skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unsafe car makes the roads unsafe for everyone, not just the driver of the car.

Bad phones make for bad times for whoever uses the phone, not for anyone else. Also, people rarely get killed by bad consumer electronics.
The industry has repeatedly put profits ahead of people's well-being, Oxycotin being the easiest example. Their actions should be met with severe skepticism.
I've seen it too. Makes me happy that I'm in a business where it often is possible to quit and get a new job. Tons of people have suffered much worse but have to put up with it because for them getting a new job isn't so easy. People deserve to be treated as humans. There should be a law about it.
> iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

One example i see quite often is: "X has been widely criticized for Y", with no mention of either the critics or the argument.
UNetbootin doesn't support multiple installs on the same device.
All humans eventually die, and most natural deaths are far more horrifying than how we would be able to murder other humans, especially in modern times (though even traditional slaughter is nothing compared to dying of cancer, stroke, being murdered in a car crash, etc.)

So, I think that it is important how the humans are grown (prisons are absolutely horrible, unacceptable places to live in, and should ideally become illegal sooner rather than later, regardless of the consequences on the price of labor). But I really don't think there is any reason to feel bad about the murder of 25 year old people who have led a decent life, even if it may be shorter than they would expect in nature (the huge proliferation of the human species is kind of payment for that, in a way).
> instead of just generating a wasm file and JS bindings

"Just"? I think you are severely underestimating the difficulty of creating and maintaining an additional compiler backend for a programming language.
Yeah, I perfectly know. But at the same time we used to beat children (and in some places and some persons still do) to educate them and now this is not welcomed anymore. So, society changes, morality changes over time, things we didn't do, now we do. Things we didn't have the tech to do, now we do have and that can lead to further changes in our morality.
If index is ordered, I imagined it as a flat array. I would go to the next bigger item using binary search. I guess SkipScan does a similar thing but the index is a btree.

Of course, things get more complicated when more tuples need to be distinct but I was a bit confused as to why the ordered property was not exploited by PG before (and still is not).
I don't think that's how it works. My understanding is that you use "fewer" for discreetly countable things (fewer tables, fewer people) and "less" for continuous things (less rice, less time).

Emissions are continuous. I don't emit one emission now and another emission the next hour.
>but not in these 3 in particular

I think barriers to entry. In other markets profits like in these 3 industries would lead to an influx of new entrants which would put compete away excess profits. But try opening a new hospital or school - years of work and regulations to fight, and new schools have a long uphill climb to achieve reputability. Housing is constructed by bullshit restrictive zoning.
Why does domestication sound absurd? It's not usual, but also not unprecedented. Homo sapiens had domesticated itself into eating vegetable burgers, after all.
No. Do you think that a GoPro somehow invites use in dangerous circumstances? (Yes, I do mean the GoPro itself, including its software, and I do mean to exclude GoPro's marketing collateral and all the UCC they didn't ask for from this analysis)
That doesn't look like it does the same thing at all.

I'm not sure why a piece of software being built by one person is sketchy but ok.
I think Racket is the only modern lisp which has a sufficiently large community. What, if any, do you think should be the flagship project for introducing Racket?
cars are not the best analogy as they rely on shared responsibility for safety. However, most home appliances are similar - say unsafe earthing on the dishwasher.

Safety is one of the easiest arguments to make - esp. exploiting the horrific - "think of the children". What if my kid's phone camera can be remotely turned on in their bedroom?
China responded because they had already suffered from a previous outbreak of SARS.

They probably were aware the risks of a highly infectious disease and possibly had contingencies drawn up for this very thing.

The UK had planned for what would happen during a global outbreak and the Conservative government scrapped them and 140,000 people died.
Unlike the former, I could also imagine the latter being produced by a Markov chain.
From wikipedia[1]:

> Multiple installs on the same device are not supported.

If one is limited to a single usb-stick per ISO, it's just easier to dd the installation image: run it the way it's (hopefully[x]) been tested by the vendors.

Ventoy is a different ballgame: drag & drop ISO file and boot from it. I tested it this morning with 3 things I carry around myself (debian-live, debian-installer, freebsd release installer), and it worked. 1 stick instead of 3, and I still have the remaining exFAT partition for other things. And a spare encrypted partition if I wanted to (I don't).

Regarding bugs -- it works or it doesn't for your distribution. I think it's remarkable what this, seemingly single developer, has achieved over a bit more than a year[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin

[2]: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/commit/2090c6fa978999d4ef1e...

[x]: don't get me started with Intel SSD firmware "bootable" images.
By The Guardian.
Even if it would be possible for the farmed animal to really have a fulfilling life (which I don't think is possible in the current, industrialized world), there are still humans who are caring for the animals, there are humans who are killing and dissecting them, and they too are affected by the inhumane process, and I think our empathy should extend to them too.
Bonkers vs. Bots (2019)
This will probably not be particularly popular with the HN crowd, but PHP is also a surprisingly capable general purpose scripting language.

