skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not so much about what is in the chasm, but what lies at the edges. Dave Chappelle has a strong incentive to keep his jokes edgy but somewhat acceptable within the society he makes a living in. The anonymous edgelord posting neo-Nazi Pepes on 4chan has no such constraint.

It’s very easy - and indeed I’ve seen it with my own eyes when I was younger - for communities that accept jokes about minorities or LGBT people to very quickly devolve into open fantasizing about actual physical harm of such people. Back in the early 2000’s gaming forums were rife with that kind of supercharged self-radicalization.

Having grown up in South America, I take the ‘jokesters’ wearing t-shirts with slogans such as ‘Pinochet did nothing wrong’ and ‘make leftists afraid of helicopters again’ extremely seriously. Several of my parents’ acquaintances were ‘disappeared’ by the last dictatorship. My dad - a student at the time who wasn’t involved in any kind of political activism - shaved his beard because he was afraid he’d be mistaken for a ‘commie’ and jailed or worse. All you need is a small percentage of idiots actually believing the ‘joke’ for real life consequences to follow.
> Is it?

Yes

> How exactly is vitamin D deficiency measured and diagnosed?

Usually with a blood test. It's diagnosed because the blood test comes back out of range which is usually below 30 ng/ml for insufficiency, and below 20 for a deficiency.

> How much variance / tolerance is there between people?

The std. deviation is 16.6 ng/ml

> Most importantly does COVID impact Vitamin D levels?

I don't think we know, it's hard to track this. You'd need to follow a huge cohort of people who you test for vitamin d often enough so that while they're getting the infection we see their vitamin d in real time.
Are you conflating Referer with URL parameters? (Amazon calls them "ref tags" (referrer tags) but that's not HTTP Referer. It's not even possible to do what you are imagining with HTTP Referer, since Referer is only inside a browser session, not across from you to your friend.
The US has a big cultural expectation of tipping, so even though the entire west coast, NYC, Chicago, and Washington DC have gotten rid of lower tipped minimum wages and effectively increased wages for waitstaff, almost all people still tip in all of those places. Even more, over the years, the standard tip amount has moved from 10% to 15% to now what seems like wide support for 20%. Not to mention that large portions of the population now tip for non waited transactions too.

It gets even crazier when you go out with people and they look at you like you’re cheap for calculating tip on pre tax amounts. There’s a lot of pride in the US for tipping, as if it’s a status symbol.
It's an acceptable spelling in British English https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/grisly
I maintain open source libs in Python, Ruby, and Scala - the Scala libs are a lot more difficult to maintain.

Certain languages prioritize backwards compatibility and maintainability over new features / complicated programming stuff. The maintenance burden is dramatically different for different languages in my experience.
It's the semantics that counts.
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There are regulatory reasons. In Germany all the functional parts of your car have to be certified, often for that specific vehicle and in combination with other parts. To a certain degree that's definitely necessary. I don't want people downloading bugged amateur software that will make the gas pedal stuck and drive into a crowd because they thought it would give them an additional 5 horsepower. This may sound foreign to the typical American who is allowed to drive around in a rusty mad-max vehicle with failing brakes and DIY body work that will impale any pedestrian unlucky enough to cross its path.
> Or rather, how does one avoid getting into this situation.

Documentation?
What exactly am I gate keeping?
Twitch.tv uses mostly Go AFAIK. Where I work we use Go in all our services. There's plenty of uses of Go. You just won't ever hear about them, because why would you? You see Java and Node because that's all you've ever worked with. I see Erlang, .NET and Go, because that's all I've ever worked with.
This just made my day! The policy name is just very creative.
Nice, thanks for the detailed response! I did sociology & English in undergrad, so I got some decent exposure to Marx (I'll probably need a refresher though).

Not too long ago I picked up a copy of French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century by Gary Gutting, that gave some helpful info on the context of some of Deleuze's works (e.g. the Bergson and Spinoza stuff).

And ditto on ATP, what a trip haha. Not for the faint of heart!
Google makes "cursed" devices in production :) The Chromebook debug functionality is only accessible in one orientation:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/hdc...

(but that's with a special cable)
Do you even mob justice bro?
Right, fix the permission system, every app has its own scratch space, but needs to talk to the os file protection layer to load/save, if you double click a file, it has permission to read it, if you save a file it has permission to write and read it.

