skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> never any time pressure in life is a bit naive

Missing the related point from the comment is... what? Deliberate?
I did not search for it yet, but "Mass psychogenic illness"[1] is a thing. From Wikipedia: "Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria, or mass hysteria, is the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss, or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic aetiology.".

There also have been mass hysteria cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases

I would also like to mention "Folie à deux"[2]. From Wikipedia: "Folie à deux ('madness for two'), also known as shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief, and sometimes hallucinations, are transmitted from one individual to another.".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux
Many people genuinely believe they have seen Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster (almost entirely disproven at this point), magic, and miracles happen before their eyes.

It doesn't make it true.
Breaking stuff is the first step towards learning to fix stuff.
Faces of the Riot
You can use rsync or Git for this purpose.
Kill all humans, environmental study says.
I-Ally – The app for millennial family caregivers
Just watched an interview with someone from Appharvest, a vertical farm company. One of the most interesting advantages of these grow operations is that they can develop seeds for taste and nutrients, rather than for transport or pest resistance. The billions in research that have gone into developing resistant and durable produce can be channeled into developing the best tasting and looking products.

As we see a hugely growing demand for quality in food options by the middle and upper classes, the product offering the best taste will have a large leg up on the cheap mass produced produce.

This demand is not limited to individual consumers, restaurants and chefs, who already seek quality ingredients by sourcing from local trusted growers, will likely put additional demand on these low/no pesticide, and taste optimized produce.

I cant wait to taste the best tomatoes of my life.

Im lucky enough to have traveled to places like Bali and Italy, where the local produce is unconstrained by bean counting hyper optimization. It tastes better and quality of life is better because of it.
I don't use Chrome so I have no idea what either of these extensions did, but FF's implementation of tab discarding causes it to reload the page when I switch to the tab, which means I have to wait for the page to load before I can do whatever I wanted to do.

I'd much rather have a way to just stop all JS on a "suspended" tab so that FF doesn't burn 20% CPU on tabs that aren't even visible. (Yes I'm aware that JS timers, etc operate at reduced frequency for unfocused tabs. I'm talking about stopping them entirely.) Discarding may be more efficient for the browser but it's less efficient for me the user, so I don't use it.
DRM is the new ActiveX
B5 is arguably the best scifi show ever in my opinion. Amazing story, acting, ship battles, and philosophy
Just wait and see american.... look into venezuela... is there a good future for crypto in USA??? I think no, United States ==== Venezuela soon!!! Good luck!
Good question!

A popular motif (and perhaps the most illustrative example) is to restrict the instrument to be genotype variants within a specific gene, and use its protein product (for example, its serum concentration) as the exposure [1]. In this way, horizontal pleiotropy is significantly mitigated.

This is sort of a natural extension (on a statistical methodological level, really a simplification) of a popular technique where a drug which has a known protein target is used in a "factorial MR" scheme [2]. Unfortunately, I'm less familiar with the literature here because it's very domain-specific.

[1] doi:10.2337/dc18-2444

[2] doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2015.02.020

Edit: removed one of the references because it's a somewhat convoluted example, and on a deeper read, wasn't actually the paper I was thinking of.
Doesn't this also relate to the Pareto principle?
KDE-projects like Konqueror and Falkon, the subjects under specific discussion?
> in my opinion, computers mainly exist to do linear algebra efficiently.

What about the discussion we're having? It's enabled by computers. But no linear algebra is happening there.

What about word processing? Computer games? The world wide web, and all the information contained in it? The authoring of music and graphics? All of those are enabled by computers.

Saying it's about doing linear algebra quickly is massively reductive.
If you have a healthy diet, get enough sun exposure, and are physically active, you don't necessary need supplements like vitamin d or c.

The fact is, most people's diets are shit, especially in America where people avoid vegetables and fruits like the plague.
The patch submission is from Marcan who started asahi. This (HN) post links to a tweet from the CTO of corellium.
Hey, here is our previous newsletters: https://us17.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=9c1db628330a8f7126...
It’s about practicality, not trendiness. I don’t have a backyard or basement. Even if I did have a backyard, the climate is such that sunlight or predictable weather is not guaranteed. Even if it was, there is no guarantee of safety from wild animals, pests, and soil contamination. The list goes on ...
Coding seems like a bad example, at least for me. I’m a professional coder with several years of experience, but I routinely encounter code or software architectures that very much impress me and make me think “not just any coder could have come up with this, at least without a great deal of thought and effort.”
Oh! That makes sense, they must have moved it from Issues to Discussions. Thanks, I'll update the parent comment.
I studied aerospace engineering and the same was true. I suspect it's the case in many engineering and science fields.
Well shoot it in B&W and style them deliberately you can make any place look like a dump.

