skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it also possible that alcohol is the lubricant for a society with dysfunctional social and environmental principles? Perhaps what we sometimes describe as motivation or personal growth isn’t actually that valuable when directed at goals that destroy the planet and isolate us from other humans.
Exactly. This reminds me the interview where a Monsanto rep was asking an activist whether she’d prefer to provide people with genetically engineered rice or have them suffer from vitamin deficiency.

What a made up false dichotomy.
> I run my personal services (Web, db, mail, nextcloud, traefick) off a cheap hetzner vps using docker-compose and its a pleasure how simple is to manage it.

Me too. I have about half a dozen personal projects running in Docker Swarm on Hetzner. I have an Ansible script that gets a freshly created barebones VM to serve live traffic in less than a minute, and I am free to just delete all VMs and reinstall from scratch without any problem at all.

I even split the Ansible playbooks into stack-specific playbooks so that I can redeploy specific stacks if I feel like it.

I firmly believe that Docker Swarm is a killer application that is not given the attention it deserves because everyone is stuck in a mindset where they purposely want to make their own lives harder by doing CV-oriented development while running after the devops version of doing enterprise versions of hello world.
Elm handicaps my attempts of "making impossible states impossible" because:

- I can't have Sets of arbitrary Types they must be `comparable`. I cannot create a custom comparable type.

- Records, Bool and custom Union Types are not `comparable`

- Bool and Simple Union Types could have been comparable if their comparison worked like they were Enumerated Types. Elm does not have Enumerated types.

Basically https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1008 made me look for better alternatives.
I am not a mathematician either and only read the “Quick Intro” but that left me with the following question: What happens if I replace the Earth’s populations with that of France and the Earth’s countries with the French cities? If I do that and then follow the logic in the Quick Intro then it makes sense to me that it is likely that I would be born in Paris, but I do not understand how I can follow from this that France is a high population country. What do I miss?
The thing is that editor scripting interfaces (vimscript in particular) kinda suck. I'd much rather have the essentials as built-in features in the editor. For example, surround.vim is kinda nice feature but it doesn't play nice with undo and repeat.

Most text editor scripting add-ons fall into two categories: 1) core editing features (like surround.vim) or 2) bringing IDE-like features to the editor.

Things that fall under category 1 generally work better when they're implemented in the editor core. Things that fall under category 2 could mostly be implemented outside the editor, e.g. using tmux key bindings to open a new window to run the compiler in and then send the output back to the editor. I don't really want the editor to have a terminal emulator and windowing system to launch the editor in.

There are plenty of proper IDEs out there, there are plenty of scriptable editors out there which have (mostly half-baked) scripted IDE-like features out there, as well as bare bones editors with no scripting. I'm not gonna argue one is better than the other, but there's no reason every editor should have a scripting interface in it.

I have used programming tools in every category and they all have their merits. I had a fully pimped up Vim setup with lots of plugins but I eventually abandoned them as they were more trouble than they were worth and now I have a very bare bones setup with minimal customization.

So yeah, I don't think scripting is an essential feature in a text editor, and I'd much rather see the effort spent core editor features polished than a scripting interface.

As for "my specific needs", I need a good text editor first. I've used about a half dozen different programming languages in the past year, and no editor out there would handle all the "integrated" features to all of them gracefully without a lot of customization.
My parents went through the Cultural Revolution, which involved being sent to a labor camp for a couple years, having various relatives harassed into committing suicide, and even though everyone in their age cohort experienced equally horrific things, I could tell something wasn't right about them, even as a kid. They, however, would not think of themselves as traumatized. I don't know about your case in particular, but in general, I think psychological injuries tend to leave a mark, even if they are normalized, and even if the sufferer is not necessarily aware of them.
I didn't know atom was abandoned. That's sad. Do you mind linking to a release that states that officially?

For me, plain vim is a great thing. My computer is hot enough without another electron app, and for that reason I've never tried VSCode (ium) -- I feel there is a vast amount I still have left to learn in vim, and although I've been using it for >10 years, I'm far from an advanced user. It just works, is fast, and matches my brain.

Microsoft also has a very, very long way to win back my headspace. I take it this new editor -- which I will give a quick go to -- doesn't come with telemetry and nonfree core code, for example.
There were plenty of small dinosaurs.
Check out mobile. I had to spend a lot of time with parents to teach them how this works after upgrade. Only to realize I did not understand recent changes - I though collections are there instead of bookmarks, but it's a collection of tabs... Really confusing for me and my parent-users. Also very easy to mess up by them.

