skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate to this from my personal experience of having a sick family member. Five years ago, my father-in-law was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a rare blood cancer. I was close to him and joined several support and information pages on Facebook. Since doing that, I see ads on Facebook and elsewhere targeted to me as if I too had cancer. Now my father in law has passed, yet I still see ads that remind me of the horrible disease he battled.
Decentralized trust graph for online value exchange without a blockchain (2017)
Farmers raising livestock are diabolically evil merchants of death? I usually reserve that level of vitriol for the military industrial complex, global arms dealers, etc... not a family with some cows...
No, it's not rational as then you're relying on the other side to prove a negative, which is an unreasonable reversal of burden of proof (e.g. Russell's teapot).

As to 50/50 being reason to take large scale regulatory action, would you accept this level of proof to enact any law? That seems a low bar to me.
The left wing film director Lindsay Anderson who directed the movie "If..." starring Malcolm McDowell about an uprising in a British public school was asked why he didn't read The Guardian but the right wing Telegraph newspaper. He replied by saying that it was easier to spot the lies...

Personally I think the Guardian deserves support as the only real opposition or left newspaper in the UK. It's really flawed and the lies are harder to see but it fulfils an essential role in society.
I think that's assuming the Gimp UX is good, and I would disagree with that.

IDEs (and a lot of web apps) work like tiling WMs, which is a far better UX.

There's a good reason Gimp is one of very few apps with that frustrating, disjointed everything-is-a-window design.
Show HN: Almighty – all the cool Mac tweaks in just 1 app
Hi HN, excited to show a project I've been working on since the last 2 years, Almighty - a native Mac app which gives expose hidden Mac settings and some extra features

I started this nearly 2 years ago https://www.producthunt.com/posts/almighty as a quick menu bar to toggle some hidden settings. I know some of these can be done in Terminal, but it requires remembering commands and such. The app luckily got traction that time although I had poor app icon and no landing page.

My plan is to gradually add more tweaks over time

The app is in beta now and I would love if you can check it out and any feedbacks are welcome https://onmyway133.com/almighty/
Is this reliant on S3 or can it be used on something like minio or digital ocean spaces or backblaze2 too? Backblaze to cloudflare data transfers is free so that can reduce costs a lot plus B2 is much cheaper than S3.
>> The only real net emissions in the process of creating beef are the fossil fuels burned in the process, from transportation

I think you are drastically oversimplifying the carbon impact of modern agriculture. Artificial fertilizer production, irrigation, mechanized farm equipment all substantially contribute to CO2 emissions and other serious environmental impacts.

Edit: Reading the EPA report, the sources I mentioned aren't even in the top 3: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis....

Soil management practices (aka tilling) causing N2O release, digestive methane from cattle, methane, and methane and N2O from manure handling. Fertilizer was lumped in with crop residue burning and rice cultivation in 4th place.

Two of the top three are directly related to animal husbandry, and the rest are heavily impacted by the vast amount of land used to grow feed for cattle in feedlots instead of directly feeding people.
Does "minimizing tax contributions" need to be said? Doesn't every company pay the minimum taxes that they're allowed to pay?
You Were Too Good for Us (2006)
This is a nice one:
“It is not to be supposed that the death of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand will have any immediate or salient effect on the politics of Europe.”
I think the quality of predictions in geo-politics or economics hasn't improved much since then.
This should have a (2017) tag. NieR:Automata is not just one of my favorite games, but for me it has the best soundtrack out of any videogame I have ever played. Here are some of my favorite tracks [0] [1] [2] [3]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FzyKtct4es

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEVYS7Ofbgo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Frp1meFx0c

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOuspYpbNc
TS is probably my favorite language out there, so yes, I definitely did :)

But just for "one-off"-scripts, JS usually does the job pretty well. For bigger scripts or scripts where I want to reuse/share parts, typescript is an option - but it comes with a few hurdles: Most of the scripts I'm talking about work with zero npm-dependencies, while typescript adds at least one.

Furthermore, I either have to take care of compiling it, or use ts-node - one more dependency; and in both cases, I can't avoid the usual es6 vs. commonJS shenanigans.
It's a bit of overhead to get going; always worth it if I spend more than a few hours on a script, but I can do without if it's just a few lines that I will hardly ever see again.
I think the first paragraph exceeded the bounds of an effective /s
That is the beauty of C++.

I can write VB/Delphi like code with C++ Builder, write raytracing algorithms in CUDA, or just have fun targeting ESP32.
but he's better than a lot of the other crappy grifters

A journalist should neither accuse, without evidence, someone else of being a 'DNC operative', nor claim, without verifying, that that person opposes a particular political candidate. The gravity of slandering someone that way, to me, is self-evident. It doesn't matter if the person he slanders is a saint or a piece of garbage.

