skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should I conclude anything from the fact that almost all of the products with high benzene contents are sprays instead of lotions?
In my opinion the real downside of using <count>j and <count>k to move isn't the counting part, it's the fact that <count>k isn't a jump. That means it doesn't go into the jump list.
For good reason. Git is not well suited for games. Yes there are solutions to work around it’s issues but it’s not a natural fit at all.
The teapot was actually designed with Bezier surfaces. That makes it a whole different animal.
No, it does not deserve a rebrand. It owns the ecosystem of shit that it brought about over the last two decades.

I cannot tell you how many meetings I've sat through where engineers have wasted time on discussing the RESTiness of a given "API" call, or which verb makes the most sense.

Anyway, we're only a couple of years of group think away from adopting something like JSON-RPC and then it's welcome back to 1999 for all.
Personally, I have a hard time guessing which of "extend the life of the human organism to, let's say, 500 years" or "read out the living brain state of a human being and simulate it in a computer" is going to be easier. With full knowledge of how hard the second may be, if indeed it is possible at all.

I wouldn't be surprised there's a few "One Weird Trick to Extend Your Life by Five Years"s yet to be found, but to solve aging I expect to be much harder. It wouldn't surprise me much that the simplest "solution" to aging could end up being the brain simulation thing anyhow, because fixing up the biological organism across hundreds of years is simply that hard.

If there are a few of those weird tricks I definitely expect a period of excessive optimism where people conclude we're just another couple of such tricks away from the solution, when instead they are simply the first steps on a very long path.
> These comments are astroturfed af. Even a slightly critical comment is receiving tonnes of downvotes one minute after being posted.

You broke the site guidelines badly with this, as did everyone who upvoted it. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. They contain:

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

We have that rule for good reason, as I've explained ad nauseum over many years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

including yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27271356

I looked at the data and saw no evidence that the comments are astroturfed, let alone "af". Perhaps I'm missing the obvious? In that case these astroturfers must be devilishly clever—enough not to leave any of the traces that we look for—and also dumb enough to leave comments that readers will pick out as obviously astroturfed.

More likely, though, you were doing what internet users commonly do, which is vastly over-weight the things they dislike and then read sinister interpretations into them. (See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for many past explanations.) The overwhelming majority of these interpretations have literally zero evidence, and they're deeply poisonous to forum threads. In the future, if you don't have evidence, please don't post any of these; and if you do have evidence, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. But people having different tastes in game engines does not count as evidence.
I don't understand how that's possible. When clicking a matrix.to link, there is a room name and a homeserver hostname, right? How does that homeserver not have complete control over what information about the room is sent to the client?
1Password in the browser: biometric unlock, dark mode, and a new save experience
Well, there is the Steam Early Access - mind you games need to be at least partly polished and quite playable before entering there. But the public is more forgiving of "early beta" quality at least there. Sometimes alpha if the game is obviously a gem waiting to be polished.
You were responding to my comment that read:

> It grinds the gears of many Americans when people conflate the USA with America as well though.

As you can see, I was not complaining about the usage of "Americans" but rather about the conflation of "USA" and "America".

I did say it grinds the gears of many Americans when that happens, which might be the cause of your confusion.

> MDF: capital district of Mexico.

Thanks! I did think you were not talking about medium-density fibreboard! :D
For all the unsettling or violent or dangerous SCPs on the wiki, my favourite still remains SCP-348. I teared up a little the first time I read this:

http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-348

It's a ceramic bowl with "thinking of you" written in Chinese on the side. When a person with a mild sickness like a runny nose or a cough is nearby, it fills with soup. People who eat this soup say it's comforting & reminds them of their parents' cooking. Once eaten, a message will materialize in the inside of the soup bowl in the language most familiar to the person eating from it.

I won't spoil the rest.

Side note: the closest game to capture the feeling of reading the SCP wiki is Control. If you enjoy reading the SCP wiki, you definitely owe it to yourself to play Control.
I'm with you there, I just wish people had this level of energy in regards to things like having Saudi Arabia as an ally. We take the zero effort to stop watching this Youtuber but when we're at the pump we're mostly not thinking about the suffering of women in Saudi Arabia. You're right that there's this metric of distance that appears to matter in these calculations.
As ironic as obesity being caused by low-fat, high-carb diet recommendations?
9% of people in England, and 23% of people in Northern Ireland, have had crucial treatment or surgery postponed, effectively indefinitely. This isn’t necessarily all life-threatening, eg includes hip replacements etc. but that’s not exactly benign either. Note these are percentages of population, not of patients or cases.

A friend of mine is a senior neurologist at a major hospital in the UK. He said that under Covid all his junior medics, who do a lot of the actual treatments and other legwork, disappeared to other departments. Not only are they not treating and diagnosing neurological patients, but also not getting the job-specific training for when Covid is over.

