skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Apple has legitimate concerns about the security of, or the battery efficiency of these web APIs, then they need to voice them during the standards proposal process. Better yet, maybe they can throw some of the billions in their war chest at improving the standards for everyone else.

Refusing to implement finalized web standards unilaterally holds the entire web back and it's a real dick move. Especially when you consider a quote from their HTML5 showcase back in 2010: "Standards aren't add-ons to the web. They are the web."

If Apple doesn't want to ship a browser that supports web standards, then they shouldn't be shipping a browser at all. It's a massive conflict of interest for them to prevent you from installing competing browser engines while simultaneously shipping a subpar browser.

It seems fairly obvious to me that their expressed concerns are merely a convenient cover story for the real truth -- they don't want anything that even smells like competition to their App Store on iOS.
I am going to paraphrase certain philosophy professor on one of those elite institutions.

That person [ who chooses to basically blow off the readings and learning and brags about how it does not affect his grade ] is an idiot. The purpose of going here is not to spend $60k a year of your parents money and learn nothing.

I am willing to agree. Each individual student has a choice. Some choose to learn. Some choose to waste their parent's sacrifice ( because they had to use their resources to get that offspring in ).
It's definitely true that just switching over to plant-based foods and away from animal-based foods won't solve all the issues, it's also worth noting that a lot of cattle, at least in the US, are not raised on a foraging model, so most feed that cattle consume come from plants raised elsewhere, which are going to largely be those same cropping properties. And, further, the amount of feed to raise cattle mean that those cropping properties have to grow significantly more product than if they were producing for plant-based foods.

I do have a lot of respect for smaller cattle operations that run an ecologically sensitive operation, such that the land is used in a way that sustains itself and the cattle on it. It's just that, those are the exceptions, at least in countries like the US.
"I'm not going to share my advertising accounts with you; I'm just going to ask you to trust that when I get my laptop out and show my results to my 'marketing skeptical' friends, they stop being skeptical."

spoken like a true used car salesman
I'm sorry but can you please stop speaking in riddles and be clear about how you feel Mighty is solving this issue? I'm genuinely at a loss about how this is solving your use case but your answers are only cryptic. I truly want to understand how Mighty might help to solve real world problems

How do browsers make something distributed? How are browsers the only "magic platform" that allow you this? How is Mighty contributing to solving this problem? How does M1 matter here
indeed. making the thing even more hilarious.
People shouldn't be shamed for their choices, sure.

But there is a real mismatch in college, in that what most people want is an education that helps them get a good job, but colleges are unfortunately not optimized for that.

If there were another institution, that was as prestigious as college, but focused much more on providing students what they actually want (IE education for the purpose of getting a job), then I think that most people would choose that instead.

Unfortunately, modern day attempts to focus on job train, such as bootcamps and trade schools, are generally less rigorous, even if they are focused more on providing students what they want.
"The sweet spot...is whatever amount of attention keeps them subscribed, but no more."

I used to believe that. Nope, they want all your attention all the time. If they lose it, another streaming service might gain some market share, and the stock price will lose billions.
The other problem is you can only rent dog-slow cars.
My thought is it's for people who are meat replacing rather than being vegetarian.

I agree with you about so many foods to choose from.

For me as a vegetarian it's an absurd thing wanting to eat something that tastes like animal but it's a taste thing so it's just a subjective view of mine.
> Skeptics challenge test scores and rankings on their own terms. Most commonly, critics say that the SAT is culturally or racially biased and fails to predict college grades or future career success. The deeper issue is not that scores and rankings are bad at calibrating what they try to measure. Test scores and rankings are bad at capturing education:

SAT may not "capture education", but some tests certainly do. The key is to have free-form questions as in college, such as proofs, derivations, and word problems. I'm sure there will be false positives, but what system doesn't? I was checking out those college-entrance exams by Japanese universities. If a kid can excel those questions, the kid for sure gets real education and is smarter than most of her peers, statistically speaking. And I don't agree that everyone can game the system by cramming. It's like few people could get into USAMO by cramming. A well-designed test is like USAMO, but easier.
Also 96% less tasty.