If the person whose tweet I linked is truly a 'tool' (and I'm open to that possibility), then Greenwald could just have left it at calling him a 'worm'. That's fair game since it's a matter of opinion.
This is actually something that both Twitch and Youtube can do fairly well. Several science Youtubers put on lectures for school students studying from home, it's a nice format.

Of course that's video... but at least with the YouTube subscription you can listen to the audio without the video.
UNIX/POSIX clones.
Yeah, that's what I meant with difficulty. A programming language is basically specified logic that can utilize any human language (vocabulary) as basis. But you lose freedom since you're forced to structure your logic in a specific pattern. Lojban requires you learning a new vocabulary to regain flexibility while retaining the rigor. The benefit of this in law becomes apparent when considering the importance of semantics over syntax.
It is a classic human political problem, succession of power.
There is Brazilian strain, South African strain, UK strain in the media everywhere. But there is no China or Wuhan virus in the media! Chinese comunist party did really well hiding origin of the virus, up to the language level.
Remote work salaries are higher than office based salaries
Thank you, excited to read it this weekend :)
Wow! Thanks for the heads up on Ventoy!

The only reason I even keep an old Windows based laptop around for was to burn ISO’s to flash drives with Rufus for repairing computers of friends and family members.
what seems to be a problem here? is not this the whole idea of the relevant ads?
Have you considered the WASM build of Qt?

https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly
More realistically you should tag the users profile to show them fridges in about 3 years when it first starts to either experience minor mechanical issues or starts to look “dated”. Just tag with refrigerator_2025 or something.
DragonFly 6.0 Soon
Reminds me of the BBC news headline this morning: "The Conservatives have inflicted a _crushing_ defeat on Labour...". The BBC shouldn't be dramatising the news, they should just be reporting it factually.
All i have to say is..javascript was created as a meme language, and here we are. Doge has treated me well with millions of $, I'll continue to HODL. Just because it's not up to standards today doesn't mean once it becomes a stable coin it can't be improved. At this point it would be silly to not have money in the DOGE, the risk of losing a few dollars vs making a good amount of money. That sounds like an investment to me!
Zuckerberg’s Plan to Repair Facebook’s Image: More Zuckerberg
Interesting although a 15 second response time on certain queries is not a very good user experience.
None of that argument justifies your claim. Yes, storage is needed. No, that doesn't mean solar cannot power civilzation. Simply raising questions doesn't prove your point. It's up to you to show that all the various storage technologies, alone or combination, along with transmission and dispatchable demand, cannot do the job.

No, it IS about whether it's possible. You didn't claim it wasn't "efficient", you claimed it wasn't possible. "Can't." I'm not sure why efficiency matters -- is agriculture impossible because its average efficiency at converting sunlight to food energy is less than 1%?
That’s kind of racist to assume that everyone is a country is the same race, no?

Must be systemic racism.
Per the HN guidelines:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Correct me if I'm wrong but that agricultural impact happens for vegetarian food as well? And lab grown meat also requires the same agricultural costs, there doesn't exist some magic chemistry that creates food from raw materials without agriculture.
nothing wrong with wanting to avoid the insane syntax of bash imo.
Do you have an example of such a DSL? I like the idea but I myself can’t come up with a tool that implements it well.
See Fewer People. Take Fewer Showers
> herbaceous border disputes

A concept familiar to anybody with a neighbor who refuses to do anything about their blackberry infestation.
Saying "we were wrong" is an apology in my book. I don't know what you want, but this is sufficient for me. If you think your reading experience would be improved by grovelling, find the publication that grovels or has never ever made a mistake and read that. But for me, I'm ok with the Economist.

> If they didn't add that you would get a stream of people

A stream of people where? Only subscribers read this. Folks who have issues like you do wouldn't be subscribers to begin with. If they hadn't printed the mea culpa, few would have noticed.
The target story is nice anecdote but it's unlikely that they figured out that the daughter is pregnant: https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/target-didnt-figure-out-a-t...
“ It later turned out that the Lancet letter had been organized and drafted by Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York. Daszak’s organization funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. If the SARS2 virus had indeed escaped from research he funded, Daszak would be potentially culpable. This acute conflict of interest was not declared to the Lancet’s readers. To the contrary, the letter concluded, “We declare no competing interests.””

This is news to me. Wtf?
Silent Hill series (especially SH2) also have an amazing soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuxJNphw0Mg
Agree with the general sentiment about wordiness and I hope the author can condense his thoughts in future iterations of this. One quote I want to point out:

"concretely stating "I think doing this will work" opens you up to the terrifying possibility of being provably wrong"

I wish people didn't think this way. Be confident about your ideas and be willing to accept that they will be catastrophically wrong. It doesn't mean you're dumb it just means you were wrong
Yes. Gain of function research involves putting evolutionary pressure on an organism to give it certain traits that can be found in the wild, but the resulting virus is anything but natural.