Very few desktop apps need permission to read/write files you didn't select manually anyway.
Even non-religious people have been saying for _generations_ that mass turning away from religion without redirecting the genuine human needs it fulfills was going to be trouble.
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I think it is complete bullshit to blame everything on the US. The EU government screwed up. Biontech was even developed in Europe, how exactly can the US prevent its use here?
From a supply perspective, yes.
VSCode still works fine with Go, but I do agree that Goland is better. Gopls[0] (the Go language server) has definitely been getting better, but it was not-so-great for a while (it locks up from time-to-time and you have to restart it, but that may be better now).

[0] https://github.com/golang/tools/blob/master/gopls/README.md
This does seem like a slightly emotionally charged response, but overall i agree with you.

Stallman said things that would get most people "cancelled" nowadays, while his intent might have been to debate the language used, how it was dishonest and how jumping to conclusions might be a disingenuous way to go about things.

His words, from another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535974

The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin Minsky: “deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting one of Epstein’s victims [2])” The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault” is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation: taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as Y, which is much worse than X... The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing... We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates…

It seems like an appalling situation, because one can understand why he came across in a way that would make people proceed to label him as someone who's advocating for what Minsky did, or claiming that it's okay. Whereas i get the feeling that RMS might not be entirely neurotypical, which the rest of the linked article seems to hint at - him picking arguments about the seemingly most mundane of things and not really having much of a "filter".
No one talks about the biggest disadvantage of EVs which is extraction of lithium which is a threat to environment and people who are involved in it. Plus a major disadvantage is where these dead batteries end up! land fills which again is biggest threat to environment. Even batteries are recyclable but up to what extent one day they will end up in landfills [https://www.res-ev.co.uk/problems-with-ev/#:~:text=One%20of%....] . There are some other options like hydrogen powered cars which do not harm environment any way, i think more research should be done to promote them or any other absolutely cleaner biofuel powered cars
Thanks for the feedback!

What we find is that the document-ish interface of Kitemaker lends itself to people sizing their work items a bit bigger than they would in Jira or GitHub issues, and then breaking them down a bit with todos inside. We have a lot of improvements planned around our todos to make this even nicer.

We also have themes (kinda like epics in Jira) for grouping larger initiatives together.
New Zealand is an island (two islands) that never had massive community spread. Once you cross into community spread you can't go back to being in a place like New Zealand. In most countries, there was wide community spread before anyone was even thinking about lockdowns.

Also, the average length of stay in a nursing home is under a year. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45950714_Length_of_...
Of course swappable and standardized would be a huge benefit. Imagine if AA, C, a D batteries hadn't been made a thing and instead we just had every maker of flashlights and transistor radios use their own proprietary batteries. Never mind - we don't have to imagine, as that's where we've now arrived with consumer electronics. Nowadays, companies like "standards" only when used as a weapon to undermine their competitors.

But in the long run, I do suspect a return to swappable and standardized. It many require government regulation.
Except the beef that isn't from free roaming animals but from mass producing facilities.
Yeah, and we even have a word for the "something else" that you're describing - its a rainforest.
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Coal and oil come from carbon captured during the Carboniferous period, before the evolution of species of bacteria and fungi that could digest the lignin in plants.

Coal and oil formation is not being fed by plant life today. The carbon in plants is recycled rather quickly in to the ecosphere.
Not my domain, but there are a lot of graphical examples here: https://microsoft.github.io/OpticSim.jl/dev/examples/

Looks like a modeling toolkit for lenses, telescopes, etc.

Most real systems of that sort suffer from artefacts like chromatic abberation, diffraction, etc. I wonder if such software can be used for modeling those things too.
It is now clear that the FSF will never denounce the behavior of RMS, as they are his creature forever. As such, the organization is inherently toxic.

That many of you cannot recognize the problem of having RMS in a leadership position, or indeed see nothing wrong with his words or behavior, is itself a savage indictment on tech culture. Please wear FSF and Free Stallman badges prominently so I know to avoid you at conferences and warn others from using your software. You are pariahs.
It’s obvious you have no idea what you are taking about. Automobiles are already walled gardens, for obvious reasons. Electric drivetrains are mechanically more simple than ICE, but battery and range management software is very complex. And there is an enormous amount of software required for ADAS, safety, infotainment, cabin control etc.
It's not an oversight, it's a limitation of how the study was conducted - you can't check for Vitamin D levels through an app.

But what you can do in this study, is have a dataset with a good size (4m people from the UK!) which allows for much broader analysis than would be possible through other means.