Keeping my mind open, but it's just not there yet.
>Grain is strongly typed (with a typechecker from OCaml)

I tried working on a complex OCaml project where the author had written as little type annotations as possible. It was a horrendous experience because it was impossible to determine the type of most variables by reading the code. I had to use a language server to obtain type information and I had to consult it very often. I hope they don't proliferate this nonsense and instead require type annotations for top-level definitions like Haskell does.
Psychology is never empirical. We should be skeptical of this article.
Very good point, and thanks for clarifying.

However, it still speaks to the initial point. Coinbase didn't have an insight as a domain expert which lead to their huge success.
I’d guess it would reinforce the importance of getting vaccinated quickly, when vaccines are available for a disease, the same as for avoiding other side effects of contracting disease that we already know about.

But OTOH, the researchers seem to have added reverse transcriptase, which is something not normally active or present in most viruses (otherwise typically know as the central dogma of molecular biology). I don’t know enough to extrapolate how much that affects the applicability of their conclusions.
U.S. will back proposal to waive Covid-19 vaccine patent rights
In what way?

- load/store with arithmetic register-to-register only. Check.

- single instruction length. Check.

- fixed instruction execution time. Check.

- large set of registers. Check.
Here's someone who knows enough about electronics to design using Eagle and write firmware yet feels it's an acceptable risk to have a custom exposed board in their bilge.

From a systems level critically relying on any of the following seems iffy in a marine environment where safety is key: wireless (unreliable; may be accidentally suddenly degraded by changes to outside environment), remote store and forward email notifications (unreliable and slow), single MCUs (due to SPOF), unsealed electronics in the bilge (extremely dangerous and often causes corrosion and loss of rudders), press-fit electronics (bad in marine environments, particularly near engines, due to vibration).
«there is also a number I can call»

Unfortunately that's a number a hacker can call to social engineer the employee and steal your account. Same method as in SIM swapping attacks.
My impression was (again! uninformed!) that pasture-raised cattle basically are living off whatever plants naturally grow on the land. Is that not the case?

Of course it is wrong for factory farmed cattle raised in a shed, and for grain fed to cattle right before slaughter to change their meat, but I thought the bulk of their diet was basically unmanaged wild grasses?
If animal and insect death from cropping is a big concern, then what does it mean to feed other animals many more crops, then kill them as well?
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Dupe. Yesterday:

Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment (https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyyd/this-motorcycle-airba...)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27054629
What does chipageddon have to do with climate change?
'Slow Tuesday Night' (1965 scifi short story; 2600 words)
very nice write up. wondering if they kept detailed notes or could recall most of this from memory after 8yrs.
I appreciate these links, thank you. I wish there could/would be a point by point response to the criticisms from Yuval, however. Humans have a predictable tendency to undermine each other, so it would be nice to easily see the counterpoints to the issues raised by other scholars who certainly have incentives to defend their life's investment in their biases, too.
The content stops jumping if you stop scrolling. That is how I was able to read the content.
At least in the US most of the weight cattle put on comes at the end when they're fed grain in feeding lots. Needless to say this they're not drinking "green water".

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/burger-wa...

There's loads of documentation on this and other points in the video that's easy to find if you're not driving a carnivore agenda the way TIL constantly is on YouTube.
If the developer does not need to deal with a long-running process abstraction, and is billed only by actual compute time and not idle time, I think the consensus is to call that "serverless"
Brave seems interesting, although I haven't tried it. Why does HN hate it?

> I kinda mean a better alternative to funding all this stuff.

I tend to think we'd be just fine without this "stuff." The internet still worked when the only advertising was banner ads that didn't run code on my machine. In a lot of ways, it worked better.
> but it is involuntary

No and yes.

PTSD/trauma is the result of resistance to being. A person resists having their awareness in their body and being there with their emotions during crisis, and instead they are 'in shock' for the duration. This allows confusion or the kind of mental blocks where there is no recollection to happen. Once confusion or mental blocks manifest, it can be quite the challenge to regain clarity.

It has been proven time and again to be very helpful to consciously relive traumatic situations over and over in one's mind in order to relieve the tension and begin to integrate the experience into one's being in a healing manner, rather than letting that stress continue to arise again and again in one's life. This should likely be done under the guidance of someone with experience in such matters, or at least with trusted friends in a good environment.

Avoidance is so common here because that is the route taken during the crisis. The person avoids being, in the most fundamental sense, in exchange for becoming hypnotized by their senses and environment. Were the person able to be present and aware of their body and emotions during the crisis, no such PTSD would be able to be formed. So, a person may not be able to be present and avoid this psychological resistance, but they can learn to do so. Are they willing to undergo such learning is another matter.

