skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People talk about it all the time. I think there are a lot of initiative to provide Africa (one of the only fast growing areas) with birth control and education, especially of young women and girls.

It does of course get turned into "this politician want to abort poor peoples babies", but unfortunately that's where we are at as world.

I do agree this should be part of the solution.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/05/bernie_sa...

edit: while I was typing this the parent got compared to Hitler, so there you go. Simply making birth control available is not eugenics, that is what I have heard people suggest
How's mining BTC compared to energy spent on heating? I heard about using the heat excess from mining to heat houses. Could one say this is ecological? For sure better than an electrical heater which doesn't do any other work than throwing the energy into air.
I try to like it but it have a HARD stand against multi-tenant deployment.

This is a major weak point of many solution, in special how automate it.
A tax is only a tax for poor people.

Meat is an important part of a balanced diet, and by raising the price via taxes it becomes unobtainable to those for who meat already is an expensive luxury.

Also your math is weird.
I don't want to be too critical, because I've learned a lot from the author's books, but a fair amount of the article (mainly myths 1 and 2) seem to be over-generalization or skewed based on the author's bias. Her field is psychology, not primarily neuroscience; specifically, the psychology (and some neuroscience of) emotion. I recommend Jeff Hawkins's new book for a perspective closer to a neuroscientist's. (He's technically not a neuroscience Ph.D., but he has equivalent knowledge.)

Myth #1: Brain areas aren't separate and didn't evolve in stages.

1. Brain (neocortex) areas aren't single-purpose. Obviously neuroplasticity is a thing, but the article ignores that areas of the brain develop to be focused on a single category of tasks (visual, auditory, etc.). The author's example, blindfolding someone and watching their visual cortex get repurposed when learning to read braille, ignores that if you don't blindfold them, other areas will probably take up most of the task of learning braille because it's not a visual activity and the brain tends to separate areas of responsibility.

2. The number of significant evolutionary steps may not be just three, so the triune brain theory may be technically false, but I've never seen any actual neuroscientist argue that it isn't roughly accurate. The evidence in the article is molecular genetics: the fact that there aren't radically different kinds of neurons. This is like scaling up an argument that ethanol and glucose are the same thing because they share the same elements. If the limbic system and neocortex have roughly the same kind of neurons, what does that matter? We know they serve radically different purposes, and we know that reptiles don't have a neocortex (at least, nothing of significance).

Myth #2: Brain is stimulus/response machine

Her argument against this myth seems tortured. Of course the brain is not a simple impulse/response machine, but it's still essentially taking in inputs and responding in various ways. It just has a mind-bogglingly complex internal state.

Myth #3: Strong dividing line between diseases of the brain and body

Everything seems to point to her being right on this one. Science knows, nearly as much as it can know anything, that neurological stress leads to physical stress responses which can screw up other parts of the body, often through hormone dysregulation. Similarly, physical problems from gut health to inflammation can trigger immune responses or simpler biochemical reactions that have neurological side-effects. And, of course, diet. Psychoactive drugs are a clear example of how an external physical influence can have psychological effects.
Note that this isn't just some user-supplied bad hashers. Hash for std::string in GNU library is not much harder to hack for collisions than your example. And also it uses the whole string, so is slow on long strings. I didn't investigate if other implementations of STL are any better.
But to have your computer bitflip 300 times in a couple weeks is impossible. Either the address is cached incorrectly for a long time or it's just a typo in a config file.
An easier starting point would simply be shifting meat subsidies to fruit and vegetables:

> According to recent studies, the U.S. government spends up to $38 billion each year to subsidize the meat and dairy industries, with less than one percent of that sum allocated to aiding the production of fruits and vegetables.

https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/removing-meat-subsidy-our-cogn...

Broadly it would keep food prices stable and encourage healthier alternatives.

Edit: Sorry, I assumed this is a US conversation which may be incorrect. I understand UK is similar, but don't know about the rest of the world.
Lamb is a very young sheep, so I guess those will not have much wool before being slaughtered?

