skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you ensure that everybody uses the correct version of the library? If a library change comes with a database schema change, how do you coordinate? With microservices, the owner of the service is responsible for the database schema change and service upgrade. Nobody else needs to be involved. (Genuine question, I'm an infrastructure guy, not a software engineer)
Foreign-language words used in a text are not always set in italic. For example, the author might use a proper noun (so unitalicized) like the name of a minor city in a foreign country that isn’t going to be in the screenreader's dictionary. In these cases, language tagging helps the screenreader output something intelligible instead of garbage.

Generally, use of this tagging is obligatory to meet accessibility guidelines. If in practice people don't use the tags so much, this is a problem. Again, the disabled should not be second-class citizens on the web or any medium that aims to substitute for it.
It's not really someone, somewhere: it's rasengan, who is here on HN!
Meh. I mean I have my family. We’ve bought property.

I think the important thing is how careful the local government is about resiliency.
Haha, alright bud. You enjoy your weekend.
Does this mean Chris Lattner might join Intel’s new chipset mission? :-)

Yay!
And such hypothetical alternative would also only have EUA under your argument. But that then wouldn’t stop them from administering the vaccine, as many of the various not-hypothetical vaccines work well and are cheap, so your overall statement seems a non-sequitur. E.g. it may have been true 6-12 months ago, but the available information has changed.
It's downvoted because it is obviously ageist... Depersoning people by age is no different than depersoning by race or gender.
I never experimented with it that much. My only test was asking people to like and subscribe versus not.

My intuition would be that you should use the phrasing that is authentic to your channel and voice. Most of my content was reading quotes from government reports, academic research, and news reports and then explaining what I thought about it in a calm monotone. (My vocal inspiration was Sam Harris). At the end of my videos I said "If you enjoyed this video please let me know by clicking the 'Like' button. If you'd like to see more content in a similar style, please subscribe." Which I felt represented the tone and pace of my videos.

On the other hand, if your channel is faster paced, more energetic, focused on being funny etc, then you probably should come up with a wacky or creative way to say "like and subscribe." I don't think anyone is going to subscribe just for how clever your saying is, but it will be more consistent with the tone of the channel. I think the main benefit of saying "Like and subscribe" is just to remind people to do that. Some people will be watching your video and enjoying it but just need an extra push to think "Oh yeah, I should subscribe, I do like these videos."
You can take two views of humans.

One is that they are to be managed - their food choices kept narrow to safe ones, dangerous things removed from their environment, and only safe and allowable futures enabled. Give them little locked down tablets that don't view porn, keep their food limited to acceptable options, don't let them read dangerous books.

The other view is that humans are free agents, and to treat them as less than an agent is to fundamentally deny their identity as such. That means giving them information but letting them make "bad choices" or "the wrong choice".

Freedom means being able to make bad choices.
I want the climate to change.

Why do you assume things you believe are ‘problems’ are problems to others?
Related:

93 % of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576425)
Firmware updates for your shoes. Mother of god.
That's interesting. In any old place? I wasn't anywhere near the tracks; I was in a big underground space on my way out.

I wasn't suicidal, but I was definitely unhappy that year. I don't know to what extent that showed. It may have been later in life that I developed my habitual friendliness with strangers.

I do remember deciding shortly after that to learn to fear other peoples' potential fears. It's a pain in the ass, but optimal, I think.
I know this is such a low effort post but it's practically the laws of thermodynamics and has been for all of life. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you eat 1000 more calories than you use, then you will retain those 1000 calories in one way or another. If you burn 1000 calories more than you eat, then you will lose them with your fat reserves. I know I'm incredibly ignorant on actual dietetics, but the Twinkie Diet is evidence of this. You lose weight by a caloric deficit. I'm not arguing for what is safe or best, I'm purely stating the sole fact most Americans are least still don't ever want to come to terms with.

https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor...
There isn't, actually. Even if we would find ourselves in a +4°C world tomorrow (iirc that's the worst-case scenario for 2100), we would still be trying to reduce emissions because things don't get better. It appears to be cheaper to reduce emissions than to cope with the change it causes, partially because we have really large error bars on what changes it causes and the median already isn't pretty.

At the same time, of course, we're also preparing. Iceland has broken ground on big port, expecting the warmer climate to make the Northeast Passage to become navigable year-round and more ships to pass by there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnafjord_Port
Reach out to https://twitter.com/J__Rosen. He's the creator.

Shared in HN because i find it HN worthy.
You're not protecting anyone from the next Tuskegee Experiment by witholding potentially lifesaving medications from them. You're _repeating it_.