Blood testing 4m people during a pandemic is impractical, and widescale self-reporting will provide insights not otherwise available (as this paper shows).
Assuming the structural issues are solved, isn't it literally as easy as doubling each pin in a 180° fashion and shorting each pair? What additional controller complexity would this lead to (assuming termination issues are solved)?
Unless you had a specific career you wanted to pursue in Japan, why not focus on Western companies with offices in Japan instead? The culture is closer to that of Western culture supposedly, so you may not need to deal with the idiosyncrasies. Or you could just do fully remote internet-based work. Lots of tech work can work just fine entirely remote and on an entirely different timezone
Currencies aren't "supported" by armies. They're supported by either exports of real value or the ability to peg the currency to a "harder" currency by open market operations, which implies reserves of hard currency and/or gold. See the UK falling out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in the 90s, for example.

Argentina had plenty of military throughout its various currency and debt crises.
Scala minor versions are not binary compatible. So if you try and use a library compiled for 2.12 in a project that is using 2.13 it won't work.

In practice though it is not a major issue. It is easy for library authors to cross-compile for different versions and SBT handles fetching to correct binary dependency for your project. And in general, binary incompatibility doesn't mean source incompatibility. So generally uprgrading your projects scala version is as simple as changing the scalaVersion in your build.sbt. The exceptions are:

1. If you have a dependency that hasn't been cross-compiled for the new Scala version yet. So if you are trying to upgrade as soon as a new Scala minor version comes out then you may have issues if you have a lot of dependencies.

2. If you are trying to publish a library compiled for multiple older Scala versions then you can run into source compatibility issues. For instance, if you are using a method/interface that is new as of Scala 2.13 you won't be able to cross-compile to Scala 2.12.
After 27 years you can now softmod a Sony Playstation 1
For the duration your average new car buyer, and to a greater extend, HNer (this isn't exactly the "put 200k on an Altima u bought new" crowd), will own any given car these things won't be issues or if they are they'll be under warranty.

Everyone circle jerks about how their new 4Runner will last a million miles but you scroll back through the Facebook timeline, see how often they're buying cars, and it becomes pretty clear the people saying these things don't expect that to happen under their ownership (and the stats the automakers pay people to analyze over confirm this). New vehicles don't often get sold to people who will own them to the point where the lower level systems start needing attention.

ICE specific systems are highly refined because they get copypasta'd with minor alterations between multiple products. The stupid HVAC flapper that's specific to your model so some engineer could get a bonus for re-using some existing blower assembly is what's tested less and breaks more. It's rarely the "A to B" bits of the vehicle that give the people who buy new vehicles issue (except when OEMs put unnecessary things in the critical path, like preventing you from taking it out of Park without the consent of the door switches and stuff like that). EVs aren't immune to that kind of stuff that dominates early life (unscheduled) maintenance costs.

Electric isn't a hands down winner yet though it appears to be on that path. If if were we'd see EV Tranit Connect and NV200s and other vehicles that are purchased strictly by the numbers flying off the shelves. But it's probably close and the reason we're not there yet is likely just developmental man hours, not anything fundamental.
A hypergrowth 3D priting company: Nano Dimension
You see, when Firefox improves privacy it's for the good of users, but when Chrome improves privacy it's because Google can track you just fine despite the change and they want to give competing ad networks a kicking.

/s ?
Hah. Posted that I remember it from Larry Nivens before I read your comment :D
I’m really glad you asked that! The reason we have coal and oil today is that earlier in Earth’s history microorganisms lacked the enzyme to metabolize cellulose (the most abundant bioorganic material). So until then, it was buried and accumulated as fossil fuels.

Today’s ecosystem can metabolize cellulose, so no more fossil fuel production. Quite literally an unsustainable fuel!
The "from cows" technically makes it pretty much true. Regardless, it's not a constructive comment for that reason.
Is the Scala language simply too big? I tried to learn it once (years ago) and quickly found myself overwhelmed by the number of concepts. I remember feeling like 80% of power of the language could have been achieved with 20% of the complexity. The latest Java releases are somewhat proving this with functional interfaces and records.
It's not, but a Twitter thread is apparently how we judge truth now.

If France's vaccine had worked and AZ failed, the tables would have been turned. This also completely ignores that the Oxford/AZ vaccine is what is driving vaccinations around the world right now for ~$3 a pop.

Somehow UK is both the devil and an angel in this scenario.
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And if the browser "404'd", that means there's actually a web server listening (different to connection refused/timed out error messages). So was it a 404 or something else but you don't understand HTTP so you just called it 404?

From the writing my impression is this is a guy flexing his "I know tech" muscles. Calling it "pwn"? Talking about his Librem phone/desktop? Well done 1337 hacker! /s
> people buy lottery tickets for many reasons; positive EV is not one of them

I’m sorry, but you likely haven’t talked to many people who buy lottery tickets. I’ve worked in debt relief — I’ve talked to a lot of such people. A majority truly do expect to win small amounts (e.g. ~$1000) over time that offset their losses.