Anecdotally, I have Dutch family that kept sheep for a long time. They said the cost of shaving off the wool is often higher than the value of the wool.
I guess not, because the article says this guy started working in godot 3 years ago while studying at university and this other guy in google scholar has been publishing since the decade of the 2000s. Joan Fons is not an uncommon name.
Animal agriculture is already very heavily subsidized. Moving said subsidies from animal to plant based food production would greatly increase the cost of animal proteins, while allowing plant farming the opportunity to embrace regenerative practices.

https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/removing-meat-subsidy-our-cogn...
Unfortunately much of the financial system (in the US anyway) is highly dependent on population growth. Many existing entitlements were created during periods of uncommon birth-rates with the expectation that the babies being born will grow and reproduce at the same rate as their parents. This growth hasn't materialized, and much of the existing growth can be attributed to immigrant inflows. Regardless of the environmental arguments against overpopulation, we are living in a competitive world, and historically, declining birth-rates have often not been favorable for sustaining sociopolitical influence and relevance or economic growth and stability. We are however, living in a unique time were robots and AI can potentially pick up the slack for whatever losses of productivity a lower population may cause. We will however still have to operate in a period of growing stagnation and inequality. Wealth will be less available through incomes (as it already is), and inequality, without the proper counter measures, can inflate to the levels more familiar in Jane Austen's time. You have more economic growth if you give 1 million people $100 dollars (since they are more likely to spend it on goods/services) vs giving $100 million to one person (who will likely spend the bulk of their money on financial instruments). An economy needs many people to spend money to grow, we’re now expected to have less people with less money to spend.
So like Slack, but even more annoying/distracting? Nope!
Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Faces Reckoning as Tech Trade Stalls
Library terminals! I remember the public library in my hometown had both an InfoTrac PC (with CD-ROM, in the 80s!) with a horribly burned-in amber monitor, and actual green screen terminals connected to some beast in the basement or someplace (VAX?) to search the card catalog.
It's food and food should never be a luxury. Historically it has often been a luxury unfortunately.
A lot of farmland is dedicated to growing feed for livestock, however. If you can grow corn on a section of land, you can probably grow other crops.
OMG or we could somehow figure out how to get the federal government to "just"stop subsidizing corn.

Same effect as the tax (it would allow the actual price of meat to rise closer to what it should be), and VASTLY less coercive and prone to being gamed by well-lawyered insiders.

Ending the corn subsidy ends the indirect meat subsidy. It would allow so many problems to start self-correcting.

I agree with others - a tax to make food more expensive is inhumane and immoral. Please update your view on red meat.

Taxes ("sin taxes") disproportionately hurt the poor and financially constrained.

That you're even suggesting making meat 7x more expensive shows that you're not remotely concerned about your ability to provide food for yourself.
Yet the installer screenshots pretty clearly say Borland.
we contain multitudes, maaan.
By the way, does anyone know whether red dead redemption online has the same problem? Maybe the issue was fixed for the newer game but they decided not to update gta repo?
Spot on!
I'm looking forward for the day money/value will based on not only on what you provide/create but also on how much that impacts all the connected things to make that happen.
Meat is a luxury. You do not by any stretch of the imagination need it.
originally by Allaire

Originally by Nick Bradbury.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_HomeSite
Smart Contract Interactions in Coq (2019) [pdf]
Oh this is really neat. Gonna play with it.

Making terminal animations is a ton of fun. I built matrix rain since I was a huge fan of the movie.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/nojvek/matrix-rain
A JSON based database for Python
Even just removing the meat subsidy in the US (or replacing it with one subsidizing plant-based alternatives) would go a long way.

I found this to be a well-written article about the topic: https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/removing-meat-subsidy-our-cogn...
I think you're missing the point of touch mode: mouse and touch actually work fine in both modes. The touch mode is just there to demonstrate how Flutter adapts the layout depending on the target modality: see how the controls get larger when you select touch mode.

The Medium post[1] about Web support explains some adaptations they made for Desktop browser, including:

We also increased the default content density, because mouse pointers support a tighter density than touch devices.

I expect that in a "real" app the default mode is adapted automatically based on the device type.

[1] https://medium.com/flutter/flutter-web-support-hits-the-stab...
If you are avoiding synthetic fibers (e.g. due to concerns about microplastics or outgassing) then I am not aware of an alternative to wool. The big feature of wool is that, unlike plant fibers, it still insulates you when it gets wet. It also has anti-bacterial properties (so it tends not to get body odor as quickly) and is naturally flame retardant (which also separates it from most synthetic fibers).

The faux-leather that I'm aware of seeks to replicate leather's look more than its performance. In particular leather tends to last much longer, develop a patina as it gets worn, doesn't melt when burnt, provides protection, etc. On the other hand, fabrics like kevlar and ballistic nylon can replicate some of leather's performance but not its look. Most of these also have the issues associated with synthetic fibers.

Finally, there are semi-niche applications for vegetable tanned leather (which is the more traditional approach to tanning). Vegetable tanned leather becomes flexible when wet and holds its shape when it dries. That allows leather to be formed into shapes (e.g. armour for martial arts or cosplay, holsters and sheaths) and allows it to be tooled. I'm not aware of a faux-leather that acts that way.
Yeah, this is what the environmentalists don't really get.