I went to Barmouth (one of the towns mentioned) as a kid and it was great.
Well, if you split "language" into 1) syntax, 2) semantics, 3) standard library, then why would you think that #1 (syntax) is the only part that can't be improved upon?
Pair programming is a real pain for me when most of my colleagues just don’t use Vim.
From what pool?

In Texas, Justices of the Peace have no particular requirements, and are (IIRC) the equivalent of small-claims courts in the rural counties, but have had some special powers, like acting as coroner in counties without access to one. I had a government teacher with a long list of amusing anecdotes---like the JP that determined that a body with like, 27 bullet wounds had committed suicide. Judge Roy Bean was a JP; at one point someone brought in a dead cowboy who had fallen down a cliff. The body was carrying $25 and a pistol. Bean found the cowboy to be carrying a concealed weapon, confiscated the pistol, and fined the body $25.
Then tell me why my Elantech touchpad keeps freezing randomly on my Huawei Matebook 14d running Linux, but works fine on Windows.
This feels too good to be true. It feels a "Shut up and take my money". I thought with effective demise of XMPP and myriad differing standards and proprietary apps & protocols, this could not happen anymore.

I'll check out your site and you may have some very happy paid users soon :)
There's a pretty significant difference between robot made to order and robot made to freeze.

As you said, the latter has been around for a long time. That doesn't make the former any less of an achievement. This is robotics directly replacing employees in store.
>Unless it happened to early Tesla, because they were held to the lower standard applied to computers and OSs. That doesn't seem to be as true anymore, thankfully.

I've definitely had my Model 3 not unlock when it should, but I've never had it go the other way around.
just...copy and paste... :) I will not waist no more time with this biden shit...
Rhyl Pavilion 1870:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/260064

Seaside 1950:

https://gohomeonapostcard.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/wp-319...

The piers stood as major tourist attractions for (more than a century?):

https://www.cheshirelife.co.uk/out-about/places/the-piers-of...

Edit: Many postcards of the piers:

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Wales-Piers.html
I feel like anywhere else in the world North Wales would be taken much more advantage of. It's a stunningly beautiful place, maybe one of the most beautiful in the world, but it is massively impoverished and undervisited and it is hard to understand why.
Are there any startups that offer containers like that which allow people to drop it in their backyard and do some uban farming for themselves? I've been interested in permaculture and hope to start gardening once I get a house.
Hmm, too late to edit, but it appears I mis-remembered Kia as Hyundai. I remembered the country of origin correctly though!
Mr Christchurch Shooter doesn't have that much power. If he wrapped himself in a rainbow flag, it doesn't mean people should stop using rainbow flags. Ditto him using a thumbs up gesture or an OK handsign. His use or disuse of symbol sin his crime is distasteful, but unimportant.

If he thought he could get people to stop using Islamic symbols by displaying them, he would have been festooned with them.
The article demonstrates both methods and functions. I just pasted the function example, but without the showing the function definition itself as it's fairly obvious :-)
I'd love to support RHEL financially, both on the server and on the development laptop. But I just don't trust that any of this extra cash flow they may see will go towards anything but 5% IBM dividends, obscene executive and sales salaries, with nothing left over for R&D and especially continued American jobs (IBM is basically an Indian company, now).

I hope my large government customers ditch RHEL for something else - maybe a derivative that's home grown.
10$/month is absurd
GDPR: 150M euros in fines and 331 breach notifications per day in 2020
XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of it.
My brother told me to climb under an outdoor couch in Texas when I was about 6 and I was immediately covered by hundreds of harvestmen (aka daddy long legs.) I remember being startled and yelling for help but was not permanently scarred or anything. Spiders only creep me out the usual amount.
Security firm Malwarebytes was infected by same hackers who hit SolarWinds
Assault on the Capitol Has Let Loose the Electronic Octopus
I can see the abstract logic in there, but it is a really hard to believe that could be Trump's reasoning.
I don't think this is is true for the official Mozilla builds (except for Nightly, Beta and unbranded). It's possible that your distro has a custom build that allows the setting. Arch builds Firefox with `--allow-addon-sideload` which could be the culprit.
This seems like... a bunch of very loosely connected ideas in a blog post.
I’ve been waiting over 20 years.

You might not have noticed but we are increasing the number of coal power plants globally.

The decrease in natural gas prices has accelerated the closing of coal in the US, ...

anyway, I would suggest that you look into this a little more.

We’ve know about this problem for quite some time

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2014/11/30/why-...

None of these little ideas come close to the damage done by coal power
Addendum: Don't just pick any prime numbers. The Babylonians devised our time system because it's highly composite or 'antiprime'.