It's pre-installed on a lot of systems, backwards compatibility is good, and despite the inconsistencies, the standard lib can do a lot of stuff.
The 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder (2013)
Searching the web for under $1000/month
I'm in my early 40s and just got shingles. Based on my googling the past few weeks I expect AARP and mechanical stair chair ads any time I'm not using adblock from here on out.
OP made the argument China acted more competently than the west, and that this is suspicious and supports the lab leak hypothesis. Another explanation is that the west simply acted incompetently, while China acted "normally". Unfortunately it's not conceivable to many westerners that their governments are hilariously incompetent. Unfortunately, because it precludes improvement.
> a world where some people continue eating meat and keep raising cows, pigs, chicken, sheep, goats and other animals that would die off if they weren't consumed seems better to me than a purely 100% vegan world

I'm not a vegan, but I've heard this argument before and find it to be confounding. Are we saying that livestock suffer less because they are safe in the knowledge that their species is being conserved? Why would a non-human animal have this kind of existential rumination? (Excuse the pun) And let's say this concern is of real importance, if factory farming ended do you think wild populations of cows, goats, etc. would go completely extinct? (Keep in mind people keep animals as pets, so that's also another means of conservation)
I'm afraid you might not be seeing beyond the first-order effects: "ads are annoying, relevant ads are less annoying, therefore I like surveillance!" Consider all the implications that ubiquitous surveillance by unaccountable private entities carries.

Plus, the fact that you can advertise extremely harmful drugs such as alcohol (or gambling) at all, not to mention do so precisely to those you figure are more susceptible to this manipulation is pretty disgusting in itself.
Ups, I though if some dup is detected I would be warned before submitting. Will remove it.

Thanks!

Edit: Seems I can not remove it by myself :-(
Threading can be a fairly significant speedup for most VM interpreters, and an optimization often worth making in cases where performance matters.
There's Clojure too.
So, in the end, it is not a bad thing if it gets patients to be treated early.

Sure, the goal is to sell stuff and make money, but if it makes people healthier, we shouldn't complain. It is only a bad thing if it results in a less effective treatment.
All other things being equal, so would everyone here.

But all other things aren't equal. One side requires raising and killing animals, and the other side doesn't.

So we're weighing "real thing that kills animals" and "fake thing that's really close, but doesn't kill animals".
Cells are more resilient to environmental changes than previously thought
Yup, will do that. I found several anime pictures that did not work remotely as well as the examples.
Wouldn't make any sense as pubpeer is not limited to OA publications.
This rhetoric only convinces those people who already feel sympathetic to animal-rights arguments. But for example, a significant slice of the world’s population are adherents of religions that downright ordain slaughtering an animal at times, and they will only be alienated by your argument.

Consequently, I feel like health and environmental arguments are better ways to get people to limit their meat intake.
If anyone missed it, Racket has finally (it has been planned and worked for few years now) moved by default to Chez Scheme (ie Racket CS) on v8.0 (Feb 2021) which has improved in most cases performance.
Documentation as Knowledge Capture
I’ve come to the conclusion that Time Machine itself is fundamentally broken and wouldn’t trust it with any of my data. If I went back to using a Mac I’d find some other backup application.

On the other hand, all of my experiences were not recent; maybe Time Machine is fine now. Or maybe the corruption is random enough that you’re safe with 4 copies. In any case, I’d check on your backups regularly to make sure they’re still good.
See I think Impossible comes as close as you can get right now but Beyond definitely has weird taste/texture qualities. I get an aftertaste with it I do not with Impossible.

Beyond sausage (an easier endeavor because of how much work fennel and casing do), however, is excellent.
> but I can't imagine running it would cost more than $20/week unless it was horrendously misconfigured

Oh boy do I have news for you! Todays technology evangelists always starts a new product with at least three instances running three docker containers each, on expensive EC2 instances where you even pay for the bandwidth that should be free. Doesn't matter if you've found a product market fit first, engineers will read the latest Medium posts and implement things before thinking if they really need it.

I've stopped counting the number of times I've seen over-engineered systems simply because developers just jump around implementing stuff they seem fit without actually researching things.

So yes, probably most of the infrastructure you visit today could have been more lightweight, but that's not what the people implementing said infrastructure aims for.
> I would rather ask, why did C++ add another reference type next to pointers

References were added so users could create types that look and feel like the built-in types. You need references to implement operator[] for std::vector or std::deque.

Another example would be a vec2 class with a += operator that returns *this, just like the += operator for float.
> I've just tried to use this example and it appears that there's been zero consideration to any form of accessible features here.

