skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always interesting to see how the press office paints these things as historic eureka moments. These results, while fascinating, are basically in line with what we call Behavioral Ecology and more specifically, Human Behavioral Ecology. The latter has emerged as a pretty strong framework in the past few years. This sort of support is nice to see (and there's been a decent bit of buzz about this particular paper!), but it's evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Taiwan’s military is strong enough that PRC’s only route to “winning” in a war is to turn the island into a smoldering crater
Just how different two organisms have to be to be different species is always going to be arbitrary. It is not as though you can select a particular day (the absurd extreme) two populations transitioned from one species to two. Given this (and more reasonable arguments in the same vein over longer time periods), a particular number of “species” in a closely related group over an evolutionary short timeframe just isn’t an interesting or useful metric.
One response I haven't seen yet in this thread: invest in individual people.

Consider:

1. Investing in (pre-seed) startups, whose founders possess the potential to catalyze an exit from contemporary scientific-technological stagnation (c.f. https://rootsofprogress.org/technological-stagnation, https://applieddivinitystudies.com/1970/) *

2. Effective altruism with a long-termist/X-risk view; one possible mechanism involves micro-grants to individuals (e.g. https://www.climategrants.earth/)

*assuming you believe the stagnation thesis.
> t's not just that we prioritize feed crops more than oranges, we also prioritize feed crops more than potatoes and root vegetables

Root vegetables don't have much calories. So this would actually make sense.
Jassy Talking Points [Tim Bray about AWS's new CEO]
Same reason everything else that is imported is imported - comparative advantage.

Take the logic of "grow all your food at home" too seriously and you end up like this guy:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/making-sandwich-sc...
I'm sure those men could clean their rooms perfectly well if someone made them. Their problem isn't using the wrong solvents or mixing light and dark laundry. It's lacking the conscientiousness to do boring/unpleasant life admin work consistently when no one is making them. There may be ways for parents to impart this trait, but just making them is probably not it. Boys who clean because their mothers are angry become men who clean because their wives are angry.

FWIW my parents were 100% diligent about bedtime, nutrition, cleaning my room, etc. I threw it all to the wind as soon as I moved out for college. Predictably I felt like shit. But I had to go through those experiences of feeling like shit, and then noticing that the "responsible" behaviors helped, before I cared enough to prioritize them.

In other words, I see what my parents were trying to do. I see what so many parents are trying to do when they get into huge conflicts with their kids. Teach lessons that they learned firsthand, so that the kids can skip the unpleasant parts (being sleep deprived, living in filth, bad breakups, whatever) and just do everything right the first time. But it doesn't work that way. Everyone has to find out for themselves.
Turn-based strategy is more fun to play when playing with bots, real-time strategy is more fun to play multi-player. Waiting for others sucks.
Yeah, I personally openly admit that eating factory farmed meat is highly immoral, but it's too easy and tasty so I'm not going to stop doing it.
I highly recommend this book. The chapters were "bite sized". Compared with the dinosaur book, it was easier to finish one chapter after I started on it. The chapters on concurrency made me cry with "so this is how XXX works" a lot. I also found the references near the end of each chapter were full of gems.

I self-taught CS, so not surprisingly there were lots of "void" and "dots" in my knowledge space. This book connected lots of dots together.
import itertools
[(c, len(list(it))) for (c, it) in itertools.groupby("aaaabbbcca")]

It's not the first time I've wanted

def ilen(it):
return sum(1 for _ in it)

as part of itertools. Which would make the second line be:

[(c, itertools.ilen(it)) for (c, it) in itertools.groupby("aaaabbbcca")]

Rejected many times, eg, from 2010: https://bugs.python.org/issue9547 .
Used to be the claim was sports were racist for not allowing black people to play, now it's racist that they do and that black people succeed at higher rates in sports.

