skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard for me to see why. It looks pretty much expected that creatures that stay in contaminated areas and consume contaminated food have more mutations than creatures that don't. What's so "surprising" about it?
Not ignore it, but take it into consideration.

If I told you I earned $1M a year, you should keep that in mind when I say that we should lower income taxes for the betterment of the poor.

It's a suspiciously self-serving conclusion for me to have, wouldn't you say?
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What will you do with your bitcoins if your bank accounts are frozen and you can't get any fiat ?

If things are bad enough that they block your accounts I'm fairly sure you wouldn't be able to take a plane anyway.
That's my understanding too but what about precision?

Both the drone and the ground robot would need milimiter precision geolocation to coordinate otherwise the laser can miss the weed.
This is awesome and so simple that I can't believe I haven't done it for myself already. It would be really useful to have your personal mann page displayed as the header or footer of the official man page.
Have you ever considered Decentralised Asset Management?
Well, it’s all spending, but is all spending investment?

From an accounting perspective, when a business spends money on a factory it’s an investment since you end up with an asset on the balance sheets. But the same is true of spending on inventory. There are also intangible investments that don’t end up on balance sheets (like writing software) and for high tech companies that can be pretty substantial.

You could simplify this to “Apple says they’re going to spend a lot of money in the US.” Okay, I guess that’s good?
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I have a ton of coworkers who try to make their job more interesting by trying the most interesting tools instead of the best tools for the job. They have less drudgery, but more stress from not hitting deadlines as reliably. Meanwhile I'll embrace the drudgery and do the boring thing, stay less stressed because get it done more quickly and reliably because I chose the right tool, and got promoted really high.

Taking a mercenary attitude towards work works just fine for me, and keeps me overall happier.

Per your example, I like FP and immutability for the same reasons (won't get paged as much), and I'm always reading to stay up on my game, but it's still just work. If you worked with me, you'd probably think I live and breath this stuff as a passion because I put so much time in to stay so much on top of the tools available. But I hate programming. Hell, you might even say my hate of it drives mastery in the same way your passion drives your mastery. To me, it's just a tool by which to automate things I do care about (and retire younger than I could in other roles).
>I'd be curious to here pro-crypto arguments from someone “believ[ing] in having a government with police, roads, and schools”. This is especially interesting to me, because “school” appears in this list.

Is there something inherently contradictory between "a government should collect taxes and provide police, roads, and schools", and "the government shouldn't be entrusted with the ability to print money and/or dictate monetary policy"?
Delivering at a low, agreed upon price is a better deed than not delivering on a lower, agreed upon price.

These vaccines are all worth much more per dose than they are being sold for, comparing $5 to $10 and not to the value delivered makes it seem like $10 is a high cost, and it isn't.
There were entirely separate supply chains. The one for the EU failed because the EU demanded it was in the EU (because 'solidarity') and the yields weren't sufficient. Then the EU demanded doses to be supplied from other supply chains because 'the contract blah blah' even though the EU has no legal leg to stand on; the commission is looking for a scapegoat and it thinks it has found one.
> Cryptocurrencies just don't [have value]. It's all smoke and mirrors

> super-immoral going-nowhere-moral tech

lol what? Is US dollar moral? Is it not also "smoke-and-mirrors" by your definition since it's just paper that we all believe has value?
That's the gap in Canada because of supply constraints.
>Or perhaps this is the goal of the lawsuit? I would assume AstraZeneca would object to cancelling the contract even though they're not delivering on schedule. Perhaps they're planning to use this as leverage.

I think that's the goal, to press AZ to say: "we won't be able to deliver the contract", and cancel it/pull the remain of the upfront payment they got. For a long time that it looks like everyone in the EU side is fed up with dealing with AZ management, which are in their turn also probably fed up with dealing with EU reps.
Nope. And groups don't even have security as an option.

Basically they are amassing an enormous amount of personal data, chat logs, etc. while their marketing and the public opinion is still that "Telegram is secure". That's a disaster waiting for the company to be acquired or turn evil.
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We factor in the degree of aligned incentives they have to their argument.

Oil companies can say 100% factual things about climate change too. You'd still put their arguments under more scrutiny than a non-profit panel of scientists.
Haha! I understand the sentiment :)

But it was ok, NetBSD doesn't have zsh installed by default (and neither bash, only csh, sh and (pd? m?)ksh).
When I did that, I was primed to use tcsh at $WORK. Switched to ksh later (and remained on there for a loooong time).

Anyways. I failed to make an actual point. My point was the following: The BSD manpages are _excellent_. IMO way better than the linux/GNU manpages (or info pages) of comparable utilities. It shows, again IMO, that the BSDs are a complete, single-tree distribution where documentation, userland and kernel go hand in hand and are equally well groomed.