I think a lot of people dismiss the lab leak hypothesis based on the idea that a lab-created virus must have an engineered genome rather than an evolved one.
It is a cool project. S3 can be cost efficient, but only if you don't touch data :)

Their price calculation doesn't mention cost of S3 requests, which very quickly adds up and is often neglected.

It costs $1 for 2.5M GET requests to S3. They have 180 shards, in a general case query seems to fetch all of them. Presumably they don't download full shard per request, but download an index + some relevant ranges. Lets say that is 10 requests per shard. So that would be 1800 S3 GET requests = ~1400 search queries cost them $1.

Assuming their service is reasonably popular and serve 1 req/second on average, that would be $1,440 per 30 days in addition to advertised $1,000 spent on EC2 and S3 storage.

Seems comparable to AWS ElasticSearch service costs:

- 3 nodes m5.2xlarge.elasticsearch = $1,200

- 20TB EBS storage = $1,638
There are a couple of WebAssembly efforts that run things in-process, such as Cloudflare Workers.
Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5
a greenhouse gas tax isn't enough by itself - bitcoin's price may just rise high enough to justify (to bitcoin fans) mining even with the tax. the purpose of the tax isn't to change the economics of bitcoin, it is to slash emissions since no amount of bitcoin justifies further damage to the climate.

it needs to be banned (and other similar things) until the grid is ~100% greenhouse emission free.
When you think about it, it's impressive that Linux, as a project, "just works". Hundreds of people working together for 3 decades, to make computers work in some sort of "standard" way.

Linus did an impressive job leading this calmly and friendly for years without never acting like some sort of "big boss who knows what needs to be done".
CZ-5B/2021-035B orbital decay
I updated my post with some details, but to that point directly it is far, far more efficient to feed people rather than feeding animals to feed people. The vast majority of cattle are raised in feedlots and fed crops from agriculture.
I ended up becoming vegetarian for a while due to some video that was released years ago of factory farm workers abusing animals. I found myself unable to eat meat without bursting into tears.

In time, and in part due to how complicated this ecosystem actually is (as explained by a few other replies here) I ended up settling on eating vegetarian “most of the time” and buying meat sourced from ethical places with better conditions when I do.

But it was surprising to me how threatened most people were when I was strictly vegetarian.

I won’t turn this into a political debate with my theories why, but nonetheless most of my circle of friends are animal lovers and I would have expected some degree of empathy with my cause, but most of them acted like I was personally going to sneak into their house and steal all their meat from them.

That said, I continue to have a great appreciation for the industry of meatless meat.

Although at this point, IMO, Impossible Burger is the gold standard, and after trying it once, eating any other burger (including Beyond) just doesn’t cut it.
The original NieR (just now re-released as NieR:Replicant) is also notable for having an amazing soundtrack with the lyrics being constructed from a totally made-up language. And the layering of the score as you go into and out of combat is nothing short of masterful.

The first game holds a special place in my heart and playing the remake now is bringing back a lot of good memories. It's kind of odd but self-aware and the characterisation of a talking book is utterly astounding.
The windows installer iso never works. You have to build a bootable PE environment and then have a folder with the install files to run.
When entering the camps, they made sure to document well, because they knew no one could possibly believe the extent of the atrocities without seeing themselves.
I’ll take the extra luck, thanks!
You Can Make Better Decisions by Placing Problems in a New Frame
You only have to look at the ads Signal ran to expose this, to see the sort of information facebook will give advertisers.
What an amazing project, good luck to you guys and thanks for sharing.
The Chinese state is by no means the only body pushing politicized information regarding covid origins

It doesn't make much sense to single it out here, the most plausible version of the lab leak hypothesis is that covid is the result of cooperative research undertaken by American and Chinese scientists and funded by both governments

Edit: I'd love to receive a substantive counterargument from the downvoters
but less clear.

Some of the newer languages do aways with -> completely but I think it just obscures the data structures.

The one frequent annoyance that I had with . vs -> is that for access local variables I need to use . and if I make that code into a function that takes the local variables as a pointer, I need to change the code into ->. In other words, I can't easily move the code through stages of solidification using simple copy & paste.

That's why I tend to declare my local variables using pointer literal syntax, e.g.

Foo *local_thing = &(Foo) { ... };

That way it gets easier to move the code out.
Trump said it was China’s fault, and orange man is bad, so any alternative discussion was basically prohibited until after Biden took office.
> The fact is that an epidemic with a corona virus (never before or since seen in the wild) with a peculiarly efficient ability to infect humans started in the _only city in the world with a lab where gain-of-function experiments on corona viruses_ is located. Just apply occam’s razor, and then you are done.