Psychological literature is littered with examples of these techniques, but I'm not exactly sure where I have stumbled across them. As an extreme example of letting go of resistance, I offer the link below to the story of Thích Quảng Đức. I wish I had something that was not of Buddhist nature, but it is terribly easy to pick on them. =D

I do not mean to trivialize your experience or say that you were wrong, btw. I myself have been under extreme duress and have had a number of such traumatic instances and I wish you well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%9...
citations, please
Do you still think that if it applies to someone nurturing a dog to adulthood, and then stunning it, slitting its throat, and drowning it in hot blood water? Would you still accept that as the Way Things Are?
i worked at a restaurant for a while and i remember seeing this exact thing happen a few times and mentioning it to family later
> I learned we should treat everyone like we'd want to be treated ourselves.

Words said by the man who has no conception of individual variance.

The sexually addicted compulsive rapist would do well to ignore this advice, for instance.
Oh hi Sergio! Hope you're doing well. I'm not in the economics field anymore, but it would be cool to see if an economist could use this data. It's probably a little harder to use because you'd have to apply some vectorization techniques on the maps to get more usable road network data.
I've spent significant time in developing countries (outside the touristy parts), but the claim was based on statistics on world violence. Is it still bad in some places and worse in most places than we would like it to be? Sure. Is it near a historic low? Also yes.
I have trouble with the MS signin for work. Looks like blocking third party cookies (which safari seems to do) makes this nearly impossible (or incredibly inconvenient) to use.
from their website :

>No runtime type errors, ever. Every bit of Grain you write is thoroughly sifted for type errors, with no need for type annotations.
Facebook is now threatening iOS 14.5 users who block tracking
This is a complicated topic, with multiple responses, but I'm only going to touch on one specific aspect of it. Reducing violence in regular farming is an admirable goal that people should strive towards. It's also worth talking about the environmental costs of ingredients like palm oil, and it's worth talking about the human costs of products like cocoa.

I don't mean to diminish any of that at all, it's all worth paying attention to.

However, the majority of meat we eat today comes from factory farming, and the majority of the feed for those animals comes from... traditional crop farming. So it's not really like eating meat is ever going to result in less death. We would need to move entirely to free-grazing cattle, which frankly, I do not believe is scalable enough or cost-effective enough to meet food demand.

I know people who are not vegetarian or vegan, but who care very deeply about animal welfare, and who care a lot about where their beef/pork/chicken is sourced from. I admire that, I am not going to shame anyone for caring about anything. My own opinions about killing animals aside, at the very least ethically sourcing meat is miles better than not caring at all. But I no longer believe that's something that's feasible to expect most people to do; in a weird way I think going vegetarian is easier for many people than figuring out where their burger at a restaurant came from. And where factory farming is involved, getting rid of meat allows us to engage directly with the costs of farming and eliminate one of the extra steps (cattle) that are layered on top of that process.
greater than 66% of old growth forests in California were logged before WW II
When I look back at video clips from the 1970s, there was a diversity there that has been sort of lost. Things got developed in smaller regions and if they were good enough, they got introduced to a larger world. So we got some variety without everything having to overcome a perception of "crazy."

Now we kind of think everyone is so connected that you have to be "crazy" to think X rather than realizing sometimes X makes perfect sense locally and it only seems bizarre to outsiders. "Crazy" often means it's a radical departure from existing ideas rather than an incremental improvement and there used to be more latitude for saying "Hey, let's import this idea from elsewhere that seems crazy here but it's proven and solid somewhere else."

And I think that's a challenge we need to work on. The world seemed really cool and exciting about forty or fifty years ago and I think that's because things were only starting to get connected. Now we are sort of over-connected and expected to all know what "normal" is, as if normal is the same the world over when it isn't.

I think there is a cost to that.
oh my god discussions about advertising on hackernews are like a bunch of plumbers talking about software engineering. these threads should honestly just be used as Dunning-Kruger honeypots. we should post about advertising once a week and then just ban everyone who says "there is no evidence that advertising works."

I have a pixel on my thank-you page. I manually delete placements and optimize creatives and angles and funnels and demographic targeting until it goes from making no sales to ludicrously profitable. This is an entire industry you know nothing about.