This is sort of quantitative anecdata, granted, but serious enough that it makes me think it is a real issue.
I wildly disagree with nearly everything you have written here.

Some notes:

>Value cannot be equated to money. This is the point you keep missing.

Out of curiosity, how do you think trade of any sort works in a capitalist society? In almost any case you can imagine there has been some conversion of money for a trade to be able to take place.

> That's a totally unrealistic scenario, of course, but there is a bigger problem: If the total supply of money is held by a single entity then it is no longer a customary means of indirect exchange, and thus no longer money. People would settle on some other means of exchange and the (former) money would become worthless as currency.

Would the new means of exchange be the "money" then?

On computer simulations, yes, one person ends up with all the money. And of course in the real world that is not the case. It ends up an oligarchy ... up until the "poors" revolt! You will notice that this has happened many, many times throughout history.
Maybe we should not have to improve the quality of our lives at any price.
If you're more into movies and don't care about the run-off-the-mill series then Netflix hasn't been a solution for a long time now.
Gas stations already have fume extractors though.
Project Fission – Site Isolation in Firefox
Those of us in the US and Australia who are of northern European ancestry are descended from people who lived at much higher latitudes than where we live now. So no, we didn't evolve with the sun that we're currently dealing with, but a much weaker one that was lower in the sky.
I didn't find neutrogena in the original article or either of your links. Where does it say that's high in benzene?
I'm not aware of any, no, and there's 0 incentive for any large company to sponsor one.
> To quote a #freenode op "users were being forced to another IRC network because the channel was +m".

And the channel I was in wasn't +m until freenodecom decided to hijack it and make it +m.
Genetically engineered microorganisms for generating atmosphere from geological materials on Mars or the Moon.
You broke the site guidelines with this comment too. Please read them to the end: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
On that subject the blog undivided looking touches on using applied history and theology to rationalize Christianity. It appeals to my sense of mrationality at least.

http://www.wall.org/~aron/blog/
Nobody sells laptops with batteries bigger than that! Guess why? Because you're not allowed to take them on planes. Just means gaming laptops have less battery life is all.
I'm a moderator at Julia's discourse site. We've seen this happen and we're working on improving this, but I'm also (biased and) sympathetic to the "Julia community" writ large.

Julia's optimal sorts of workflows are different than many expect — especially for folks coming from static languages. Julia is a dynamic language. But also, Julia isn't Python. There are ways in which your workflows from other languages just aren't optimal in Julia. So when someone comes in "hot" and rants about how their workflow isn't working out how they expect, others jump in and — yes, defensively at times — point out alternatives that work for them.

I think some of this tension comes from an expectation mismatch. Some of the changes noted in these comments about how Julia is presented on julialang.org were made specifically due to this sort of expectation mismatch.

This doesn't mean that nobody in the community cares about improving workflows — in fact I know that's not true. But if you want to use Julia today, there are definitely some happy paths that we should guide folks towards.
From the final part of this story, set in 2020:

"We have learned that there is time missing from our world. Almost a year of extremely recent history. And there are spaces, significant spaces, in every population center, which cannot be perceived or entered. The cities are rerouting around them, like mountains or radiation zones. And along with that time and that space, we have learned that there are enough people missing, without any explanation whatsoever, that if I spent the rest of my considerably augmented lifespan counting them, I could not count to that number."

He says, his voice rising, "These things happen. And we say to ourselves, 'Never again.' And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again."

Yeah, feels about right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Public_health_mana...
OnePlus managed to pull this with their Hasselblad collaboration this year.
They got the audience so hyped up and the product was well...good. But it did not live up to the hype at all.
For gambling games you need a custom license, but other than that I don't think there are any other restrictions.
except Bitcoin of course, this is hardest money on Earth.
Limited to 21M (2.1Q satoshi), mined until the year 2140, eventually will use all available energy both on and off world. :-)
(Mux founder here, but adding some additional community bits to the conversation)

Probably unsurprisingly, the (honestly absurd world of) color is a pretty consistent topic among video engineers. Color theory is one of those areas that people working directly with it see it as a completely unsolved problem, and everyone else largely takes it for granted. This is a small sample size, but these are all talks just from a local SF Video meetup and the Demuxed conference, and the speakers work at YouTube, Vimeo, Mux, and a fruit company.

Color (SF Video 2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiAiOl1Pvgk

Early Experiments in Color Vision and Their Applications to Modern Color Theory (SF Video 2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXd6HLqpoMk

A Jaunt Through Color Technology in Video (Demuxed 2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMnvY7a4-As&list=PLkyaYNWEKc...