According to Worldofmeters: At the moment the United States has 1848 deaths per million people. Thailand has 21. Cambodia has 20. Taiwan 18. Vietnam 0.6. Laos 0.4.
A discussion of the "arbitrate not court" condition would have been interesting but they only played the "this is what it means in plain english" not "this is the skew in our favour inherent in this"

Amazon and the other FAANG use this to force people into exposure to cost in mediation and arbitration on terms favouring the company. Right up until an action group got thousands of customers to submit arbitrations and the company realised it was a multi million dollar unavoidable cost. Arbitration is one of those hidden consequence "better for both of us but more better for me on average" things.
This rhetoric sounds eerily reminiscent of the double standards advocated by practitioners of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) pseudoscience.
OP comment:
Reach out to https://twitter.com/J__Rosen. He's the creator.

Shared in HN because i find it HN worthy.
Just wanted to say thanks for everyone who participated it was a really interesting discussion and example of “apologetics” bordering between religious and secular belief. I learned a lot from people.

I saw a few comments interpreting the last line as snarky or condescending. I just meant that my experience helped equip me with tools to understand the world better, like learning a new language or programming language does. There are other paths e.g. through philosophy that many seculars pursue as well.
This is not how politics works. Nations are definitionally a group of people with shared interests. No one else is going to vote in the interest of the Swiss, only they will for themselves. It is absurd to equate well run, successful, wealthy nations with an obligation to harm themselves by adopting bad policies that hurt their own people. Anyone advocating for that should be ignored.
I wish I could say the same for my home country.
because the newer treatment will likely cost more money

it's not like riverblindness is a first-world problem you can charge people more money for treating
Is this as relevant a comment in this topic as me saying I like pizza, or am I missing something?

Btw I used datadog like 5yrs ago when they had a decent free plan for one server and I loved it aswell.

Transitioned to frontend dev recently so I have no use it for now though.

Edit: okay so the site uses datadog charts, now I get your comment.
S1 filings :)
Maybe it’s sad if you routinely go around treating other people like shit…
Contrarian view:
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/04/29/no-theres-no-good...
> > Ivermectin tablets are approved [...] some parasitic worms.

Doctors prescribe stuff off-label all the time. I've taken off-label prescriptions before. Our son takes off-label prescriptions. The fact that X has not been approved for Y doesn't mean much.

Now that's not saying anyone should take ivermectin for COVID-19. I myself probably wouldn't, and if a doctor wanted to prescribe it to me I'd be sceptical. But my reasons for not wanting to take ivermectin for COVID-19 have little to do with the issue of on-label vs off-label use.
Combined they amount to 0.4% of YouTube's MAU.
>having to install third party pieces which may or may not break stuff, may or may not be supported for long, may or may not break on the next update

Right, so that is a problem, but it's a different problem from lack of configurability. Those things are being addressed in other ways such as with the extension rebooted initiative: https://blogs.gnome.org/sri/2020/09/16/the-gnome-extensions-...

You're making a distinction of "third party" here but I don't understand why that really matters for configurability, for example it's no different from installing an unoffical XFCE panel applet, or using a third party file manager, etc. In the gnome shell, the extension API is built-in and standard. That is the configurability. If you're asking for specific panel settings to be included by default, that really isn't possible in a way that would please everyone -- you can look at the sheer number of panel extensions there are to see why that is the case. Again someone could make one to make it look and act exactly like XFCE's panel, but that would just be yet another option. Does that explain it? It's not really possible for the shell to act the way you're asking.

I support you using XFCE if that's what you want, but if you're asking for changes to be made in Gnome, those could probably not be made without causing much worse breakage. If you're not asking for that, then never mind, I misunderstood :)
There are three main ways governments can change behaviours:

- Tax the behaviour they want to discourage.
- Subsidise a behaviour they want to encourage.
- Outlaw a behaviour they want to discourage.

It looks like all three were attempted based on the article.

> A proposal to outlaw artificial pesticides, and another to improve drinking water by giving subsidies only to farmers who eschew chemicals were both voted down by 61%.

> There are a lot of politicians presenting the false choice of wealth redistribution or climate change apathy.

Someone is going to suffer with any climate change measure, or else the measure would not be necessary. The only question is how that burden should be spread out, so it's not really a false dichotomy...

And yes, this can be a problem attributed to direct democracy: a majority of people in Switzerland can agree that some measure should be introduced, without being able to obtain a majority for any specific measure. With direct democracy that means that no measure will be introduced.
Starlink has an app to measure obstruction levels:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starlink/id1537177988
Missing it other times too:

I Miss the Old Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21402518 - Oct 2019 (306 comments)

Tell HN: I miss the old internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17334552 - June 2018 (221 comments)
> I think Linux will always be behind commercial/proprietary platforms.

the dumb thing of this whole situation is that 50% of the "commercial/proprietary platforms" in this market are android phones, still using Linux as kernel.
I have a couple 'twitter to rss' things saved in my recent bookmarks - anyone know if / how these work?

