skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wall Street underwriters are making tons of money on SPACs: https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacs-rescued-wall-street-from-...
Usually, the assertive arguments on non-technical ideas are difficult to address.

It's easy to identify the fundamental misconception in the argument. But the proponent is always very fervent on that point from the very beginning. That makes the debate more ideological and less rational.

That's the conundrum of such debates. The balance heavily favors the first one who claimed the high ground, regardless what value that one actually stands for.
tape is still king of long term or cold backups. most people also keep hot backup on hdd or ssd in addition. but there are usually off prem long term cold storage backups along with these and those are very often tape. these tapes are for like FUUULLL dr and not often used but kept as insurance against the hot short term backups getting hosed
Can you point to the specific piece of client side code that does this? It doesn’t sound like it inherently fixes the problem of either going to “myserver” (as in, http://myserver/) and “myserver” (searching the web).
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26039449 and don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When I look over the interview and coding exercise results from entry-level applicants, I can understand how some of the candidates will apply and interview a lot before landing a role. There’s a pretty sharp clustering into “can very likely code” and “did not demonstrate they could productively code”.
That sounds about right. It takes a whole lot of energy to reverse entropy at the margins. Then again life exists basically at the margins of the massive energy output of the sun.

But still, I'm not holding out that any such human created sunlight to chemical energy storage process is going to best the 20% conversion efficiency of solar panels * 95% round trip efficiency of modern batteries any time soon.

I know there are companies trying to make synthetic fuels from atmospheric C02 + renewable electricity for very specific use cases that are challenging for batteries (i.e aviation) but the jury is still out on whether that will work at scale.
I guess if they are significantly cheaper than others, people will hire them. There is a long way to $0 from the salaries people on HN say developers make in the US. I do not know any convicted people, however, I do know jobless people who were 'made redundant' by covid or before that and they would work for very little (enough to get by, but not more than that) if they could work from home as developer. I bet that goes for many people including ex convicts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/parenting/baby/european-f... (FDA claims about the dagers of not being able to read foreign language labels)
Hard to find a better service than in Japan. No tips there.
Nice, but I would still mention that.

Plus there is no info/ToS regarding submitting the email, for what I know you could just collect emails and sell them.
Isn't all science "pseudo-science type reasoning" before someone goes out and proves/disproves it? I don't see a problem with some curious conversation.
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Because foot pedals are for double double bucky bits! ;)

Double Bucky
(C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr.
(Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie")

Double bucky, you're the one!
You make my keyboard lots of fun
Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
(Vo-vo-de-o!)
Control and Meta side by side,
Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs,
plus a few!
Oh,
I sure wish that I
Had a couple of
bits more!
Perhaps a
Set of pedals to
Make the number of
Bits four:
Double double bucky!
Double bucky, left and right
OR'd together, outta sight!
Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of
Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of
Double bucky, I'd like a whole
word of you!

(For those of you who are interested, the term "bucky bits" comes from Niklaus Wirth, known as "bucky" to friends, who suggested that an extra bit be added to terminal codes on 36 bit machines for use by screen editors.)
> The question I have is how to evaluate the 'proper?' gut biome / fecal "recipe" to get the desired outcome?/Expression?

You and the rest of the medical community. This is largely still an open question.
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>>> They actually halted a random control trial [...]

Thanks, but I misunderstood and though that you were commenting about the current treatment against cancer.
My single sentence obviously doesn’t capture the nuance that would be put into a law. And there are many ways to measure the size of a company.

Also, removing limiting liability doesn’t force companies to post things. That’s just 100% not what that is.
Apple needs to dump a truck of money on their own developer tooling team and double every team size. If you knew how small they were you would be surprised!

Xcode / swifts build speed is still pretty bad, xcode still chokes on large projects, codesign is an eternal flaky nightmare, they still don't have first class command line support for many things, they don't have network indexing & build caching like bazel does, it's worse than android for maintaining a device lab for testing (adb vs... `instruments` kind of) and on and on it goes.
Lack of double buffering, actually that one will be merged next week. I gather that you move your pointer over an image or another complex record that gets highlighted (by drawing a rectangle around it).
Firefox 85.0 freezes on Windows, macOS 10.15.7 and Linux on startup
Not a prison term but just recently a Romanian member of Parliament has been fined by Romania's anti-discrimination committee for (they say) putting the person of Virgin Mary in a non-appropriate context (he had called her "surrogate mother").
Say goodbye to your DNA privacy
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> it's sort of like a graffiti artist complaining about someone defacing their work.