What's the reason the lab is located in that city? Is there an underlying causal connection?

For example, is Wuhan prone to novel coronoviruses because of the local bat population, and so that was the logical place to site a coronavirus research lab?

If so, Occam's Razor would suggest that common connection as the more simple explanation.
Whenever I come across a typo in something I've published or in a paper I'm reading I'll do a google scholar search with quotes and see how many other people have made it. E.g. "expensively studied", https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22expensively+studied%...
> > The web: couldn't you just transfer a file to an open port and use a rendering tool to view it?

> Did anyone actually ever say this? The web was clearly a technological advancement that most tech people realized out of the gate.

I don't get why we're even talking about it. The original example is nonsense. The web literally does what that example says - pushes byte streams to computers that use a rendering tool to view them.

Arguably, what made the web popular wasn't HTTP per se. The two core ingredients were, in my opinion, DNS infrastructure and that "rendering tool", AKA. web browser. Together, they made it easy to publish files and let random people access them. Arguably, the third leg would be the <A> tag in early HTML, which kept everything glued together while it expanded exponentially.
I find the “date” filter on Google has been broken for a year now. It used to work perfectly even on Reddit posts. But something changed early last year when the date filter simply doesn’t work.
How am I misinformed? These doctors are exhibiting and supporting orthorexic behavior. I'm surely not going to listen to them.

There's a bunch of papers on Neu5Gc, should I start being scared of meat toxicity?

Diet containing seed oils can be healthy. Nowhere have I made an argument that an unhealthy diet will be countered by physical activity.
I don't have a problem with eating meat.

I think hunting might be one of the most ethical ways consume meat.

I have a problem with factory farming because I feel like the amount of suffering involved is disproportionately high compared to other methods.

I also have a problem with the negative environmental externalities of big agriculture.
I was hesitant to share because it's quite new and still in development but I'm glad someone from outside actually tried it! It has some issues as you have pointed out and I really appreciate the detailed report, I've noted them.

There are no currently no explanation of the ML parameters since I still use the website mostly for manual testing. Sadly, some of them are crucial for model accuracy and they are not easy to manually configure for the user, so the plan is to integrate meta-learning that finds the best possible parameters on its own. I will take a look into the model now :)

Edit: After a quick inspection I see that the problem is actually sample size. Your samples are about 3 seconds long and for a consistent model I need at least 30 seconds of sample for each label.

Maybe some background: You can simply set the recording duration to 30 seconds and keep tapping for 30 seconds, you don't need 10 samples each 3 seconds long. The server splits the recordings into 0.3 seconds long windows for training and the model tries to interpolate the function between these windows and their labels.

In your case, only 13 windows could be extracted from your recordings so the model has only 13 data points for learning the mapping and tries to guess the function based on them. The beginning and the end of a recording is also cut because the sensors are not very reliable during these periods, so a 3 seconds long recording becomes about 2 seconds long after that. This is why tiny recordings are generally not very useful for the model training (and I should definitely change the default recording duration which is 3 seconds!). From a 30 seconds recording, we can extract ~100 data points and that is usually enough for a somewhat reliable model.

But of course none of these are obvious (not even close..) and I should do a much better job explaining the process to the user. I learnt a lot from your experience, so thanks again :)
House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder
Do doctors prescribe brands in America? Here they’ll prescribe you with the working substance, and unless it’s still patented (which most of them aren’t) then you’ll just get offered the cheapest brand at the pharmacy by default.

I guess commercials would still work if you branded yourself hard enough, but our culture is more like the Velcro thing, where when people ask for a “panodil” or a “pinex” they don’t really care if it’s actually a panodil or a pinex as long as it’s a headache pill with that the same sort or working chemical.
It is striking that the mainstream positions today would have been considered radical leftism at most points in the past.

If the same pattern holds, then radical leftist positions of today will be again the mainstream positions in the future.

The lag time has been considerable though. I think even into the 90’s the guardian would not have approved of the suffragette’s direct action methods.

In some ways though things have stagnated for almost a century; Bernie Sanders public health care plan is something that was being pushed for a century ago, and the forces of private capital have managed to hold back the tide for a hundred years.

So it might be that my prediction that the radical left of today is the mainstream of tomorrow is totally wrong, and things could actually regress.
It seems you prefer passive voice.
Believe it as much as you'd believe a guy who thought that aliens and the CIA are working together to prevent the second coming of Jesus Christ and the God turned him into the smartest programmer in the world because he's The Chosen One to fight them by making an operating system based on God's direct instructions. It's his own words, and consistent with his behavior; he shared positivity towards black people too. He absolutely wasn't racist pre-schizofrenia - also a total atheist.
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It’s almost all black people beating up Asians. I don’t think they’re listening to Trump.