skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A somewhat HN-famous example of the "couldn't you..." sentiment would be this from the debut of Dropbox ("couldn't you just use ftp"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Alan Kay has been saying this for at least 25 years:

"Television should be the last mass communications medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon general's warning!'
Plants are not conscious and do not feel pain. But even if your argument is in good faith and you genuinely believe that the plight of plants is equivalent to the suffering of animals, then that is still an argument for veganism, as producing a kilo of animal flesh requires several kilos of plant matter, thus increasing the total amount of suffering relative to simply eating plants directly.
I would say that racket has one of the best tutorials ever made for any language. Specially with the reduced versions inside DrRacket. Also some books like How to Design Programs.
I have tried Beyond Meat. My concern is changing my diet to lock in with a single vendor selling a patented food product with 30%+ margins.

Is there a reason this amazing, world-changing, sustainable product isn't being sold at a reasonable or better price than ground beef? Tyson operates at 13% margin. Ground beef is 25% cheaper than Beyond.

Compete on price and I will buy it; pretty simple. Otherwise, this all feels like marketing propagande to convince us to overpay to line the pocket of a greedy industrial food manufacturer.
Cursing and telling others to calm down...
Most of the examples were about police targeting black people disproportionately compared to other races concluding that is because of systemic racism. Is there a law that compels police officers to behave in such a way? The answer is none. Therefore it can't be systemic. The targeting comes from individual decisions by individual officers. Whether this is from prejudice or bad experience or plain racism is unknown. For that you would have to divide individuals officers into buckets by their race in see the statics for each bucket. For example do black officers also arrest disproportionate number of black people? You would need all the combinations from different buckets to get a sense of underlying reasons.
Ok, GavinMcG, just try to write web application in racket, based on official documentation. I assure you that nothing will be clear to you, huge questions will just fly over your head, and if you then ask for help on the Racket group, the people there will make fun of you. Been there, done that! Believe me.
> I am open about being in recovery for alcoholism on FB but they still show me ads for hard liquor.

Or perhaps you see the ads because you are open about your recovery. If the relapse rate is high, you will be blanketed with such ads.

FB's targeting AI is pretty good. Even people recovering from alcoholism were being targeted, the advertisers might not even know it.
I guess you will also start getting more "shingles in your area" ads.
Penpot looks incredible! I am super curious about design tools such as these but I have very little experience in the field. What is the workflow to get a design made with these working as a proper web or application? Even some pointers would be great. Sorry if the question is very basic.
Cheers!
Born and lived there till a few years ago, I always heard of this and never happened, they even worked on a Linux distro since 2009 https://www.nova.cu/. Most good Linux devs i knew left the island and new ones will do too, people graduate and just moonlight in jobs in order to get internet to freelance on Upwork and make some cash to survive or leave the country so this will never happen until they allow private IT people to do it and pay competitive rates.They use Linux on servers in most of the companies and run Postfix/Dovecot for email and Squid cache which the govt and communist party will come and request logs and email comms, not fun had to wipe logs for a friend sending a bad joke to her husband about how the situation was in the island. Communists came threatening that she was collaborating with outside people and her logs were under investigation for months.
I am a non-academic software engineer who wrote something that might interest academic cartographers[1], and am contemplating to write an article about it.

This will be a helpful to limit the choices to where it should be published.

Thanks, noted!

[1]: https://github.com/motiejus/stud/tree/master/IV
Part 2 of Interview with Linus Torvalds
If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Depending on what you personally get up to, opsec is increasingly vital for normal people. I'm not talking about serious stuff - everyone has secrets.

Well, had.
Not to be condescending, but I practiced the exact same mental gymnastics for many years. I used the exact same reasoning ("can be ethical"). I also did select organic/etc eggs and dairy.

Buttt... This lead to people believe that I was okay with dairy/eggs, and when others picked for me I had a hard time rejecting.

And dairy and egg producing animals are hurt big time: children taken away, caged, slaughtered, selectively bread to have unnatural bodies (hen only lay ~12 eggs per year in nature vs. 300+ for domesticated variants). This is maybe worse than wild animals being killed.

After 12+ year vegetarian I went vegan 7+ years ago. I regret not doing so earlier.
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A rather strange article. In some ways quite perceptive and reflective, but in other ways the opposite.

One of the first examples is a little odd.

errors of scientific understanding resulted in a 1927 article that promoted the virtues of asbestos

It's a bit unclear what "errors of scientific understanding" means here, but in context this makes it sound like the Guardian writers mis-understood scientists who were warning about the dangers of asbestos. The report presented to Parliament about the dangers of asbestos didn't arrive until 1930 and before that there was only a single known case of asbestosis in the UK, so that seems to deflect attention from the fact that the errors - if you want to call a lack of knowledge an error - were by scientists, not the Guardian writers.

