skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 and 3 are net negatives, giving too much power to the leader of the country...bread and circuses in their prime example. 4 is debatable, but in general - bad, money laundering is what the BigBrother decides it is.
the problem is that smart devices are much more important for the economy and business (and users) than gaming devices (like the switch). So it is in the public interest that those oligopolies (Android/IOS) have a business model that is fair to all stakeholders.
Since it's probably not clear to most HN readers, this is maintained by the Swedish public broadcaster (SVT: Sveriges Television) which provides a video streaming service (similar to BBC iPlayer) at https://www.svtplay.se

The documentation has a story about how the project came about (as a replacement for the proprietary system they were using) https://svt.github.io/encore-doc/#projecthistory
That’s true and I think there were two inflection points in human evolution.

One is the development of modified tools and fire. Yes I know that’s two things, but they’re both very ancient and probably were enabled by the adaptation that gave us language. It’s possible there were several adaptations there but I suspect they all came from one fundamental advance in cognition. This drove a series of major evolutionary changes that adapted us to a tool and fire using mode of living.

The second I think was prefrontal synthesis, at around the time this child was buried. This enabled us to form complex linguistic concepts (take this Apple and give it to the girl on the other side of the wall) and create tools with multiple features composed together, such as needles with an eye hole.

Pretty much everything else derived from these innovations, or at least the cognitive capabilities that enabled them.

So yes of course we have abilities other animals don’t have, but we also have a lot in common. Showing reverence and tenderness for the dead is definitely something we share with many other mammals, but complex funerary rituals with associated burial objects are more a human thing.
Only if the kid lives in that house, so not exactly true.
I’m absolutely sold on this. Next time I’m working on any internal application, it’s going to be with Lowdefy!
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People are way too uncomfortable with other people spending their time "idling."

Looking at the history of contributions to science, software, and engineering by amateurs we probably lose out on a lot of productivity because of this.
People are desperate to keep "working" from home.
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> your real estate taxes are more or less locked at that price and won’t rise as the value increases.

Well it will rise 2% every year.
That's a very philosophical rather than physics-based rebuttal.

He appears to be saying it can't be true because it would make life/and or the concept of self meaningless.

Whereas I would say that a theory that suggests we are meaningless temporary blips in an infinite universe is probably a much greater indication that it is true than otherwise.
>Maybe we do have to choose between following equally-terrible people, every day?

Well, okay, but there are a lot of games where you can choose between good and bad sides. You know, like most of DnD. It's Warhammer 40k specifically that forces you to choose between bad, worse and worst.
This simply isn't true. I live in Thailand. Most locals here don't have access to US stocks, or don't know that they do. Young people here have a Thai stock trading app (for the SET, which is the exchange) on their phone and another one for their domestic cryptocurrency exchange of choice. I think very few of them are buying AMZN or TSLA.

I'd bet fewer than 3% of the population here are buying US stocks.
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> Fiction, enrages those engaging in religion

Only rather particular approaches to religion. Given the popularity of religion throughout history, fiction would basically be nonexistent if it had that effect on the religious generally.

> Cause if tolkien could create LOTR

Tolkien was religious.
Well because it's "just" a protein which by itself isn't alive. It's like how heavy water(water where the hydrogen atom is replaced by a deuterium atom) will eventually kill you if ingested in large quantities, because your body just doesn't recognize it as any different from normal water - it takes the molecules and builds stuff with it, but because it's not quite the same, things start breaking down eventually.

This is roughly the same - body takes this protein in, "thinks" it's a different type of protein, the resulting cell is "broken" diseases follow.

You'd literally need to break that protein down so that it's completely destroyed, either with extremely high temperatures(not boiling) or with acids. People think of it like bacteria and then are surprised it can't be "killed" - well it can't be killed because it's just a basic building block, it just happens to be defective.
I'm also 45. My transition from an introvert to an extrovert was a conscious effort when going from computer security to teaching. I never gave up on my geeky hobbies after marriage but haven't really had much time for them, especially after parenthood..
So in other words we don't actually have a choice.

You can't have it both ways.

I do have an OSX VM (these are always a major bitch to set up) which let me stay in the group chat for a while but Apple changed something in my account and now it doesn't work. I suspect an iPod touch would work the same way.
The DAW ushered in by Protools and its plugins.
>Back in the 19th century there was no birth control, and women were in a constant cycle of pregnancy and breastfeeding

This is really not the case, in the western world fertility dropped steadily through the 19th century. People had some control over the reproductive process even without the pill/latex condoms. By the year 1900, TFR was already under 3 in France.
People often think they're the first to think of somewhat obvious things, have many shared cultural experiences, and they like puns.
I've tried to read about prions a few times and never really grasped the mechanism, so this was a really informative explanation, thank you.
I have to agree with the other commenters about #1. Adding people adds team overhead, and that is killer. It’s actually fairly surprising how people still think of that as a solution, when there is so much prior art, showing it’s a lot less effective than you’d think (see Brooks, Fred -The Mythical Man-Month).