"bomb condos not murals"
I remember seeing an ad of an Apple computer, possibly from the 80’s, that was sold as portable but putting together the whole package resulted in a huge cube. Does anybody know the model number, or have a link to the add?
I think they tried to leverage the popularity of Mustangs to prop up the new car. Personally, I was very disappointed when I learned it was not, in fact, an electric muscle car.
And the (rather massive) flaw in yours is the idea that "fixing" and "not fixing" a problem are the only two possible outcomes.

Would Apple and Google condemning this policy and refusing to comply "fix" the problem? Probably not. Is it the right thing to do? Of course! One certainly shouldn't help enforce an unjust law. This action lends a huge amount of credibility to an immoral policy.

We're focusing on this mere "symptom" of the problem because it's Apple and Google. Our laws govern those companies. Our (seemingly theoretical) ability to control them means we are partially responsible when they do bad things.
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I have a question regarding this. How do you get started coding living systems?
I've always found it kind of lazy to criticize someone's ideals on the basis that they themselves fell short of those ideals. Isn't setting your sights on what is today out of reach a critical element of progress?
Forrest Gump is from 1995. Apple had barely begun going up then.
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The author talked about the similarity of them being in the hypervigilance, but the general tactics in modern wars so far have mostly been guerilla, which is very similar if not the same as what native americans engaged in. For example, raiding: we send a small squad out (warband), capture, kill, or destroy/confiscate property, and return before the enemy is aware of the location, or alternatively, setup ambush in expectation of the counter-attack. A common tactic we used to use in Iraq. The fear of being overrun, or crept up on in the night, which happened in Iraq but much more so in Afghanistan. Etc.
>Should the assaulted be happy with the fact that the inmate will get a job?

It was not until now that I came to realize that everyone in American prisons are actually there for assault. The mind reels.
did you move down for job or college?
Incorrect, and you're starting to fly off the rails here.

It's fine to critique studies and findings. It's not okay to say that you or your facebook friends know better and can substitute your own thoughts on a subject. That is how we get Covid deniers or vaccine conspiracy theories or the million other misinformation issues we have right now.
What advantages would switching from IntelliJ to Metals backed editor bring?

I've been using Scala for a few years and IntelliJ with Scala plugin has been pretty amazing for Scala use. 90% of time the suggestions it makes to fix everyday blunders (like missing imports, basic typos) are right on the mark.

Have not hit any realy pain points with sbt either. I do not want to spend time messing with configuration.

Compared to say using VS Code with Python plugin Scala development feels so much nicer that I am considering switching to PyCharm.
Tinder used to do that as well with location data.

Also they used to send your raw birth date over the wire (in order to display your age to other users, calculated on the frontend) until I told them to stop.
So you are saying that foreign powers had no influence whatsoever on the internal political situations in Russia, or that is was a mix of factors? You do admit that they helped Lenin get back to Russia at least. If Lenin never helps get back, does he ever rise to that level of power?
I wrote a fully spec-compliant YAML library.
Hard to say. It could be the supply chains used for baby foods. It could have to do with the additional processing of baby foods concentrating the contaminants or making them more readily accessible.
You speak as if the same isn't in effect everywhere else. Sure the example here is more stark, but look at the sacrifice of environment and warmongering the US does for the oil industry, or look at any number of moves China makes to benefit members of CCP party members over it's populace.

It is sad and despicable and entirely human nature.
Monday's segment of Marketplace is worth listening to.

The gist of it was that in many (all?) places in the US, a landlord can be sued if they rent to someone who has a criminal record who then went on commit another crime. As a result, few landlords will rent to them. I hang out on real estate forums and have never met anyone who would rent to someone with a criminal record.

Getting a job is a whole other problem.

That's just one example of the challenges they face.

https://www.marketplace.org/2021/02/01/the-afterlife-of-mass...

I can't find it right now, but there's also a TED talk by a former state official (state senator?) who committed a crime and spent a very brief time in prison. It was eye opening to him how he was denied pretty much everything once he got out, and only through his connections was he able to get employment.

Couple that with the fact that the US is the country that imprisons the highest proportion of its own citizens, and it's terrifying.
Awesome. Good luck.
I don’t know anyone who thought wework was on good financial footing.
I'm curious what leads to having that many meetings a week.

For me, even just one meeting on a given day exhausts me, and while the wfh is nice, it's led to many more 'meetings', whether just calls or proper zoom meetups. I'm not a fan.
If medication A is 80% effective, 10% useless and 10% major side-effecty, and medication B is 5% effective (half of the A-useless people), 90% useless and 5% “causes headaches”, which do you try first?
Well that’s one strategy, nothing wrong with it but there are a lot of other ways to generate money from the stock market.
> The GameStop surge was just one of the ways Americans have renewed their love of gamblng.

