skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past, I’ve dabbled with ento-vegetarianism — i.e. eating insects — but still walked away from it feeling disgusted with the idea people breed these insects only to put them to death inside gas chambers.

I would object to farming alligators on the same grounds. Even if the thing is effectively a living dinosaur guaranteed to eat you alive in the wild, there’s something diabolically evil about “growing” them for systematic murder on a commercial scale. It’s death dealing.
you have to update your social security card first. it's doable, but it's a whole chain of paperwork and documents. I transitioned 5 years ago and I still haven't really updated my legal name.
TBH, I still don't understand what people like about Slack. I'm not trying to insult Slack users, but it seems like the chat-version of an open office floorplan, where everyone is yelling into a crowd, and supposedly the crowd is sitting in front of their screens, scrolling through this noise and occasionally yelling back. I'm surprised employers allow such a productivity hit, let alone pay to have it in their workplace.
finally I can become the Bond villain I always dreamed of
> Ideally what colleges should do is to use a standardized test and go strictly by the results of the standardized test. Standardized tests are not perfect, but if there are flaws in standardized tests then fix them, because it is better than the alternatives

Standardized tests are terrible. Predicting the outcomes of standardized tests is very simple, it's a function of your parents income. https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and... With a 0.95 R^2.

Simply put, standardized tests would make sure that only rich people go to good schools.

> Other countries such as UK use test scores for college admissions. At one time the US too used scores. But US colleges introduced subjective criteria ("holistic reviews") because far too many Jewish people were getting admitted when they used objective criteria. (

No. That's not what happened. This is the history according to the National Educational Association: https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/racis...

In the beginning, US colleges did not use standardized tests. A well-known racist who was against the "intermingling of races" created standardized tests to exclude races he did not like. And for the most part, it worked beautifully, except that too many Jews were getting in, so they added other criteria on top. The idea of standardized tests exists because of racism. It was recognized by its inventor to be a tool for racism and classism.

> Other countries such as UK use test scores for college admissions

Yeah, how's that going? Notice who gets into Oxford and Cambridge? It's not really the lower classes. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/... Only 20% of Cambridge students are eligible for a grant that takes 50% more than the median income to get. https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/16287 That means that they overwhelmingly come from families with very high income.
Very cool. I'd like to tile vertically/horizontal. Also snap to edge takes up half screen like on Windows OS.
In this particular case, my argument is more along the lines of what this "team of experts" does is a conscious choice throughout.

Black swan events can probably describe a lot of things, but my understanding is that an individual or a team does not really set themselves up for black swan events. It just happens.
Windows images that are over 4.3GB(I don't remember the exact max size) most image burning tools will fallback to NTFS on the USB formatting and some motherboards/laptops don't like this. (Even on my rather modern Dell laptop)

The best solution so far I've found is to manually partition the USB into a 1GB FAT32 partition and the rest NTFS. Then you extract the files where needed [0]

I learned this method just last year but it seems it's pretty universal. At least for Win10 ISOs. And I don't have to boot Windows and wait for its updates!

[0] https://techbit.ca/2019/02/creating-a-bootable-windows-10-ue...
The Australia-China Belt and Road Fall Out – What's Been Cancelled?
They just made $10 billion on Coinbase, they can afford a lot of misses.
And I didn't even need to mention kangaroo sausages!
excellent answers as always :) oh also i enjoyed your logrocket podcast chat and thanks for the brief shoutout!
Which country did this happen if I may ask ?
Could easily be on your end. It'd be strange if memory corruption just affected the (encrypted) payload but left everything in the rest of the network protocols perfectly intact
This is built on top of Ventoy https://gbatemp.net/threads/medicat-usb-a-multiboot-linux-us...
You don't see that most proof-of-stake still requires a tremendous amount of energy and resources wasted at the very least for the stupid mining process?
It's absolutely pathetic how no matter what China does they just get a limp handed pass from people like you.
The article says TVI is learned, not PTSD.
Dr Glass Lungs
Oh wow! I totally missed all the alchemy and theology studies he was into.
Only 4% of iOS users in US are opting in to ad tracking, report says
>This is a wild rollercoaster of a thread and I want off of it.

You just hopped onto it to say you want off of it?
Ok, but they won't allow Google to publish a working browser for iOS, in case someone needs features Apple doesn't like that day. It happens a lot.
Please do not take HN threads straight to flamewar hell. That is a guaranteed way to ruin the thread, especially when the topic is divisive to begin with, and it damages the commons. Personal attacks aren't ok either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not going to name names, but companies like this that normalise bullying and overwork to the point of staff breaking are not the norm.

