skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.

I see the risk as being in the level where I choose not to use teflon pans, but not extreme enough to ban it or force others to follow my choices. I think the environmental impact from the manufacturers is a bigger concern that should be monitored more closely. I think they have a Netflix documentary about one place in WV. Of course the company switched to a new (largely untested) chemical for new coatings. Just a shell game to stay in compliance or public favor, like with BPA vs BPS.
As someone with IBS, Fructose in excess of Glucose is THE issue.
The FODMAP diet (peer reviewed, currently the gold standard for IBS diets) is about reducing the fructose-in-excess-ofglucose. Only a teaspoon honey at time, but you can eat maple syrup. Greatly reduced consumption of stone fruits.
Its known that some IBS cases are caused when someone does not breakdown fructose in their small intestine, so the fructose then ferments in the large intestine. You want some fermentation in your gut, but not too much!
WorkFlowy is pretty good for brainstorming an idea without worrying too much about structuration. I've discovered it recently and can only recommend it.
that is true, but that is virtually always because of password re-use. if you use a password manager and randomly-generated passwords unique to each service, this is almost entirely mitigated.

with a single third party login for all services, though, if that third party account gets compromised the results are catastrophic.
> gives some idea about how the current products are performing.

It really doesn't. It gives one measurement, presumably from one point in time. We have no idea if they are growing or shrinking, at what rate, whether they are profitable or just burning money to buy revenue, or anything else that actually tells us about the health of their product.
What goes up must go down. Every joule you have to put in to climb, you get back in the downhill.

So in the end it mostly works out.
In theory, order shouldn't matter, right? But I recall seeing this trick for adding comments to json:

{
"foo": "this is a comment about foo",
"foo": "actual value of foo that overwrites the comment"
}

The trick is that the second value value of foo overwrites the first. But, clearly, sorting would would wreak havoc here (if the value was used in the sort key). ;)
It reminds me of how Nintendo settled US AG lawsuits on price fixing with coupons for Nintendo products. There's definitely a precedent.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-26-fi-276-st...
I don't actually think you're particularly far off from my point.

In general, I think it's an ROI thing - the vast majority of non-technical degrees from low-tier schools have abysmal ROI. That said, ROI obviously depends on the I and the R - you intelligently kept the R down, and it sounds like you got a good I, so yeah, no disagreement. I just think you're very much the exception.
Beyond Kleppmann’s stellar work, applying the direct-to-consumer model to research funding is interesting. It’s community-supported agriculture for distributed computing research:

> At the lowest tier, you will get regular news about new things I am working on, and exclusive early access to drafts and work-in-progress.

…

> At the highest tier, you get all the aforementioned benefits, plus the ability to influence my direction when I’m choosing what to work on next. Not saying I will definitely do what you want; also not saying that I will only take input from paying supporters (I still welcome ideas from everyone).

…

> With crowdfunding, I hope to not only generate a steady income stream, but also build a community of people who are excited about the same topics as me, and who are invested in making these ideas a reality. It is an opportunity for me to share early-stage work with enthusiasts, and to improve that work through feedback from the community. And it is an opportunity for you to get an insider view of the research process as we build the future of computing.
If you had to say what was the best intervention?
As if carrying a real gun in some remote colonial outpost isn’t the eventual billion dollar use case...
Shoddy endogenous androgen production in men is likely a function of excess adipose tissue causing higher rates of aromatization of T to estrogen

Being overweight or obese makes it more difficult to lose weight and put on muscle, a feedback loop

Clean diet and regular exercise goes a very long way, but nutrient deficient soil is making micro-nutrient deficiencies more difficult to resolve. Anecdotally, eating a whole foods diet consistent of high quality protein usually sourced from local farms (I'm in rural upstate NY), I still find myself needing to supplement magnesium, zinc, D3 and K2.
This has spawned a huge thread that I honestly didn't read all of, but someone else mentioned to me they use the 'Community' Snap package.

I did not set mine up with this, but it apparently requires a lot less hands on maintenance. In your case you might be interested.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/21/admin_manual/installati...

https://snapcraft.io/nextcloud

Apparently it auto-updates for you, but I'm not sure if it will upgrade major versions, or only security patches.
Sato: The First Bitcoin Boiler
If she wants to be found, she'll let us know. Lets not unleash a bunch of obsessive weirdos on her, she's probably got good reasons to not be about in "public"
When you think people disagree with you because they are evil, any action is justfiable (internally).
Rows launches a spreadsheet with data, integrations, and sharing
Covid-19 Testing and Vaccination Location finder (US)
>Why do we put so much energy into trying to recreate exactly the experience of traditional animal based food products?

Because until we stop using animals for food, those other things are kind of pointless? Who cares if you can buy vegan shoes that last decades, what's the end game? The cows are still going to be slaughtered for food, it'll just be one more thing that gets wasted instead of used.