Towards the end we have this:

"Since then, referendums have become, much to the paper’s displeasure, an established part of our constitution, used as a way to stamp democratic legitimacy on to controversial ideas and as a tool of party management"

Perhaps one day they'll be writing a similar backwards-looking piece apologizing for having held this view too. At the start they rail against the paper's former imperialism and feelings of superiority, then claim that referendums are a problem because they legitimize "controversial ideas". This from a paper which delights in publishing controversial and extreme ideas:

https://twitter.com/somuchguardian?lang=en

A few select headlines:

"The tears of joy emoji is the worst of all - it's used to gloat about human suffering"

"Brexit will spell the end of British art as we know it"

"Can male writers avoid misogyny?"

"What if we're living in a computer simulation?"

"Robots are racist and sexist"

etc. Perhaps some of these will make future lists.
They are not extremists.
> The problem with C++ is that many of those "features" are actually "anti-features". From the top of my head: operator overloading, copy-constructors, constructors, destructors, function overloading. While these "features" may make correct code easier to write, they always make incorrect code much, much harder to understand.

> For example, you find a simple line of C++ that says "y=f(x);", and it can do anything: has the parenthesis operator been overloaded? and the copy constructor? how many times is a destructor called here? What are its side effects? What instance of f is called, if none of them is defined for the actual type of x? Every single line of C++ that you have to analyze is a terrifying nightmare like this one.

I have yet to see any of this be an actual problem in real-world projects.

I have seen on the other hand a lot of people coming with these abstract "this is gonna be a problem" ideas in mind, and never wanting to touch C again after working on actual modern C++ projects.
You meanwhile enjoy drama so much you feel you need to participate in a discussion that doesn't conern you even if you possess nothing with which to contribute. How close was I?
Sorry but, interviewing staff at the lab to see if they are responsible? This is like putting a murderer who just pleaded not-guilty in the stand and asking them "did you do it?". What kind of answers were the WHO expecting to get?
I haven't tried any of these beyond burger things yet. I probably will sometime but I'm squeamish about the concept. It makes me think of Soylent Green or weird funguses or whatever.

It's simpler to just use normal ingredients without meat. Corn and beans is a tasty combo that's ridiculously easy to make with an instant pot (electric pressure cooker) and the plants combine to give you complete protein. Dump a cup of dry beans into the pot (20 pound bag from Costco is about 20 bucks and keeps forever), cover with water, close lid and press the "beans" button, and go back to whatever you were doing on your computer. About 40 minutes later (they go by fast since you are paying zero attention to the cooking) there are some loud beeps. Let out the pressure, dump in a can of corn and maybe some spicy pasta sauce, stir and serve. Or do similar with rice instead of corn, add some green vegetables, etc.

The above is quite a filling vegan main course for about $1 per person. No need for techno burgers of insect fritters or any of that weirdness. The instant pot is a life changer-- even more useful than a microwave imho.
The Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingency Committee (THRCC) was scrapped by Boris Johnson in July 2019, and had previously been "mothballed" by Theresa May to focus on Brexit efforts.

Whether the existence of a group of 15 MPs including such luminaries as Michael Gove, Matt Hancock and Gavin Williamson would have made a marked difference is not so obvious.

Existing plans were not scrapped and some believe using these plans actually was a big factor in the lacklustre initial response. The plans were too specific on what had come before (SARS most recently) and didn't allow accommodation of the differences of covid. It took a notable amount of time to change direction.

I'm sure there's plenty of blame to go around if one was inclined to do so, but I don't think disbanding one committee (despite its prescient name) was particularly notable.
Burgers and sausages are some of the most detached ways to eat meat. While a steak has bones, a burger is much more abstract. There is probably a good anthropological theory behind this.
The article broadly claims that COBOL is viewed dismissively compared to other languages of similar vintage like C or FORTRAN, because unlike those latter it did not come out of a "research-oriented context". However, as a matter of fact, neither C nor FORTRAN came out of academia; much like COBOL, they were developed for practical use as opposed to "research". ISTM that the perceived issues with COBOL must be explained in some other way.
Chia and flax seeds are some of the best sources of Omega-3s...
I've been keeping an eye on Racket for a few years now, and recently gave their documentation tool Scribble[1] a try, as an alternative to writing LaTeX directly. But honestly I found the experience difficult if you need some custom behavior, and falling back to Racket was very confusing as a relative newcomer to Lisp (with mostly Elisp experience). It doesn't help that their documentation, while detailed, is not very beginner friendly. So I went back to org-mode for exporting to PDF via LaTeX.

Congrats on the release!