I encounter people all the time, that are inordinately proud of their infrastructure and process, and how that reduces team overhead, while allowing them to treat engineers like LEGO blocks. I worked for a Japanese company, and they actually make this work (sort of, and at a big price). It requires a fairly massive and inflexible structure (despite being labeled “agile,” it tends to be remarkably rigid).

There’s absolutely no substitute for a seasoned, experienced team that has worked together for years, and is secure in its cohesiveness. “Tribal Knowledge” is a dirty word in today’s business culture, but it is, hands down, the most efficient “team glue” in the world. It is also thousands of years old. No high-tech equipment required. Mammoth hunters worked as a team, and achieved big results. Military teams are as old as history, and that is all about commoditizing “tribal knowledge,” and investing in people, not just weapons and tactics.

When I read “add slack,” I was like “How does adding a gab tool improve innovation?”. Then I read that it meant adding downtime/flex goal stuff, and totally agree.
In this case “parallel” is:

> First, what is a tree? It’s a big long-lived self-supporting plant with leaves and wood.

That is such a broad thing that it's hardly remarkable. I find carcinization, or independent evolution of eyeballs from completely different tissues to be more remarkable.

This is no more remarkable than that animals independently evolved to be large, and in doing so evolved different hard support structures to support this, which for instance worms lack.
Same with Vodafone in Germany.
If/when AR becomes commonplace, with an app that figures out interests based on public data, it could happen
Circumstantial evidence is a better term. Judging the article the number of such pointing to the lab are piling up and should be hard to ignore, while those pointing in other directions are still very few.
All these "foo is not bar biologically" types of articles make me think that is biology lacking some categorization or model that actually corresponds better with the world as we perceive it.
Pick a better symbol; tau is already overloaded. Or stop wasting peoples' time over trivia!
Those are bytecode level related. You can't consume Java 16 libraries on Android either. It's not related to Kotlin at all.

You are either being deliberately obtuse or you genuinely have difficulty to understand that Java version, bytecode version, Kotlin compiler output and what bytecode Android supports are totally independent concepts.
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The app-building app that ultimately wins is going to be the one that lets you build any app, not just an app that serves a particular niche or business process.

We have those already. They're called IDEs. It turns out there's only so much complexity you can hide if you need to describe what you want to do unambiguously enough to be executed by a machine. Something like Visual Basic is probably as far as you can bury complexity while still being widely useful. Go much further and you start to drastically constrain the range of apps that can be built with your app-building-app.

SQL is just the lowest-common-denominator notation for accessing and manipulating data by performing operations that can be represented by relational algebra and relational calculus. Fixating on the language itself misses the point that there is a theoretical underpinning to why data is handled this was in many practical applications.
Ironically I was speculating the other day if not this whole peer review thing would be a good candidate for a crypto currency

Some mechanism by which to speculate on the impact or future credibility of a paper would create some kind of prediction market

Proof of impact prediction?
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There are something very interesting about structures and costs here. Perhaps two types of costs, cost-to-execute and (meta-)cost-to-transform. In general one can argue that hierarchy optimises for cost-to-execute while composition optimises for cost-to-transform.

Maybe in some way most things can be viewed from the lense of a compiler/interpreter. "Structures" are really just existing meta-cache for how to efficiently traverse the language to enforce semantics that result in computations.

e.g. tail call optimizations are basically structures in the compilers that help to traverse a subset of the language (i.e. tail recursion) more efficiently time-and-space-wise
You're right that that's what the president of one union said.

But according to the article, the option is for it to move to TVO/TFO - a crown corporation that answers to the ministry of education and is non-profit.

Whether he's made an honest mistake or is trying to deceive, like I said, he isn't very compelling.
> pay $300/year, [...] pay nearly $15,000/year.

That's fairly exagerated. It means the recent buyer paid 1.5M for the same house the older buyer paid well under 30K (since their tax has been increasing 2% every year since then).

It might be true somewhere, but finding a house worth well under 30K in 1978 (start of prop 13) and 1.5M today, isn't that common.