That's why is for the web. Every developer knows that web users will accept everything.

> The show example "button" is a non-focusable div element

Why is this a problem ?
Almost every website promotes discoverability. Want to find a button ? Move your mouse till the cursor changes and hope that is not a label.

> <div class="button" onclick="window.examples['theme-modern']()">Show Example</div> Once the window is open, the minimise, maximise, full-screen and close "buttons" are spans containing no useful text.

There are two UI/UX schools. One which promotes big buttons and one which promotes no buttons.

> Sure, sometimes accessibility can be hard to get right but it's quite something for it to have been completely disregarded.

The idea is that the user has a unique experience visiting the site. So unique that he never comes back.
Thanks for this anectode! Soviet CS history is very interesting. There were some novel ideas.

I was fascinated by DRAKON when I first learned about it. The Wikipedia article said that it was used by other professions as well. For example doctors had flowcharts in DRACON for medical procedures etc.

I'll be glad (and think that the whole community will be glad) if you decide you want to share more historical anectodes about the Soviet computer program.
Are you referring to grub2iso[1]? If so, I was never able to make it work: either the ISO is too large (IIRC, in the old days it needed to load the full ISO to memory), or, if it did boot, the kernel wouldn't find the ISO ("virtual drive") itself.

I only got it to work with simple things that load fully from RAM -- say, debian-installer, which only requires kernel+initrd.

It has to be simple and reliable. If it's only one of them, I would rather carry an extra USB stick which I can always format (I do).

[1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot
>What could they possibly have gained from that?

Global power shifts to their favor by slowing down democratic economies, sacrificing parts of their own population and economy in the short term. As a collectivist dictatorship tracking every move of its population a pandemic is easier to handle.
Iraq: the case for decisive action. Published 18th Jan 2003. (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jan/19/leaders.politic...).
It's really not hard to carry an external drive. Even tiny thumb drives have massive capacities these days.

Edit: typo
Irish person here with a couple of random facts:
- Ireland is one of the larger per-capita beef producing countries
- Beef lobby is quite powerful
- Our local Chipper / Take Away / "Fish & Chips" shop sells Beyond Meat burgers
- As a meat eater who grew up on a beef farm, I can say they look and taste amazingly good... 95% as good as a real burger.

Most cattle are treated well in Ireland, living outside on fresh grass (live exports aside). My main concerns are global resource depletion, biodiversity, deforestation and climate change.

We're beginning to see a real sea change in this meat eating country, meat-free products are popping up everywhere and not just marketed at vegans / hipsters.
> Instagram stories (and IG in general) has been functional on the mobile web for more than 3 years

Maybe that's geo-locked? When I visit instagram.com and log in I can only consume content, I cannot upload anything, normal posts nor stories.

Edit: I realize now you said "mobile web" while I was thinking "web" in general and visit from my desktop. Seems weird it works on 1/2 of the web versions they have...
> Cows couldn't possibly survive in nature, and would suffer greatly, for example.

Would they? What do humans provide that domestic cattle couldn't handle on their own?
Pay is loosely related to the value you provide, but also to the balance of supply and demand for a role and a place. You simply can't attract a person from a high cost-of-living place without paying them a higher salary.

Companies explicitly factor this into their salary mix, e.g. check Buffer's formula https://buffer.com/salaries

It's not necessarily how I'd wish things, but it seems to be the reality of the job market.
How JavaScript works: 3 types of polymorphism
link appears to be broken?
I think you misunderstand the scale of which we are talking about here. This isn’t a swimming pool or a lake’s worth of water.
Now do one for plants.
I hear you. But I think you're in the wrong thread, we were specifically discussing how Apple is making PWAs different from normal apps _just because_.
Yes, this is the case for most of the top universities (and likely med school, law school, you name it).

Universities like to keep their graduation rates high to ensure competition at the front of the pipeline. Also, by keeping admission so competitive you basically ensure that whoever does end up getting in has the capacity to do well at any program (though statistics are still gamed - for example it is almost impossible to "drop out" of MIT - you are just placed on indefinite leave if you express that desire. That way their graduation rate very high since the people on indefinite leave don't factor into it).
> waste

i think this and the sport part of it is the worst of all. there is this popular show on youtube that everyone loves. celebrities eating hot wings. just a small bite and they throw it to trash. no one bats an eye, it is part of the culture.
It's true that labs were pushing boundaries, the Wuhan lab as well. But every time they succeeded in doing something novel, they were celebrating it in the media.
If they really had been able to reach this major technological breakthrough, one would expect that they would have made this one public as well.

I would say that it's more likely that this was a natural mutation that got its chance to survive natural selection because of the lasting and intense contact with human researchers in the Wuhan lab.
There are some media sources that show that researches didn't take too many precautions with avoiding this contact. E.g. there are pictures of researchers without wearing gloves and one that's even showing bites from bats.
I did but the article is very poorly written.

