skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Good food is expensive" is a baseless claim I hear all the time. People could eat relatively healthy if they wanted to, but they don't. There are a bunch of reasons, but if I was forced to pick one it's that these big companies engineer their processed food to be addictive. It's insidious.
That's the old Vue 2 repository, which has been pretty inactive for a while due to the full rewrite of Vue.

Vue 3 (70.62% acceptance):
https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=vuejs/vue-next

Svelte (57.23% acceptance):
https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=sveltejs/svelte

React (45.99% acceptance):
https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=facebook/react

Angular (1.63% acceptance):
https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=angular/angular
Again we stopped taking the course because it just didn’t seem relevant enough for her line of work, but another lawyer friend of ours could definitely use a legal oriented “what is version control/source code/package/importing/forking/branching” course.
Good education system does not neatly translate to, say, economic success.

Italy has top-class university system, much older than Columbus, and yet the country seems to be stuck in stagnation for last 20 years and the talented fresh graduates of those top schools move abroad.
Putting a drop of water on the pan is a good indicator of temperature. It will either sit there in a small puddle, wander around a bit, or zoom around in a frenzy.
Thank you. This was fascinating.

Re: I do not agree: the only way my sophomoric hack might ever actually work would be if I argued that clearly the website’s didn’t bother reading my contract response — if they had they would have correctly interpreted my actions as meaning I didn’t agree to the terms.

But then I went ahead and used the site anyway. Someone who didn’t agree to the terms would never do such a thing. It is a very silly idea of mine.
This is the stat I was really thinking of:

The UN estimates 2007 was the year when, for the first time, more people in the world lived in urban than in rural areas.

https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization#number-of-people-liv...

Here is some data on the US:

http://www.theusaonline.com/people/urbanization.htm

Sorry for the sloppiness. I think the thrust of my point is accurate: We used to have more physical jobs and the world on the whole became citified relatively recently. But I'm probably running a fever and mashed a few things together in my brain inaccurately.
Taking this further. Statistically I might be better off with full autonomous as soon as available, but I wouldn't feel as bad if I crashed myself vs dying while letting the ML data do it's thing. If harm came to others, I'd still be the one who chose to buy/use it and only technically free. At some point I will change my opinion but it will have to be many many times better than humans.
There are other contributing factors as well, intrinsically linked to the evolving social/economics dynamics in our society. For example, it's now much more common for families to have two working parents, and thus less time to prepare nutritionally complete food from scratch. So people naturally gravitate toward engineered food which is easier to prepare, but less "good" as food. There are many other similar effects that lead to Americans eating more/poorer food like advertising, school lunches, etc, but the deck is definitely stacked against this world to reverse the obesity epidemic.
What about their children? Or do they not count? Does the cycle that creates count for nothing?
The editor is great and you can export to LaTeX, which is the single most important feature for me.

I would gladly have dropped ~30$ on the offline version, but that only pays for a year of subsciption - so that‘s a no from me. I‘m just using the new Word formula editor or pure Latex instead.
> Also, real programmers don't say DWORD.

Wait what? If you've done any windows coding in C it's practically lingua franca. I think the int{size}_t stuff is way better, but a "word" is common slang, and a double word is like a dword because nobody wants to write that much

> Also, the "next and previous points xor'ed into a DWORD" hack mentioned at the end? This isn't duct tape programming. It's absurdly context-dependent premature optimization

Man I'm writing code for an arduino right now and that kinda optimization isn't rare for a machine with 2k of ram. It's not absurd it's useful to be able to do that. Sure don't do it on your 4ghz intel or whatever but techniques like that are useful.
Anyone tried carbon-steel pans? They're smooth like glass instead of the pebbled Lodge surface. Alternatively, older cast-iron pans are smooth as well.

I quite like my carbon-steel pan but the seasoning instructions (salt, oil, and potato peels?) left a mess, and instead I used the normal cast-iron method.
Senator's Tweet Revealed Where Lawmakers Were Hiding from Trump Rioters
I'm not weighing in on Ecosia specifically (no direct knowledge), but...

It's very important to remember the legal and liability requirements associated with privacy policies. In many jurisdictions, you are subject to liability if you collect something that was not disclosed in your privacy policy.

Therefor, the default is to over-report. If there's a chance that something is collected, better to put it into the privacy policy. This is similar to the famous "California Cancer Warning" - the incentives to include everything, no matter the materiality, ultimately render the warnings useless.

Any central server will "collect" everything typed into a text box. If it allows registration, requires password verification, perhaps offers customer support, it will disclose collection of "personally identifiable information" including email, phone number, possibly computer-specific information like browser, IP, installed version info, etc. Hosting on Amazon means it's shared with a 3rd party. And so on.

