skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the raw cocoa had attracted a price closer to the final products value, this wouldn't have happened. Sure, the value add is significant and so this is not just "chocolate is the value inherent in the beans" but really? This is happening because chocolate consumable production underpays the farmers.

This response is a good thing. I hope they succeed, its as steep hill to climb making good chocolate from cocoa.
Btw, it is not clear whether a dislike drowns the content – people believe it’s inverse, and you’re helping. Best you can do to counteract is closing a tab.
It seems like the article is, at its most basic, just arguing in favour of using synchronization primitives. Which, yeah, of course. Most of the time, you want to be doing that; I don't think that's controversial. The author likes scoped primitives best, and sure, fair enough.

But it takes a couple strange turns when it suggests that (a) you should ALWAYS use sync primitives, and (b) waitgroups/nurseries are the only sync primitive worth using.

If I'm only spawning off one parallel thread, a simple join statement is all I need. If I'm doing an async task, a promise is plenty.

If there's a true fork in my execution, maybe I don't want to use a sync primitive at all. Go cleans up stray goroutines on process termination, so if my program's logic doesn't demand that my goroutines join back together, why should they? Let them terminate themselves, or let them live forever.

There are more concurrency models in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in this guy's philosophy. It's not that I think waitgroups are a bad primitive or anything, I just think it's a bit much to take a useful primitive and go "this should be the only tool that is ever used to manage concurrency."
Why is it so cheap? Aren't the customers people who want to switch from $1000 phones for freedom (not price)?
GNU Project Needs Volunteers to Write JavaScript Drop-Ins for Non-Free Web Apps
It's assumed that you shouldn't write down insignificant digits.
None of that really follows, the idea that because something hasn't existed until now proves it isn't necessary is again a reductive argument that simply doesn't make sense.

There are many things that didn't exist and thus, were unnecessary for "modern" living and yet once they were invented and adopted it would be hard to go without them.
In the same way that one can appreciate good wine without having memorized the names of all the world's grape varieties.
Unfortunately, I think apple only invests in things apple.
So the "target market" is not developers for other platforms.

Too bad because a native apple docker would be really really useful. imagine:

FROM macos:10.13.3
RUN xcode-build

(I'm not talking about the current docker on mac which runs linux in a vm)
Good call to make it actually affordable.
"Good because if forces you to update"

That's the opposite of good.
The theory is that nobody will invest in e.g. researching how to build a complicated lumber cutting machine if they don't have protections against their competitor copying the results.

Let's say this research costs 1 million dollars, and the company bankrolls this via a loan. They build it and are successful, and begin paying it off.

Their competitor copies their idea, and exploits the fact that they have more capital and less debt to buy up more of the market, and end up the winner.

So, under a zero protection scheme it is optimal to wait until your competitor invests in research, and then just steal it. Which is what happens on a geopolitical level where there is no feasible enforcement possible.
I was going to say the first 3D POV game with real 3D was Decent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(1995_video_game)) but according to wikipedia System Shock came out about 6 months earlier. I probably got System Shock afterwards and thus thought it released later.

Both are great, had some huge fun playing both. Especially Decent after hours at work. I own both on GoG and should crank them up again.
Tether and Tether copycats command the lion’s share of stablecoin usage. While it’s true Tether isn’t a speculative store of value — custodial risk of Tether notwithstanding — it’s also an IOU, not a cryptocurrency.

Contrary to popular belief, alternative free-floating “stablecoins” aren’t actually stable: every major example of one has imploded at least once in times of high market volatility. This makes them speculative.

Unstable “stablecoins” are speculative stores of value no different from any other cryptocurrency, but with a twist: the real world usage to virtue signaling ratio equally rounds down to zero, but the profit mechanism is different. You bet on unstable stablecoins by purchasing cooperative pseudo-equities whose value is propped up by all the drum beating that goes on for the closely linked unstable stablecoin itself.

(All the examples of unstable “stablecoins” I’m familiar with have shipped such tertiary pseudo-equity coins as investor bait, which IMO explains virtually all of the buzz they seem to have — again no different from any other cryptocurrency.)
Taking a New Approach to Failure
I actually have something like 5 macros for email addresses, since I need 3 personal ones, 1 for work, and 1 for “throwaway” addresses on spammy sites. But I do that in the external keyboard.

I used macOS shortcuts for industry-specific terms that were common for me (typing out “Oracle Hyperion EPM HFM Service” several times a day gets boring fast). Nowadays I do something similar on Windows with AutoHotKeys combinations.
I'm not sure what you mean here, probably because I worded it poorly. Of course your instrument will have different scales, and you should use the appropriate one.

But the measurement was done with a number of significant figures, this is independent of how you write it. Nothing is "lost", if measurement had 2 sig figs it is 0.99, if it had 3 it was 0.990. Or 0.991 or whatever.