This expectation is subconscious, built mostly from saliency bias: the infrequent wins loom larger in their memory than the frequent losses, so they don’t actually feel like they’re losing money over time.

When you sit them down and “budget” for playing the lottery — help them add up how much they’ll spend and how much they’ll gain over a year — they usually quit playing. They’ve usually just literally never done that.

Yes, economists prattle on about how playing the lottery can be a rational decision, giving people hope, dopamine hits, etc. But there are lots of available options for non-profitable sources of hope and dopamine hits! Lotteries are a bad choice even among those options. Economists are doing the evo-psych thing here, working backward from what they see to make a prediction of how it could have evolved, rather than actually doing the experiment.
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A common misconception which I frequently see when this topic arises is the failure to distinguish carbon cycles and one-way carbon emission.

You exhale carbon dioxide. However, this carbon dioxide comes from the carbon in the food you eat, and the food you eat obtained it from the atmosphere. Thus, it's a cycle. As a system (ignoring food transportation, deforestation, etc.) it's effectively carbon neutral.

By contrast, when we dig up oil and burn it, there is no cycle. It's a one way street.

Methane production from cattle is slightly more complicated instance of a carbon cycle. The cows produce methane, which is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. However, it degrades in the atmosphere into C02. Since this C02 was obtained from the food the cattle ate, this is another cycle.

Since the methane released from cattle is continually degrading, it does not accumulate. The total amount of bovine methane resident in the atmosphere is ultimately a function of herd size, or perhaps more accurately quantity of feed consumed.

You may be surprised to learn that cattle herd size has remained relatively stable over time. Additionally our planet was once host to wild ruminants like Buffalo which no longer exist in large numbers. As a result I would be very surprised to learn that bovine methane production is completely out of historical context.

As a result I see this as a topic which generally serves to distract from the root cause and real problem associated with climate change - fossil fuel usage.
To put things in perspective, I'm still trying to convince the in-laws to recycle basic things like paper and plastic instead of simply burning it in a barrel in the back-yard, and to recycle glass and metal instead of just throwing it in the bin. Because, you know, recycling is "mildly inconvenient".
Are you accounting for animal feed grown on deforested lands?
or pass doThing as a function parameter

https://play.golang.org/p/4PoK6EZc4W9
Ah, that explains why the old "come from Google" trick for bypassing paywalls stopped working a while ago.
Civo is coming out of beta
I feel like this was written to point out the absurdity but there is no joke here. This is true. This was a very bad move for Turkey.

So far it has worked out pretty well for the US.
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Twitter threads aren't truth. And Dave Keating has his blue-tinted spectacles with this version of the 'truth'.
It's slightly more complicated than that, depending on how much time has passed since the creators of the system left, but you're correct in general.

Usually, since admitting that they were stupid to let all the knowledge of the system walk out the door requires more emotional and intellectual flexibility than managers who let this sort of thing happen possess, the biggest obstacle isn't even the money... it's getting the managers to admit they're idiots.
Those couple of years where the carbon is in the form of methane instead of CO2 have a big impact because methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas.
Depends on what you're optimizing for.
It's true. Go prioritizes compile speed over a ton of optimization. It does fast ones, but it doesn't do the expensive ones.

I don't know whether the Go compiler never does tail-call optimization, but I do know it is never something you can count on.

(There's two kinds of tail call optimization... there's the one where the compiler may choose to do it as an optimization step, but you can't ever count on it because at any time for any reason it may stop, so you have to assume it didn't happen. Then there's the kind you can absolutely count on, and program tail-call-based algorithms secure in the knowledge that they won't blow out the stack. I'm pretty sure Go doesn't have the latter.)
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Agree, though as to the phrase I'd say this is a slight simplification / mis-diganosis of prominent room modes [1], which can be fixed somewhat.

[1] https://www.audioholics.com/room-acoustics/listening-room-ac...
I think it just means that there's only actually a single differential pair for USB 2 so connecting the two "D+"s from each side of the connector, and the same for the "D-"s, is recommended.

This doesn't work for the super-speed differential pairs because they're actually different lanes.
Electronics require lots of metals that are sourced through mining. Mining is an essential but dirty business that often leaves pools of toxic heavy metal water behind. These pools are damned up, but inevitably leak out into the surrounding environment.

It’s important that everyone Reduce, Reuse, Recycle properly in order to reduce our impact to the environment.