skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good, I hope this encourages people to support plant based alternatives and "vat meat" type stuff. The meat industry is awful for two major disaster scenarios facing humanity: global warming and antibiotic resistance. Meat isn't "critical infrastructure", it's a luxury with health risks akin to other luxury products that are taxed, and is propped up and subsidized already in order to survive. This is not even beginning to talk about the ethics of this situation. People like Noam Chomsky etc have been behind this: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/12/features/noam-ch...

No one would be particularly choked up if this affected the cigarette industry or the alcohol industry.
I'm a Russian immigrant to US and very much anti-Putin, but in order to understand the Russian perspective you have to understand the psyche and history of a country, not just facts. And that's a lot harder to do - there are some metaphysical manifestations of that collective psyche that will be opaque to any outsider looking in.

You have to realize that lots of Russians still remember gangs of actual criminals roaming around in the 1990s and being afraid for their physical safety; food shortages and everything else from the late 80s through to the end of the 90s; inflation that made your savings disappear before your eyes (and shortages/limits of all physical goods which meant there was no way to escape it). My grandparents had enough savings to buy four cars at the start of inflation (quite a bit of savings at the time), and after the inflation they ended up being able to only afford two couches with that money. And that's just the 80s/90s.

Historically, Russia has a very bloody history and suffered greatly in WWII (and generally has suffered the highest percentage of losses in any violent conflict); the attitude a lot of people have there is "better the devil you know than the one you don't". And it checks out historically - the Revolutions that have historically been attempted in Russia didn't exactly lead to anything good for the average person.

So while yes, all of the things you outlined are evidence of a cancer in the system, a lot of people still see it as better than the alternative(s) that they tasted in the 90s - which is why the situation persists. You're starting to see pushback from the generation(s) that grew up after the Union collapsed and that have no memories of the 90s, but otherwise the collective pain & memories are quite strong.
Can't we have a strong consumer organization which can actually enforce that companies are not building stuff that works against the consumer?
> The question is whether the pains we’re currently feeling are enough to cause a change in the industries affected.

Considering downthread there are honest suggestions to send special forces after the ransomware gangs, I’m gonna go with “probably not”. That type of denial is pervasive.

The F500 and companies like JBS just need to move essentially dataframes around from automation to automation, but somehow the software ecosystem is still building that with the same tools used to write Google. The next answer is usually “they don’t invest in a security team, clearly,” and I’m waiting for that subthread to kick off, too, to continue the denial.

Software complexity is the enemy, not the malicious actors exploiting it. Fix one, fix the other.
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* Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim]

Wooooh! That's going to turn so many instances of "Oh I've just deleted 30 minutes of filter tuning" into "whoopsy, undo"

also:

* "(Windows only) Added support for NVIDIA Noise Removal in the Noise Suppression filter"

Nice! I wonder how that compares to the old RNNoise option...
"Front end for neovim?" Perhaps you should read the source code before saying such things.
The sound rule in the matter would appear to be like many other sound rules—a paradox. Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

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Nah, we're just gonna get every state having its own mini-Great-Firewall and very limited access to non-friendly states, at the routing level. There's a next gen Internet protocol that makes this easy. Maybe also personal IDs with a kind of Internet "credit score". We already do that, but with IP addresses and machine fingerprints. I expect some countries will adopt something like that, even in the "West".

Either that or the cost of attacks will remain lower than the benefit of being able to sell bits and bytes to your adversaries. I do not expect this to be the case, but maybe.

The open, global, semi-anonymous web is what's not going to survive this fight, I'm afraid. I give it 20 more years, tops, and maybe a lot less.
This is asinine - why do we need to spend billions and billions of dollars for more missiles for theoretical hot wars with Russia and China? Isn't a hot war what nuclear deterrence is supposed to prevent?

The tone of the article is "we've got a missile gap! but don't worry, only 24 billion dollars will fix it". Yet we already spend hundreds of billions of dollars on the military and don't seem to balance that against other things we could do with the money (pandemic preparations, anyone?).
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Are there a lot of calories in meat? I always looked at meat by itself as pretty lean.

