skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is perhaps why Magic the Gathering is a better metaphore for life than Poker, which also has the elements above, but not this one.

Although with poker you have the house that always wins...
> The virus entered humans with it's spike protein already fully adapted to the human ACE receptor protein.

That's not really true. It was adapted to ACE but not perfectly. As the B117 shows it could do better. Coronaviruses mutate slowly and random mutation in the spike protein is a lot more likely to make non-functional than to improve it. It's good enough, not perfect. Evolution likes good enough.

EDIT: but you do raise a good point with how much better than the known coronaviruses' spikes it is. Perhaps there is another intermediate host with ACE2 closer to humans? Sars-Cov-2 infects pretty well lots of animals - almost all the cats, minks, ...
I agree. My scripts are also rigidly sequential and verbose which is easier for me and other devs after me to have a simple mental model of what is going on at a glance. Which I think saves time in the long run because any dev can easily understand and make intelligent additions to make it better. For complex scripts, Python is the goto and isn't terribly difficult to grasp either.
Google is thriving. Search is Dead.

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You could run old software on it of course.
I know back in the day, there was a very similar tool called SARDU [0]. It is closed source from what I know, so if that was your breaking point, fair enough.

EDIT: There have also been YUMI and Easy2Boot in a similar vein before Ventoy.

[0]: https://www.sarducd.it/
The argument that a schemaless DB would be easier for developers is pretty much the same argument that a programming language with dynamic tpying would be easier than a language with static typing. That might be true in the short term, but just like static typing a schema helps in the long run. Types and schemas make explicit what would otherwise be implicit knowledge and help to catch bugs early.
Actually, most people throughout human history have done just that. Being squeamish about seeing animals getting killed is a pretty modern development, at least outside nobility.

And even today, most people in the world likely still participate occasionally in the slaughter of animals, as this is still routine in all rural areas of the world, even in the US and Europe.
Yeah so I guess the users have nothing to say in this. If I walk in to store they supposed to know what I want and a clerk puts the items into my basket and kicks me towards the checkout.

Are you serious?
Given that my income is dependent on rare earths, which usually are mined by slaves, and the independence of my homeland is directly dependent on the US being a global hegemon, I've got far more serious moral issues to resolve before I'll have time for animals. Don't get me wrong, I love animals, but there are far greater fish to fry first.
I do have one valid complaint with Beyond Burgers. I am a fan of meat. I like meat. I love a good cheese burger.

And Beyond Burgers actually taste fine. Not amazing, not “just like beef” but not bad. I can eat a Beyond Burger and feel satisfied.

My problem with Beyond Burgers or Beyond products as a whole is that they STINK! Bad! When cooking. I don’t know why but cooking a beyond burger stinks up my kitchen worse than my cats litter box freshly pooped in.
I don't know about the whole world.

But in the small town I grew up, the butcher would buy live animals and kill them in the backyard.

You could even come and watch and he would tell you where he bought it then go to the farmer and look at the animals.
It's the first vegan burger patty I wouldn't notice it's not meat if not told. I quite liked it. Not completely sold into that extremely processed food idea, but occasionally it's a nice change for regular vegetarian options.
Nah. They will see 1970-01-01 and suspect that it's not your real DOB but what if it is? There's nothing they can do about it really.
This argument comes up almost every time and it has never made any sense to me. Yes, you would rather live than never have been born. That's because you're alive right now, you can have and express that feeling. Someone who doesn't exist will not care even in the slightest, because they can't.
That's a mix of some 5-6 factors... what does "easily" mean here?
Nashorn (Oracle's, now discontinued ECMAScript implementation for the JVM and Rhino's successor) can be used for Shell scripting, too, when started with the `-scripting` parameter. Here is a little overview[1]. I think, GraalVM's new ECMAScript implementation is compatible with both NodeJS and Nashorn, including the scripting features.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/scrip...
This is such an untenable moral ground... The death we offer animals is orders of magnitude better than nature subjects them to, almost without exception.

If we could offer them a better life as well, as we once did, I would have 0 moral qualms about our meat eating.
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Because there would be no efforts to prevent cows from going extinct? What?
You could submit a dataset containing the bug report :-)
> I'm still baffled by the younger one's financial success in makeup, and what not. She is worth over a billion dollars. MBA programs should be studying her business moves.

This is not what luck looks like. This is what a good plan being executed perfectly looks like.