>Pioneering chefs and restaurants create amazing experiences from flavors and textures that are new, unfamiliar, and surprising (maybe a point of comparison would be the fermentation experimentation that Noma got so much media for). So it's not that we can't really love new foods.

I think the number of "completely new and unfamiliar" foods created in the last 100 years can be measured on one hand. Sure people have taken known ingredients and mixed them in new ways, but that doesn't change the fact the underlying thing that we like is still there. Humans have had thousands of years to perfect food, why do you think someone in a lab working for a couple years is going to be able to upend that?

>If this energy and innovative spirit was directed differently, I wonder what new things we might be enjoying which are very different from traditional concepts but in many ways better, and which the next generation will consider foundational?

You're basically describing soylent, and the results are as expected. To pretend that there aren't people thinking about new ways of fueling humans is kind of unfair - it's happening, it's just HARD. People like "real" food.
We Went from Hardware to Cloud GPUs in Six Weeks
Yeah, reddit has suffered it's Eternal September several times over. The astroturfing and low value content/commentary makes the default front page with the default sub-reddits like looking at a magazine rack at the check out counter. The niche sub-reddits (non-default) are sometimes worth going to but have their own issues with being echo chambers. In either case, I've reduced my usage of the site and been looking for other alternatives (besides this one) that I can kind of get in on the ground floor with.
So what about the previous rovers? What were they using?
Sure, it's possible, by in my experience, most people exaggerate everything - especially things that can't be verified.

The other reason I have a hard time believing this is that I know normal people can't visualize anything. Artists, really good artists, are able to visualize a face with some detail. Most can't visualize a circle and toggle its color, let alone anything complex.

To me, that is a strong argument to believe the mind can't generate clear worlds, as people claim.
I'm also very interested in the $18.5M number in the settlement...

It seems surprisingly small for someone who can't explain where $200M+ has gone to...
the transparent content suggestion algorithm is insanely good. If you spend any amount of time in the actual app, you'll find it immediately starts catering content to you based on your specific interests (without ever obviously indicating them). Pair that with a very simple yet powerful "editing" suite, complete with audio editing and vfx, the app is the perfect storm for micro video content creation/consumption.
Keep in mind that you're on Hacker News: the majority of the commenters will not be referring to desktop software but rather web, which is where all the focus and the drive behind all .NET Core feature development has been coming from.

I think it's fair to say that the .NET team absolutely has a vision and has made significant progress towards achieving it so far as web (frontend/backend) development is concerned, despite how ridiculously lacking the desktop UI story is/has been. (In fact, it's even worse than that since 10 years ago, .NET was the only ecosystem that had an excellent and comprehensive story for UI development that was supported from start to finish.)
I've noticed that Firefox has become even snappier than Chrome.

One big advantage is that I now have way more addons installed on Firefox that would otherwise make Chrome utterly slow and unusable.
https://weremote.eu
I also do not have a facebook account, but there's an obvious benefit to having news filtered by people you know and trust. The alternative is having news that is only filtered by the half-dozen massive companies that own it.

When I was on facebook (a decade ago) my feed was a good source of news, probably because I consciously kept my friends list small.
OK, so that's one, very well understood case. Yes, a heat pump will not work all the time. I have one and it stops working around 20F and the furnace takes over. So what? I live at the US/Canada border and my furnace runs maybe ~2 months during the year. This is still tremendous savings.
Realistically, the next great sociologist and philosopher is going to be an academic, and the amount of spaces for academics in those fields is so vanishingly small that if you went to a third-tier university, you're almost entirely unlikely to get one. If you went to Stanford/Harvard/etc., maybe, but still not great odds.

It's like saying that you're discouraging the next lottery winner by telling people that playing the lottery is a bad investment.
And, it seems to be is a really understood problem that has efficient solutions.
FWIW I use all of those apps on a daily basis with Firefox and have not noticed any performance issues. It may be worth giving it another try if you haven't in a while.
It is getting better, but it won't really recover until 2050 to 2060's AFAIK. That said, there are other gasses which might still be bad to let into the atmosphere, so we still don't understand it a 100% There's also the ozone hole, which partly affects Australia [0], but mostly Antarctica. I think it is really interesting, that about 2/3 of people in Australia will get skin cancer at some point, and I've wondered whether it's due to the increased exposure to, what is essentially radiation, or just the mass migration of people who were originally not native to the region. Thus they don't handle the sun as well, as say, Aboriginals.

[0] https://www.villageinframe.com/ozone-layer-hole-in-australia...
This depends a great deal on the quality of honey. Most honey at the supermarket is adulterated [1]. If you can find raw, unfiltered honey, then it will contain additives such as pollen, beeswax, and parts of bees. The additives have nutritional value, yes, but the overwhelming majority of honey is the nutritional equivalent of simple syrup.