Your browser and my browser see different colors (SF Video 2020, by the author of this post) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JXx0bao7ho
That's the opposite of neutrality

True neutrality/freedom of religion would let people make personal choices about religous clothing. I'm not surprised that France has something so ridiculous but I'm somewhat disappointed that Germany would also fail to understand this
This is standard accounting principles. GAAP/IFRS accounting require you to do this. It's not malicious
PC vs. Mac: The Big Debate Between PC and Mac
Look, I'm not exactly an expert. Tel Aviv was hit somewhat badly, one of the worst, but not the absolute worst. Mostly because most of the population here was somewhat more serious about social distancing / etc. Or rather, there were several other cities that were really really not careful (mostly religious areas). Tel Aviv also got vaccinated fairly fast compared to other places.

At least that's my impression.
Where did you get the 2% figure from? The EPA says "[t]he national benzene content of gasoline today is about 1.0 vol%"[0]. Not that 1% is much better but I'm still curious where your figure comes from.

[0]: https://www.epa.gov/gasoline-standards/gasoline-mobile-sourc...
If he is motivated by profit, he may sell or liquidate company as well.
There was a website that showed different browsers rendered CSS differently, it reminds me vaguely of a square / maybe divided in triangles. Anyone know the website? I have been looking for it but to no avail.
I've edited my comment, still not sure it's compliant to the guidelines but probably better than the original.
I don’t think that really counts for much — they literally just expanded their product suite, and integrated as such. If you’re not supposed to do that, then I’m not sure what a company is supposed to do other than have a single standalone product per domain.

Their monopoly lawsuit behavior was different — the bundling of windows with forced IE was problematic (largely because windows was everything, and also IE being largely unrelated to the rest of the OS) but much more problematic was their OEM strategies, to enforce and maintain windows as the dominant OS.
Right: Assuming good faith, this project seems completely backwards.

But if their real product is the telemetry that also ships with it, and they've identified that many newbie developers have a hard time seeing through marketing pages directed at developers (eg like "webscale" stuff from mongodb circa 2010), then it, unfortunately, makes more sense.
Gatorade. It's got electrolytes. It's what plants crave. I think you might be onto something here.
Somewhat relevant: https://250bpm.com/blog:4/
> On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)—in Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom—upheld a 2018 ruling by the court's lower chamber, determining that mass surveillance by the British government breached human rights laws under the European Convention aimed at safeguarding Europeans' rights to privacy.

> The court's 17 judges unanimously agreed that the mining of billions of calls, emails, text messages and other data by British intelligence services lacked the independent scrutiny to protect the right to privacy and freedom of expression.

> However, most of the judges allowed for the continued sharing of intercepted digital communications with foreign governments or intelligence agencies.
A lot of people will simply lose their jobs if they don't go in to work, whether they're sick or not. A lot of those jobs are in food service. Wearing masks in extremely crowded public areas going forward is probably a good idea.
> No sure anything will help us in such a scenario, to be honest

Congratulations, you got there in the end.

Meanwhile, Dutch activists have made some minor progress in the fight to fix the climate.
It might be caused by using the wrong sunscreen, but there are plenty of products that are safer. The Environmental Working Group has a good list: https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/
That is sort of an inevitable human behavior, you just have to make the cost high enough.
I think the first step of any optimization strategy is to understand what you are doing, and stating the goal that can clearly be either reached or not. Size crunching on a couple of images is fun, valiantly processing a sizable collection of pictures with optipng makes you realize that your CPU(s) are glowing from heat for hours just to take 10 bytes off the file that still fills the same amount of disk sectors. That's even bigger waste of energy than mining.

One particular trick is getting images with visually low number of distinct colors, like logos and screenshots, through pngquant. You don't have to worry whether the actual number of colors is less than 256, how to posterize or filter the image to decrease that number, or how to suppress artificial colors from font anti-aliasing — the tool measures the visual likeness, and provides the means to set the acceptable limit so it would leave unsuitable images intact. Obviously, when you're dealing with some long-term archival storage, or assets for further editing like stock clipart, such presentation-oriented lossy optimization should not be used.

Other automatic tools are referenced in the article, though you should treat them as a nice sanity check that prevents images holding raw uncompressed data or simple two color graphs saved as 4 byte RGBA from appearing in your project, and not a magical solution that would send it to the sky performance-wise.

Bandwidth (and loading time) is usually wasted on complex high resolution images like photos or combined graphics with photographic details. These can't really be optimized well enough in PNG with naive lossless or lossy methods, and have to be converted to JPEG to reach sane size or regenerated as independent layers that use different compression.
I reluctantly tried neovim at first. I didn't like it as much as vim at the time, mostly due to plugin compatibility and some bugs (this was a while ago).

I permanently moved to neovim because of the forward looking vision and community around it.
How to make a fullstack dapp with React, Hardhat and ethers.js with examples
I wrote a blog post to show how to make a dapp with React, Hardhat and Ethers js.