Am I missing something?
I would understand if it was that part of E1M2, but it's not. It's Duke going for a swim.
Even the folks who worked for the VOA and its parent the
United States Information Agency acknowledge that was created as a Cold War propaganda channel[1]. The broadcasts were heavily influenced by the CIA. The agency was reorganized in 1999 and the USIA abolished, but it's still mostly about presenting the State Department's view of international news.

[1] https://archive.org/details/warriorsofdisinf0000alvi
The Political Is Personal: Daily Politics as a Chronic Stressor
Sorry but I have to ask - all 76 genders ?

I find that discussion extremely hilarious.
That is true, could always screen record as a backup

Or just have the user check out a specific commit
Cool! How does the AI work? How does it make it's predictions?
> I mean, my point is that "if (race == whatever)" is completely nonsensical from an mRNA perspective.

Is it? mRNA can code for a protein that detects other mRNA in the same cell, which may reflect any genetic characteristic of the host.
> Every business and website since time immemorial has had the ability to choose with whom they do business, and what goods to stock and what not, and every publisher has had the right to choose which work to publish and which not.

This is false. As you said in your previous comment the government has always had a very heavy hand in regulating what people could and couldn't do, it's very much regulated who you can do business with and what you can stock and sell and to whom. This doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for a society that protects the rights of both the buyer and seller as much as possible.

Your two comments contradict each other in such a stark way it quite frankly makes my head spin.
He talks crap. Housing staid on and what you see is just the control boards...
Loopio and RFP.io are direct competitors. They are both good tools, but are designed for RFP response in general and not security specific. RFPs do tend to have security sections, so there is some overlap for sure, but these guys by definition are focusing on a wider problem and don't dive as deep into security.

A number of our customers combine our service with loopio or rfp.io and we are perfectly fine with that.
Probably a push on Friday morning on the US West Coast...
The revolt of the proletariat began when their Beanie Babies dropped in value?
E1L2: Red Light District
https://dukenukem.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Light_District

The wiki page calls it a porn store.
This is where that revolution is headed now ... here's some of the top search results from Google in no particular order:

https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/groups/Universit...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/seeking-arrangements-sugar...

https://www.insider.com/teachers-are-increasingly-becoming-s...
As far as I can tell, this looks like the same hardware theyve sold before for the earlier community edition phones.

Im guessing that calling it "BETA" signifies an increased confidence in it actually being usable, due to recent software improvements in the Linux mobile community?

While thats great in itself, Im looking forward to them moving to a beefier SOC.

(Posted from a PinePhone PostmarketOS community convergence edition phone)
It makes sense, given there are academic fields where a gun might be needed. E.g. if your research involves inventorying songbirds in the jungles of Colombia or whatever. Even in the U.S. a lot of mycologists carry weapons, so if they get shot at while accidentally stumbling on an illegal weed grow or whatever they can shoot back.
> COVID is basically a once-a-decade flu variant, but our population is now much fatter, sicker, and older this decade.

This is just untrue. Look at the excess mortality rates across various countries: https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386...

Without the lockdown (which kept hospitals from overflowing) we would have been looking at similar death rates to those in Ecuador/Bolivia/Peru where 69%/72%/97% more people died than usual last year (vs 19% in the US and 16% in Sweden.)

Only 15-20% of people in the US have been infected, and almost half a million excess deaths so far.

With the lockdown, weekly excess deaths have been double a bad influenza year in the Netherlands, https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-2999_article

The infection fatality rate for Covid-19 has been estimated at 10x that of seasonal flu. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201030/covid-19-infection-...
People read week-old posts on Fridays, when the hacker newsletter comes out. Thanks for the clarification!
Yea thanks! I've been selling basically same stuff to enterprises (customized UI's and algorithms) but I didn't want to overprice this one.
honestly, what is this?
An article about it working in mice:
https://newatlas.com/nanoparticle-near-infrared-vision/58686...

Assume that they are now doing human trials.
The correct way to do this would be using OP_RETURN imo. This special opcode is meant for committing to data like this. So for example one could commit to 4 bytes representing the IP address. To ensure that only authorized parties can update the IP the client should only accept transactions that were sent from a certain address, meaning they are automatically signed with the authorized-party's key.

Definitely an interesting use case for BTC to route around such censorship.
This comes from someone typing this on an iPhone, but that sounds like an argument to drop this goddamn walled garden/prison. I’m literally sick of it.
you may want to read this as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_checkpoint

extracted from the article submitted above.

there is a current discussion regarding:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-scientist-mrna-cance...

[Scientist behind COVID-19 mRNA vaccine says her team's next target is cancer]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26517124
This is great. I tried to hack the progress by automating clicks, using:

let button = document.getElementsByClassName('button')[0]
Array(100000).fill(undefined).forEach(() => button.click())

In response, I got the following log message:

> Such a smart subject.
Lispy – Short and Sweet Semantically Aware Lisp Editing [pdf]
> The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe,

Ok. But did anyone expect her to say anything else?