The explicit statement that Nicholas Wade is not a racist appears both as the first sentence - unquoted i.e. this is not reported speech but a statement by the article author - and in the abstract at the top, also not in quotes. But then it starts by mis-representing his argument by saying he "explains why white people are better because of their genes" and in the very next sentence admits that "to be fair" that's not actually what he said at all.

We are left deliberately confused about both what the author of the article and the author of the book actually think. For example you wrote:

Nicholas Wade is the one making the claim he's not racist. "It's not prejudice; it's science."

and you put that statement in quotes to imply that Wade is the one who said it, but in fact, it's the article author who wrote that statement, not Wade!

I don't fully understand where you see a racial tinge in the lab creation theory. The lab is in China but beyond that it has nothing to do with being Chinese. And as Wade and others document, the money came from US research agencies and GOF research is done in multiple countries, so again, I don't see any racial connection. If Wade was actually a racist I guess he'd not miss this golden opportunity to blame the apparently lax Chinese lab practices on their DNA, but he makes no such argument anywhere, not even about culture.
Can you tell me what exactly I missed?

The pill prevents millions of humans from existing and I just cannot for the life of me see any ethical issue with that.
You just caught me at a moment where I'm reading Tanenbaum's book on Modern Operating Systems. Tanenbaum simplifies a lot of things, but here is his contribution [1]:

> The second development concerned the language in which UNIX was written. By now it was becoming painfully obvious that having to rewrite the entire system for each new machine was no fun at all [0], so Thompson decided to rewrite UNIX in a high-level language of his own design, called B. B was a simplified form of BCPL (which itself was a simplified form of CPL, which, like PL/I, never worked). Due to weaknesses in B, primarily lack of structures, this attempt was not successful. Ritchie then designed a successor to B, (naturally) called C, and wrote an excellent compiler for it. Working together, Thompson and Ritchie rewrote UNIX in C. C was the right language at the right time and has dominated system programming ever since.

Tanenbaum doesn't say it, but it almost seems like B and C were designed for creating UNIX. I wonder to what extent the authors of B and C were designing the languages for creating UNIX.

[0] In one of the previous paragraphs, Tanenbaum mentioned that the first version of UNIX was written in assembly.

[1] Modern Operating Systems (ed. 4, p. 715)
> Shouldn’t a company pay what a job is worth to them

No, they pay just enough for you to accept working there. If your alternatives are worse than your colleagues because you don't have high-paying local options, you'll be paid less.
Not trying to start a language war, but what exactly would you use C for? C++ is just as good at embedded, and you can use it as basically a slightly less foot-gunny C. And there is also Rust and Zig, if that’s not really what you want.

I just can’t really use C with that amount of namespace pollution, at least namespaces should be added. And purely text-based macros are the worst thing ever.
Usability costs. Ads are by definition content users didn't want but are receiving anyway. They use up the bandwidth of users. They take up space on the interface and distract the user, taking attention away from more important things. They make sites uglier and harder to use. They lower the signal to noise ratio.

Banner blindness. It's been proven that people have become used to ignoring banner ads. Their eyes jump over them as soon as they're recognized. Since there may be false positives, this habit has implications for user interface design: an actual user interface element that looks like a banner ad will be ignored by most people. On the other hand, sites have also begun to style their ads exactly like their main content in order to make it harder for users to distinguish them.
Too recent, easier to bash dead people than people who may still work for them.
More productive for folks who are comfortable with JS, but not bash, which would be very common for front end folks.
The KC Star apologized for its past racist coverage last year: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/22/949271163/the-kc-star-apologi...
Ask HN: What is your strategy for not being manipulated/pushover at workplace?
Look I want to go to work code, do shit assigned to me, get paid in return. That's it.
I know "48 laws of power" but I don't have time for office politics and manipulating people
or kiss someone ass or competition to nailed a new college student that boss hired. I do not want to play dirty or play any office game. I want to put in my best effort then I am done.

However, I am no pushover either. I am all for tit for tat. I don't manipulate you but you don't manipulate me or take advantage of me. I am fair by default as long as I am treated fairly. This is
the general gist of my approach to the workplace. Not sure this is best. If you are anything like me..

Do you have any experience in this matter of manipulation at the workplace? What did you learn hard way?
What is your defense system now?
853890f18ce8c62c465ae88888888888841538c5d5af35d5077a6e79f04a3c5d - 12 eights.

"I minted 3843483787745 amulets" to get that.
Yeah, I'd definitely agree with verbal and physical things as toxic, never encountered anything close to that. Now, if one team sabotages other - that's clearly an individual or individual making own immoral choices. I wound't put that on the company.
Wondering which country you are? can add it to the bucket list of countries to retire in.