My neighborhood is 25 years old and the largest real spread between property taxes is ~2x, very far away from the 50x of your example.
I always refer to the GNU one as "GNUPlotutils."
Does the ocaml backend do the high frequency trading?
Language is different because people tend to be very forgiving of strangers with poor pronunciation and grammar. As long as you can make yourself understood, no one cares if you're not speaking like a local.

If you really do want to speak like a local you'll need lessons from a professional voice coach - not just a language teacher - who will teach you how to move your mouth muscles to make the correct sounds. While some talented people can work this out for themselves, most people can't.

Piano is the equivalent of having to work it out for yourself. Muscle memory of right-notes-in-the-right order is the start of musicality, not the end of it. You have to master that level to the point where it's unconscious before you control dynamics, tempo, and evenness - which are the performance details that make a performance successful and expressive, as opposed to sort-of-competent.
Can you give an example for a case where someone has created significant wealth from their labor that isn't based on a laughably broad definition of the term "labor"?
What I am saying is that in a general sense, in any hierarchical organisation, the boss has largest part of the responsibility share, no matter what.

And then top management etc.
> Just because it doesn't happen at your terms

That's a good example of the toxic attitude I'm referring to. I never said anything about my terms. Just a healthy OSS ecosystem with more balanced control over what and how gets done.

> Do you think there is a contribution model that will make everyone happy

I don't know, do you? It'd be safe to assume however that the Linux project could benefit from some improvements.
Or are you trying to suggest it's perfect in its current form?
While we’re on the subject of user-hostile behaviour, I’m getting more and more frustrated with e-mail getting less useful by the day.

Companies sending e-mail from no-reply addresses, so you have no possibility of replying to an e-mail. While they expect me to go through all kinds of hassles with their hidden contact forms on their website. Or even don’t provide ways to contact an actual human being.

Or when you receive an e-mail notifying you of a message in some walled garden. For example my government using a “digital inbox” requiring a complicated signing procedure, while they could’ve just sent the actual message to my e-mail inbox.
This is not about covering ALL of Unicode. This is about starting to cover Unicode.

"Anglosphere" would be just 7(&"8") bit ASCII, and it's the current situation where it takes quite a lot of skill and knowledge just to start learning how to properly deal with Unicode, because it's often not even taught !

IMHO 32-bit bytes would help tremendously with onboarding developers into Unicode, because it would force dumping ASCII-only as the starting point (and sadly, often ending point) for teaching how to deal with text.

And who can blame the teachers, Unicode is already hard enough without even having to deal with the difficulties coming from having to explain its multi-byte representation...

Last but not least : this would have forced standardization between the Unix world now on UTF-8 and the Windows world which is still stuck on UTF-16 (and Windows-1252 ?!?) for some of the core functions like filenames, which, for instance, still regularly results in issues working with files with non-ASCII filenames.
I don't think that's the case, at least not completely. I worked with a low code product twenty years ago that was targeted at a narrow domain. In the right hands it was fantastic but it was useless as a crutch for people that couldn't even describe the problem they were trying to solve.

The people that excelled with it were programmers and others who clearly had the ability to write software. The people that struggled were the ones that couldn't decompose a problem into its constituent parts, that didn't have sufficient attention to detail.

It was a productive tool in the right hands, the only time we had problems were when it was mis-sold as a way to solve problems without needing problem solvers.
> Hossenfelder has some very strongly held negative views on how resources in the physics community should be allocated

If you advocate that A (for example, a large telescope) should be funded instead of B (for example, a particle collider), because you estimate A to be more fruitful, it's not a negative view. It's just a view.

You must be pretty strongly in the particle collider camp, if you view funding telescopes as a negative view.
Licence is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/master/tre... Unusually it requires you to distribute modifications to the released source code as a set of patches.
It's not legislation, it's a proposition.
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That's just because the wealth is dilluted amongst the descendants. The growth of the business is not strong enough to compensate.
And statistically speaking even if all grand-grandkids worked as hard as the founder, a lot of them will fail.
How does a Linux kernel team prioritize work when it's not investigating issues?
If the phones are owned by Apple then people should only be allowed to rent them.

It's asinine to sell something to someone and then tell them that they can't do certain things with it.
> You assume that there are not other tools to submit code and participate in discussion. That's obviously not true. Also the argument that "it is supported with git" is just a non-argument.

git was developed as a tool to support linux kernel development, why would you not support the right tool for the job? git was (and is) better than all the alternatives and is why kernel developers have stuck with it.

I guess if git offends you could just use patch files.

Or write something that is obviously so much better that people naturally switch to it.
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What do you use for images that don’t have identical height and width? It seems the image transformer here expects square images.
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Why would you think it necessarily would?