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/
It calls itself a professional window manager. So it shouldn’t be surprised to be judged by that standard.
Emerging Sights Now Narrowing
9th grade RhinoCAD and Beginner JavaScript had me majorly uninterested in the digital underlayers, yet out of autonomous curiosity, I've gained a peak pursuit in turning ordinary consumer devices made for the average societal "sheep" and turning them into hyper-astute machines of immense capability under proper hands. Imagine tablets, phones, and computers that can do ANYTHING... You think of.
Imagine pulling up the fantasies about electronic superpowers, like "what it phones could rig up wireless battery cameras on a custom network (I mean YOUR net, Android has no terms of agreement here)". What about a tablet linked to a wireless keyboard, both mounted in a locking hard case, mouse, and full root SuperSU access with ease. If you want to have it, now you can make it happen.

I personally will continue to progress my knowledge and experience in sight of utilizing it for occupational opportunities . It is my hope that my message will engage a spark of directive in at least a handful of you, I hope to see more like-minded creations on the deeper web

J-waggnerOFBompton
I watched this video (skimmed), it seems like the creator had a few incidents involving people in the racket community. I’m not a racket community participant or racket user, but every community has these issues. Honestly this feels like a really weird ax to grind against racket?
Doge has 129 billion coins in circulation with an expectation of having over 1.2 trillion coins in circulation (there is no max supply), it is 'funny' because it is an example of extremely bad money when we compare it to actual hard money like bitcoin (18M circ, 21M cap).
Local regulation for "conservation" seems to be a net negative for society in many places.

Can't build housing in cities with MASSIVE housing shortages because we need to "preserve historical character" of the laundromats that's currently there wasting space.

Can't cut down trees or do controlled burns to prevent turning much of California into a hellfire for months because "conservationism"

All of this is of course mainly tied to maintaining property values. And keeping the wrong people out of the community.

Why are people such selfish assholes?
CSS Hell: Collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them
> In the US or elsewhere where health insurance is a thing I would probably go perm.

The difference in compensation more than offsets the cost for insurance, in most cases.
Only if Sean Connery is the ad manager.
It probably fits an exact definition of gloating “X experienced Y, and I felt amazed.” But it’s a pretty minimal statement. Gloating, real gloating, requires a bit more verbiage. OP just related what would have otherwise gone known by the reader but unsaid. No one should be held to pure stoicism - especially not when a printer is thrown at them.

OP even later expresses compassion for the person. That’s far from gloating. And before someone intones that that is itself gloating - again, you still need more.
This is purely performative and has no other benefit than to bow to a set of aesthetics.

It's merely doctrinal orthodoxy full of needless and ceremonious frivolities for the adherents to chin stroke in approval.

It is not, in any way, a reasonable way to do things, to exercise engineering, write maintainable or reliable code or otherwise accomplish tasks.

It is just spectacle.
Yes, this forum was implemented in Arc, atop of Racket. But the reason for that is because Arc is great, not Racket.
Hanlon's razor does not apply here. The theory outlined in the article does not suggest the lab leak was intentional, but rather an accident. To me, Occam's razor strongly suggests an accidental lab leak.
Just like meat is not toxic, neither is seed oil. I've been eating large amounts (~1000kcal a day) of flaxseed oil, olive oil, pumpkin seed oil, coconut oil and there has been no ill-effect on my cardiovascular or general health at all, after years of doing that.

This orthorexic behavior by labeling certain foods as unhealthy or healthy is the real problem.

Any kind of diet needs to be accompanied by a proper lifestyle. Eating a high calorie diet and then not having any physical activity is just asking for a bunch of metabolic issues.

Particular food item is not healthy or unhealthy, toxic or rejuvenating. It's the lifestyle+diet that can be labeled as healthy/unhealthy.
A unified theory of low/no code and middleware
> Stability in this context means "can make changes with confidence in the absence of tests". The more confident you can be, the more stable. Maybe not the right word though.

I'd call it "robustness".
More recently: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/feb/23/pcc-guardian-m...
“Targeted” ads have -never- shown me anything I actually wanted to buy.

On the other hand, whenever I really wanted to spend spare money, say on new games or movies or music, every fucking company tries to put as many hindrances in my way as possible: The search systems of almost all stores is terrible and their filtering options are crippled.

With the exception of Steam, every store I’ve tried makes it really hard to find items matching some specific criteria.

Way to go ya Silicon Valley nincompoops. /clappingemoji

How about instead of pillaging my privacy to try to inaccurately infer what I like, why the fuck not just let me TELL you what I like?
That's not enough to draw any conclusion - authoritarian governments led by a tiny few are the geopolitical equivalent of a schizophrenic. The smaller the group with absolute power, the more individual personalities, arbitrary interests, and even day-to-day mood dominate the decision making process. The more power is distributed beyond the group, the more policies return to the mean and the less it varies from day to day.

