skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the Pulitzers are only given for work that appears in a US publication, that's not terribly surprising. And saying that the Guardian 'doesn't do real journalism' is fundamentally unserious. I have huge problems with their editorial decision-making, and their attitudes to a number of issues I know about and care deeply about. But they are a serious newspaper, doing far better journalism than the vast majority of other papers. In the UK they are one of only a few still making even a pretence of being proper journalists. The fact that they are as reluctant as anyone else to issue mea culpas, and have decided that Greenwald is a crank, doesn't change that.
Flax doesn't have omega-3, but alpha-linolenic acid, which depending on your genetics you might not be able to convert to omega-3 sufficiently (see rs174547 gene).

Sufficient omega-3 intake doesn't entirely mitigate the ills from omega-6 anyway, and there are other toxins in seed oils as well.
> [...] China’s behavior early in the pandemic. I have a difficult time understanding why they would have been arresting doctors who were talking about the virus if it were natural.

I'm ambivalent about the two hypotheses, but China's early behaviour fits either, I think. I do think that the instinct of the regional bureaucracy is to control the flow of information, and punish those that proceed outside the party hierarchy (even if there was no foul play/bad conscience/anything to hide).
Do you work in Sillicon Valley? Do you think developers working there are just much better than anyone else and deserve earning 300K+ while the rest of us are on 100K if lucky?
Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's terrible.
> He was very hesitant to learn, he always knew better, and any PR feedback ended always with 2 hours-long calls, trying to explain him the comments there.

After this, it's totally clear where this is headed. Why were you surprised?

You said he was hesitant to learn and always knew better. That struck me as a little incongruous? He was opinionated, and his opinions were different than yours. You wanted to do things your way, he wanted to do things his way. I imagine he might also describe you as hesitant to learn. From what you wrote, it really isn't clear which of you was "more right", but it's clear it wasn't a good fit.
I am constantly seeing references in The Economist to things they've changed their mind about. Often the wording is something like this: It was often claimed (including by this newspapers) that ... However, ...
How absurd, a 200 year old British paper only winning one American award that was only founded in the 20th century.
Not only countries, but also entire industries can be like that. As long as you work in a broadly similar industry, you're likely to quit a bad job only to land in an equally bad job.
What's modern about this? It doesn't seem any different to the windowed UIs people have been doing on the Web for the past 20 years.
I think you should be wary of your semantics, there is seemingly a consensus that the virus is not man-made - the question is if the virus "escaped" from a laboratory in Wuhan (originating from nature, however studied in a controlled environment).

The link you provided does discuss the probability of the virus accidentally leaking from a laboratory, however the reasons provided does not really provide much facts, seemingly more speculation (except for facts regarding who we think is patient zero):

"The WIV, and Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi’s lab group, are extremely well-respected in the virology community.
As well respected as many US scientists.

● All the WIV’s sampling of bats and the genomes that they find in bats are publicly available information.
Why isn’t SARS-CoV-2 on any of those lists? We would know.

● This doesn’t look anything like any laboratory accident that we’ve seen before.

● The evidence we have points to Patient Zero being nowhere near the City of Wuhan." (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kAHSEx9-eIyVIahczH8itHaUm9j...)
I watched the whole video.

He acknowledged that Racket has excellent documentation, a wide-ranging toolset, etc. All the good stuff you've heard elsewhere.

He criticizes the language-oriented model (in comparison to languages that people are familiar with but that allow embedded Deals, like Lua or Ruby) because creating a new DSL is antithetical to code that communicates with other programmers. This is fair, and a common criticism of Lisps: the complete freedom of the macro system means that individual programmers can create their own dialects quite easily, and other users of that code have a harder time working with it than in languages where there's not as much metaprogramming.

On the "toxic" front, one of the core team apparently asked a waitress a cringy question about higher education, referred to some other educators (at the creator's institution) as doofuses and the like, and was arrogant.