So collections/bookmarks weirdness, menu moved to bottom, dark style, major changes on "new tab" screen. I hope there will be no more changes to mobile view in this update.
> The problem with modern 2-party systems in the West

You mean the US, maybe Canada? The closest equivalents outside of North America, the UK and Australia, with the same broken voting system that favours a limited party landscape, have more than 2 parties in the mainstream and coalitions are often needed ( like Tories with DUP recently).
No, harms to user are also higher and the paper attempts to separate use rates from harms. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Did the same to me on Firefox Android.
Permaculture is phantastic – however, how does it align with selling produce, i.e. removing material from the farm?
Are you working on side projects? How do you manage that?
After 8 hours pushing stuff around I don't feel like doing side projects anymore.
The ability to solve widespread coordination problems is... probably orthogonal to consciousness?
Bees and ants do it without consciousness, and humans clearly suck at it.
Or you could say: The odds of them being capable of using their sentience to solve their desire to have a controlled population level is small.
> To avoid creating new customers

I really want the state out of the game of controlling drug use.
I don’t know why you’ve been downvoted. Yes there might be other metrics to use but this is a valid one
Amazed to see PureScript is still around, I guess.

It was everywhere on conferences like 5 years ago.
Just want to say "Take screenshot" is the only reason I use context menu.
Youtube make you submit your ID or credit card details now as proof of age.
https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70267/
Misread that as "PostScript" and was confused but curious.
If you are pointing at me, I have never said that.
Even on windows xp/7, I know people running hours-to-days long simulations routinely unplugging their ethernet so the IT department / windows daemons / tooth fairy won’t randomly reboot it and make a project late.
It's right there in the article : " In the general purpose Linux world, we use an intermediate bootloader called Shim to bridge from the Microsoft signing authority to a distribution one. "

So you need to trust Microsoft for the first keys :)
It's true! If you didn't know who you were, and were asked to take odds on the probability that you were phs, I hope you'd bet that you weren't, 'cause odds are about 10 billion to one against.
Basically, you used abuse as a shared bonding experience with other kids in the same position. That probably created strong bonds. But that benefit went away when you talked with non-abused people.

For whatever it is worth, the normalization of abuse is one of negative aspects that keeps influencing people long after. Kids that were abused can grow to think it is normal which then leads to them directly into abusive relationships as adults.

> I'd question if a woman can ever really be attracted to man they pity or a man who has been sexually abused, for example.

Why? This seem more related to gender roles or blaming yourself for abuse. Or you think that being sexually abused transforms men? Or it is purely about womens lack of capacity to be into someone vulnerable?
> Why would they want to get involved in shifting this particular norm?

Indeed they dont. They just want to benefit (instead of being harmed) by the shift. Same we see with "rainbow" colored logos on big corps and big corps supporting "racial equality": they only do so once the norm has largely shifted.

Big corps dont push for social change unless they get better from it (i.e.: makes them look good).
Your notion of competition in the free market is sorta like the frictionless spherical horse in the physics joke. A successful product will produce more profit than your hourly rate.
Is it really a competitor given they don't sell their chips? For Intel maybe, given they lost the Apple market, but it doesn't look like it changed anything for the other players.

There's been a lot of comments about how ARM is going to revolutionise everything, but that doesn't seem to be the case for the chips you can actually buy (e.g. Qualcomm Vs AMD). Honestly, I don't see the M1 as a statement about how good ARM compared to x64, but how good Apple is compared to the rest of the field.
I think the difference there is that even if most people left dog crap we might still have a consensus that that was a bad thing and that people shouldn’t do it.
This is the "About the author" section that would be hidden behind a click on other websites but all content on the submitted page is on a single page. Where should it have gone instead?
Even if it's 100% accurate, the lab-leak scenario is very difficult to manage as a social problem.

The odds are quite large that a leak would have been a matter of incompetence or accident. Who's deranged enough to roll the dice on intentional germ warfare against your own people?

However, it's a very tempting narrative, especially since we've had an ongoing trend of demonizing China, frequently revolving around the premise of their population being infinite and disposable. Nobody wants to hear that it was some intern who threw used PPE in the dumpster instead of an incinerator. Boring and unsatisfying! Of course it's a grand and deliberate plan-- they'd be willing to kill a few million of their own people, for the sake of creating an emergency and crippling the rest of the world!

Even if we find 4k video of someone dropping a beaker and saying "Oh, shit" like some Simpsons outtake, the conspiracy crowd and war hawks will not be satisfied.

Finding the exact cause isn't going to bring back anyone we lost to the disease. There's probably nobody who can be punished in a meaningful and proportionate way. There's value in the research, for scientists and biosecurity experts, but I'm worried we're looking for succor for the general public and won't find it.

I wonder if by pushing the investigation back a few months, it was a "white lie" of omission. It bought time to cool down emotions-- so even if the result is disappointing or inconclusive, we'll hopefully avoid a violent overreaction.
Legislation to shut down subsidies for non sustainably grown produce would transform the industry in a hurry because most of it is also not sustainable from an economic point of view and very dependent on subsidies. That's the tool to use to fix this.