This is obviously a (slightly?) veiled pitch for backers, more funding, and perhaps some regulatory freedom.

It's unfortunate that the media can't resist the temptation to pitch this as news. It's not. It's interesting. There's certainly intrigue at 50k ft. But you don't ask the cow, "What do you think of milk?"

Promise and hope should be tempered with context. We've been to this rodeo before.
but why should it necessarily be that much different? better documentation sure, always. but in my experience Shopify solves ~70% of the cases extremely well and I, having learned some of the quirks, have very little problem filling the gaps. I will say, the app development, to the point of the article, IS a bit annoying hah. But I'm very surprised by all these API complaints. I think the API is very nice; maybe not quite Stripe-level but highly effective.
Handroll marshalling for every payload, handle the auth sequence, check arguments, endpoint semantics, sort out sparse versus full entity patching mismatch, build in retry that matches status codes, and do this for every endpoint.

If you're moving fast, you don't have time for this. Especially if it isn't your core competency / core product.
This is exactly how the game Seventh Continent works, its just a collection of 1000 cards and if you have a symbol then you sometimes draw a different card for if you have key items.
> I find it odd when people deny the extremely obvious signs that foreign allies are buying influence in DC. I'm sure that happens on both sides of the aisle.

That corruption exists on both sides - this is understood by pretty much everyone who isn't wildly partisan. That there is both legal (meaning that it does break specific laws but is instead privilege accessible by those in circles of power) and illegal corruption, likewise.

In the case of Hunter Biden, he is just reaping the benefits of being close to power. This isn't illegal - ex-presidents go on the talk circuit to tutor people in how to handle specific situations or to discuss events they have encountered. One would think that Hunter Biden would have received a masterclass in power politics through his father having been VP for 8 years. Her certainly would have met a lot of people over the years who could help him in the real world. This is not illegal, this is just one of the privileges of privilege.

Privilege is human nature. There is no mystery club - you are just either inside the tent or outside the tent. This does not mean we should not break it down, or tear it up, but it is also not illegal to hang out with people who are like you and who get you.

The problem with Greenwald's pieces are that he conflates this with obvious, illegal corruption. He claims it to be illegal - which is is not - and conflates it with actual corruption... but only on one side of politics. He seems to see himself as a maverick, a lone-wolf, but then whines that no one is there to support him, and all the legitimate papers decry or ignore him.

Greenwald is either unwell (and who isn't these days) or is trying to wedge himself into the role of the "reasonable" right-wing partisan. If it is the first, I hope he recovers, if the second, I hope he goes down in flames. The world needs fewer partisans.
Covidiab – the global registry of new-onset Covid-19 related diabetes
I worked with a bunch of startups and none of them did this.
Poor wording, locks up and becomes entirely unresponsive.
It seems a bit insane to interview for a new position and not ask to see where you will be working or talk to some of your potential coworkers ahead of time. But here we are.
Show HN: Libmon – Tokens to monetize your library and offer trials
Trans exclusionary people advocate excluding trans women from women's shelters. This leads to trans women being excluded from women's shelters.

Most trans exclusionary people say trans women are men. Some say they should be treated like cis men in all respects including imprisonment. Others accept keeping them apart from cis women means putting them with cis men in practice.

It shouldn't surprise you politically active people have opinions about tax and how it's spent. I've seen it myself. Even people who say they support separate but equal facilities start hedging when asked about funding.

Cis women and trans women being categories of women isn't just a trans perspective. And don't play games. You asked a question. I answered.

There are many more than 2 kinds of women!
In short there's a stack of prediction models that analyze the data: deep-learning neural network, keyword-based machine learning model, and shortly also I'll include a BERT NLP analyzer
Yeah, and let's continue with removing Win32 from Windows. That way other folks do not need to bother with Wine anymore.

/s, obviously.
from what i remember open core doesn't need to disable sip to function, just to install. the firmware is the actual firmware upgrades released by apple [everyone was shocked they supported this] that come embedded in the osx updates. my updates worked fine.

I'm pretty sure sip gets re-enabled each boot, but to check for authenticated root volume i think i need to install the g20 to run crutil or whatever it is.
Indeed, and thank you for not wailing against private prisons only. Dealing with the system in any capacity one realizes that it is closed, deaf and completely lacking in accountability.
If this were a blog post instead of a pile of tweets, we wouldn't have to expand multiple replies to see all of the content
> Robocalls I assume are profitable to someone. Therefore they will always find a way around blockage.

False. Robocalls can be made unprofitable. Take a deposit from the sender before calling you, and if at your discretion you determined the call was spam, don't refund the deposit.