So maybe, for learning "UNIX", go get yourself a nice little {Net,Free,Open}BSD install and toy around with the elder ways.
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Environmental impact study, OSHA, etc… are processes that are improvements, that clearly make it more expensive.
Cryptocurrency bad -> explains why basically everything related to mining is bad instead of telling us why cryptocurrencies are bad.

Should be named mining is a disaster.

PS: I have no stakes in anything that requires mining not even gold.
My Amazon Alexa has like a 60% success rate when I ask it basic questions that take me 10 seconds to google on my phone.

Something tells me AI isn't quite there yet to run multi-billion dollar firms and won't be for a while.
OTOH as far as I remember much of Nokia's issues came from internal competition involving sabotage of other teams. Not that that has to happen, but the incentives are a tiny bit dangerous.
My wife is from New York and has this instinct you speak of. She gets mad when I talk to bank tellers. I grew up in the Midwest and chat with everyone. It makes sense too, because even in a city of a million, very often I’ll start chatting with someone and realize that we know someone in common. Happens all the time.

My wife said such a thing would NEVER happen in New York, there’s just too many people.
>Nearly anywhere in the Western world, one can find highly illegal drugs with no more than a few phone calls.

Nearly anywhere in the world one can go to prison for life for possessing enough of those highly illegal drugs.

Why would the average person risk their freedom over cryptocurrency? If you convert the digital asset into a physical asset enough times or for nice enough goods, EVENTUALLY someone is going to ask where the money came from.

You're also making a pretty bold assumption that the governments actually want drugs stamped out. I don't think that has EVER been the case, that's just been the story. It's used as a means of suppressing people of color and poor people. When was the last time you heard of a Wall Street banker going to prison for coke?
I tried to run VACUUM, the sample sqlite db file size dropped slightly from 116M to 110.8M.
So what incentive does that CEO have to be cautious with my capital?

That just encourages extreme risk.
Yup. My thought process here[1] is that real friendships only occur from time. So you need long hours with people, whom you either get along with or you don't. You can choose the group of people to increase your odds for sharing interests or personality overlaps to help your chances, but it still requires time.

This is why work friendships in my experience are quite easy, even for an introverted hermit like myself. Often common interests between people, and _tons_ of time bonding.

If i really cared about forming more friendships i'd do what you suggested - find groups that interest me and spend the time needed to form friendships. I'm also a little weird in that while i get along with a lot of people and i am (hopefully) easy to get along with, i'm generally not interested in relationships without common interests and activities. Because i don't like to socialize purely for the sake of socializing - i like building something together, or playing something together, or enjoying food together, or whatever it is i am actually interested in.. which is usually software.

[1]: Which is probably useless, as i'm generally an introvert who still has less friends than i'd prefer.
That demonstrates that a CEO can definitely affect results, but what's the baseline? Would the "null CEO" script robot produce the same value as the non-grieving CEO, or the same value as the grieving one?
claiming that porn on your device isn't yours is not the problem. the theoretical problem is if you received porn via Signal on 04/01/2020 2:23AM but Cellebrite says you received it on 04/26/2020 5:34PM (while in custody). Or 12/23/2019 at 2:00PM (before you bought the phone). If the dates on the data in Cellebrite can't be aligned to the dates of the actual events AND the last modification of the device was AFTER you last had control of it, nothing can be trusted from it.
Nearly every BTC post on HN is filled with comments deriding the usefulness of the currency, and yet we still pretty frequently see governments attempt to ban and outlaw the use of cryptocurrencies. Why are governments spending energy and effort to outlaw something that is so apparently useless?
They did. There was a period of about a hundred years where "archaeologists" basically ascribed any particularly large sites in North America to the toltecs or other mesoamerican elites. Such a confused person is how Toltec mounds got its name. These days such a suggestion would be considered along the same lines as a racist version of geocentrism, which is probably why they felt brushed off.
I couldn't read the article. I'm not sure if there is anything for the writer if he signs up to Medium.
That's for Pfizer/moderna vaccines. Astra zenica recommend 3 months between 1st and 2nd dose
>My comment for too many years is that C/C++ fails to deal with three issues: "How big is it", "Who owns it", and "Who locks it".

Ada has is pretty good at dealing with all three of these, TBH.

"How big is it" — Given by the 'Size attribute, and representation-clauses explicitly control record-layout.

"Who owns it" — The declaring entity, which is why you can have dynamically-sized arrays without heap-allocation and "allow the scope to clean things up".