Also, this seems crazy to the privacy conscious, but many consumers want Facebook integration. They ask for social logins, and easy ways to share via social media. Once those features are enabled to satisfy their users, they're subject to all the cruft that comes with those APIs - and need to disclose those in their privacy policies.

None of the above means that a site is nefariously using the data it collects. Nor does it mean they do not take privacy very seriously.

The interconnectedness of the web, legal requirements, litigious privacy advocates, and overarching privacy regulations (none of which are bad on their own) combine to make the Privacy Policy an almost useless signal of a company's actual privacy posture.

That's why it's highly unfair to Ecosia for OP to so strongly imply they lie (or are, at best, misleading and hypocritical) and use your data nefariously, simply by excerpting a few lines of the Privacy Policy. The scare quotes, italicized "may"s, rhetorical questions, and other devices written to instill doubt and distrust makes me wonder about the agenda behind the message, frankly.

Privacy is extremely important, but so is customer service and a viable business model. Suggesting that any product that collects data to run the business (and properly discloses it, as Ecosia does) will "do so for nefarious purposes" and does not "take user privacy very seriously" ("Right.") is unfair and undermines the work good people do to craft a viable balance in today's difficult tech ecosystem.
I'm bemused as to why this is aimed at "founders", but whatever. I would like to say, though, that if I'd made a list of essential kit, I would have included a sauté pan; it's like a frying pan, but deeper and with vertical sides and usually with a (transparent) lid. You can cook great meals in a sauté pan - do your onions/spices/garlic etc, then add meat (if that's your thing), then stock, pasatta (or whatever) and then the bulking stuff - pasta etc - and all on the hob, rather than in an oven. Really versatile bit of kit.
This is interesting, I couldn’t read the article that the WaPo references since it is paywalled, but lots of doctors today are ethnically Asian and Indian - can the experiment be extrapolated to this doctors too?

I’ve seen also some calls to the need of training more Black doctors to address inequalities in the healthcare due to racial biases. Should this also be extended to other races or ethnicities? (e.g Iranians, Vietnamese, Latinx, Greeks) Should we maintain a ratio of doctors according to race percentages? What should we do with those ethnicities that are over represented in medicine, should we curtail them? What do we do with mixed race patients?
I'm aware there is research on what are referred to as "food deserts" where people who may not have reliable transportation are stuck with corner stores and fast food in their neighborhood. Unfortunately I can't point you toward any studies in particular but the research is out there.
Utah has had no excuse mail-in voting since 2014, the 2016 presidential election in Utah was almost entirely by mail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting_in_the_United_St...
I think it's normal to want to make money of software. I do and many others do.

The problem point here is when some company is using misleading campaigns about openness and long-term bait and lock-in scenarios. You take-out openness and liberty piece by piece, giving the public simple and cheap but closed solutions as bait.

Anyone who has invested significant resources to migrate to the new tool will not switch to another new tool so easily. So one by one they swallow the bait, piece by piece, and in the end are locked-in.
Capitol Hill riots more violent than initially thought
Watching old Julia Childs videos gave me the impression that all vegetables were primarily different substrates for butter :D
Facebook to hide number of likes in trial aimed at improving users' wellbeing
Also see Halloween Documents, particularly those who haven't read much of important computer history and were not around at the time or sometime later:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

"Microsoft has since acknowledged the documents' authenticity.[2]"
I manage (different) teams with Vue, RiotJS, React, Django, Slim and Rails as large components of the project stack.

Maintenance of revenue generating code is a unique beast - and rarely has the framework been the magical differentiator.
If they’ve been building it on mac os for decades it shouldn’t be too hard to package it for other unix based OSs. Hire a single engineer and they could probably get something running in six months.
Counter-Anti-Disintermediation
Well except certain groups within Apple, TSMC, the big japanese corps, IBM mainframes, and lesser known places.
Seems like you’re really quite desperate for people to buy pans covered in a probable carcinogen that, as you note, slowly rubs off into your food

Rather like someone trying really hard to get me to fire-proof my house with asbestos
It's possible!

But when you completely upend society in a generation, changing a thousand variables at once, I do not personally feel comfortable saying "far more likely" about any particular cause for any particular societal outcome.
I'm not entirely clear on how many nations are able to be compared with the US within the developed world.

Given its size, configuration, and geopolitical contexts, the US has few comparable nations against which we can test. I guess we can say Russia is closest, followed by Canada & Mexico, then the entire EU and the CCP. India maybe?

> boiling all education down to humanities degrees is a blatant strawman

No, it isn't. The other nations I just listed by comparison churn out very few humanities degrees. What people choose to do with their privilege of going to college is a relevant data point, which feeds back into the quality of the education system overall.

> signals a lot about your willingness to have a nuanced discussion.