And at the end of it all, though he doesn't see a use for Racket's language-oriented model, he recommends learning and using it.
This sort of reasoning seems very ideologically and politically motivated. It's sad that we live in political climate where millions of people died and almost every single person's life in the planet has been affected and it's absolutely okay to make a statement that "no investigation is necessary".
Basecamp/37Signals was by most accounts a profitable and great place to work for at least 20 years. Most orgs would do well to get to that situation in the first place. Few companies get to fall from that perch.
Folks whose only takeaway from Basecamp is a warning story missed 90% of the lessons.
This sounds more like the local environment is just not able to support the large local population and agricultural. It's similar to the cause of housing issues and cost of living issues in that area - there's too many people.
I’ve seen several ISPs inject things as well. No excuse for http anymore. No rewards, only risks and punishments.
>doesn't solve the issue completely

I don't see an issue with animal suffering but I do see an issue with greenhouse emissions. Greenhouse emissions are concrete and measurable.
It's a false dichotomy between natural and manmade. What about a virus that naturally occurred in a bat cave, was studied in a lab, and escaped from the lab later? What if that virus mutated unintentionally while in the lab? And what if its mutation was encouraged by researchers in the lab?

Occam's Razor, to me, suggests that it's more likely the virus came from the nearby infectious disease lab than from the wet market that operated probably for centuries.
> Out parameters are mostly a legacy feature from the time when C compilers didn't allow struct return values though, or implemented this inefficiently (besides, out parameters via pointers works too).

ah yes, that legacy, age-old GCC 11 compiler https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/rYsxxTxqd
Writing a domain-specific language on Racket is kinda Racket's main selling point. If you don't trust me, you can trust the people who made Arc and HN. Afterall back in 2007 you had other options. Some of them vastly popular even now (Rails, Django, PHP, Scala, ...).
> Who does the work?

This is a really important point. DARPA is one of the few funding organizations that can--and will--pay for experienced technical staff.

Most other funders like the NIH and NSF have an odd split. The principal investigator is rewarded for having a track record (e.g., a prof with a history of similar papers), but the bulk of the work is to be done by trainees. This is sometimes baked into the grant itself: involving students is a good way to meet the NSF's "Broader Impact" requirements. Other times, it's a de facto restriction based on the budget. The standard NIH grant, a modular R01, will barely stretch past the PI + one staff scientist; trainees are cheaper and can often be offloaded onto other fellowships or other training grants entirely. Training future scientists is obviously important, but we've also got to make good use of the ones we already have.

Other agencies are dropping that ball. The NIH has a staff scientist program, but it funds literally a few dozen people per year vs. thousands of trainees. Dramatically expanding this would, I think, produce better science AND ease the academic job market crunch at the same time.
Storing Renewable Energy in Stones Instead of Lithium Batteries
It's still a lonely experience. Social and player discovery was badly done. 2v2 play was lonely too, it doesn't feel like a team game when you're getting rushed 2v1 at 8:00 clock time and your teammate is far away building their early econ. Compare that feeling to DoTA or counter strike which really feel like team games and not like two 1v1s that happen to be on the same map
The local officials spent weeks covering up the extent of a fast spreading disease cluster. China didn't act fast.

The expectation should be that officials would act once they determined it was fast spreading, not once thousands of people are sick.

Of course this mistake was repeated in many countries.
100% agree, but then whats the point of this program?

They are already passing all merit based required standards.

Should then they have higher preference?
They're benefiting from the DMCA coming and going. It's exactly skeezy.
Any new system I’ve used since about 2011 has been able to boot reliably from USB. The only issues really come down to how the thumb drive is prepared.

Usually `dd` is good enough for Linux/Unix disk images, and preparing an exFAT/NTFS thumb drive (your mileage may vary on whether exFAT is supported on your system) and copying the contents over with `rsync` works good for windows 7+ images
People definitely shouldn’t put up with threats. Period.

But psychopaths turn their emotions on and off. They would have a violent, unprovoked reaction if it fit some goal of theirs. Thats the opposite of someone who can’t contain a violent outburst. Just to go on a tangent.
"Just create shadows"?

What does that mean?
>If agricultural users are charged a higher rate (or equivalently the state cuts back on their subsidies )

You have to look at the second and third order consequences of such a policy. Do you think the farmers eat the cost and business in California goes on as usual? The water cost will be paid, one way or another.
If you think you’ve got a porn addiction, you probably haven’t
Reddit aims to double in size as social news site invests for growth
What do you mean? Iraq, Afghanistan and Lybia were mistakes? I thought the only mistakes were that the public found out what human rights abuses happened and that the facts were made up. /s

These publications all have blood on their hands. "We made a mistake" that isn't even honest doesn't cut it. The only real unfortunate thing here is that people like Trump get to use these peoples lies to push even greater lies.
This is a silly straw-man.