Probably the "best" sugar you can use is date sugar, which is just dried, ground-up dates. But if you really want to eat healthily, then you should eat plants instead of rich foods.

[1] https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store...
How a secret European language ‘made a rabbit’ and survived
You confused a middle schooler for a 19 year old? Yikes.
Can anyone recommend resources that teach compilers in reverse?
This type of messaging only exacerbates any misinformation being spread. The only impact this could have is that right wing groups will have another real world example for fresh conspiracy theories. This pushes the divide wider.
What do you mean by "advanced batteries"?

Battery cells are a commodity. Lithium iron phosphate cells last through 8 times more cycles.

Battery management boards can be bought off of amazon, aliexpress etc.

You can find plenty of youtube videos of people spot welding 18650 cells together with nickel strips and wiring a BMS to make their own battery pack, then putting it in their own scooter, electric bike etc. You can even buy full battery packs from actual electric cars and hybrids off the internet.

This is not something that is difficult for a single person, let alone a company.
Recreating Real-World Terrain with React, Three.js and WebGL Shaders
A guide to rendering photo-real terrain with React + Three.js
Is anyone else confused at how this is legal? I have no expertise in law, but my understanding is that the Supreme Court has agreed with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama that.

> Racial discrimination in state-operated schools is barred by the Constitution and "[i]t is also axiomatic that a state may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish." Lee v. Macon County Board of Education, 267 F. Supp. 458, 475-476 (MD Ala. 1967).

Isn't this promoting a private person to accomplish what the federal government is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish? And wouldn't this also apply to the federal government as well as states?

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/108851/norwood-v-harri...
I interviewed with Apple once and I promised myself to never go through it again.

They must have no training for their interviewers or maybe a training specifically to make them hostile gatekeepers?
What's Your Time Preference?
Is anyone finding this terrifying? When did democrafts, the party I vote for, become the people calling for tight censorship in every sector? Weren't the last people to make this move (more more ineffectively, thankfully) the Christian right? Is there something we can do to stand up for speech?
Looks cool. How flexible is it? Can this be embedded in an existing C++ application to render a screen?
Great privacy-focused launch, Firefox!

If anyone wants to see these protections in action, www.clerk.dev leverages the Storage Access API in development mode - where we need to share session data across localhost and a clerk-owned domain.

With this launch, developers are now prompted to explicitly allow third-party cookie access in Firefox.

(In production mode, the prompt isn't thrown because our cookies are set in a first party context.)
This is a really cool way to get a nice feeling about doing something dull. Great work!

I wonder how easy it would be to integrate with e.g. Jira using your Zapier integration. Sounds to me like a great hackathon project.
I eat a lot of honey, and am a huge fan of maple syrup. I love maple syrup, but I eat it in moderation. I eat it in smaller portions of about half cup daily but can have as much as I want. It's good on it's own as an energy source, and can be used as a natural sweetener. Also, I like to eat my whole grain breads with maple syrup as well. It adds flavor to them, so maybe I should add some! It's easy to eat, and is easy to make with an electric mixer, and it tastes great. So for me that's a win.
A Practical Guide to Evil: Do Wrong Right
I’m sure you’re aware that San Francisco is not representative of most of the United States. Roughly 70% of all housing units in the US have a garage.

Your edge case had a poor experience, but it isn’t the norm.
Are you a stock market donkey?
Who is "we"? For me, it's not using sugar or sweeteners at all.
Its production is seasonal. Availability follows. Ok?
What does it mean to be wrong? Should I have mined 1000 coins in my CPU a decade ago? Duh. Does that mean that BTC is a useful financial hedge against inflation? Why would it? BTC went up by a factor of a gazillion during a decade when USD inflation was not out of the ordinary. Clearly something other than "inflation hedge" is driving the price.
Which is probably why they ran it all locally first!
One could argue that when seen from a macro world view that any specific race is thriving more in the US than in other countries around the world. This doesn't mean that the US is truly fair and we have come a long way in the last 40 years and still have a way to go.

Many people of color immigrated here in the 1980s and while we still hear that they have been held back from succeeding they are probably still doing significantly better on average than if they had stayed in their home countries where violence and poverty still run rampant.

If the US is so unfair to people of color and not provide a way to better their lives...why do they continue to immigrate?
Seriously, why is this kind of harassment and stalking acceptable in any way? Why on earth is Polygon encouraging this BS?

Go look at virtually any female video game (staff, developer, etc) on Twitter and you'll immediately see numerous reasons based on the type of audience they get.
We have a large population of black-headed juncos (sparrow family) in our Seattle yard. Also Black-capped chickadees, Towhees and nuthatches. The nuthatches are very streamlined and fly so quickly among branches without collision it seems miraculous.