Let's not go around insinuating such things when you yourself started this conversation off failing to address the nuances of comparing the US against other "developed world" countries.
I still don't get it. It just seems silly to favor a candidate based on who rejects them. If policies on opposite sides of the political spectrum are interchangeable then why care at all who gets elected?

At least voting for a 3rd party one can be said to be contributing to a cause closest to one's ideal, but being favorable to anyone who the mainstream doesn't approve of just seems like flawed logic.
I would go for the GBA, which has a much more comfortable processor, and some very nice graphics hardware. It really hits a sweet spot for capability vs. constrainedness.
I would consider donating, but I'd frankly prefer to donate to tax-exempt orgs. That way I can donate more with the same effective "cost" to myself. I get that it's not trivial to set one of these up (especially for someone who is already in a funding deficit), but I think it would make donations a more attractive option for people.

Additionally, the email talks about funding in hours of development work, but doesn't mention what each hour costs... would be helpful information to have in order to size a donation.
There was quite a bit of press about her links with Modi and the Modi-supporting diaspora
That's not really true. Most diets are bad because of the crap they include, not because of expensive for that a person cannot afford. Most people's diets can be improved by simply removing sugar and alcohol!
Now Dug (DNS propagation checker on the CLI) has a documentation site
If and when SpaceX gets the Superheavy Starship in orbit how the hell do they plan on competing with that? Reusability drops costs dramatically. A fully reusable first and second stage with insane payload capacity will pretty much make every other launch provider look like a joke.
Having written a language server for PHP, I can tell you it's damn hard – I don't begrudge Microsoft's behaviour here at all.
We are seeing the end of life of Facebook. After Apple, now this. This company is gasping for life.
Makes sense to me. As mrustc[0] mentions, implementing validation in a secondary compiler is much less important, because you can always just run the reference implementation as a glorified linter in the meantime.

[0]: https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
Indeed. The Catholic Church successfully moderated speech for centuries for the completely benevolent cause of saving people's souls from the eternity of hell fire which awaited them if they were to fall victim to misinformation
> by forbidding the use of their LSPs in other editors

How can they prevent my, let’s say vim, client from connecting to a closed-source server if they both speak the same protocol?
flavor fatigue often eventually kicks in with meal replacements, but buying a variety of brands, flavors, and even now some of the savory alternatives helps with that.

but yes if school lunches had a meal shake option many kids would prefer its flavor over the existing options. and its miles healthier.
Surely if a 16 year old can circumvent age verification then any criminal can. I understand nothing is perfect, my point was to show that any user generated platform faces the potential of illegal content being hosted.
Perhaps: as size increases, relationships don't scale and mechanisms of control and coordination become more shallow.
This was published in PNAS, though, which is a peer-reviewed journal.
Facebook and users' well-being in one line? If FB cared they should stop using an algorithm to try and keep users on FB as much as possible. I'm 100% sure this is For The Good Of Facebook - not for the good of users.
Could you link to the carbon steel pan you have? I like my carbon steel pan, but it's not that much smoother than cast iron (both Lodge). The only "smooth like glass" ones I've used are ceramic, which haven't weathered as well.
> Infinite scalability is also a curse

People don't like to admit it, but in many circumstances, having a service that is escalating to 10x or 100x its normal demand go off line is probably the desirable thing.
Yeah but if they have this freedom (being dickish etc) then they should also be responsible for what they are publishing on their platforms.

They want to have their cake and eat it.
Money can go under the mattress.

Monetary velocity is collapsing.

Literally everyone seems to have turned into an Austrian economist lately.

Nobody remembers "pushing on a string" these days and the "Fed Put" is so accepted that it isn't even discussed, it is just assumed the world works that way.
What you noted of engineers going down rabbit holes of cool tech for cool tech sake is certainly an issue, which is why management must help keep in mind that the autonomy is given with a goal of "solve business problems." It requires a bit of careful management but it usually becomes clear over time who enjoys playing with new tech for the sake of new tech and who does it to try to find a solution to a problem. The former group can be put into a research team if the company is large enough otherwise they are likely not a good fit.

As for risks, the biggest problem I've seen from this cultural change in a company is the disharmony it creates between the people who enjoy task-driven work and just working their 9-5 vs. the people who enjoy creative problem solving. It usually works better to have that culture from the start and also why it is so hard to change a company's culture to this way of working because it disrupts a way being that almost everyone in the company is used to.
We need to consider that endocrine disruptors (the plastics mentioned) may interfere with the systems that control feeding behavior such as leptin and ghrelin.
On the contrary, the only people making a demand are developers who insist that their work does, or should, exist in a vacuum, outside of and independent of what is going on in the world, i.e. politics.

Reality, however, is there, whether we would like it to be there or not.

