that in my experience Google is made up from a majority of people with good intentions :)

I'm interested in discussing how precisely Google could negatively affect the project -- I currently don't think that's possible, but I might be missing something.
You're just listing more questions now

I don't see how the number of defaulted countries that experienced hyperinflation is relevant to whether MTT is an accurate model for describing economical systems

I also can't find any responses to your post that states hyperinflation is a rare occurrence. On the contrary, there's answers to most of the questions you've asked me

I'm not interested in convincing you of one thing or another. I want to broaden my horizon through discussion, so if the only thing you bring to the table is questions that could be easily googled, I'm not interested in continuing this conversation
> we’re talking about a process of strategically reallocating resources, funding, and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention.

Not really, just more of the same. Sounds completely delusional.

Defensive violence (or a credible ability to project it) is the best cure for offensive violence. It exists in every society, either officially (cops) or unofficially (gangs, mafia, warlords, private guards, ...).

All these "no police" proposals fail when trying to answer the most basic question, "what do I do when someone steals my car with my kid in it". Mind you - they're fully aware that the only possible answer is "violence" - either cops or private guns - which is why they're desperately trying to avoid having to answer this question. But this also makes all these proposals completely unworkable in reality.

It's basically the same as idealistic communes - yeah, you can "peacefully coexist" in a "free for all, cooperative, no ownership, no conflict" society - as long as you outsource enough of the essentials (military, police, social security, emergency medical & fire services, ...) to the rest of the society. But there's no examples (and plenty of counter-examples) of an actual society (large, post-industrialized one) existing in this way.
> Microsoft is Dead: The Cliff Notes

This title does a great job of setting the essay's arrogant tone. Like the Cliff Notes, this essay is written for people who didn't bother reading the original Microsoft is Dead. It's not a walkback, not even a defense, just a summary.

> When I wrote that Microsoft was dead, I didn't mean it literally. I couldn't have. Companies aren't alive, so they can't die.

Companies can go bankrupt.

> In fact "Microsoft is Dead" was what we in the trade call a metaphor. I meant something else.

> What I meant was not that Microsoft is suddenly going to stop making money, but that people at the leading edge of the software business no longer have to think about them.

To say that someone is dead, if not meant literally, means to predict that he's going to die soon. It does not just mean that people no longer have to think about them. Metaphors are not arbitrary. Metaphors, like words and phrases, are usually based on conventions. You can't just write something and then claim that you meant some other thing. That's not how metaphors work. Note also the implication that people who don't understand that saying "x is dead" means that people no longer have to worry about x just aren't "in the trade", don't even know what a metaphor is.

But even the claim that people at the leading edge of the software business no longer have to think about microsoft turned out to be wrong. Maybe it's time for "Microsoft is Dead: The Cliff Notes: The Cliff Notes" to explain that this claim was also meant metaphorically?
I have been using joker.com for ~20 years for several dozen domains, and have never had a problem. Based in Germany, works very well.
Yeah, a proprietary protocol is not very useful:

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syslog

How do I send/forward/import it into my SIEM/ELK/Splunk?

I'm already using syslog for all my networking events as well as Windows logging (via a translator).
Slack worries about MS Teams in the same way you should worry if a person trying to kill you is in your house with a shotgun and you're barred in the bedroom.
There is an ongoing investigation of the COVID response.

https://coronakommissionen.com/

https://coronakommissionen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/su...

> The Health and Social Care Inspectorate has shown that there was a marked reduction in the number of referrals to hospitals from residential care facilities for the older people during February–June 2020. However, it is hard to establish whether this type of guidelines led to physicians failing to make individual assessments of care need

So I gather that even if the health care system was never overloaded, there might have been some confusion in the elderly care that led to mistakes.

But to the extent the elderly care system was “overloaded” this has been the case for decades. Not due due to the COVID response.

> We have found that elderly care was unprepared and ill-equipped when the pandemic struck and that this was founded in structural shortcomings that were known long before the outbreak of the virus. The ultimate responsibility for these shortcomings rests with the Government in power – and with the previous governments that also possessed this information
We use Slack at my new job and I miss Teams. Teams is very far from perfect but Slack is worse in my opinion because it just seems to have been designed from the start with the goal of disrupting your productivity. It feels like I'm fighting a constant uphill battle - mute this, unsubscribe from that etc etc. - I guess the main reason why Teams doesn't feel as much "noisy" is the fact that it's based around the idea of teams - as the name suggests.
Always funny to read predictions that aged poorly :)

For people that think they can foresee the future of "tech" or whatever else: tell me how around 2000-2004 anyone could have foreseen that Yahoo Search will be completely smashed by Google Search. I mean how could anyone come to a facts-based conclusion that would draw today's picture (Yahoo essentially bankrupt, Google one of the most profitable companies in the world).
Ultimately I want to support devs who support Linux, but if it works on Proton doesn't it also get the flag on steam for support of SteamOS/Linux. I am only going by the Steam flag.
Hyades (https://hyades.info/)

I wanted a not-too-intrusive Github notification system that would give me a broad overview of what happened in my starred repos (i.e. repos for which I'm only a consumer), as some kind of ‶real-time″ changelog. Indeed, I star quite a lot of e.g. emacs packages and other small utilities, which don't have a strict release schedule/changelog cycle, so it's easy to miss a new feature.

So I developed a service that would send me a weekly newsletter of ‶what happened″ (issues, releases), and I decided to make it public, as I assumed I was most probably not the only person with such a need. I never planned on making actual money out of it, but I thought it could recoup hosting costs, which it didn't.

But on the other hand, I learned quite a bit while doing it, so it's probably still a net win.
Long distance calls cost a pittance now. Service is better.
VoIP is a big innovation.

Lack of competition in cellular is another story....
> ` (...) They keep pushing it to later!’ His big concern about AI isn’t Judgment Day, but rather ‘that people will believe machines actually understand things’. He gives examples of symmetrical chess configurations in which humans consistently outperform computers by abstracting to a higher level

This sounds a lot like the usual moving of goalposts whereby "anything computers can do isn't AI, so AI doesn't work".

When AI couldn't do anything, chess was supposed to be a demonstration of human intelligence. Now that AI can play chess and other board games, suddenly it needs to solve symmetrical configurations and think "abstractly" (which is left fairly loosely defined).
I am living in 2 tech worlds that couldn't be more different...

The web / startup / open source / constantly changing world of continuous learning and building solutions looking for problems.

And the enterprise world of minimizing risk, meeting all day to kick real problems to someone else, and staying just far enough below radar to keep direct deposit and 401Ks humming along.

Make no mistake about it: Microsoft OWNS the enterprise world and has for 25 years. These people know little else. They do Webex and Skype, not zoom or slack. They use Microsoft Project and Sharepoint, not Trello. They outsource or purchase e-commerce, HR, and supply chain. If any programmer knows anything not Microsoft, they're either "not a team player" or "a god". Hell, even one CEO once told me, "I do not allow my people to use I.T. as an excuse. They have Excel." That's pretty much the thinking and I don't see any evidence that it's changing anytime soon.

Any enterprise people here have similar experience?