By volume I think there are quite a few types of food that are richer in calories, and a lot of times meats are rich due to how they are prepared (fried, or drenched in butter, etc.)
I've also discovered that my favorite gin and tonic doesn't actually contain any gin. Tonic water and lime suits me just fine.
I've been a huge fan of the Trackpoint for many years, but unfortunately it's always been plagued by annoying drift issues, where the cursor keeps moving in one direction and you have to fight with it to make it stop. This has been an issue on older IBM ThinkPads as well as modern Lenovo models. It's a disgrace the technology hasn't improved much (at all?) in the last 20 years that this is still a recurring problem.
If they announce the rumored M2 Macs next week, you might be within the 15 days to return the M1's and order (with plenty of waiting) the M2's.
I run 5 km every day though.
Yeah that was their defense back in the '80s too https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/5...

> At the heart of the complaint is the contention that, although a temporary water moratorium is one thing, an "emergency" lasting twelve years is a taking. They allege that it is the unlawful duration of the moratorium which constitutes the continuing wrong.

Note: This was written in 1983~4, so it's now been an "emergency" lasting fifty years :)
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I've been WFH since '07, only occasionally returning to the office for short periods of time. There is absolutely no pressure on me to return to an office.

I was surprised that the first question was: "Will I have to be vaccinated or show proof thereof?"

Why is that? I thought there was very little hesitation. Was it the sample the author chose?
This is simply nonsense. Big data has never been just about MapReduce.

It has always revolved around the concept of a data lake, with data stored as objects, a series of data engineering pipelines moving data around and a query engine on top. And in almost every enterprise company this is the high level architecture you see today.

And this model only continues to grow in popularity as the use of siloed SaaS products drives data sprawl and the need for tools like Spark, Fivetran etc to move it all back to a centralised data lake for analysis.
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Regarding the displays. I use a dual screen setup on the mini (hdmi and display port) and it is perfect. So it is either a hardware issue in the cables, the mini or the monitor. I use currently use mono price 32 inch hdr monitors.
I recently rewrote a very complex, 600-ish lines, legacy date mangling algorithm from moment to the Temporal poly fill and was a breeze to use.

If you have some experience with Luxon or similar immutable date/time data types then you’ll get to use Temporal in no time. The API is incredibly ergonomic and apparently useless things (such as YearMonth) become so useful for even simpler cases.
Not anymore. The busses only come every 5m90s on that route.
> I for one don't mind, because I think out of the options there are, the US definitely isn't the worse choice.

I'm relatively pro-US, but being from EU I for one mind becoming a second class citizen in the US empire without being consulted.
I have some experience with contract management but I would need to understand the scenario better to offer any meaningful advice. Is the change tracking for the negotiation process, are the contracts bespoke or based on some standard, what are the management requirements after signature etc. Feel free to DM me.
forcing customers into this feature with a short notice that the majority wouldnt even know about is the MAIN issue here.

"Where's the problem (other than opt-in vs. opt-out)?"

You make it sound like this is a side trivial issue, then it's the main issue here.
> Isn't a hot war what nuclear deterrence is supposed to prevent?

No a nuclear deterrence is supposed to stop a nuclear war.

It doesn't help anything if you're both operating below the nuclear threshold.
To me the F-35 illustrates what happens when too much money is thrown at something, with too many vested interests serving themselves and spending the budget. It's a bit like a hot startup that raises a huge round, more that they actually know what to do with, and that spends the money on swanky offices, fancy benefits, and a hiring spree.

The US already spend $700+ billion a year on the military, vastly more than any other country on Earth (although China's spending is increasing rapidly). Whatever problems they might have, I don't think that even more money is the solution.
Probably need an VM professional to answer this. AFAIK Most of the Dynamic Lang VM optimisation basically comes down to prediction and cache hit.

Would a 512MB of Cache, or say a 4GB Cache dramatically change the performance of these Dynamic Languages? It still wouldn't be C like performance, but instead of the current 10-20x for Python or Ruby, it would be closer to 3-5x?

Or would it not be much difference at all? I could imagine in the future there will be a System Level Cache built on top the IOD on EPYC where it has 4-8GB capacity.
I stopped drinking 30 years ago. Haven't missed it a bit.
The Bullshit Broadcasting Conspiracy exceeds expectations in the trash it publishes ... once again.
Note: 30% faster than a thermally challenged i9 on a MacBook Pro, not a desktop one. Given the comments on similar threads, I feel this needs to be mentioned.
Depends if you're talking from the perspective of the API client or the string storage implementor's.
Yeah, there was a bad spell in the mid/late 2010s with the butterfly keyboard failures and the "stage light" display issues. I skipped these on my 2012 personal mac, and somehow work issued devices never ran into them.