Thinking about my own experience and the people I know, this would describe at most 25% of jobs (most of that being overwork).
Orbcomm, ECS (Police work), and a nameless "startup" that made police software.

I don't have an interest in the police or DoD btw. I just pick positions looking for a .NET role.
Cameras, like human eyes, have effectively infinite range. All it takes is an image bright enough, and as I’m sure you are aware, atmospheric effects can induce huge amounts of magnification and even project images from beyond the horizon. Unless you know something special about the ATFLIR camera that makes it specially limited in some way?

At any given time an AEGIS system is going to be tracking dozens of targets. All we can say about nothing showing on RADAR is they weren’t tracking anything where they thought the object was. If that’s not where it actually was, then the issue is moot.

My reference to Go Fast was a counter to your argument that experienced operators and aviators can’t make misidentifications. FLIR1 is a harder case because all we have is a blurry camera image, but in the case of Go Fast it’s perfectly clear the aviators were mistaken, therefore such mistakes are possible.
Be aware that switching languages entirely for the law introduces two new problems: translation from the thoughts one has in their head into the target specification language, and that means not everyone who is subject _to_ the laws can all _know_ the laws. That circumstance reminds me of the church services in Latin -- "uh, trust me, the Lord said you should definitely mow my lawn or risk firey damnation. He said bring beer, too"

Now, while using a programming language mildly runs afoul of those same risks, the difference in my mind between a programming language and using lojban (or conlang-o-choice) is that the programming language uses the same vocabulary (plus or minus) just with more rigor in the links between the words. One need not already know "re'azda" is "house" in order to figure out "house.value"
You may be overestimating the effects of circulation of water.

It is true that water that evaporates is likely to someday fall somewhere as rain or snow. However agriculture is going to spread a lot of water during summer. At that point it evaporates very efficiency. But unfortunately during summer it is unlikely that anywhere in California will have the conditions for rain, so that water is going to fall in some other place. Normally Colorado, from which it is unlikely to go back into California.

So from the point of California, water used in agriculture is gone. Not to be seen again any time soon.
Mass scale pain and torture of food animals, the extraordinarily high rates of psychological injury which slaughterhouse workers experience...

Most vegetarianism is not about that animals are killed, it is a protest against the way in which the entire industry functions.
> when really they didn't do much at all

That's where the in-person interview comes in. It's a lot harder to fake one's way through that.
I found Timely https://memory.ai/timely useful for my case.
Even better would be to classify / specify based on the mammalian species. Which I think would account for the large variation the article author was noting.
Why the hell would you want to have non English articles? You also want us to discuss in Icelandic?
Do you want nuclear war? Seriously, what is the appropriate response if it turned out China did this on purpose? If you cannot give an answer to this, why criticize those who see the inherent danger that you have no solution to?
Pandemic parallels with 1840: Globalization's coming golden age
What’s the name of the place?
I will go vegetarian for months at a time but the challenge I have isn’t meat per se but that most vegetarian cooking has a strong bias toward sweet/sour/starchy kinds of flavor profiles, which I dislike. As in, for example, I literally never eat fruit because I’ve don’t like the flavor. I can see how the Impossible Burger is an alternative to that but it isn’t the only solution. It did take me years to collect and develop enough recipes that are highly satisfying that don’t have that character though, so it does offer a default.

While I strongly agree with the angle of minimizing animal suffering, I am also pragmatic because I grew up in very rural agricultural communities. All large-scale agricultural kills loads of animals, that is the nature of the thing. When you buy plant products that carnage is merely less obvious and a bit more wasteful (the animals that die usually aren’t eaten by people). Feeding 8 billion people and animals dying go hand-in-hand, even when everyone is vegetarian.
Wow! Way more awesome variety than I expected
You have my vote. Twice.
If it can get people to be more cautious in the future, it is absolutely worth it.
How does one turn this off?
Ooh that's what I have been looking for! Thanks for sharing!
I just tried it and the tool started downloading Windows without giving me an option to select an .iso. It can download .iso's for burning them to DVD's but I don't think it can take dangling .iso's and make installation USBs out of them.
Thats a really popular idea, I think it came from Jack Welch at GM. Microsoft used to be famous for it.
https://www.jaywren.com/20-70-10-employee-stack-ranking/
It's important to know and it's important not to know. Both paths have mostly negative outcomes. The best path is for it to have been natural, second best is accidental. Intentional is unfathomable and has unlimited downside. We should all hope that's not the case here.
Thankfully there are alternative ways to sanction a country short of nuclear war.
The great and foolish idea that this is needed to improve software. It is so regrettable, and shows perhaps the keys were handed to the wrong people.
> Be real man, no country on earth is taxing their people at 80-100%

Sure. Neither is any country providing a $750/month UBI, much less $1500/month, from taxes. (Some countries do provide that sort of thing for citizens from oil revenues or whatnot.)