When you're looking to claim racism, it doesn't matter what the underlying situation is, you'll find a way to make it racist.
This is perhaps related to the topic of an article that was posted here a few weeks ago, which was about CVE databases adopting some sort of charter because of a trend to use CVE reporting as a way to stuff one's resume.
From my time as a school teacher substitute in Denmark my experience is that 12-14 (7th and 8th grade) is the worst.
Cryptocurrency miners are now bulk buying gaming laptops to mine Ethereum
I live in Europe and decided to buy an apartment from a building that has been constructed in 1936. Brick walls are about 2ft thick, no issues with the neighbor noise. Still happy with my choice.

I think it's the same everywhere. Construction companies optimize everything to make more profit. Hundred years ago, at least here, apartment buildings were constructed mainly by people that had become wealthy. They directly hired builders and monitored the quality. Many times reserved the biggest apartment for themselves.
"...i find the FDAs policies and procedures eminently sensible..."

Damn shame the FDA was asleep at the wheel during the opioid epidemic! (It's a shame you've not bothered to justify that statement in the light of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.)

The FDA did SFA to stop Purdue Pharma selling—sorry—pushing boxes of OxyContin to all and sundry as if they were kids lollipops despite the fact that it would have been aware of over a hundred or more years of solid medical evidence of the dangers of narcotics and narcotic addiction. The fact that any opioid narcotic that's capable of killing pain is addictive—and if not very carefully managed—very addictive is 101 medical/pharmacy knowledge. Even kids know the fact!

Armed with this knowledge the FDA knew what Purdue was doing was completely unacceptable, so why didn't it act?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/24/fda-opioids-...

The FDA still has a lot to answer for its negligence over the Purdue/Opioid crisis. Its ethics are nothing like they were in Frances Kelsey's day.

—

Later edit: Let me add Frances Kelsey was a true hero, she saved many kids from developing terrible deformities! Despite current criticism of the FDA by many including myself, we should never forget her contribution to medicine.
So, if we want to influence human behaviour in the modern world (first child at 20 or 30? Is aggression linked to desire / see to hunt?) can we take the lessons here and apply them to urban design?
>Despite having the youngest, fastest growing and most energetic population, Africa has the worst internet coverage of any continent.

Maybe they have the youngest population because they have the worst internet coverage.
I wonder if this plays into the entertainment value in a Skinner box/gacha-game type way. Similarly: many of the most popular video games for streaming (including but not limited to Battle Royales) involve some element of chaos or chance. Never knowing how things will go, or when something really exciting will happen, keeps an audience engaged.
Correct. As a former die-hard KDE user, KHTML/Konqueror was my daily browser, until I switched to OS X Tiger. Been using Safari since that. Also for web development.
Still vastly more than most people make in that amount of time
comparison is the thief of joy.
I’m not “bub” to you, or to anyone else. I’m also not an employer, but if I were, I would absolutely not hire anyone with your attitude.
And regular counsel during marriage. Your car shouldn't get a checkup more often than your marriage.
Any food transported to your plate by a car has an environmental cost. As does modern life in general. I believe we will eventually solve the problem (via carbon-capture & sustainable energy production) but I see that mostly orthogonal to eating meat.
> can't successfully operate a motor vehicle

That's a set of goalposts that move automatically to render any argument against it invalid.

No matter how counter-intuitive, error-prone, or difficult the control interface of an automobile is made to be, you can always say: "Well, if you can't figure it out, don't drive!"

Would you fly on a plane designed with this attitude? "It'll drop out of the sky if you accidentally bump anything, without a noticeable warning, but pilots that can't handle flying shouldn't be in the cockpit anyway!"

But seriously: would you get on a 737 MAX without the MCAS fixed?

Would you get in a 737 MAX with an unfixed MCAS a decade after the MCAS incident, when people have forgotten? With a new pilot that had never heard of the two specific crashes?

Or would you insist in flying in a plane designed not to crash into the ground in ways that's counterintuitive for the pilots to deal with?