There is nothing about Americans specifically. Check out Telegram/Discord channels, there are more non-Americans shilling GME than the total number of American users in those groups.
People with cancer don't care what a medicine/treatment is called.
That has changed recently: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10386
Would this work?

1. Overlay the world with a hex grid.

2. Make "close" mean in the same grid cell, "far" mean in an adjacent grid cell, and "very far" mean somewhere else.

3. In sparsely populated areas, merge groups of 7 cells into a larger cell.

4. Add some kind of random delay to people who are moving around to reduce the information you get if you are stationary and they cross a cell boundary. The idea here is that if you are not moving and they are "close" and then they change to "far", you would know that they just crossed one of your cell's boundaries. In many places there might only be a small number of places where people cross those boundaries, and so you'd be able to narrow them down quite a bit.
Universal binaries matter most for closed source. With Homebrew being used for Open Source software it’s by far not a priority for the generic user.

The last years have shown clearly that Apple doesn’t go out of their way to make things easy for devs if it doesn’t helps their main client group.
nixpkgs CI does check for buildability on Darwin, which can be confirmed by looking at any of their PRs. However, packages do tend to be get marked as broken on Darwin if it doesn’t build and the packager doesn’t own a Mac.

I feel things have stabilized significantly in recent days, though. I haven’t had a single Darwin breakage on the unstable channel since the release of 20.09. Perhaps the Zero Hydra Failures effort[1] helped.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/97479
In 2012, Brandon Cronenberg, son of David, released a movie called Antiviral about a niche product -- viruses and bacteria harvested from celebrities who become sick, in order to inject them into paying clients who want a "connection" with the famous.
Lisp machine keyboards had unshifted parenthesis keys so you could type s-expressions with one hand while holding a Hefty bag full of nitrous oxide in your other hand.
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This only applies to Pakistan. It isn't Google's or Apple's place to fix Pakistan's problems. A company has to obey the laws of the country they are operating in.

Those who oppose this should consider the alternative. Suppose there's an app that is openly racist and discriminates against POCs, which is against the law in the US. Since it is violating the law, shouldn't it be taken down?
I think it's likely that there is a play here to create a slightly extended line of Mustang branded vehicles that have a focus on performance. Bronco, Mustang, and F-Series are tentpoles for the Company, and hold huge name recognition. "Mach E" is a qualifier, so future "electric muscle cars" haven't been precluded from production, aside from Ford saying they're all in on crossovers.
Umm, what kind of resolution is the calendar meant to be displayed at?

https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/day/saturday/
> Directories listed in multiple users' $PATH that are writable without superuser privileges can be used for attacks (e.g., by placing a sudo binary that will log the password there). The same can be done by malicious software running as your user in order to get your password

Yikes. That particular attack did not occur to me.
how come flash = insecure = bad, but java = insecure = good?
That threat was issued against a political candidate, which raised it to the FBI's attention. The vast majority of violent threats receive zero attention.

So it's technically correct to say that it's "just as illegal", but that's not the best kind of correct. While I'd be very interested in a directive that the FBI should take all violent threats online seriously, they don't have anywhere near that kind of resources. And I have a feeling that if they did start making numerous requests to unmask anonymous users, a lot of HN readers would oppose that as well.
The app appears to be available in the US on the App Play store.
> Who thinks of this shit?

Heh.
Has anyone downloaded their DNA and then asked 23andMe to completely delete all records?
A not quite four hour drive, after a storm, when folks make allowances knowing batteries don't do well in the cold... is not quite the same as living in say, Detroit. Where it is frozen consistently maybe 1/3 of the year.
Without 230, that's probably correct. But with the specific changes being described, I'm having a hard time understanding how it would affect a podcast hosting service. Can you elaborate?
As someone who eats plant based, that is definitely not the case in the US. Gelatin is very easy to avoid.

Outside of jello itself, the common desserts that contain it are chewy candies and some mousse type desserts. So canolli, mousse, and flan frequently have gelatin, along with things like Starbursts and some chewing gums, but other than that I have not found it to be a common ingredient.
Its official: the bars are there to keep us in not them
"Everyone" will bang their drums and probably not do anything substantial. That's why China feels okay doubling down.
But can you _imagine_ this kind of a proof? Hint: it's mostly impossible.
technically, every flash memory today is a cube (well, more of a skewed cube, a Parallelepiped)

Mostly because they can't figure out how to make things faster, or as fast as the interface which keeps getting faster, so they just pile a bunch of flash controllers on top of each other. Everyone is running stripped RAID-0 and don't even know it.