Your sister sounds like someone who understood her market well, worked out a plan to tackle it, and executed it perfectly.

I wish I understood a market well enough to create that kind of plan. I don't feel like I understand myself well enough to market to me, let alone anyone else.
Non-native look and non-native toolkit is two different things. You don't need to look native to support accessibility, built-in i18n and L10n, to behave like other native looking applications. But you certainly need to be native to not stick out like a sore thumb.
Yes, I understand that. And like I explained, there is nothing wrong with it being the same device.
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Note that "GUI" in this case can often mean "web page" and/or cross-platform mobile views.

(Also because a company might up to three non-coding jobs being entangled in this mess before it even reaches a programmer.)
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its absolutely relevant...intent is everything. I mean, we're talking the core definition of the word, 'Predatory', exploiting others.
This sounds a plausible explanation, but I see one problem: there’s a big fear that the vaccines don’t work on the more infectious strains (South African, Brazilian, Indian, ...). Vaccines target the spike protein. So surely if the spike protein doesn’t evolve (and isn’t responsible for the increased virality of these strains), then the vaccines should still work against it?
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even they use m$-office, do you think they pay any licences? heh
Of course there will be localized differences, and scale differences in civilizations that scaled more.

Also, realizing that it is a universal human problem helps with pointing the finger inwards rather than outwards.
> Cattle are fed the byproducts of soy production like soy meal that humans refuse to eat. By dollar value, almost all of the soy produced goes to human consumption.

This is provably false, see [1]. The page is in Dutch, but surely there are English sources just a quick Google search away too.

1. https://nieuwscheckers.nl/nieuwscheckers/soja-voor-veevoer-i...
No upvote can tell how much I relate to this. The only way to get a good maintainable C++ code is to hire very mediocre programmers whose “C++” really means “Qt with some shared ptrs”.

The reason (I believe) is that complex things are like hard drugs for smart people. Instead of solving business tasks, which honestly are often just boring, they long for an art in programming. In C++ this inevitably leads to solving non-existing problems in a most complex, efficient and unstable way that requires a hard set of prerequisites to work, and then these break. You can see it on forums. C, python, js folks discuss libraries, idioms and best practices, and C++ folks discuss a turing completeness of template metaprogramming and the most obscure ways to pass results up the callstack without copying 8 to 24 bytes. Almost no one I talked with there actually worked for someone who actually needed these microscopic gains all over the code. Or who understood what they do beyond “it’s complex and expensive, but in the end they deliver the results we need, so that’s justified”.
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No, Google Ads are not ranked for highest bidder. There's Quality Score that affects the decision a lot. If I have a website about running shoes and want to bid on the keyword "second hand cars" two things happen: first my bid gets astronomically high, because it's not matching the user's intent. secondly from all those people who click and leave google search but come back after a few seconds, google figures out that the quality score of the website is so bad (wrong intent) that the bid for that advertiser even gets more astronomically high and at one point even gets stopped.

The whole system incentivises ads that match the intent of the user, any deviation from this is extremely difficult and not profitable for the advertiser in most cases.
To those that don't want to become 100% vegetarians, even though we all know it's better for everyone including the animal that'slaughtered;

How about just using meat in small quantities, and for seasoning?

A little bit of beef/chicken goes a long way. Most Americans do not need more protein.

I have gotten by with a few pounds (less than 5 lbs) of meat a year.

If a cash strapped, loser, like myself can do it, anyone can.
Let's make a ranking system for incoming students. There will be an academic score for things like test scores and grades, and there will be a "personality score" for, well, god knows what. Turns out that Asian applicants score higher on the academic score, so what we'll do then is rank them lower on personality (though in person interviews have ranked then the same as students of other races). This is what we call the "holistic" admissions system, and it was designed in the 1920's to keep out the Jews.

Hmm, is this racism or anti-racism? Because it's literally what Harvard does.
Yeah, that only applies if the build process of the dependents does not actually use the shared library itself (other than for linking to it).
For your retirement, yes diversify. Knowing and understanding technologies isn't the same thing as knowing and understanding tech stock. Just look at Peloton as an example - they did great during the pandemic, but just had a child die because of their treadmill and now lost 15% in a day. The US Government could break up Facebook tomorrow. Who knows? If you want to try and gamble do so with a little bit and see if you can beat the SP500 over a few years :)