Look, I get it: sometimes you just want to put your head down and focus on technical details, and let someone else worry about the context. But keeping your head buried in the sand all the time isn't the answer.
BMI is pretty accurate for most people. Having said that you don't need a measurement to see if someone is fat!
Moreover: signing as “do not agree” and then using the service anyway is about as clear-cut as an abuse-of-service can be.

Aka “wire fraud”, if you’re a DA.
Yeah, I'm ok with it. Parler went too far, aiding and abetting a riot/trespassing/insurrection.

If anything, Amazon, Facebook and Google were too laissez faire for too long.

As any kind of business, beyond protected class discrimination, am I required to host any organization on my infrastructure, publish any blog post or book, create any to-spec work of art or craft, sell any work of art or craft, allow anyone to remain who is offending, frightening or putting people in danger, or planning or coordinating any of that?

Is HN required to host my comments, or not flag my posts, or not shadow ban me? There are an exceedingly small number of "other similar forums" that I could "just move to."
It's a half measure technical solution to a political problem.

Obscure, please, in all seriousness - but fund the EFF, and vote for people who support data privacy vocally.
I'm not anti-tax, but a better way would be to stop subsidizing sugar production so much. Less subsidies would drive up prices, making a tax redundant.

However, since that's only federally, it's less attractive. States would probably prefer a tax on a per-state basis, since it would be a source of revenue for them, unlike the savings from federal subsidy cuts.
Obesity isn't contagious and doesn't pose a direct threat to anyone but the obese person. This isn't true of numerous other harmful behaviors that have greater negative externalities. If you want to work to stigmatize bad parenting, be my guest. Obesity of a parent isn't a symptom of bad parenting.
I'm halfway through a modified version of her method. Used her oven cleaner idea and just using the high heat sunflower oil I have on hand. Wish me luck!
This is meaningless.

Of course on the USSR you were free to rattle off “Lenin was a Traitor” in front of the Kremlin, but you had to face the consequences of that.
Past the initial seasoning, I've found that just using the pan helps a lot. My problem has been that I've a lot of rough (and very hard) cruft built up on the outside and the upper part of inside of the pan.

+1 on the squirt bottle of oil, I started doing that a few years ago and it was game-changing. Previously I'd just pour a little out of the original bottle when I was cooking, which was a lot less convenient than having something appropriately sized and within arms reach.
I expect Marshall Law declared within 24 hours. Before impeachment vote. Pelosi asked the military to ignore commands from Trump. They turned her down, and warned this is an act of sedition. So that tells me they are on his side.

I don't think Trump would accept being barred from running in 2024 if the impeachment vote is allowed to go through. This is his only move right now. The national guard is already in the capital.

Booting him off of Twitter and social media, was a plan to disrupt his ability to address the nation, and possible liability around not carrying his address should he win.
As I think some TV stations will probably block the emergency address. Trump is also convinced he would win the in person ballot, should a military declare a new election.

Media speaks almost in one voice now, joined by big tech, the left will be controlling almost all the levers of power otherwise. So he has large support in the population to stop that
This. The companies are behaving in an un-American manner. What they are doing is deeply selfish and cynical. They should be criticized for their behavior and shamed for it. We should not excommunicate members of our society even if the things they say are reprehensible. And yes, the companies have a right to do it, but there are plenty of things you can do, but should nevertheless be shamed for doing.
>unlike any other time in history, people now have the option available to literally become fat, dumb, and lazy

It's incredible when you put it that way. Stated another way, at least in some parts of the world, our quality of life has gotten so high that we can now afford to lower it on purpose.
>I am not really a big fan of end-to-end encryption for solving society’s main communication problems, I think people (pseudonymous or not) should be accountable for their speech.

I think there ought to be an on-line analogue to two consenting adults talking in a private room in one of their homes. Unless I misunderstand you, it doesn't sound like that on-line capability is compatible with your statement.
I was using XMonad+KDE on NixOS just fine for about a year at my old job.
You can change your religion. Should amazon be able to tell to scram fx to some scientology church website hosting?
> All of those reasons you quote apply just as well to VS Code itself, and by that logic, MS shouldn't have open sourced VS Code either.

I disagree - The VSC Codebase (and functionality contained in it) isn't easily ported into competitor products (the fourth point) while Pylance is fully portable by design (could be incorporated into competitor products instantly!).
The revision he posted was not the one I was talking about. There was another revision that directly said the mob killed the officer.
Yes! The proliferation and role of "business people" in traditional companies is IMO their defining characteristic. It shows how much or how little a business trusts engineers (and also engineer's "status" within the company, e.g. are they respected and valued or treated as a disposable resource) to run the business as general problem solvers.

The ironic thing about Agile is that it has a cottage industry of "scrum consultants", "scrum masters", project owners, etc. which advocate ostensibly for letting developers self-organize but which also has a vested interest for career and self-preservation reasons in inserting itself above software engineers in the decision making process.