> I'd happily trade scandi taxes for scandi safety nets and worker protections. I think those max out at ~ 50%?

~50 govt revenue as a fraction of GDP, yes. A lot of that is VAT, not income taxes, of course.

But also, that's not the same as the discussion above about UBI. Yes, a Scandinavian-style safety net can be done at much lower taxation levels than "doubling the US federal revenues", especially people by and large don't abuse the safety net. Spending 1% of GDP on the military, not 3%, also helps a bit.

> people who view taxes as theft instead of the price of a civilized society

I have no idea where you got that from anything I said, and that is most certainly not how I view taxes.

> Neither of us are ever going to change our world views based on the arguments of another.

Honestly, it sounds like you have no idea what my world view even is...
Um, we could stop doing gain-of-function research for one. This would be a pretty important datapoint on that risk analysis.
IMO the video and the home page grain-lang.org dive too quickly into features without giving a compelling answer to "Why should I use Grain?".

"Powered by WebAssembly": Other languages can compile to WebAssembly as well as other targets. Why is limiting to only one target considered a good thing? What does it buy you? (if it's unique that it has a GC, or if the GC is performant that may be a good reason. Advertise it!).

The vision of bringing ideas from functional/academic languages into the mainstream is noble. But the language features seem very run of the mill? I don't understand what it's referring to.

Comments on the standard library:

* Reference docs should make more clear the differences between Array and List. I assume Array is a fixed size contiguous array of data with constant time get and set? And List is an immutable linked list. But I had to wander around docs and implementation to reach that conclusion.

* Reference docs should probably mention List syntax in the List docs. Ditto for Arrays. You normally expect to see that at the top of the page, vs as a surprising comment "An alias for normal syntactic array access, i.e. array[n].". It's hard to tell what is a library feature vs primitive to the language.

* {Array,List}.append: In most languages I have used append means to append a single element (or in Go's case it is variadic). I would probably rename this to concat and remove the existing concat function.

* What is the benefit to having a separate Stack type vs adding convenience functions to List?

let List.push = (value, list) => list.
let List.pop = (list) => (value, list).
> But the people who score very high on TIV are generally those who have experienced some kind of trauma, like PTSD.
The area in that photo turns brown in the fall. It's a few hundred feet from my house. I moved into my place late in 2019. Spring 2020 was creating a defensible space around the house - trimming trees, removing ground cover ivy near the house, etc. This spring is more about clearing the brush and trying to disconnect the ground from the canopy on the whole parcel. Some folks walking through the neighborhood called the town to complain that I was removing native plants. Town came by and ultimately decided I was within my right to clean up, but it was a hassle I didn't need.

Given the close calls I'm really surprised that there isn't a strong rallying around removing fuel.
I can 2nd that. Maybe its just that I buy low quality USB drives, but I sometimes have go through the process a few times with different drives before getting one that actually works.

Its a lot less hit or miss with Windows ISOs, but Linux ones can be VERY finicky.
> who got all the money from the cost of education hikes

Can you recommend a source on this? My first guess is construction companies and football coaches.
Is this about his stupid browser again?
It's not that the idea is "crazy", people are dismissive because the idea is "perverse". It has a perverse business aspect behind it, this world does not need ontop of the mess modern Internet has become.
You could read articles by a guy who was the NYTimes science writer for 30 years though.
They absolutely could have nullified the outcome and said you have X months to redo it.

Nothing is final unless you make it final.
This is very cool. Performance tip that I noticed on low-powered low-spec mobile devices: you maybe could try locking the text or removing it during window resize to prevent reflow, as reflow seems to be slowing down performance and stuttering the window resize animation.
The China aspect is probably a red herring. Gain-of-function research was internationally funded, including by the US. The perils had been pointed out for years by virologists [1], some of whom managed to get an editorial in the New York Times against it [2].

If Covid turns out to be a lab escape (which is a big if), the nation or lab it happened in is just the proximate cause. Deeper responsibility would lie with the institutions and individuals that pushed it despite the risks. No one knows the answer to this (edit: I mean to whether covid escaped from a lab), but it's an open question that deserves credible investigation. Having the investigator be one of the principal funders of the research being investigated is such...bad optics, to put it nicely, that one wonders how anyone thought that would be ok.