Imagine that we had grouped together all of the animals that were purple. Or all of the animals that were edible. That wouldn't mean that there was an evolutionary link between them that could distinguish them from all the things that weren't purple or edible.
I feel this too, almost daily. the "need" for web browsers to provide more than just the data I want to find/read frustrates me. I have no issues with reasonably placed adverts for content that is relevant.
the performance of my pc is not so much an issue for me, as much as the continued stream of advertising/trackng/bloat/images/etc that are attached to the most basic of sites.
while HN is as much of a social network I am willing to join, I do miss the days when email/newsgroups/irc/rss were capable of almost every task I needed online.
email more and more feels like an invasion of privacy, a distraction from what I actually want when online.
newsgroups were great as it was just a shitty text stream and I could read it without bells and whistles.
irc was the same.
rss I miss the most as the glory days of everything having an rss feed and it being text heavy, advertising light and focused are gone.
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POSIX defines M_PI, M_PI_2 and M_2_PI

None of these is 2 * pi (M_PI_2 is pi / 2, and M_2_PI is 2 / pi)

That is a shame because 2 * pi is commonly needed and having it in 2 * M_PI form can cause mistakes such as order of operations if it's a divisor.

Since names M_2_PI and M_PI_2 are already taken, M_TAU would be very sensible.
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Doesn't explain

8.4 Why does gnuplot ignore my very small numbers?
For some purposes Gnuplot treats numbers less than 1e-08 as being zero....
Aren't fields - magnetic, electric, gravitional etc - also spooky action at a distance? EDIT Thanks all!
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Put simply, lower power factors are inefficient. They draw more current, which means the components are either stressed or need to be bigger to compensate.

(This is all a big simplification): DC power is pretty easy to get your head around. In a resistive circuit you have a nice easy P=IV. But for AC circuits that include capacitance or inductance you sometimes get the current out of phase with the voltage. So you end up with "real power", "apparent power", and "reactive power". For some circuits you can balance out these inductive and capacitive loads. In the UK in the past factories that had a lot of motors (inductive loads) would also have big capacitor banks to help balance these out.
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Does cannibalism have an inherent propensity to create/spread prions or is it just incidental?
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> “ 1.1 What is gnuplot ?

> If it’s lowercase in title font, it should be lowercase everywhere.

If you read closely, you’ll notice that only “x” level headings use title case, “x.y” level headings use sentence case; there is no clear instance of “gnuplot”, capitalized or not, in title case anywhere in the document. The only arguable case is the page header “gnuplot FAQ”, but since it is sui generis there is no way other than inferring from capitalization in the rest of the document of telling whether its titlecase or just the preferred labelling of the product followed by “FAQ” (and the context suggests the latter).
KMonad? https://github.com/david-janssen/kmonad
I was trying to think of a way to explain this to a family member a while back who had a background in mechanical engineering.

The best example I could think of to analogise it were meshed gears.

There is no messaging happening between them. When one rotates, the other rotates in the opposite direction at the same exact time because they are interlinked. They are two parts of one connected set.

That entangled particles are interlinked in this way shouldn’t be surprising. Having what to us seem to be arbitrary distances between the particles could simply mean that they’re interlinked outside of the three spatial dimensions we’re used to perceiving the universe in - but this last part is just my own understanding and I’m quite happy for someone who knows better to tell me if (and why) it’s wrong.
" she makes a concrete recommendation: shifting focus to astronomy as a better way to observe high energy particle physics "

Each starlink launch makes this task harder and more expensive. They have chosen a military satellite grid over scientific research :(
Do you have examples of other parts of the world that experienced double digit GDP growth on a century scale before 1700?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086928

These various ways to encode Unicode have quite a lot to do with bytes being 8-bit sized !
I just saw an ad on Twitter today from eToro saying basically "Doge is a joke. But seriously we sell doge and you can't deny the returns have been impressive this past year. Buy doge with us"

They were emphasizing the returns being impressive without the expected caveat "past performance is no guarantee of future results" stock brokers must make to ensure people think before chugging the hype.

Crypto exchanges have a duty to educate and make sure people aren't putting their life savings and taking out loans to buy crypto. That's not happening right now.
If you strictly adhere to a ~100 column width then you can easily fit 3 files side by side on a mainstream monitor. People complain about useful practices and characterize them as antiquated rather than taking the time to appreciate that not everyone uses the same workflow.
“Sardines will therefore have a protective element because they are rich in the aforementioned nutrients, whereas nutrients taken in isolation in the form of supplements won’t work to the same extent” : to me this reads as “we found a correlation but we are clueless about the root cause”.