First of all, most humans in society die relatively peaceful deaths (and this proportion would increase if we supported euthanasia, which I am in favor of in certain cases).

Second of all, humans form powerful attachments to their kin and peers, and the death of a human brings great and lasting sadness to all other humans in their group. This is not something observed with cattle and most other animals (though there are exceptions), except for short periods of time.

Thirdly, there are some admittedly specieist arguments to be made in favor of the value of human cognition as compared to that of a cow or pig or any other animal that currently exists on Earth. At the very least, you could say that every human has the potential of being a great artist or otherwise improving the lot of all current and future humans (and perhaps even cows) in a way that an individual cow does not.
At the same time, YouTubers get rich just by creating content. Tipping won't help that much.
Ah, there was some guy on a podcast, I think Sam Harris or Tim Ferriss, that was writing a book and / or publishing on exactly this type of research. They reviewed like 500 some startups and how they failed (or succeeded) it was one of the first scientific based studies like that... would love if someone browsing could comment the name if this rings a bell, I'd have to hunt it down...
The burden of proof is on the one making the claim and the more extraordinary the claim the more extraordinary the evidence needs to be in my opinion.
Months-long Twitter backlash had zero impact on WhatsApp's user base
Also, seriously? A link to a zip file with no context whatsoever in a thread about security?
Indian biotech startup reports early cancer detection breakthrough
Anyone who wants to can scroll through my comment history and see that on average I’m the ex-FB guy defending FB. And usually the claim or accusation is debatable, if not dubious.

But as someone who’s got a lot of sweat equity in seeing FB ads pay for all that long-haul fiber that HN smart asses take for granted, FB is on legitimately thin ice here. It’s possible for someone with a blog to learn things about a cookie that shouldn’t be shared. What FB can know and what FB should know, and what FB will admit to knowing are potentially all different things.

FB should learn to forget medical data, sexual data, political data, etc. etc.

The short term erection some lit major at an agency gets from seeing some intrusive targeting option is not worth the trust that FB has somehow managed to maintain with most real users. And if you’ve got a new take on why FB sucks and turned down an offer, feel free to take it there. The world has more than enough “I’m angry at leetcode” deep threads.
No argument here... my comment was more to say that meat-free burgers can be a success even in a country that has a high opinion of beef... This is a positive development IMHO.
If you told Irish people 10 years ago that their local chipper would be selling meat-free burgers, they'd have thought you were mad...
Really? You think the rational and common reaction is to express compassion and pity for the person throwing the printer?

I wouldn’t throw printers at people. For one thing, they might throw it back. For two, I don’t violently attack people…
India holds up wireless approvals for China-made devices, delaying launches
Eclipse CommaSuite: DSL for specifying the behavior and timing of an interface
> It's a pity that the tool hasn't gained much traction in the mean time.

The project’s very rough looking website is not helping. It’s hard to take a GUI tool seriously when your features page includes 90s style “clip art” as one of its billet points. I hate saying something negative about an open source project since it’s usually someone’s unpaid work, but if they want more traction, they’ll need help from someone with some design chops.
Unfortunately, etcher has a long history of privacy violations which I find completely unacceptable (especially for an open source project!)
https://forums.balena.io/t/serious-privacy-concerns-with-etc...

As in, even when I turned off 'report usage statistics', it kept making outbound network connections. That was it for me... trust lost; uninstalled immediately.
Very interesting comparison. I want also to add some words about finding the best Java development vendor https://www.n-ix.com/java-development-ukraine/
Ask HN: Does playing first person shooters make a better real life soldier?
If we're talking about non-final versions of RVV then I think there likely won't be any optimized versions of matrix libraries coming out for those chips and both RVV and SVE are going to be effectively moot for a few years for people not writing their own assembly.