China has the added wrinkle that it's so large that national authorities policies' can vary wildly from local and regional responses for a long time while the bureaucrats play a game of telephone.
Why hasn’t Waymo expanded its driverless service?
Although I've never found it useful, I believe if you do

TYPE *const ptr = foo();

to initialize a C pointer where you can't change what thing it points to (as opposed to the thing itself), then you get 100% of the alleged safety benefits that you get from C++ references.

Except, you're not adding another type category in the type system, with all the complexities (non-orthogonality of features) that come with that.

Granted, compared to C++ reference declarations like

TYPE& ptr = foo();

you'll have to type a few characters more, but then again you won't have to repeat your method signatures in 18 different flavours.
It wouldn't because the way that is worded suggests that the reason for dismissal is the credibility of the person and not if the implausibility of the idea.

What would follow from his first statement: "Your idea sounds really implausible, and so I'm going to dismiss it on that basis. And since you're not a domain expert I'm not going to put special effort into suspending judgement, I'm just going to go with my initial implausibility determination."

What would follow from his second statement: "I'm going to dismiss your idea because you're not a domain expert. The idea's plausibility didn't really factor into my decision."

I would agree though that his use of very simple language has left some ambiguity here.
> is they require no violence against animals.

The argument is interesting and proponents of this idea also make good points generally, but it's also a lie.

If we really cared about violence against animals, we wouldn't bring cats home.

The simple fact that the domestic cat population has been steadily increasing and ever more rights have been granted to them, that an entire industry of pets food is killing the same animals we used to make burgers to make cat food and nobody finds it problematic, means that we, as humans, do not really care about animals, their well being and their lives.

After carefully quantifying cat populations and predation rates (and the uncertainty of both), the scientists calculated that domestic cats pounce on one billion to four billion birds a year in the lower 48 states, as well as 6.3 billion to 22.3 billion small mammals and hundreds of millions of reptiles and amphibians.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/essay-to-...
Even the exact phrase "conspiracy theory" predates the CIA by at least 40 years. So it seems the poster's theory about the origin of the conspiracy theory is, reflectively, a conspiracy theory itself. Given that the CIA is so often the subject of such conspiracy theories, I suspect irony might have been employed.
>the plight of plants is equivalent to the suffering of animals

You assume that the plight of humans is equivalent to the suffering of animals.
I had a big problem with it last week when creating a 20H2 installation USB, it created a FAT32 disk instead of a NTFS disk.

Unfortunately install.wim on that image is bigger than the FAT32 max file size. Meaning that while the USB booted in the system, the installation was not possible.

Of course the installer doesn’t keep the disk image it downloads to make the usb, so it’s another 5-6G download to try again - this may be problematic for people on limited bandwidth connections.

Personally I just created an NTFS partition on my USB drive and copied the contents of another windows iso over to it.
This isn't what I was saying.

My point was that these criticisms never acknowledge that ATVI is massively successful and the critics are always in the minority.

They assume because a few hundred on a message board said something the entire company is a failure and everyone agrees.

For the record I agree with most of the criticism...I also acknowledge what I want isn't necessarily what others want.
Glad I scrolled a bit before I was gonna post exactly this.
>have to start deploying as much renewable energy generation as physically possible

Do reasonable people still believe we can simply produce millions of square miles of solar panels and wind mills(that have their own production and maintenence issues), and that will somehow solve our energy issues? It's just not going to happen. We need nuclear power....and more.
Sloppy code would be using the wrong data structures and algorithms. Sloppy code would be optimizing nothing at all.

If you write things with good big O performance, for almost all of your lines of code you're done. It will perform fine.

Bloated messes don't come from writing a bunch of business logic in python instead of C, not while processors are this many orders of magnitude faster than they used to be. They comes from layers and layers of abstractions, or doing things completely the wrong way.
I hope cellular agriculture will help reduce real meat consumption, and decrease overall suffering. Breeding out the ability to suffer is also desirable.

Do you not think that factory farming causes suffering? Causing avoidable suffering seems like a moral issue to me.
It was painful but I got Ubuntu ISO working with

loopback loop (hd0,gpt1)/PATH/TO/UBUNTU.iso
set root=(loop)
configfile /boot/grub/loopback.cfg

which in turn seems to load the kernel via

linux /casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed iso-scan/filename=/PATH/TO/UBUNTU.iso
initrd /casper/initrd

if you just make sure your path doesn't have spaces. (I forget if you also need to pass boot=casper or not.)

You'll have to detect the disk though. It's possible to automate it somewhat, but not trivial (at least if you don't know how). You'll want to use search. https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/sear...

And make sure you've insmod'ed any modules you need for your hardware if necessary (storage, USB, etc.)... unfortunately documentation on these is poor, and some modules are mutually exclusive, so have fun.
Full text link https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.6524...