They all pay pretty close attention to us when we are out in the yard. The juncos in particular, probably because they like to build nests directly in my garden and I respond by giving them mealworms when their chicks hatch.

[edited for typo]
Cython is great, but it (used to?) introduce its own language with its own type syntax.
That's not really the same approach. It's not "backward", it's more "sideways": It starts with an end-to-end compiler for a tiny language, then builds out that end-to-end compiler incrementally. The featured article describes an approach where no such end-to-end compiler is available from the beginning. It's only end-to-end after the final exercise.
I would have said yes, but I can’t find it. That being said, Linux has a “unified page cache”, and MAP_SHARED is coherent with read(2) and write(2), at least on any local filesystem (not sure about FUSE) and when direct IO is not involved.

That being said, I could easily believe that largeish pwrite(2) calls would be comparably fast compared to mmap, since mmap needs to play with page tables, and page faults on x86 are expensive. MAP_POPULATE would also be worth trying if you’re not already using it.

I assume that copy_file_range(2) is out of the question due to relocations.
This should be safe to post. There was a Ban Thi Tran who died in Dallas on Aug 4 1984. No other info given.

Apollo was in Richardson, just N of Dallas.
Modernizing from PostgreSQL to Serverless with Fauna
The real money is in capturing subreddit moderators.

It’s an open secret in the PR industry that if you can get moderators of popular subreddits (for your market) on your side, then it’s easy to throw the conversation in your favor.

Moderators are the invisible hand the sway the conversation on Reddit. They have immense power to remove posts and comments that they disagree with.

PR companies are more than happy to arrange for subreddit moderators to receive free product, chats with company executives, even trips for office or factory tours. It makes the moderators feel like they’re “in” with the company, and they began moderating accordingly.

In some cases, popular subreddit moderators simply start their own businesses selling to particular subreddits. Some of them truly are honest, but others are looking to make a quick buck selling courses, putting affiliate links in subreddit Wikis and other activities.
A science fiction story about synthetic milk, rather funny and one of my favorites:

https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v62n06_1959-02_EXcite...
Bitter Black People –. By, Evon Latrail 02/23 by Evonlatrail – Entertainment
Cython was around long before Python got type annotations so they kind of had to come up with their own thing. Cython will also happily compile Python WITHOUT type annotations, you just won't see much of a performance boost.

Even without types cython provides a neat way to embed your code and the interpreter into a native executable and has applications for distributing python programs on systems that are tricky for python like Android and WASM.
It's the same thing chrome wants to roll out, right?

Doesn't this push advertisers towards fingerprinting which we absolutely don't have any good countermeasures against yet?
Why are you being downvoted? I don’t see it either.
The rub with
>policymakers are going to use some kind of model to predict the impact of policies, or to select which policies to implement

It is the policy makers are not aware of the 3rd or even 2nd level effects on those decisions. The models do not show it to them because many cant, or they do not want to see it. There are also enough different theories that they can pick whatever sounds nice and fits what they want to say and then can lean back and say 'see the model said'. My point is they are not going to follow the 'science' they are going to have smorgasbord of whatever pet theory they want to promote. Then back the 'science' into it.

>This also sounds like "it's hard," OR "you can't model everything." You can then say "and so I give up."

What I am saying is the models are borderline not working. They 'sorta' work right up until you get an irrational actor (see recent stonks issue as an interesting case study). People are irrational but rational in a different dimension. But we have no real good way to model that. It is why almost all of these theories 'work' until you get something irrational that the model does not account for.

I am also not saying 'give up'. I am saying you need a lot more dimensions in your calculus. I am also saying many of those dimensions you will have a very hard time measuring. That is due to other external dimensions affecting those hyper dimensional curves, and even the model bending back on itself affecting things. It will also not be something you can keep in your head. Also at this point you will have to explain it in a way people can understand (any way else is the way of kafka). There are many years of theories that sound nice but do not work.

>I do not see this happening personally.
Because in the majority of the cases it does not happen. Because the models usually get it wrong. But every once and awhile someone hits the lottery and leans into it. Usually around market crashes.
A Fabulous February Firefox – 86
Maybe I should be more clear - I didn't go to a Tier1 public school, didn't get into an elite school, how screwed am I?
It seems really interesting that the mypy team went to such lengths to create a binary version of their linter.

The big draw with mypyc has got to be direct integration with other source code in C.

Can anyone answer if it’s possible to replace PyPy’s VM backend with LLVM for AOT compilation? I wonder if that will results in any performance improvements.
I can’t recall where, but I’ve been to small shops in the US where they’ve whipped out a small table to calculate the tax.
jq output is also colorized on a tty output. This can be forced when piping to a pager e.g. `<json-producing command> | jq -S -C . | less -R`