You will have a full stack React dapp following this post.

I am a beginner of ETH development but want to share my learning with others.
also the more people that get it the more chance for it to mutate, potentially in ways that the vaccines will no longer catch.

getting the developed world vaccinated is a start but letting the developing world continue to be a petri dish will eventually come back to bite us.
I see people started downvoting this, if you do, please explain why.
The original article has a link to a petition the lab is making to the government. There they show a table of sunscreens sorted by concentration of benzene. Most of the top 20 entries are nutrogena.
If this is how companies are going to operate, then employees will no longer be able to give the customary two weeks notice to their prior employer when switching jobs.

Instead, employees will accept their new job offer and then simply quit their old job on the same day they start their new job.
http://archive.is/Kt52n
Yes. Don't use sprays. You wind up breathing that stuff as well if you do.
http://acid2.acidtests.org/ ?
lumen seems to do light accumulation by raytracing which in turn requires Direct 3d/RTX, hence windows (for now)
Belief in a god in itself is not really that irrational.

Even secular thoughts like simulation theory agree in some sort of force that is outside of the material space-time universe we exist in.
Beware of tight feedback loops (2020)
Show HN: An NFT marketplace where owners can liquidate if there are no buyers
Hey everyone,

Hope you're enjoying the roller-coaster of cryptoverse!

We're a small group of people interested in seeing crypto to become a sustainable advancement, particularly we've been studying NFT space and trying to figure-out a way to make the whole experience more meaningful and safe for the collectors, while also giving artists a platform to show their creative selves.

As you know there are a lot of speculative trading, FOMO and "get rich quick" energy in the space, which is not necessarily healthy for a long term vision. The appetite to buy NFTs for a significant amount is very low, unless your a famous artist, mainly because nobody can guarantee there are future buyers for your NFT collectible!

This week we built and launched a protocol (https://Unique.Directory) which we believe can help make NFT space a bit more sustainable in the long-term:

## In Unique Directory all NFTs (a.k.a. Uniquettes) are backed by collateral, which is basically from your payment kept in Vault, as a guarantee that if there are no buyers you can lock your NFT and receive that (ETH) collateral.

## To make this possible artists (authors) are paid in freshly minted platform tokens called UNQ, which is designed to appreciate in time. By using sales fees to buy-back and burn UNQ tokens from open market.

Currently we're in Testnet launch phase (https://app.unique.directory) and would love to hear your thoughts and critiques about our approach.

You can read our litepaper in https://docs.unique.directory to learn more in details how the protocol is designed.

Cheers :)
The offending stuff > 2ppm in the list is mostly sprays. With I think one exception none of the offenders are zinc oxide, either.
Sorry to ask, but did you have a source for this?
Er, yes they would. Thousands of people already have, that's why its 44bn. It's a market cap not a paper valuation. Are you suggesting that if someone wanted to buy Doge outright they could pay less than it's market cap?
He’s a pretender to a defunct throne. There are a few of these types running around, such as for the Hapsburg and French thrones, but generally everyone thinks they’re a bunch of weirdo has-beens.

The Bourbon pretender is hilarious though, because he inherited his ancestor’s complete inability to read the room.
I mean, you ever been to a beach? You can't acclimate to being out at the beach all day.
Not sure I'd call it primary for all of them, but it's been a supremely useful, and speedy, support resource whenever I've needed it. Being able to just blindly /join #name_of_project and land somewhere useful (even if unofficial) is like magic.
I don't know, the flipside is that Thunderbolt delivers genuinely cutting-edge interconnect capabilities. I can run two 4K60 displays and a dozen peripheral devices, and charge my laptop, all via a single cable off of my $100 Thunderbolt 3 dock. There is no other technology that comes close to this capability at this price point.
A customer buys into the Amazon Prime bundle.

You can get standalone Amazon Prime Video membership — buuut it's about the same price as complete Amazon Prime membership! So you might as well get the complete membership and get all the perks you might want in the future.

And bam, you're now in the Amazon Prime universe. One day you'll be comparison shopping for a specific pair of shoes you like online, and you'll see that Amazon has the lowest (or one of the lowest) prices plus free one- or two-day shipping, and hey, you've got that Prime membership from back when you wanted to watch Amazon Prime Video. Deal sealed.

It lowers the barriers for every Amazon Prime-connected entry point.
No, the high benzene products are mostly sprays, not lotions.
I agree and that's why I use Emacs. It's perfect out of the box for me. I may not even use external packages if eglot gets merged in.
Emacs and VSCode should follow Neovim and also use tree-sitter as their parsing engine, instead of manually crafting fragile regexes.
Not universally, here in Colorado it's 20/80 with/without.