E.g. US corn subsidies are an anomaly. The world does not need so much corn and biofuels are a particularly lousy excuse to grow that much corn. Corn syrup is not an ingredient that is either common or high in demand outside the US. It's a market that only exists because of corn subsidies. In the same way, we're subsidizing soy, which gets exported from Brazil and from freshly burned down rain forest. The US is a close second for this stuff. Again subsidies combined with mostly very unsustainable styles of farming. Both industries depend on large scale use of pesticides and a few other unsustainable practices and exports to countries that look the other way.

If you are a vegetarian and want to save the planet, stop eating unsustainably grown soy. If you are a meat eater, stop eating unsustainably grown meat where the animals grew up eating unsustainably grown corn and soy. At a macro level it's multiple layers of unsustainable practices that we subsidize so we can have some artificially cheap food that probably isn't that good for you. It's not cheap at all. You just pay for it via your taxes. And we're leaving the damage cleanup for future generations. We're just really good at allowing people to dodge the real cost of things.

The Netherlands has a nice ongoing debate about reducing nitrogen emissions from mostly cattle and traffic. The reasoning goes as follows: high nox concentrations are bad for health (fact), therefore building close to where the concentrations are high is no longer allowed (because it kills people). This simple ruling basically shut down construction next to highways, which is where a lot of prime real estate is in the Netherlands. That is causing a lot of farmers to adapt their behavior because the communities they operate in are not cool with the high nox concentrations any more. They even reduced maximum speeds on the highways from 130 km/h to 100 km/h to cut down on the emissions and thus allow construction projects to resume.

That basically happens when you put numbers on the damage, change the incentives, and put some simple rulings in place. This btw. happened under a mostly conservative right leaning government too. Headed by the party that not so long ago championed the raising of the speed limit to 130 km/h (VVD). The current government is more or less the polar opposite of tree hugging hippies. Highway loving VVD and farmer friendly CDA are two of the coalition parties. And they got this done.

We should do the same with pesticides. There's plenty of good reasons to stop killing our environment like that. The least we can do is stop subsidizing that.
Various doctors on twitter advocate Cyproheptadine as being uniquely capable of pulling COVID-19 patients out of their death spirals. This approved antihistamine is also an anti-serotonin drug.

Remdesivir is a failed ebola drug that is not approved for any uses [1].

Cyproheptadine is approved for use for several conditions, including serotonin syndrome. Platelets are the usual carriers of serotonin in the blood. They arrive where they're needed and poof, release all their serotonin to facilitate clotting and inflammation.

> Serotonin [...] [in the blood] is actively taken up by blood platelets, which store it. When the platelets bind to a clot, they release serotonin, where it can serve as a vasoconstrictor or a vasodilator while regulating hemostasis and blood clotting. In high concentrations, serotonin acts as a vasoconstrictor [...] [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin

Farid Jalali [2] is an early advocate of this protocol. I think he's a gastointestinal doc who realized that cyproheptadine's usefulness for COVID-19-induced gastrointestinal problems was also profoundly helpful for the rest of the body too.

There's a commonly-used treatment that creates inflammation. The use of this treatment is another big mistake in the standard treatments used for COVID.... But I don't have credentials. How do you point out to the professionals that their profession seems to have forgotten something important?

(This submission probably isn't going to the front page; this comment is just me making notes.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyproheptadine

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26705499

[2] https://twitter.com/farid__jalali/ (set his tweets private last week? Oh my.)
Limiting factor for being able to use the machine that is, not for compile time.
> Firstly people are a lot more educated, about how the web works in general, how valuable privacy is and about the strength of cryptography.

I don't think you can support this claim. Today, 96% of iPhone users opt out of tracking [1]. However previously I remember a similar number of users not turning off tracking when it was an opt out option in Settings (can't find the sources). This inconsistency between opt-in and opt-out behavior means one thing: users generally don't care and neither do they understand what privacy means. Because otherwise the difference between the two approaches would have been smaller.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/07/only-4-of-ios-use...

> An open standard of electronic cash could solve these issues perfectly

The reason this is not happening is, or not so fast anyway, is I think (1) people tend to trust government-backed currencies and (2) converting such currency to any other form is a friction point. I get my hard earn money in govt.-backend currency on my card from a bank that is tightly regulated and has govt. protection and guarantees. Then I pay from the same card. Because card network fees are not immediately visible to the consumers, they generally don't care about them, just the same way they don't care about privacy.

In other words, safety and frictionless trade overweighs privacy. At least today.