If you invest in broad index funds in the long run (10, 20, 30 years) you are guaranteed to beat almost all actively managed funds. Fees are going to eat away at your gains and again most active investors can't beat the market in the long term. I use FSKAX with Fidelity but VTI is a similar ETF.
YouTube being hostile towards their creators as usual.
No, right now the only way to target all platforms is JavaScript. Flutter's desktop and web support is a sad joke, and even on mobile it doesn't feel native even on Android.
Mate, you're the one who lives in a bubble. Natural food eaters have no problem killing animals for food. We've been doing it for hundreds of millions of years and we're not going to stop now because you live in a first world country where you have time for imaginary problems.
I arrived at this conclusion both from personal experience (I've tried all the apparently reasonable diets) and the scientific data. Nuts are barely digestible. Our digestive system doesn't look like a herbivore / fruit eater at all. Surely we've had some, but that's not what we're build for. I think we're like dogs, we can survive on a diversity of foods (and get sick from some of them) but we thrive on meat. That's my n=1 intimate conviction, not one I sought to arrive at, but once I had experience it there's absolutely no doubt in my mind. Naturally I sought the people that had the same experience and they do have the data and the explanations for why, but it's too lengthy to provide here, although I can give hints if you wish.

Oh and australopithecus ate meat, this goes far beyond modern humans. This is why we got smart, because intelligence pays off far more for hunting than for foraging, particularly for an otherwise frail creature.
You are probably referring to the defer() macro, which is well suited for some cases and not too unergonomic to use. I've used this for multiple years, and I still love it, together with X-macros they are some of the most important tricks I would advice any C programmer to try out.

Sometimes with defer() you might get a difficult to read error message when you're doing something wrong, but it's galactically easier to deal with than the standard STL error spew that so many C++ programmers have just come to accept, and it's hard to do something wrong in the first place (just put simple expressions as arguments).

A comparison of defer() with RAII is not that meaningful, as they are totally different things. RAII is this complicated system that leads to (requires) other more complicated stuff like {default,copy,move,assignment...}{constructor/destructors} as well as exceptions, with all sort of terrible interactions and implicit behaviour, that can easily get out of hand and make your code an unreadable mess and/or produce terribly inefficient (piece-meal allocations/function calls) and slow-compiling code (huge header includes).

In the simple situations where defer() is a win, if you use (just) RAII instead, you always have to declare a class out-of-line first (using weird braces and all) to get ad-hoc behaviour, while with defer() macro you can just make something up on the spot, which is often a better way.

I'm not saying there can't be experienced coders who use RAII well in some situations, but personally I opt to just not use it, since the price seems far to high for the benefits, outside of say primitive use in leetcode assignments.
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What about Windows? I hardly ever watch anything on my phone, the screen is much too small to be enjoyable. I just mean that since big G owns all of these products and happily links other preferences, they should also be able to link my CC.
TLDR, you were lucky, virginia has a lot of racial segregation, and we all need to do more to fight childhood hunger.

Seriously, go give money to https://www.feedingamerica.org/ or https://www.savethechildren.org/ or give to a local food bank. Five bucks even.

I think that the idea that discussions of systemic racism or white supremacy are teaching kids to be victims isn't a fair assessment of how such education is structured.

It's just like how kids are taught about climate change, as best I can tell. It's a problem, and they all need to be aware and do their part. Teaching kids about climate change hasn't lead them to all give up since the planet is likely going to be in bad shape from global warming, it's empowered them, at least some of them, to fight for a future in which we change things and make things better.

The thing is, racism doesn't go away if you pretend it doesn't exist. Maybe you didn't experience it, but per the 2000 census, about 1 in five Virginians are Black.

You being one of the few brown kids means you likely grew up very differently from many Black and Brown students in Virginia, and I expect that is likely the result of decades of white Virginians working to end school bussing and other integration efforts, creating new school districts and private schools, shifting school attendance boundaries within districts.

I think you have to remember that racism is not natural, that it's effects and results, which have been normalized, need not exist, and consider how much our country fails to do right by kids who are BIPOC.

That's what systemic racism is. It's structures and institutions and systems which perpetuate unequal outcomes. We know that integration helps Black students (and their kids) succeed, and that studies generally fail to demonstrate any significant negative effect on white students. https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/7/1/21121022/did-busing-for-s...

There doesn't have to even be any outright in your face animosity against Black and Brown people, it's just that, places with higher levels of Black and Brown people in Virgnia are more likely to undertake school district or school attendance rezoning, and rezoned areas are more likely to concentrate people who are poor and Black or Brown, or who are middle to upper class and white.

https://cecr.ed.psu.edu/sites/default/files/School_Segregati...