Similarly, would you let your relatives drive a 2014 model Jeep Grand Cherokee that hadn't been recalled and had the parking brake changed to be automatic? Would you trust your Grandmother to check the tiny little light every time that will stop her dying, or would you take it to the shop for her so that she doesn't have to?
Hydroxychloroquine particularly seems to be effective in combination with certain other medications which neutralize a part of the virus which HCQ does not. Fluvoxamine is also showing a lot of promise.

One of the main planks in the "hydroxychloroquine is bad" narrative actually had some disinfo elements itself: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/the-surgisphere-scand...
Was in my early twenties when I started to play the guitar. In hindsight I consider this as one of the best decisions in my life.
A proper typesystem for functional types will check at compile-time that in all places where you would assign such a function, the function will always have the right type.

So it's NOT a runtime error, it's a compile-time error, even though you can assign different functions at runtime.
Does anyone find Lisp readable?

I haven't used Lisp professionally, but find the code terribly confusing to read (mostly due to the look of it, I assume), while I can usually follow code of an unknown language reasonably well.
would you consider it a high risk?
It's when the sport they play and succeed also causes permanent Brain damage that it becomes hard to ignore. Basketball is also racist slightly (white billionaires owning black teams) but at least their sanity is left intact.
If you're watching a game with friends (as you should be), the pauses are a great to interact, grab a new beer, discuss the plays, etc. That all enhances the game-watching experience. It's far harder to do that in a sport that doesn't pause like soccer.
> It was certainly founded on religious principles, which is why homosexuals couldn't marry until recently

Simple counterexample: the USSR's views on gay marriage.
It's also about providing them with the necessary skills so that they actually do have a choice. If a kid never learns to tidy up, wash dishes, sort their laundry etc. then when they move out of home they may not know how to take care of themselves.

If they have the skills and just choose to be a slob, that's on them. But many young adults seem genuinely lost.
I'm not really sure what you are getting at. Regardless of what Samsung is doing, I'm confused by the argument that encryption is useless because Samsung might take steps to work around it when not using a Samsung device is a viable option.
He didn’t say future proof, he said low churn. These two things are radically different.
Renault sold more EV cars than any other manufacturer in Europe.
So, now meet causes obesity? That is really a new theory.
It's not, the issue was there is no wear leveling, so it's 1.4 writes per day. This is approximately 2 trips a day, 5 days a week. Reading between the lines I believe the car "eats into" the 3000-5000 cycles everytime it is cycled on.
Non-eating meat would result in the extinction of several species. Interesting exploration of this moral issue is here:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/11/acc-is-eating-meat-a-n...

Personally, I don’t consider the death of (most) animals any different to the death of plants. Only killing conscious entities (be they meat-based or potentially digital in the future) is immoral.
> If it's like a critical body part, someone is way too dependent

This is unhelpfully extending the metaphor into a straw man. It's simple enough to see the point.
There are studies showing MBSR doesn't work for some or doesn't work at all. Enough to cast doubt over MBSR as a universal tool.

I believe MBSR can never work for some.
Didn't understand what's the purpose of the redirects.
Can't you just track the user by defining a hash to the favicon, for each page, for example, favicon-8h05Gct.ico, by that making the browser download again and again "new" favicon -> and you will gather the data?
I understand why the grifters are frustrating. You make something, you don't have the means to invest in fabrication, so you give it away for free. Someone with deep pockets or connections to cheap manufacturing sweeps in and starts selling your design.

Or worse, you manage to manufacture a few units and someone buys them all, and tries to flip them on eBay for double the price. You can only make N at a time, so you feel bad for your customers because this middleman has inserted themself into the process.

That said, the stance of some hardware designers is too extreme in my opinion:

> Even selling blank PCBs at eBay or so without my approval might makes me pretty mad and probably leads to the forthcomming related projects to be closed source. You have been warned :)

This kind of attitude is understandable, but a downside is it serves to gatekeep who has access to an open hardware design. Those who can solder? You're good. Can't build a PCB? You can't have this.
Not an expert at race relations, can you provide some links? What limited I know, prominent African Americans (cough Obama cough) thought that this sports as a method of social change is actually counterproductive?