"Who locks it" — a bit more convoluted than the above, but generally one of several options: (1) the Task / protected-object via entries; (2) the object itself, via controlled/limited_controlled inheritance; OR (3) the subprogram/compilation-unit via parameter-passing and/or interface-control (i.e. the only way to alter the interior-value is by some exported interface).
Something that does help a little bit here is requiring clients to specify the fields that they need (as seen in GraphQL) rather than doing the equivalent of "select *" and giving them back everything.

This is useful because it lets you turn on detailed logging in order to understand exactly what fields are being used by which clients (identified by their API key or similar).

If you want to make a backwards compatibility breaking change like removing a field you now at least have a way forward: announce the field is going away, then watch your logs to see if it's still being used and who is using it. Then you can actively reach out to clients that use the deprecated feature and eventually make an informed decision about the overall impact when you finally remove it.
> But I'm saying that crypto is built on the stability and infrastructure that was created by fairly well-run and well-intentioned centralized govs etc.

That's a trivially true statement for anything that exists at all.

200 years ago you could have said "democracy is built on the infrastructure that was created by monarchies". Ok. So what? That doesn't ipso facto delegitimize the potential of democracy as a viable alternative to monarchy, and history would have proven you wrong.
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People have really been addicted to their phones.

I see no other reason. All pointers ought to have to do something with the screen time of the average phone user.

Gone are the days where people schedule for a tv show or an award show.

They know that the highlights, bites and funny clips will be on Youtube in a few days or even the same day.

Going forward, we could see tremendous loss of global productivity, just because young go-getters are wasting their time on phones.

Every activity of a mobile phone users life is swinging around phone usage. Traveling to work, better take bus and watch a video on the way. Free time at work, catch up on facebook. Sitting on the toilet, what is an hour or so of browsing Reddit even after bowels are empty.

The future is scary, lazy and unproductive.
Can you explain in detail? Citing sources for claimed benefits over the established services it’s replicating?
I know it's 21st century, but my mind is still blown when I see video from the surface of another planet.
In which case my bank is probably fine.

Just suggesting you let off the tinfoil gas pedal a tiny bit.
I would argue the demand for drugs is greater then crypto by a large margin, as well as they don’t have to go after users, just the exchanges linked into the traditional financial system that make it easy for new users to buy in.
Why do you assume congressional leaders have any expertise that qualifies them to be taken seriously on climate issues?
There's another thing that CEOs do which is provide values guidance and inspirational leadership for a company. That's not something a robot can do...yet.
A lot of slave labor was involved in the last 11 000 years.
Thus the need to fill holes with assumptions built on assumptions influenced by current societal trends, aka a narrative, & package the product as "Science".
> the best CEOs might not go for that. There are a lot of long term things that can impact a company for the negative

You could develop a financial services company selling hedges for that risk to CEOs/executives?

> alters the long term upside of your company

I don't see how this is worse than short-term stock compensation
Write trading bots with enough capital to trigger gamma squeezes?
>What does info add over plain old manual pages?

I feel like info pages are more suitable for explaining the features of larger pieces of software. Can you imagine what a mess the man page for emacs would be, if it were to try to explain all its functionality? Instead the man page of emacs only gives a brief description of the software and explains the command line options and all the functionality is explained in an info document.

I think of info as an alternative to /usr/share/doc, not man pages.

The most import features of info that are missing from man:

1. pagination
2. cross-referencing
3. structure
From my reading it looks like the "developing world" use case is pure propaganda.

E.g. someone investigated the "bitcoin in venezuela!" claim. Actually going there and tracking down use. Turns out it was a bitcoin investor who went to venezuela to do a transaction for the sole purpose of screaming "bitcoin in venezuela" to pump up the price.
Canada allows up to a 4 month gap between first and second doses, so they can give as many people their first dose as possible. In theory, it will allow Canada to achieve herd immunity earlier than it would otherwise. In practice, I guess we have to wait and see.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-h...
Bitcoin at least rations out the zero-days. You don't just have one authority that can create them as needed.
This exists and is called management consulting.
> Also, no one pressed them to sell it at cost

Since the vaccine was developed by Oxford and the condition for licensing it was selling at cost, they didn't have much of a choice. (this doesn't excuse most other things)
A bit of small talk with (for instance) the mail man or the cashier every once in a while, adds up to a sort of superficial relationship over time. I would be loathe to say to say that this offers a "fix" for loneliness, but I also wouldn't trivialise the value of these types of relationships.
“ Years of sliding ratings have sparked calls to jazz up the Oscars, a three-hour backslapping fest stuffed with commercial breaks.”

The most accurate description of the Oscars I’ve read.
Past 50 years, really?

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." - Adam Smith, 1776
What a weird opinion to hold in a society totally dominated by incentive. Serving yourself is the entire point since we have structured nearly all of human existence around incentive instead of command. Discounting the argument that it would help the poor (objectively) because it helps the person making the suggestion is like being angry at the sky for being blue. The incentives produced the outcome and should in no way surprise you.