And that's just how it's failing kids with school segregation, do you want to know the stats on childhood hunger? as of March 2020, about 1 in five families surveyed said they didn't have enough food. Just the lack of subsidized school lunch during Covid in many places means kids are going without necessary nutrition. And, surprise, Black and Hispanic kids are twice as likely as non Hispanic white kids to face hunger in America. That is, again, systemic racism.

I imagine that probably doesn't help their personal or professional success, not to mention their mental health.

I linked two places people could donate to help feed hungry kids above, you can ignore me or disagree with what I said, but seriously, if you are doing well, you can spare a few bucks at least.
> but the fact that we can eat something this similar to a burger but without the slaughter of living, feeling, individual being is so unbelievably important and incredible.

You know that plants are also living, feeling beings? Though not sure about being individual but that's highly subjective.

The cycle of life is that some trees harvest the sun, and then it's a fish-eat-fish kinda world.

Vegan meat is not important because it doesn't kill animals (it'll kill plants, and hence this is purely emotional/subjective). But because it could be very sustainable. There is a reason why Japanese eat vegetables, fish and pork. They have a large population on a tight island. They have to do otherwise. (they also drive very small compact cars/mini-vans).
This article should definitely be read as an opinion piece, not objective analysis to conclude the truth. Regardless of his personal views it's his methods that introduce a lot of doubt. The author has previously dismissed large swathes of scientific consensus against his publications as ideologically driven. He takes fringe positions and introduces a lot of selection and confirmation bias to support his opinion. He writes very well and some of the ideas are interesting but they should definitely be weighted up against a more balanced analyses.
Are you sure you're not hitting heisenbugs every 2-3 months?
If their business model is not viable without human moderation, then perhaps it shouldn't exist.

Surrendering control to "algorithms" sufficiently deeply is indistinguishable from Kafka's The Trial.
Factory farming makes meat available to the common man. Without it only rich people could afford meat.
Remind me of a South Park episode about alcoholism / AA ...
I don't think the size of a website plays a role in whether something is legal. I could see a few issues here, one of them below (I am not a lawyer):

According to GDPR "It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.": You could argue that accepting the cookies is easier (press of a button) than initiating a payment when one chooses to object at a later point.
As someone who tries to eat more vegetarian food - and is succeeding better at it every week, burgers are the only thing I use cow meat for. There just is no substitute when you want a proper burger.

I've tried portobello, chicken, pork, chickpea, you name it.

But when I want a burger, the only thing that actually works is minced cow meat - and Impossible/Beyond Burger. They're still a bit hard to get (usually sold out) and expensive, but we're getting there.

I want my children to live in a world where eating 4-legged mammals is an expensive delicacy, not an everyday occurrence or something you can get for $1 from McD.
> Especially if you can free yourself from structured code ideology.

.. how well does this work in a team? There are a number of people who do individual heroics in assembly, but I'm not aware of any large long term maintained such projects that have outlived their originator.
That's true, the good thing about Open Source software is everyone is able to apply their improvements to it :)
Nice post. I see it's from 2015 but it's held up.

> Now that we do have a basic understanding of Beziers, let’s delve into the math of Beziers in the next blog post. Let’s take a better look at curves and splines and the construction of Beziers.

If the followup was linked at the bottom I would have followed it. You should update the article if it's ready.
Parent comment was highlighting that a healthy variety of plausible factors contributed to each respective country's outcome, and not all of them would have to be true to produce such an outcome

Not "easily" in the sense that it's easy to pinpoint the exact recipe, but "easily" in that the opposite outcomes would have been far more unlikely
iPhone lasts mechanically and is supported much longer than Android. The original iPhone SE still receives updates after 5 years from the release.
> I think there were ways for the Soviet Union to have gone away that didn’t involve Russia (and to varying extents, the other states) becoming the kleptocracy it is now.

It was, and rather violent: go, and cleanse the remnants of the old system. A missed opportunity now.

Instead, people let them live for them just to come back in 9 years time.
This doesn't address the "blueberries" on the ends of stems, like in image #30.
Chinese citizens were visibly angry with what happened in Wuhan, because they saw it as a failure of the govt especially after the same mistake and steps happened with SARS. Their handling, and all of Asia’s handling was deeply informed by their experiences with SARS.