It also makes common sense. Are you telling me the system that allows social integration only if you prove yourself in the playground is actually an acceptable system in any level? Especially with a (for lack of better word) blood sport like football or boxing?
Myanmar orders internet providers to block Twitter and Instagram in the country
I feel the same way. A fire in a building like that would be inescapable.
I recently talked about this with a friend who is an engineer at a large traditional car manufacturer (working on sensor technology for self driving). It came up out of a completely different discussion (I had not heard about touch screen failures).

He said that Tesla is well known for using general consumer grade parts (he mentioned the touchscreen as an example) instead of automotive parts (which have typically much longer expected livetimes). That allows the to push the price down but also to iterate faster.

The worrying bit is not really that Tesla does it, but that the mandated strategy at that manufacturer is to only compare themselves with Tesla (all others don't count), so I think we will see a drive to lower quality from all manufacturers to emulate tesla. This is a well know premium manufacturer.
Historical diets were nothing like modern vegetarianism. They also were not super heathy, oftentimes missing nutricients and causing diseases from the lack of them.
Call me crazy but when I rent a condo, I try google street maps and go back in history and if I am lucky I get to see the construction phase. That will give an idea about how thick the concrete and the overall structure is. Another way is to look at the balconies. The floor will be as thick as balconies. The walls are a hit or miss. But if you knock on them and press your ears you can get some idea. Apartments near to a garbage chute or elevator will be noisy if not properly soundproofed.
Probably less risky to open up a double-glazed window factory than it is to open up a transparent wood window factory.
Got it. Can I connect with your privately to discuss how you would want to secure your emails?

Basic level of security: Before showing someone the email, ask them to click on a magic link sent to their inbox. This would include a domain check to ensure that only someone from the Moogler's domain is allowed to see emails, i.e., if the initial mail was Moogled by jane@example.com, only someone from example.com will be allowed to later see that email.

More advanced options: An entire authentication and authorization system could be created around this.

Self-hosting: I could also set you up to self-host this solution.
My point is that they are least likely to buy an EV.

In time, maybe, yes. But I don't think the deciding factor for these people (myself included) are charging stations at the mall.
The tower only has one apartment per floor, so at least that's one thing they don't need to worry about.
Short answer: No. You should always be wary of trying to apply evolutionary models to achieve specific real-world goals. Given the past history here, I'll go out on a limb and say that it's always a mistake.

Even if it was the right choice, these sorts of things have a dizzying array of unintuitive results and even the academics involved are still working out a lot of the implications. In particular, we don't have a good understanding of how applicable these results (and the wider predictions of HBE) are to non-foraging human societies.
Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) (2018)
You guys hiring any interns by any chance? Figured I might as well shoot my shot
When you come across a new user, you need to efficiently identity which hash belongs to that user. Using random hashes would require a linear search. The binary search approach requires redirects to navigate the tree to a unique leaf.
Exactly, the FDA was not only completely incompetent but indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands. It should have pounced on Purdue at the very outset.

Unlike much medical/drug research, knowledge about opioids and opioid addiction is well known.

The FDA irresponsibly failed to act on a no-brainer.
The Digital Swamp
I use that heavily at https://demo.mro.name/shaarligo. The provider of the feed could/should just ship it alongside.

P.S.: I prefer atom/RFC4287 for being well-defined and with e.g. sane dates.
It's not just about reducing the download time. Minified JS will parse faster - especially if using a minifier like Closure Compiler that has various heuristics to remove/simplify code.

I couldn't find any decent benchmarks to say exactly how much though. Of course for your 3kb script it's irrelevant, but a large web app may load a few mb of JS in which case it could make a big difference, especially on mobile devices.
So, the super-rich have some issues with their 27th home?
Oh, no!