Assuming Apple has figured out recent design issues, I'll be interested to see the longevity of the current generation. It seems like the thermals on the M1 are fantastic, which should minimize non-mechanical failures. Time will tell I guess.
For me, tracking the mouse cursor and moving it visually is harder than moving a text cursor, since with a text cursor I can generally look at a piece of text and summon the cursor directly to that location. I have trouble seeing and distinguishing the mouse cursor a lot, and I'm much more likely to overshoot it (or move it frustratingly slowly) than a text cursor.

It just feels better for me to use. I do less squinting. :)
The history of human's connection to alcohol extends even further.

One of the anthropological theories is that it was a core reason for humans to take up agriculture in the first place and to domesticate certain grains.

And, the genetic mutation that allows us to process it in the first place (an enzyme in the liver to break it down much more easily than before) that we received in our lineage millions of years ago allowed us to descend from the trees to the ground. It was a key enabler to our expansion where rotting, fermented fruit sitting on the ground became an enabling calorie source!
> superintelligent viruses

What if some virus evolved to work super intelligently as a hive mind?

> My personal view is that our knowledge of the Universe at this point isn't perfect but it's closer to correct than not.

I think most of the evidence contradicts this. My suspicion is that if we continue to progress at the same rate or accelerate, in 1000 years we (assuming we are still recognizably human) will look back at our understanding of reality right now as nearly completely wrong.

So your constraints don't seem to be givens.

> My personal view is that there simply aren't any starfaring civilizations to find within a pretty large (1M+ light years) light cone.

This makes a lot of assumptions, including that intelligent species don't accelerate quickly into something unrecognizable as they evolve to more advancement, or that our model of spacetime is basically right and there isn't much more to expand into besides our sparse region of reality.
I think it’s pretty likely M2 (or M1X, or whatever they brand it) MacBook Pros will be announced next week at WWDC, given the recent rumors generally coalescing. They may not be released right away but most rumors have suggested a summer release. Not that you should regret your purchase, but for (future) reference it’s a really good idea to check the rumors when considering a non-urgent Apple purchase.
The crossed-out-"NIMBYS" sign is my favorite one at that intersection considering nobody has been able to build a new home in Bolinas since the civil rights era.
> Of course, the metadata has always been more valuable than the exact content of your message

If you're doing something sensitive, like smuggling drugs or talking to NSA whistleblowers, the difference between metadata vs data is the difference between "the government is looking for an excuse to put you in jail" vs "the government gets a conviction".
Do you have a link to a reputable source? I've heard this a lot, and have a company in the nutrition space, but I haven't seen anything conclusive
That's exactly what I did starting about a month ago - I've got enough on hand to last about a month (most of that is committed to catering jobs that already have a set price - so my forecasting is much easier but if I didn't lock in the price I would have to eat the difference).

As long as they are safely handled I've found no quality difference at all when freezing stuff that is cryo-vaced. More often than not it has already been frozen at least once before it gets to me.

I don't ever sell anything that has been re-heated after cooking though. You can also do that with little to no quality loss but I try to position myself as a premium brand so everything is 'cooked to order'. There are also a lot more food safety concerns (cooing it fast enough, re-heating it fast enough, etc.) that I don't want to worry about. I vacuum seal cooked BBQ at home and it's just as good as fresh but you can't do that in a commercial setting without special permits that aren't available to food trucks (at least not in my area).
Whales seem to have better feeding strategy as they can depend on microbiota.
I really like this theory and enjoyed the read, however, the arguments are full of (very naive and) wrong interpretations of statistics and non sequiturs.

Examples:

"if other sentient species exist, we should expect ours to have an unusually high population"

"most planets will have a very much smaller population"

"The Earth represents the planet of an ordinary being, and Homo Sapiens represents the species of an ordinary being." ??? what?

"Compared to our seven billion strong civilisation, their population will be much smaller. Perhaps only in the tens of millions."

"We should expect to be in a large group, not an ordinary one." <- No! This is the author's main flawed argument. You have to look at the distribution of the data. For instance: "you are more likely to have attended a school with more pupils than most other schools", no way, schools have limited attendance and it doesn't follow a power law, i.e. there isn't a school with 1,000,000 students and many small ones with 10 students each, and, even if that were the case, if all of the small 10-student schools make up for 10,000,000 students, the probability of an individual coming from the "big one" is only 10%. Come on, this is common sense.

"this also means we should expect to be living on a large planet". This goes against the evidence found, so far.