Big brands can be dumb but they do mostly have the tools to not be.
A lot of psychotherapy is convincing individuals that they are in control of their actions and can decide how they react to and influence their environment.

A lot of what we're teaching now is the opposite. It's like anti-CBT. Teach everyone they are helpless against the nefarious powers that be.
There needs to be a lobby. It can be an open lobby, but it's the funnel. A new social network isn't something you just create, it's the effect of something else.

So it's not about restricting access, as that assumes an imaginary level of demand. It's about leveraging a core group to attract a larger crowd who you then selectively elevate into an in-group, typically based on competence and personal investment of some kind.

A "product," isn't a technology, it's the thing that meets a need, and if you don't have that need, your technology is meaningless. The need must be concrete, as there is no magic ratio that will fool people, even if there are a few theoretical ratios about equillibrium changes in networks.

This guy has thought a lot about it and articulates it better than I could in a comment: https://alexdanco.com/2021/03/19/how-scenes-work-with-jim-os...
DTC healthcare scrubs company Figs S-1
Yeah saying systemic racism is to whites as nazism is to Jews is pretty damned godwinny
This is not accurate, and it feels like it is the only clear detail provided in your post:

Ajit Pai was forced to publicly dismiss comments containing only facts related to the technical details of the Internet, which made it harder for the FCC to defend its decision in court (as they are supposed to consider those technical details).
Building Multiarchitecture Aware Containers
This kind of a reply belongs on Twitter, not HN. Since you're new here, I highly recommend reading the guidelines for replying. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'll leave the most relevant parts to commenting here for you:

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> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Brave will get a cease and desist from YouTube anyway.
Doubled revenue in 2020 while becoming profitable, absurd how well they are doing
For Americans that is.
>There's a whole lot of people out there who simply like eating meat, and that it means killing an animal is not particularly a problem.

I'm going to be as neutral as I can be in this comment.

I don't think that's something that should stand in the way; it depends if we're coming from a philosophical perspective, or a political perspective. Arguably, some harms should not be tolerated in civil society - and I think the moral vegetarian case (as expounded by philosophers of all stripes) does some work towards that.

My point is that we can name a variety of behaviour that a large proportion of society engages in which are also harmful. That doesn't mean it's not worth trying to convince them, nor to discourage those behaviours through the softer power the government has available to it - higher taxation on meat agriculture and the end of subsidies for meat agriculture being examples. I have met very, very few moral vegetarians who wish to outright ban meat production, at least immediately.

How did the population in general become acclimatised to other things we now see as immoral[0]? Would that work for moral vegetarianism? I don't have the answers to those questions, but I'm sure someone has discussed it previously. Eating meat is an ancient tradition - even older than that - but so were other moral norms, such as the prohibition of homosexuality.

We very, very frequently shame other people on the basis of their conduct as regards morality - the principle of moral judgements. Most (though not all) philosophers argue this is beneficial to society if morality is worth talking about at all. We still shame adultery for moral reasons. What would it take to bring meat production, or even consumption, to a similar level of disdain?

[0] See any of: slavery, marital rape, revenge porn, CSEM, regulations against abortion, regulations against homosexuality, child marriage, Jim Crow laws - and that's just considering the Western world.
This looks a bit like rust with garbage collection.

I see it says it has a type checker or inference from OCaml. I’m guessing this means it doesn’t natively support higher kinded types.

Don’t get me wrong - I love new languages and I commend the author(s)! But I would like to know where it stands between Rust, Haskell and Ocaml.
> I hope the irony that this describes a large portion of the tech industry is not lost on you.

Of course, that's why I'm constantly getting downvoted, and got disowned.

I witnessed my shitfaced +$150,000 salary co-worker in Santa Monica "educates" a hobo (with certainly his own fair share of mental health & drug issues) about how he claimed he had been rude to another co-worker. The same way some of my world travelling c-level execs family members tried to "educate" my gf about her carbon emission daily 30 miles commute.

ALL these pricks have never known hunger, not having a roof over their head or not knowing what tomorrow will be made of. I cherish what I have now, and they will only pry it from my cold dead hands... and I won't go without a fight. All my guns are locked and loaded.
Oh, no, I'm 100% on board with you there. But in terms of total violence in real terms, even with imperialist violence of world powers, we're a smidge away from historic lows of global violence.
What about the rest of the post? Is it too much to ask you to engage constructively?
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