Robocalls aren't solved because phone software didn't add this feature.
But where are you going to run the image? On a Mac Mini in your DC?

BTW macOS being a BSD derivative of sorts might benefit from Docker development on FreeBSD, which uses jails instead of cgroups, etc. At least, that could be easier to port, assuming that macOS kernel has the needed facilities.
I did get a kick out of "https://donotdrawapenis.com/", which has apparently collected 25,000 reasonable penis sketches. I guess for ML training to keep penis drawings off of your website?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Given the trick they use to prevent you from using the browser back button, I was expecting it to comment "subject is trying to escape!"
A pure Linux phone could obviously benefit from being as polished and streamlined as its iOS and Android counterparts.

But thats not its main mission. Thats not what it's selling.

Total user control, like on real desktop Linux, for those who can wield it, because thats literally what youre getting.

For now this space is for a very specific audience. Maybe in time (like Ubuntu did for desktop Linux on PCs) there will come a distro which is usable enough OOB to have the same effect on mobile.

We mobile Linux users will still be a minority though, and we probably wont mind. Just like we dont mind being minority desktop users either.
Facebook showcases wrist-worn AR interface concept
Pricing is tough to guesstimate right now with the component shortage. Given that hardware has not changed in a while, I don't see what should hold you back from getting it now, and the remaining hardware bugs are acceptible.[0]

The experience has improved quite a bit since I got my first PinePhone in June. That said, this device is never going to be really fast. It's acceptible now, though, and it turns out, that you can adjust to things being a little slow every then and now. Most distributions don't use the acceleration capabilities the SoC offer as much as they could, and there are other areas where improvements for battery life and smoothness are still happening. It's been serving me fine as my only smartphone on weekends (and as a secondary device on workdays).

I've been tracking the Linux Phone landscape on my blog[1], in multiple videos[2]. I have also adopted an App List, to list all the apps that run on these nascent Linux Distributions and are optimized for smartphones.[3]

BTW: The coolest feature is that you can just put another distribution on a microSDHC/XC card and boot it. Like this you can carry multiple phone operating systems that fit certain circumstances.

[0] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_v1.2b

[1] https://linmob.net

[2] https://linmob.net/videos/

[3] http://appl.ist
Can we have the postmortem?
Nifty. Now if only this was the required homepage on all major browsers starting up for the first time then folks at home would quickly become aware of just how well tracked they all are.
I'm afraid I'm unable to judge how state-of-the-art Mars rover is, but I'll point out public-sector investment in space projects is much lower than it used to be, such that it was possible for SpaceX to eat its lunch - beyond that I have no idea.

> also quite a fundamental piece of technology

I don't think long-term cable maintenance is considered important; whether a technology exists, and whether it was provided (at cost) is different. In most cases the electricity companies where obligated to provide maintenance to small communities, without profit, so did it on a least effort basis.

> I just don't see a post-human future that is based on silicon: the manufacturing process is far too complex and poisonous to be viable as a self-replicating system

I didn't say anything about self-replication; but AI controlled hardware could be self-replicating/sustaining in exactly the way human society is. In the meanwhile, If a sufficiently flexible robot can be remotely controlled by human operators, what stops multiple robots maintaining each other?
Since it was linked, Herbie will help you find numerically stable versions of your expression: https://herbie.uwplse.org/
> Aren't the customers people who want to switch from $1000 phones for freedom (not price)?

That's me at least.

I'm tempted to buy one just as a sign of support. We really need PinePhone to grow.
>> See how TSMC (Taiwan) and Samsung are free to buy ASMLs EUV machines, while China is blocked. Part of that is due to their rampant IP theft. Why sell machines to China if they're just going to copy them?

> You say China took too long to open up and industrialize. Well, they are open to buy from ASML and industrialize with their help, but others are closing that door...

There's also the elephant in the room: China is controlled by the Communist party, which holds values that are antithetical to those of many of its trading partners (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...). Neither Taiwan nor South Korea have that kind of incompatibility. It was kind of naive and arrogant for Western trade policy to focus on stuff like IP theft and market access while ignoring that elephant.
Could I make a suggestion? It'd be great if it were possible to white-blacklist all web features? We can do this for some features like location, but I can't selectively turn off images, JavaScript, or web fonts (only globally).

It might be nice to have a prompt like "This page wants to use a web font" like how you get for location. I realize that may be a lot of work to add in though.

Really, I'd just like to re-enable webfonts on Netflix so the subtitles don't look like garbage, but keep the fonts off on almost all websites. If anyone at Netflix is reading this, please fallback to something like sans-serif and not serif.
I was scared off attempting to use it when, one day I was doing something in a terminal and it locked up. I was clicking all over the screen to try and bring up the task manager (or any response), when the phone called my other phone! Input must have been going through to other apps but the screen was showing a blank terminal.