That’s why people who act selflessly are notable. You’ve got this backwards. Selflessness is notable. Selfishness is par until all of Maslow’s is handed to you free of charge. Noticing someone is advocating for an improvement to their situation, even disingenuously, is equally pointless with that in mind.

People do things in their interest because that’s how we have built human civilizations that pay any respect to the concept of freedom. If the suggestion benefits others, maybe go with it? Or build a civilization where everyone can be selfless all the time and have no self-serving motives; that sounds pretty great until you get to the “how to direct an economy” part of the equation.
Great news until we get laser-resistant weeds. God help us
The robot has nobody near it. Toxic clouds would burn with no ill effect to humans.
The comments in here are hilarious. If you think the CEO doesn't matter in a company you have never been on a board of a company and had the responsibility to hire and fire them.
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They are not side by side, rather arranged vertically so cannot compare visually. This one is much better:
https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

BTW, What screen scraping tools are you using? as I am interested in doing some.
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If you are going to edit your comments, it is polite to indicate what parts have been added/changed.
Bitcoin does not solve this problem at all, since 71% of the global hashrate is concentrated in China [1]. Instead of a currently controlled by central bankers, you get a currency which can be controlled at any moment by a totalitarian government which currently attempts to expand its territory using military means.

Ironically this is also why gold-backed currencies are not an acceptable replacement for dollars either - just substitute China with Australia (which is of course politically a far more benign country than China, but you're still outsourcing control of your currency).

The problem of currency stability is real, but crypto is not a solution at all.

[1] https://cbeci.org/mining_map/
Perhaps the bigger illusion is that when you search with Google you are somehow searching the sum total of human knowledge.

This is a big pet peeve of mine. People think because they're reading the web that they know things or they're "up to date" on current events. I've gotten a lot more out of books than the news, especially in the last 5-10 years.

And I feel like that's almost universally true (bad books are still better!)

Ironically Google Scholar is one place that you will find some real information. But it seems to be de-emphasized now. The main Google results will take you to a paywall for a paper (IEEE, etc.) But if you go to Google Scholar, you'll find the PDF. But I'd bet many Google users don't know that, even the ones that would read a journal paper.

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Aside from that, this is a great article that makes a great point. Google talks about AI all the time but it still relies on basic user curation to understand the web.

I think that shows you that the value lies. If webmasters stop doing work, then Google has nothing to index. Similarly I view the rise of these awesome lists as a manual Yahoo:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

If Google was providing so much value, then these lists would be redundant.

In fact I think Google was bootstrapped off at least partially off Yahoo. Yahoo had all these human editors curating links. That was great information for a nascent search engine to piggy back off of. Now that Yahoo no longer does that (AFAIK), Google has to rely on incentives for webmasters to provide metadata.

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To add something positive, I think YouTube is really where there is interesting user created content. Google has done a good job of stewarding and growing that ecosystem.

I remember I used to type random keywords in to Google and see what comes up. It used to be something interesting; it no longer is.

But YouTube has that flavor now. I typed in "sardines" and got a channel of this funny guy reviewing all sorts of canned fish :) It feels more like the early web.
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WeChat actively traps you within its walled garden ecosystem with dark patterns and support from the government. A lot of shops or even government services only have an online presence in WeChat and Alipay. They are called "Mini-Apps" which I believe is unique to China and these 2 apps. It is practically impossible to find vendors or developers for these services as someone outside mainland China.

It is completely possible to replicate this function of Telegram ourselves with ordinary web technologies and service providers.

Not to mention Telegram is transparent in letting your data out of its ecosystem (at least for now).

Provide that we still have the freedom to host any online service as website or an app on App Store / Play Store, I nelieve we will never decay into the dystopian state that is WeChat.

TLDR: WeChat is way more evil than Telegram, even Facebook.
What makes the .io TLD insecure?
It's archaeology's version of a theory.

You see a huge city that appears to have vanished pretty fast, so you come up with some ideas about how/why that happened, like, say, ecological collapse (hypothesis). Once you find some plausible evidence that for that, you flesh out what that would look like more broadly. Now you have a theory (narrative) which should have some explanatory power. Then, as you encounter other evidence, you expect it to fit with and support that theory (narrative). If it doesn't, it may turn out your theory (narrative) was wrong, or at least incomplete, just as in the rest of science.

Just like theories in other fields, these narratives can be kind of sticky and survive longer than the evidence suggests they should.

It's not a perfect mapping, but that's basically what's going on.
Thank you for speaking up!
You're exactly the sort of thinking parent I'm looking for!
I'd love the chance to have a conversation with you - please contact me at petroff.ryan at gmail - thank you again!