"You might be tempted to think that most of our energy is spent moving around or by fighting against gravity." No.

"A species with twice the body mass of another, will on average have half the population density." The plot right before that argument disagrees with that ..., also that plot, named "The probability distribution for the body mass of intelligent species, based on our single piece of data" is nonsense; it has varied greatly throughout the history of life on our planet.

"I'm an astrophysicist at the University of Barcelona, formerly a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, following my PhD at the University of Cambridge." Oh well ...

Update:

OMG! The guy seems to apply that same line of reasoning to everything: https://twitter.com/frgsimpson/status/895944043645075457

inb4: "Aliens' lifespan should be around 70 years since that's the average for humans, on Earth, at the present time."
LSP and Tree-sitter seem to have the right approach, aiming to provide a standard layer that can support a wide variety of languages and ecosystems throughout. Language-agnostic tools can interoperate with this approach too but they only provide very basic features, not really enough to compare well with existing workflows.
I looked it up. GTX1080Ti is 4 years old.
I would suggest swapping the monitor and the cables separately. I do think there is an issue with one of them.
> Linux supported IDE CD-ROM and could install on the same disk as DOS/Windows.

Linux went beyond "could install on the same disk as DOS/Windows". Linux could install on the same filesystem as DOS/Windows. No need to repartition, no need for unpartitioned space. If you later decided Linux was not to your liking, you could simply erase your Linux directory.

Result: I installed Linux on my C: partition, choosing a distribution which came with UMSDOS support. Some time later, I noticed that I rarely booted into DOS/Windows anymore, so I moved everything from the D: partition to the C: partition, erased the D: partition, and reinstalled Linux on that free space (using ext2 instead of UMSDOS). I have used Linux ever since then.
I don't especially want a static compiler. I'm fairly happy with Python workflow even though it's totally dynamic and interpreted, but it's dog slow on numerical stuff and the design is showing its age.

I like the "AOT-JIT" approach of Julia, and I think a separate compilation step is quite a stupid idea in the first place. I see it as some historical relic from computers with extremely limited memory (by current standards) and outdated business models that want obfuscated binaries.

My main gripe is just that I have to do it every time I run anything if I'm not using a REPL/Notebook, which drive me insane with their inconsistent and opaque global state. This could be solved mostly by caching the compilation results and compiling new stuff incrementally. But I'm starting to lose any hope that this is gonna actually happen.

Some lesser stuff follows from lack of this, but they should be relatively easily fixed.
There is a tremendous amount of research on the effectiveness of retargeting. This is dubbed "incrementality" in the field. Issues are:

1. Incrementality is extremely hard to measure due to noise and biases, in particular when trying to account for the multiple agents in the game. Attributed sales are easy to measure. For global, incremental sales, it is much harder.

2. Because of 1, this research needs large amounts of data, which only large ad tech companies have access to.

3. Because the topic is so hard to pin down and so sensitive business-wise, no private ad-tech company would publish ground-breaking material on the topic.
Nonexclusive licenses granted without consideration are by default revocable. Fortunately, GPLv3 section 2 explicitly states that it is irrevocable.

GPLv2 omits such language, so to make it irrevocable you are going to want to find consideration. You can probably whack it a few times with your promissory estoppel stick hard enough to get some consideration to bleed out of it.

That's probably good enough to get irrevocability.
I've tried two different (known-good) HDMI cables and only have the one DisplayPort cable (which works fine on the i9 MBP and even on my 13" MacBook Air)... it seems to be something funky with the mini only.

At least with the DisplayPort cable, the dropouts don't happen, it's just annoying to have to manually turn off my monitor every time I walk away lest it go into the on/off/on/off cycle while the Mac is asleep.

I did order a CableMatters USB-C to DisplayPort cable today to see if maybe going direct from the USB4->monitor will work better than TB3->CalDigit->DisplayPort->monitor.
I think this is missing the point a bit. In my experience, while some countries in Europe have a higher intake of alcohol on average, I have never met anyone who drink to cope with stress, work, etc. outside full-blown alcoholics. Americans do this a lot. In my opinion those are two different discussions: one about the effect of too much alcohol on your system and one of the tendency to drink in ways that is normally only seen in alcoholics (but in smaller quantities). While they might sound similar one is overconsumption (bad) and the other is normalisation of alcohol abuse (very risky, likely bad).

Edit: I didn't down vote your comment btw.