I've seen that fbook recently made it 'possible' to export your posts to wordpress..

We need to have data export options - and any 'public' page / group - should have export auto-enabled so that regular people can easily pull in via rss or rss-to-email - or similar type of accessibility imho.

Not sure if this sort of thing is in the 'kitchen sink against tech valley' that the house is putting together, but it should be.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210609122141/https://www.bloom...
I kinda doubt it honestly.
I'm not even positive a regime change in China / Russia would have made it to #1 on HN and they both have much more influence on the U.S (and the world's future) than Israel. And even if China's leader being replaced would have made it to #1, the fact we are actually making this comparison (that Israel is as important globally as China) is surreal to me.
I was quite upset. Looking back I'm surprised I didn't seek damages in court. But that was before cell phones were ubiquitous, and I was in a new town where I didn't know basically anyone but my mom, and I don't have a photographic memory for faces. I felt powerless. Indeed, I believe I was.
Failing experiments and learning something in the process is the bread and butter of science
I find it so interesting that you did this! Have you blogged about what you did? I’d love to read it. On one hand it has viral feel good ending (net current partner) but it also seems like something you’d cool criticism for so I understand if you’d prefer to keep the details on the down low.
The metaphor I came up with (and am proud enough of to flog here) is, "The Internet was Burning Man, now it's Bangkok."
I like Tom Clancy's writing.
> do things they think will keep them in office.

You do know that for many of them they have a virtual lock on their seat and the incentive no longer aligns right?

For some/most, the primary driver can be characterized as self advancement.
Artificial pesticides is the naturalistic fallacy rearing its ugly head.

Some of the pesticides which are allowed in organic farming are quite pernicious. It stands to reason that the opposite is true, and some of the pesticides used by conventional farming are less of an insult to ecosystems and human health than the 'natural' ones.

Banning 'artificial' pesticides, in other words, is a blunt instrument, one which stands a good chance of not accomplishing the actual goal toward which the legislation is intended.
Love the idea of Pinephone, but I don't see even remote plans/talks to get to 1/3rd of modern phones performance, my 300$ phone is literally 11 times faster (multicore).

Once you'll get decent hardware performance a lot of devs will happily give up on their laptops and switch to mobile. And that will bring a lot of traction to software for mobile linux...
Generally you're only going to get decent money from bigger names (or at least one leading the round) - and a bad reputation will make it quite unlikely you'll get to play again. This helps avoid many straight-up scams like Dentacoin (lol).

Then, your future rounds of investment are conditional on demonstrated success. Your A can be a bridge round based on traction or a materialized idea. However, your B is generally based on hard numbers.

ICOs tend to get series F/G money up front on a hope and a prayer.

Circle CI raised $100M in a Series F. Check out this whose-who of token failure that all raised the same amount or much more on day 1 (https://decrypt.co/53950/the-10-biggest-icos-heres-where-the...).
Then why administer the vaccines? (With potential side effects due to the short period of clinical trials compared to the use of Ivermectin.) The way to control the epidemic is to make enough people immune to drive it to extinction. It would be preferable to use all available means to attain that. This way you protect all people (not only the people who got the treatment), including the vulnerable ones.
>> Only a fraction (and sometimes even tiny fraction) of the land is needed to supply the same amount of protein and calories when replacing animals sources with plant sources.

That's a quick dodge, but still, a dodge of the OP's point: you can't eat all the plants that animals eat. For example, I eat primarily sheep and goat and their dairy products. The goats eat shrubs and the sheep browse inedible grasses. In fact, funny story, but I know a girl (not me) who tried to eat the grass the sheep were eating and her mouth filled with sores. I mean duh.

Anyway ruminants have four stomachs just so they can digest plant matter that is impossible for omnivores to digest. Industrially farmed animals are fed soy and corn, that can be digested by humans, but those are not those animals' natural feed. Left to their own devices, outside of factory farming, browsing freely, farm animals would exclusively eat plants that are inedible to humans and so they would convert plant matter to food way, way more efficiently than any human stomach ever could.

Four stomachs and rumination is the most efficient plant-to-meat production mechanism known to anyone.
It happened.

(BTW you know you can look through a commenter's history on HN to see if an interpretation of something they wrote is consistent with their character.)
Buy a Raspberry Pi 4. Use it once a week as your main computer.

I'm serious. So much waste (power, e-waste, etc) is generated by the never ending rush towards more and more computationally complex computing that, for the most part, does what we did 5, 10, 20 years ago but on a fraction the compute and a fraction the power.

It drives me up the wall just how bloated most modern code is. A "chat application" is now, often enough, an Electron app with a couple hundred megabyte download size, a memory footprint in the high hundreds of MB, and a CPU burn of "Well, it hasn't pegged out the CPU yet so typing is still fast enough... oh, wait, there it goes lagging." For passing around text messages that are no different from what we used to do on AIM back in the 90s, or, for that matter, still do on IRC today on native applications.