And if you consider that it also uses varying analog voltage values on each node (!SLC), it is arguably a 4d cube. Take that, 90s!
I am from Kerala, which is currently ruled by the communists. I see protesters getting lathi charged and water cannoned pretty much every month (pre covid). So, honestly I can't say the farmers were treated badly based on the image in the BBC article. I am not saying violence is good, but police were lathi charging people during the corona lockdowns also.
“What do you plan to do to us after you confiscate our ability to defend ourselves?” -Walter Williams
I've been using it for the last 2 years.
both on linux and windows, works ok on the later, but on linux I keep getting random corrupted graphics / black screens each time ram/swap are almost full. looking into filled bugs this doens't seems to be something new, I can find some bug reports dating back to 6 years and no sugestions for a fix beside disabling hardware acceleration, which doesn't work for me at least.
You're right, I'll have to add that in, I just haven't gotten around to making a ToS yet.
"returns from capital seem to far outstrip the returns to labor in our modern society"

For those interested, check out Thomas Piketty’s books.
The key is "at least one". Looks like you can step over everything weird with ">4 years industry experience".
“Command & Control” focused on the 374-7 Damascus incident, but it also weaved in a very interesting history of the nuclear age along with various broken arrow incidents in other chapters to break things up. It’s a longer read, but I’d say worth it if you’re interested in the history.
Just a small correction to that (because I don't like the hate that the Cube World devs get):

They never abandoned the game. It was a two person team (husband and wife), and both devs worked full time jobs while making CW. After the initial alpha release, CW got a ton of attention and became a DDoS target, which triggered some mental issues in the lead dev.[1] They went dark after that for a long time (probably because everything new was usually posted by this lead dev).

The silent mystery with the game just built up even more hype over six years until the full game finally released, and the massive attention and disaster seemed to happen all over again. Every post about the game complained about the new design decisions with leveling. The lead dev seemed to think this was the best version of the game (based on his comments in his blog) and he seems to not have taken the criticism well, leading to him going dark again.

I wish he would have taken the hits and continued with the game, but if it's affecting his mental health in this way, he is probably better off abandoning it. I hope he gets better and I am still looking forward to anything he and his wife make in the future.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190910123212/http://wollay.blo...
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India cracks down on journalism, again
People need to remember that you don't own a subreddit, reddit owns your subreddit, they're just letting you moderate it for them.
> You shouldn't take investment advice from strangers on the Internet, but you also should know what you're buying before you buy it.

and* you also...
They're happy to sell you Blu-Ray discs if that's what you want. Consumers, which is where most of the market is, don't really need higher capacity for anything. And even a 10x increase for BDXL probably doesn't really get you to a capacity that's all that useful for most types of archiving.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BiffaPlaysIndie

Link for the interested
Quick note on visas -- if you are eligible for a TN or O1 visa, then I've seen employees/candidates in Canada foot the bill and run the process themselves rather than ask the employer to do it. This is 100% doable and often helps HR departments (who have no idea what this process is, especially in smaller companies) deal with many objections.
> the leading scientists in the human nutrition field were extremely aggressive in crushing all dissenting voices

The problem is now you're too aggressive in the other direction. You seem to have to dissent, regardless of the study design or funding.
Evidence of Apple's monopoly are actually baked right into that rate. They are price-setters, not subject to the whims of the market, and adjust their prices given non-market forces (press, threat of regulation etc.)

It's a high enough number that it absolutely changes outcomes, meaning at minimum less choice for consumers and higher cost, and implicitly, a whole host of lost opportunity.

In particular, there are tons of Enterprise apps that can't feasibly operate on Apple due to issues concerning Apple wanting to take the entirety of their profit.

As a small operation, in the corner of the economy, it doesn't matter, but this is unfolding like the Edison/Tesla/Westinghouse battles of the last century and we know how that ended up.
I hope so, horses are terrifying.
I wonder if they'll have more empathy than a typical UI designer.
The data they gathered was less than 1% of the genome. Don't buy in.
Yes, except WMF should not be doing sales.

They're an online wikipedia. Their costs keep ballooning, and not to pay for things that I care about when I donate money to support their core mission.
Carlin, obviously. You’re attacking him rather than his commentary.

If you think his commentary isn’t useful, insightful, whatever, that’s fine. But basing your critique on his social/financial position is not good form.
Savings or investments? As for the bull market, it won't past forever. Can you also make that work in a bear market? At any rate a great number of people benefit from the markets via 401Ks and stock comp.