So obvious primes such as 2, 3 and 5 won't do.
Flood damage is more likely than fire. Catastrophic dwelling fires are very uncommon. An offsite duplicate is probably better.
Discouraging political discussions is a very political thing in itself. The comment we are discussing might not be a great example of encouraging curiosity, but being the person that says "don't be so political" is complacent and ignorant. We arrived at the current situation due to political decisions and a political process.

I am not accusing you of being that person, not anyone else. I am just tired of people not seeing that upholding the current situation is as political as criticizing it. This discussion made me try to put it in words.
I enjoy discovering new music a lot. I'm also extremely selective in picking the songs that go into my personal music library. Maybe 5% of the songs I listen to, _within the subgenres I already prefer_, make it.

I don't disagree with the author, based on my narrow personal experience.
If I listen to my psychologist friend talk with their other psychologist friends about the DSM it’s total gibberish to me.

Same goes for anytime I need any work done on my car other than an oil change.
Nah, we already had a brief Vitamin E fad, and that went nowhere.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578028/

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.99.4.591?url_...
That’s... an incredibly bold take, especially on a forum operated by VCs, who certainly are familiar with the concept of finding product-market fit. Apple is observing the interests of people who use their products to help prioritize product development decisions.

Maybe the people doing this for free are just interested in benefitting from the result? As many people who work for free on open source do.

As far as I’m aware, there is no free (as in beer) hardware that runs Linux. Someone has put the effort into running Linux on every single for-profit/for-pay platform it runs on.

Are you under the mistaken impression I was suggesting that Apple waits for a community solution to be developed then packages that as a product? As far as I’m aware they didn’t do that with Boot Camp, but instead offered in-house drivers and blessed boot loaders and proprietary UI/UX for accessing both.
Yeah, Blink, which is a fork from Safaris WebKit, which is a fork of Konquerors KHTML. Google Chrome wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for Konqueror.
Lose+weight+Quick
This remind me of Killip: https://time.com/4185463/chris-killip-martin-parr-in-flagran... (there's a slider to view the rest of the photos)

These are on the other side of the country though. But same 'atmosphere' more or less. Kind of a photographic counterpart to and reminiscent of 'Post War Dream'
> The project arose when the Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno was due to reopen in 1979 after decades of closure. Its director commissioned a photographic project from Bennett, with the intention of capturing the atmosphere of North Wales coastal resorts in winter

> With a working title of Anatomy of Melancholy, an exhibition was scheduled soon after the gallery’s refurbishment and reopening. Bennett’s project was ultimately deemed likely to cause funding problems by showing the region’s resorts in too negative a light

I had to laugh at "Anatomy of Melancholy". I'm not sure what the gallery was expecting, but I can see why they might've been apprehensive about showing these off in their freshly-opened local attraction!
A cost worth paying, because the only alternative is billions of people starving. Whereas if vertical farms disappeared, yuppies would suffer from eating slightly less fresh lettuce but life would otherwise go on.
Under DMCA 1201 technical protection measures automatically get legal protection against this sort of thing. There's actually two layers of protection:

1. You can't deprotect the content for a purpose that would violate copyright law (this is the "DMCA exception" process you hear about every 3 years)

2. You can't provide tools that deprotect the content for any purpose

Both provisions give DRM the force of law, though the latter poses specific risks for anyone who merely wants to run DRM content within it's protected bounds. There are loads of well-reasoned exceptions to DMCA 1201, but they're very restrictive and special-cased. You'd never be able to get away with just releasing a Widevine-compatible plugin, even if it did all the validation and security in exactly the same way as Widevine. This means that, practically speaking, the only legal way to actually play Widevine-protected content is to license Widevine and comply with the inevitable litany of restrictions they place upon you for access to that plugin.
The $350 license has some real limits to it

1. It clearly states "Not for Production" on the license

2. It says it can not be stacked with other license, I am not sure if that means you can only have this license and not others in the environment

3. the biggest is Physical hardware Only, no VM's.
Jupyter notebooks brought documented code to a broad audience (I personally use org-mode, but I appreciate that Jupyter can appeal to non-Emacs users).

Pandas is based in concept on R's data frames and dplyr libraries which predate it by a long shot. If you were talking about implementation of data frames, then you would have to include Julia's as well.