I've noticed a definite trend with web stuff in the past 5 years, which is that it works great if you're on a high end workstation with a 4k monitor or two and gobs of RAM - the sort of thing companies tend to provide to web developers (Google, I'm looking at you). Try to use the same stuff on lower power, older hardware, and... well, it simply doesn't work.

I'm still pretty bitter about the fact that Google's "New" Blogger interface is, quite literally, unusable on older hardware once you have a decent number of photos in the post. I've no idea why the speed of typing text is dependent on the number of images in the post, but it is, and you can even bring a modern high end machine to a crawl if you put enough images in (some larger-than-reasonable number, but it shouldn't matter in the first place). A couple people with high end workstations utterly ruined a perfectly functional interface and made it impossible to write text-and-photos blog posts on older hardware that used to work just fine, for the sake of some responsive, mobile-first rubbish - on a blogging platform. It's quite literally as far from mobile-first as one can get, for the editor side.

Even the power efficient looking stuff we do often has a large power budget on the backend (see "most phone applications that talk to a bunch of cloud servers").

But if you can't run a basic task on a Pi 4, you really need to be reconsidering your approach to the problem.

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Beyond that particular thorn of mine, if you're in the tech industry and concerned about climate change... does it show? Could someone else looking at your life tell you're concerned about climate change, or do you just look like any other high income consumer, buying shiny luxury toys and jetting around the world?

I'll suggest that "consuming our way out of problems largely caused by overconsumption" isn't a strategy to actually solve problems, though it's quite profitable for those selling the "green" solutions.

Edit: And while I'm at it, I'd just like to point out that Starlink access terminals, at least the one I have, consume a reliable 2+kWh/day, so about 750kWh/yr. Per Dishy. That's pretty well absurd for an internet connection terminal alone.
Had the same exact experience a year ago on my first trip.

We’re all the same person = experiencing one-ness/ego death.

For a lot of people it adds magic into their lives. For my materialist mind, not as much. Just confusion.

I think it gave me what Jordan Peterson calls ontological shock.
Having OCD doesn’t help since I now obsess about it and I also suspect it made me feel derealized.
People did leave WhatsApp. If you believe Telegram's numbers, at least 25M WhatsApp users migrated after the privacy policy change. That's more than 1000x as many people as have left freenode. But still a drop in the bucket for WhatsApp's user base.

It's more of a testament to how niche IRC is that a 20K user migration is significant.
What’s wrong with discord?

It’s not a lot different from irc if you are using it for chatting in channels.

Edit: okay I get it.
If a country focus on reducing emissions from their industry, for whom does that improvement benefit? The producer or the importer?

As an example, in north of Sweden there is a lot of focus on creating green steel, most which will be exported. With consumption-based accounting, all that investment will have close to zero impact on the Swedish efforts to reduce CO2, as otherwise we would have double accounting.

Consumption-based accounting has it uses but one need to be very careful in interpreting them. A country that has a lot of coal power plants should not be seen as decreasing their pollution if they suddenly start to export most of it. Some blame should be put at the consumer end, but the primary focus must sit on those who actually pollute the environment.
A response someone wrote to this article: https://medium.com/productboard-engineering/countering-micro...
Maybe, but there’s also a strong “anti-paywall” culture here, which may be the cause.

It is hard to have a discussion about an article when a portion of the audience is unable to read said article.

https://archive.is/2021.06.13-195750/https://www.nytimes.com...
A lot of meetings are also a complete waste of many people's time.
I’m not the person you’re replying to but can I take another shot at expressing their opinion?

Let’s take the argument away from food and move back to networks like YouTube. I’d argue that the best, most innovative thing YouTube accomplished is that they managed to solve a huge chicken or the egg problem. They managed to get enough of an audience to attract creators which has only attracted more of an audience.

How do we deal with companies like that in the context of speech? On one hand, they’re a private company and should have the right to exclude anyone they want for any reason. But what happens when they have so much attention that that exclusion deprives people of hearing right or wrong dissenting opinions?

I genuinely don’t know and my own opinion has swayed so much over the last few months that I’m either dumb or a hypocrite.
Makes sense; most of the Nigerians I hear from seem to be high-flyers in the world of finance, one way or another...
These stories used to be funny when it was about crap that just didn't work. They are becoming terrifying to be frank. Counting people in rooms for on-demand tickets, in-car purchasing of additional features, mandatory bio-metric monitoring of delivery driver behavior...
The graphs are pretty chaotic. Thankfully the headline one seems unambiguous and is what one might intuitively want to view.
> Many people tend to toss these things into religion or spirituality

It is a shame that interesting and/or valuable aspects of our lives are held hostage by (what I see as) irritating cults.