It's nice that you can get a RV board so cheaply as a hobbyist but as someone who uses vector libraries professionally I don't care and don't expect to ever use a chip costing less than $100. Right now getting high end chips in industrial PCs means going with x86. You can get an ARM chip with nice performance in an Apple laptop but that's not a form factor that's useful to me. ARM's own designs are a few years behind Apple but keeping pace so I think that it won't be too many years before I could plausibly be using ARM chips. I don't have any confidence I'll be able to get a RV chip that performs as well as a contemporary Intel or AMD chip in that timeframe.
It's the feeling of vindication that perhaps there is some justice in the world.
Who does real journalism in your opinion? BBC ? NYT ? What's focused on facts these days and not on opinions anc clickbait ?
> C++ references surely are safer than pointer that can point to whatever they feel like and aren't initialized to any safe value.

From the C programmer's perspective, a reference is a constant pointer with automatic indirection.

As far as 'safety' is concerned, there's not much difference between

int& ref = ...;

and

int *const ptr = ...;

except in the most trivial of cases.

edit: However, this of course does not mean that references are useless within the C++ context - they do have an effect on how you write your code...
So vintage!
Wow, this is the end of Twitter. Everyone looking to make money will fill the platform up with garbage.

Neoliberalsim is turning you all into beggars.
No More Activity Rings
Buy 8-10tb easystores. They have white label WD red drives inside. See /r/datahoarder
Yes that's it, after some Googling it turns out that the word I had in mind is a regional word and the 'official' word is the literal translation into Dutch of 'head cheese'.
This is the state that still directs most Sierra run off into the Sacramento Delta for the benefit of a smelt, right?
I never said it doesn’t exist, I’m talking about how it’s taught to children in school.
A small meditation app made with vanilla JavaScript
Just tried it because it seem great and it booted parted magic fine but trying to boot on W10 20H2 iso just got me stuck on a black window inside ventoy.

Too bad because I'd really like to have a single USB with everything I could really carry around instead of a bunch of small one.
> And I will go one step further and say that this short story has not convinced me that the other <10% would choose to.

Is this based on your own experience with pasture-raised farm animals, or reading in your own feelings into it?

My great aunt raised sheep for a while, and I spent a couple of summers as a farmhand. From what I can tell, those sheep lived reasonably happy sheep lives. Ewes had babies that grew up with them in the flock. They all hung out together in a big flock; they were rotated around a number of different fields on a regular basis, fed hay and other feed as supplements, given a shelter to stay and regular medical care. The rams were kept separate from the ewes most of the time so that births happened in a predictable fashion; but other than that, the sheep were given what sheep need.

Where I live now I'm a short drive from free-range cows and chickens too; the cows seem about as happy wandering round fields eating grass as the sheep did.

I've certainly seen depictions of factory farming that make me sick; I'd be happy to have those kinds of practices banned. But I don't see what my great aunt did as unethical at all: if anything, I think the lives of those sheep did have value, and the world was a better place because of their little sheepy lives than it would have been entirely without them.
Ooohh shit! Now I see that instantiateStreaming() does not accept webassembly in text format.

So we need to ship a whole compiler to avoid a build step.

Count me out :)
About once a month I have a huge craving for a burger, so I’ll eat a Beyond burger. It’s worse than eating veggies but it helps keep me vegetarian. Without it, I’d probably eat a real burger to satiate my meat craving. Since I’m an all-or-nothing person (major personality flaw), eating meat once a month would turn into a slippery slope. Beyond meat helps to keep me on the vegetarian straight and narrow
> If you want to learn how your users use your software - simply ask them

And thus lose input from most of your users. This then skews your decisions towards the slim fraction of users that can be bothered to fill in surveys and such, and eventually you lose the other users.

(Opt-in) telemetry is totally fine, IMO. It would be preferable that companies self-host the backend though.
The deal is not that I get the product in exchange for data.

The deal is that I get a better product, if everybody shares telemetry. (But in fact I don't get incremental benefit by sharing my personal telemetry.)

There are several applications I use daily where I am sure they would benefit by using some kind of telemetry. We have one business application (from a big vendor) where I accidentially learned that salespeople need hours to create invoices because of a recurring crash. Finding this, then learning to reproduce, write a bug report, go back and forth, takes days, whereas this particular bug would show up easily on telemetry.

An application I developed worked fine during testing but behaved strange in the factory where it was used... it turns out that while waiting the user tends to press random things on the touchscreen, and that uncovered a bug. Without proper logging this kind of thing is really difficult to catch.
It has to be a branding/patenting thing around uniqueness. I couldn't imagine trying to come up with new website names on a daily basis that would be expected to stick in a consumers mind.