I truly couldn't care less.
Ha, what a coincidence! Right before you posted this I just remembered (&&&) exists: https://gist.github.com/hyperrealgopher/19730725804ba8825d50...

Thanks for sharing!
So you don’t even see the issue?

If you’re into vegetables, as-in you’re against meat, you just eat vegetables and you don’t eat meat anymore. You don’t need that to be called « plant-based meat ».

Only the people who are actually so nostalgic of the good meat they had want something called « plant-based meat ».

Who are the « preservationists » there?
"Looking around in 2021, it turns out that the complexity associated with running DNS means it has effectively slowly migrated to a smaller number of outsourced To put it bluntly, it's more hassle than it's worth to run your own servers when infrastructure providers, despite strong decentralization support in the protocol."

The age-old elements of the protocol are still very reliable. I cannot agree with your conclusion that "its more hassle than its worth" to run DNS servers. Depends on the use case. DNS isn't just for companies. I use run DNS at home and I could not live without it. A third party provider would/could never offer the customised, creative solutions I created myself.

There is a learning curve but I think it is less than, say, email service. Maybe not. You can run DNS without third parties and IMO you should. I think the stuff it allows you to do is well worth it. I think the reason I spent the time to learn DNS is that it is very fast. Instant, short text response. Much more pleasant than what websites have turned into.

The old school is alive and well, but it does not need to hype anything, so what you see and hear is people hype-ing crap, not the good stuff that old, unsexy is much more reliable.

All the third party DNS services could go down and it would not affect me much at all, because I have so much stored DNS data. Most of the DNs traffic I produce never leaves the loopback. Makes the UX much faster.
BitMex offers 100x leverage, which is quite dangerous in any market, but in one as volatile as cryptocurrency is almost certain to wipe out your account very quickly.
Great solution that avoids using any functions that do the heavy lifting for you! Thanks for showing!
> It is not obvious to me we invest far more than our ancestors, I doubt it.

Of course it is obvious. People waste their lives away consuming fiction in the way of books, netflix, video games, politics. The luxury of doing that en masse simply was not possible if we go ways back. Hell, just in my lifetime this has changed. 25 years ago I heard of no one watching ten episodes of a series in one sitting.

I believe most people now spend far more time with and engaged in fictions than reality. People even think that the fictions media create are real. Most news are editorialized and fictionalized. What is presented is not reality. What people spend most of their time on a phone on, social media, are to a high degree fiction. That is not reality you are engaging with.

Reality is closer to the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid than the top.
I haven't read anything about divorce always being a failure (or not yet).

If you get all your input from non-engineering journalists, comedians, talking heads, etc, you may never encounter any differing opinions; just as if 100 years ago you'd have believed divorce is always bad from those same people, and been surprised at what engineers said about how it can be occasionally a good thing.
This is a terrific book, really solid technical content, historical perspective, and entertaining writing.

I feel like it needs a fourth piece, maybe 'distribution', focused on networking.
> The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: life in a supertall tower

Ftfy.
I Know What You Bought at Chipotle for $9.81 by Solving a Linear Inverse Problem
I agree with you generally, but not with your comparison between bolognese and marinara.

One has the protein I need and one doesn't.

I did, however, discover falafel balls recently, and they're definitely something that I can imagine eating regularily.
"The FDA doesn't make controlled substance decisions."

It never spoke out either. Like Pontius Pilate, it washed its hands of the matter.
I think we should foster an atmosphere of free philosophical inquiry here on HN.

FWIW I think GP raises an interesting question.
Does it continue learning? It might be good to somehow federalize it in order for instances to share knowledge or results.

Were its current knowledge to stay static, I imagine it would become outdated in some time. But most importantly, it wouldn't correct mistakes
When doing code reviews, someone will usually say, "we need to update the docs" if it's a big change. If you can't do that now, file a bug to remind yourself, or assign it to the new guy (maybe kidding).