Cheap meat available to the masses isn't going away. Pandora's Box has been opened, we have to deal with that. The only thing accomplished with making meat prohibitively expensive is pissing meat-eaters off (thus them resenting any environmental reforms even more), and most importantly, making it accessible only to the wealthy.

It's fine to offer healthier alternatives, but don't expect to be moving mountains. Focus more money and effort on lab-grown meat.
The only interesting thing here is the automatic recording/transcription of meetings.
Relational databases were pretty new at the time of dBase II, although at least IBM and Oracle had SQL-based products. There were a bunch of other databases in the market however.
Ransomware as a service is the new big problem for business
HTTPWTF
The closest service I know of is privacy.com's limited use credit cards, which let you cancel a service by cancelling whatever card they have.
I use Chocolately to install browsers on new OS instances.
> polymer substitutes

Which eventually adds to the mountains of non-bio-degradable plastic waste.
Amazon Bans “Capitalism on a Ventilator”
Look into corpus callosum separation (split-brain) and some of the experiments that have been performed after this procedure. Fascinating displays of two separate consciousnesses. Sam Harris' Making Sense Podcast #234 had Iain McGilchrist to discuss this in some detail.
https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM for Gnome is just like that, it's a wonderful concept.
Ask HN: What advice would you give an experienced developer to keep improving?
I'm a software developer with over a decade of experience, but I don't feel like a senior developer. I've worked with a variety of languages: C#, Python, C++, and JavaScript mostly. One regret I have is not having enough opportunities to learn from developers more senior than I. I've worked with a few very intelligent developers, but for reasons unspecified, I wasn't given the opportunity to learn much from their experiences.

What would you recommend doing to improve development skills both to be a better employee/developer and to prepare oneself for future interviews? Focus on learning your current languages in greater depth? Learning algorithms and data structures? Other things?
Just mentioning his name got me downvotes. HN has an interesting ecosystem.
Stupid German money never ceases to be a thing it seems. In that case, so, it seems that BaFin intervened not because he Greensill bank is unstable or anything, but rather its risk of over exposure to Greensill's other activities is too high. No idea if that's the case, I am by no means an expert on finance things.
If the key length is constant, the map as an upper limit on the number of possible elements, so all operations are constant time.
There was a recent story about repl hiring process where they preferred inexperienced developers. Not surprised key things were missed.
That's because overpopulation is a myth. Sure, there's a limit to how many humans the planet can support, but we're nowhere near that limit.

The USA throws away nearly as much food as it eats. Resource availability isn't the issue - resource distribution is.

And since when was it uncommon for people to criticize people's reproductive habits? Eugenicists have been trying as hard as possible to keep black and brown people from reproducing for centuries now, and ethno-nationalists view race mixing as a mortal sin.

Generally we stick away from these kinds of arguments, due to how morally reprehensible they are. If you think the world was better or easier to manage when there were only 3 billion people on it, that's purely a matter of opinion, but there's literally only one way we ever go back to that population size, and that's through genocide, so no, we don't entertain these ideas.
Foxbase/FoxPro and Clipper also.
The BeagleV [1] looks much like many ARM dev boards.

It will probably still have a binary blob for the GPU though, they are proposing to use an Imagination design.

[1] https://beagleboard.org/beaglev
> Ok, but it also means that somebody touched all your M&Ms.

Did latex gloves not exist in the 80s?

Actually, come to think of it, it's possible one could simply order pre-sorted M&Ms directly from the factory if one were buying in enough bulk.
I was never a regular meat eater and have quit completely for over 3 years. I can do 110kg deadlifts. I am 42 with a sedentary job.
Definitely not 100% but getting there. Current estimates are 40-70%
Also, thanks to the nature of mining, you can setup operation close to source (not destroying land by energy transport) of energy.
Like these guys employ energy that would be otherwise wasted https://gam.ai/our-mission.html
Cotton and synthetics are part of people's wardrobe (a big part), but for specific, specialized purposes and items the animal based things are still the best option.

My mum knitted me a hat and scarf out of wool (mixed with synthetics because 100% sheep wool is not ideal), it's great.

My hiking boots are made mainly out of leather, synthetics are no alternative. My day to day ones are synthetic though.

Good quality leather products are expensive; your statement on them being "fast fashion" is only relevant if you're rich, or if it's shit fake leather.