From a practical perspective though, SQL has to be a big one - though not often used by people closest to the science.
GitHub and the trouble with revoking GPG keys
Eh. I like the phrase but I disagree with the premise you apply to it. If I were defining a few things about myself I would say "I like Anime" and "I hate EDM". I keep ratings for every anime I've ever watched, the average score is about 7.48/10. Objectively, a lot of it was crap that I would never recommend to anyone, but it's crap I enjoy. On the other hand, there are EDM songs I like that are on my playlist on Spotify. Even though I'll happily listen to them, they don't make me think "Wow, I really need to test my view that I don't like EDM". I already know I don't like it. The fact there are exceptions doesn't make it not a useful rule for me to follow when choosing music.

IMO the healthier attitude, rather than seeking out things you don't like, is to leave yourself open to things you don't like, particularly in a group setting. It's very annoying lately, my group of friends wants to play video games after work, but everybody has some kind of game type they don't like that makes it hard to reach consensus. Rather than being in constant pursuit of optimized personal pleasure, it's important that I sometimes just play the games I don't like so in the future they'll play the games they don't like with me. And then maybe by chance one of us actually will end up liking it despite ourselves.

There's another layer here as well as to the scale of things. "I don't like EDM" is a very differently scaled statement than "I don't like Music". When confronting your own preferences, I think it's important to compartmentalize them appropriately. I identify myself as someone that likes anime, but I will never watch another shonen sports anime again willingly.
When people say “anyone could do that” in reference to art, they’re usually not just saying that anyone could copy that after having seen it. Of course most people could take a famous novel and type out all the same words. They’re saying (regardless of whether they’re correct) that the actual conception of the new work doesn’t seem like it required significant creative effort.
Most restaurants don't have a farm. And land costs are quite high right now - out here in Iowa it averages $7500 per acre. Most of it not for sale anyway. Planting/harvesting machines can be half a million.

The flexibility of e-ag may yet have a place. Weather, season, rain don't have to matter.
That's a perfectly reasonable take especially on the federal/state separation which was novel, but is it really not possible there was some back-rationalisation going on?

The British system was very familiar, and while it had potential flaws visible to them at the time they were known familiar flaws. I find it doubtful that someone coming up with an entirely novel and unfamiliar system would have got anywhere at all, no matter how rational and well argued it was. People like familiar and that can affect their judgement. Just worth considering.
Don't you think that comparison is unfair, as the Sony' are priced much lower, is there even a same price alternative to APmax?
Oh SxS. I thought that was for System stuff only.
Does anyone know who had the bright idea to replace vi with nano as the standard text editor and why this became some sort of standard?

I really don't get it. Vi is unintuitive and unfamiliar to unix newebies, but at some point every even half-competent person on unix could use it enough to at least do simple config file changes. Plus, if you took time to learn it properly, you actually knew a quite capable editor. And the beginner unfriendliness could presumably have been mostly fixed, without much cost to existing expert users. For example by defaulting to some helpful status message how look at help and insert text (and have cursor keys and Ctrl-S etc. work as "expected" in insert mode). Or maybe a message "press Ctrl-D to enter newbie mode" that experienced vimers could just ignore but would provide CUA style keybindings and modeless editing to everyone else.

Instead now everyone has to deal with a new (and for proficient users really quite worthless) editor with its own set of completely bizarre keybindings (not emacs, not readline, not vi, not CUA), but none of the upsides that come with emacs or vi's idiosyncracies. Ctrl-O to save? WTF? Literally the only advantage over vi is that it displays some instructions at the bottom, albeit not in a form any real newbie would understand at all.

Nano (and by extension this) feel like the worst of all possible worlds -- what am I missing?
I take it that you are wholly unfamiliar with the jailbreaking scene?
The problem with this is that mechanics is not scale invariant. This puts bounds on creatures. Unless there's some crazy different way to compute I wouldn't expect a being to be able to have strong cognitive functions and be the size of a fly. They would also have a difficult time building advanced machinery to get to galactic travel scales. Similarly I wouldn't expect a creature the size of a Brontosaurus to become space faring. Because of their sizes they would have to consume significantly more resources to build simple things. A two story house probably couldn't be created out of wood or other basic biological materials making it difficult to transition into even the stone age. They also require higher food because energy requirements aren't linear. But think how much it costs to send a pound to space. Their first to space would be significantly more expensive.

This doesn't mean these things are impossible because maybe there are ways around them, but it certainty shifts the probabilities by quite a bit. Given our current understanding of biology and mechanics it makes it much more probable for creatures to be within the ballpark of our size (let's say crow to elephant?).
I would hardly fully credit Plan 9 for ACME, given that it just made Oberon text editing famous, and poorly given that it lacks document object model from Oberon.

In any case, the main issue of these platforms is a bit like explaining monads and other complicated stuff.

To really get the point of how those systems work, a person needs to invest time into the system until it clicks, and no matter how much we try to put the experience into words, there is only so much the audience is able to grasp, assuming it actually cares to pay attention to.