You are talking about a new type of digital cash, now look at some societies like Germany where about half of all transactions still takes place in cash (!). Germany is a country that's probably most privacy aware in the developed world, they don't have Google Street View for example. So instead of moving towards the unknown, privacy-aware societies seem to do the opposite, they go back to paper money.

Neither do we want to have ways of spending more, I think the humanity is slowly rolling back from the consumerist mode d'emploi of the late previous century.

So the picture is not as simple as we want it to be when it comes to earning, safely storing and spending our hard earned cash.
While I find this post and the ideas presented very interesting on the technical level, work in that direction ("remote attestation", making devices "tamper-proof") tends to give me a dystopian vibe - foreshadowing a world where there's no hardware left you can hack, build and flash your own firmware onto: Complete tivoization, to re-use lingo from when the GPLv3 was drafted. With that, really neutering all the benefits Free Software provides.

What good is having all the source code in the world if I can never put my (or anyone else's) modifications to it into effect?
The IoT devices are exactly the ones I don't want on the network!
While the code barcode breakdown in this article is cool, I doubt you could actually use it to get free parking (which is not ethical anyway). My guess is that the system records the barcode it printed when you enter. So, when you exit and scan your forged ticket, it will probably say that it doesn't recognize the ticket because the barcode was never recorded in the system on entry.
The 10 line Makefile doesn't do Smalltalk like development experience, nor is able to single step GPGPU shaders, do live editing of GUIs, graphical visualization of running tasks and threads, provide graphical architecture diagrams, correlate lines of code with the people that edited it and to which tickets the PR were made to.
Probably not, because as with many of these studies, people that can impose their preference will do it and rationalize their preference.

There was a study about US companies moving headquarters in the 60's. There would be planning committees, analyses, the whole shebang.

This later study found that almost invariably the new HQ would be closer to the CEOs home/hometown/home state. Some of these companies even failed because obviously people working at the NY HQ would not necessarily want to move to the Texas HQ.

In Romanian we say: "cine împarte, parte-și face": he who shares (does the sharing/gives things out), gets his share (cut).
> That’s the part I’m stuck on. How would I do that on code I do not own, because I wrote it for hire?

Well anyone can write a letter that says "I hereby grant you a license to use this code under these terms...", but if they don't hold the copyright on it then the letter is meaningless (or maybe fraudulent). So in court you would have to prove that that person's copyright is actually valid, and if the code was written by someone who was employed and their employer didn't sign a disclaimer of work-for-hire ownership claims, then that could be disputed.

If you want to enforce the copyright against other people, as the FSF did, then that's bad. If you just want to avoid getting sued yourself, then it's probably not really a problem, because the employer would have to positively prove that they held the copyright to be able to enforce it. That said, some projects that don't require copyright assignment do still require a disclaimer of work-for-hire claims in their CLA.
> On a scale from Tesla Autopilot (A) to Juicero (J) I would give it G.

It honestly took me a bit to figure out which end of that scale was supposed to be which. I had to remember what Juicero was first, because IMO Tesla Autopilot is a weird thing to use for the high end of the scale given all the problems it has.
I'm surprised there's no mention of the cochlea in this article... I always assumed the design was inspired by it. Surely there's some analogy in how the human ear breaks down frequencies in the cochlea and how a speaker produces them in a similar shape?
You're correct. Intl formatting has two components:
- Selecting the appropriate pattern for a given locale
- Formatting numbers and words into the given locale (example: eastern-arabic numerals and Arabic month/week names).

You might say "I want to supply my own pattern, you just do step two for me" and technically we can provide that functionality by exposing it.

The issue is that from the API design perspective it would lead to people misusing the API misunderstanding what is going on and believing that they "internationalized their UI" which is not the case. In fact, they'd make things worse for their users than if they just displayed a date in a single locale with consistent pattern+localization because in some cases "MM/DD" and "DD/MM" are indistinguishable when expanded and that may lead to data loss, security loss, or just confusion.

I'd argue that every case where you want to supply your own pattern is a case where you should not attempt to internationalize that pattern.
I also recognize that it's just my opinion.
This is not a 'sad little guy got f*cked over by corporate overlords'; illegal software sharing site owner has to pay fair fine. Very unusual compared to these things as they usually get into the news; they are often entirely over the top normally, like (bittorrent sharer of 1 blockbuster movie is order to pay $100quazillion in fines because it was maybe downloaded 1000x and losses blahblahblah!).
I replied the same to a sibling comment already but all the content on this website is on a single page - where should the author have put the "About me" section instead if not at the end?
You can actually see the same dynamic playing out with Swiss access to the EEA: https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/27/what-s-the-future-of-eu-...

The debate doesn't seem to be being carried out in quite such a stupid way as it was in the UK, but everyone is clear that it's the public objection to immigrants that is the flashpoint.