Also, good quality synthetics as a replacement for animal products, the 'outdoor' stuff, is prohibitively expensive - moreso than an equivalent animal product.
I mean, is every company required to tell you every single line of their tactical decisions? They presented a product, that product has specifications. As a customer you're free to check out the specifications, and buy the product or not based on these specifications meeting your requirements or not. Software not being ready was a given, it's literally a new architecture, it's hardly the first time this happens in computing history, and definitely not the first time for Apple. What's the problem here, what did you expect them to say in said keynote?
Presumably Borland rebranded after they acquired Ashton-Tate.
> Well, at least all the deposits re covered

Not all. The deposits of German countys are distinctly not covered by the Einlagensicherungsfonds - Monheim (NRW) stands to lose about 38 million € of taxpayer money, which is... quite ironic given that they've been the "Ireland of NRW" - they attracted a lot of company HQs by tax dumping and got a lot of taxes in return.
The point is precisely that neither of them is an outlier within their respective time -- they are normal people who want "normal" housing: i.e. just enough to raise a family in.

The parents born in the 30s-50s could largely afford to purchase homes large enough to raise a family in, but far fewer people born in the 70s-90s will be able to do the same.
You'd need substantially more of them in Earth's gravity, and they're not going to save you from an explosion unless you make the crew capsule detachable.

The flip-and-land maneuver doesn't permit much "uh oh, it's gone wrong..." time to correct, either. I think they're going to have to go more in the direction of airliner-style "look, things kinda have to work" - there's no ejection seat, no parachute.
Well... ARM has been very successful for the last 20 years.
Personally, I always find this stuff upsetting. I'm not sure I'm even capable of a plant based diet if I wanted to. I've always been an very picky eater. Many vegetables have never agreed with me, I gag and vomit when I try to force them down. I've tried many times in my life and I do have a sort of core list of veggies I don't mind, but most are absolutely revolting in my mouth.

I'm envious of people who can just eat whatever they want. They will never understand the anxiety a simple dinner invitation gives me.
FWIW, I downvoted you for complaining about downvotes.
I think the implication is that we have a tremendous amount of deforestation (to get more land to grow more stuff to feed the animals!) and a runaway problem with pollution (air, land, water) that can be significantly ameliorated with a reduction of meat consumption.
AI System Can Sniff Out Disease as Well as Dogs Do
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That is what I am referring to :)
I'm arguing from a purely practical perspective. What can be done? Can we forget PoW and Bitcoin ever existed? Can we ban someone using their GPU from performing hashes and connecting to the internet? Even the great firewall of China hasn't managed that. Can we close coal burning power stations? Yes. Let's do that then. Whether it's ironic or not, whether bitcoin was designed to subvert anything is immaterial.
I've seen usage of Google Docs as a generic method for publicizing articles increase a great deal over the past year or two. Especially from China / greater Asia to a lesser extent.

Why?
As per the sibling comment, Borland acquired Ashton-Tate after dBase IV 1.0 shipped in part because it was such a disastrous release. I think 2.0 was the first Borland release.
> Give yourself greater peace of mind with the woice transcription feature.

The first thing I do in every meeting is ban the transcription bot one of my colleagues set up.
My first CS assignments were based on this book. Using linked lists in C + opengl we made some pretty nice looking trees.

If not for this book and assignments, I would probably have switched to another major.
Or in the case of a natural disaster, not going anywhere on account of not being able to charge it ;)
Although your UX looks a bit more appealing, this is what you are competing with: https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid-live-editor

So when determining your price point, you need to provide a fairly substantial service on top of this to justify a monthly cost. Particularly when you're targeting developers and architects, who are more likely to use free open-source alternatives even if the UX is not as good.
Are you in California? If so, sue them.

Here's the law:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
I remember doing a project for my CS degree in DBase III, and in my first job out of university I built a back office system for a very large UK cinema chain in Clipper. Discovering Blinker was a game changer, and Mike Schinkel's "Programming in Clipper 5" was my bible.

The nostalgia is real.
Most of the comments seem to revolve around pre-installed browser or not, but doesn't the article revolve around inability to uninstall?

If I can uninstall then I do not especially care if it is pre-installed.
True, I did mention soy, which (iirc) is the reason why big parts of the Amazon are being flattened and burnt (it was soy or palm oil, probably both?).

I live in NL, where traditionally we held cows (for milk and meat) because the ground would occasionally be flooded with salty seawater; grasses would be the only thing that grew. We had regular farms, built within a sea wall. It was only in the past few hundred years that we built said sea wall around the whole country, making things more viable for 'regular' farming.
definitely a concern, but that problem has solutions too
You'll still be tracked by advertisers using FLoC

https://github.com/WICG/floc

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...
Interesting! I wonder whether the outcome of this play will be more efficiencies and better pay for artists, or just Square taking a cut along with the record labels, managers, etc., leaving the artist out in the cold as usual.