[1] https://mbio.asm.org/content/3/5/e00360-12

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/an-enginee...
> Get a counselor. Talk to someone who has been through it or can understand.... I encourage you to not stop caring

I got a counselor who absolutely thought the problem was me caring whether my colleagues were actively lying to each other. I quit her and the job, thank God.
I doubt that, mankind tends to repeat it's errors
This feature is built upon user-specific URLs, and Zelle unfortunately doesn't have a public URL system. In fact, you can only access the Zelle network within the site/app for your bank.
Every time I log in, ebay bugs me to confirm my phone number "for security purposes". I say no, because I know the next step is harassing me with text messages every time I want to log in (like Google, etc). Passwords work for many of us. I generate them with pwgen(1), store them in a text file on encfs, and cache them in browsers. If my actual desktop computer ever got pwnt, I would have much bigger problems than a Gmail account or even online banking. This might not match the security model of people who reuse passwords across sites, and/or log into accounts on public computers (derp), but it is the original security model of the web and it's extremely frustrating that companies are attempting to destroy it in favor of some magic (read: unpredictable) new system that continually gets in your way.
Please do not perpetuate flamewars. That's also in the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry, you're right - it was announced the next year but took several more years to release. (I believe that was said at Blizzcon '16 based on eg. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/4dqtvj/you_think_yo... and WoW Classic was announced at Blizzcon '17 https://diaryofdennis.com/2017/11/04/official-vanilla-world-...)
People are vegetarian for a number of reasons. Personally, I really enjoy the taste (which includes the mouthfeel!) of meat, but I'm vegetarian for a number of reasons and have been for 13 years now. I don't think I'd want to go back to eating a meat/fish/etc. every day even if it were possible to do so in an entirely vegetarian manner, but having another thing that I enjoy eating sometimes is nice.
I used this for a couple of years, way back. Grew tired of bugs and limitations, found WireframeSketcher and haven't looked back since. https://wireframesketcher.com/
I made a conscious effort to develop some vegetarian dishes I could make simply for variety. If nothing else, vegetarian cooking has to do a lot of work to make up for not just leaning on meat as a primary flavor component, but the result is you can get much more diversity and interesting flavors and textures.

It's honestly more exciting to see where we're going to do once we're at "seamless replica" and can start playing with the capability to make brand new things.
> By this criterion, the signatories of the Lancet letter were behaving as poor scientists: They were assuring the public of facts they could not know for sure were true.

Not to get all political but this totally reminds me of Mitt Romney on Jan 6th evening when he said something to the tune of: “an (election) audit won’t satisfy, them only telling them the truth will”… how he or anyone at a news studio knew the truth when nobody else did was baffling to me
Bun2Bun in Helsinki, Finland
> So it's not about restricting access, as that assumes an imaginary level of demand. It's about leveraging a core group to attract a larger crowd who you then selectively elevate into an in-group, typically based on competence and personal investment of some kind.

That makes sense, so finding, attracting, and retaining a core group of early adopters is really key.

> We talked about how startups are a scene, and why designing a local innovation economy from scratch – even if you think you ‘have all the incentives correctly’ – never works. (from the article)

That's a really interesting observation, and I tend to agree, perhaps the antithesis of "build it and they will come"?

Going to listen to the podcast now :D
These findings should also apply to phone manufacturers -- mandate providing a more realistic number of years of security updates. Closer to 7y but definitely more than 3y.
I had some very smart and capable friends who exceled at school.

I did not, I dropped out for a variety of reasons.

But entering the workforce things changed.

I thrived, I easily solved problems, and enjoyed what I thought of as "real work".

Many of my friends did not. They seemed to thrive in the comfort of a syllabus, clear and defined paths to positive reinforcement, and status... but work isn't generally like that.

You're not told what to do, exactly how and to reproduce it, you need to find that out yourself, and you will fail, maybe often...

I had similar experiences with interns who when given an assignment and told they were to do their best and see what resources they could put together.... seemed lost without a specific set of step by step instructions...

Everyone did fine in the end, but the differences were striking to me.

Amusingly I think I'd love to go back to school now, I'd think much differently of it now than I did at the time.
>"Forth is a text-based language that is essentially context-free. It combines 'words' separated by spaces, to construct new words. About 150 such words constitute a system...

[...]

Such a system has 3-8K bytes of code compiled from 10-20 pages of source. It can easily be implemented by a single programmer on a small computer.

[...]

Another application of least-squares was the program CURVE, coded in Algol (1964). It is a general-purpose non-linear differential-corrections data-fitting program. Its statistical rigor provides insight into agreement between model and data.

The data format and model equations were interpreted and a push-down stack used to facilitate evaluation.

CURVE was an impressive precursor to Forth."
Ahh, fair enough. Thanks for clarifying.