skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is what I used to believe, too.

More recently though, it seems to me that ideologies DO have a pretty strong impact on what people believe about the world itself, especially by people who have a tight coupling between their identiy and the ideology.

At the very least, this seems to apply to both sides of the current right/left divide in the west. For instance, if I ask you to predict how climate change will affect the world over the next 300 years, and your response lies in what is predicted by the 5% most optimistic climate scientists, you are very likely to be on the right. On the other hand, if your response corresponds to the 5% most pessimistic, you are very likely to be on the left.

As ideological polarization, an increasingly large part of the population will fall into one of theose extreme groups, which I interpret as a way that the ideology promotes beliefs that are not supported by science.

It seems to me that the underlying motivation is that people who believe axiomatically that a free market is good, see global warming as a threat to that belief. The leftists may believe the opposite because they see the free market as evil, or just to oppose the right.

There are plenty of other cases where ideologies cause beliefs that are not well founded in "real" science, even though there may be plenty of ideologes that promote them. Some beliefs are so sacret that any challenge to them will be punished as evil/heresy, which itself is a clear indication that the ideology does not value open inquiry.

I would even go so far as to see some of the principles and ideas involved as somewhat metaphysical. Capitalists can see the "invisible hand" in such a light, while leftists seem to imagine some sort of oppression to determine every social interaction (not very diffrent from how Christians in Europe believing that demons were virtually everywhere).

In the end, I think it is about the people following a given ideology. It used to be that atheist were a relatively small minority composed of mostly people with an above-average level of scepticisim to ways of thinking not supported by hard evidence.

But as the percentage of non-religious people increase, more and more poeple that have a religious inclination become "atheists", and those (I think) may be much more likely to accept incredible (literally) statements as fact, with little or no evidence.
This is the type of wild stuff I come to HN for... will I ever use it? No. Is it amazing? Eff yes.
Extraordinarily strongly disagree. Documentation should be first, best, and most thorough in written form. It is easily searchable, easily transferred, easily scanned for relevant sections.

Do anything else you want for your audienc3, but for me personally if there is not textual documentation, I will consider your system, software, library or whatever effectively undocumented.
I think reading the article always helps.

> The researchers grew two types of famine weed, one invasive and the other non-invasive, and exposed them to the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide recorded in 1950 and 2020. In the invasive variety, parthenin concentrations peaked at the highest carbon levels
> why did python decide to break backwards-compatibility

I think this is actually because of Mr. van Rossum's employment at Google. Taking money from one customer exclusively just killed Python's future. It would kill any ordinary business, too.

Programming languages are like religions...they survive on donations and free labor. I think Google should have been milked for cash and Python should have been used as a brand showcase for its donors in front of large conference crowds. Showing a bunch of stinking hippies that Corporate America (tm) is scrambling for a chance to throw money at you...it's a pretty picture!
New Kits are always tacked on, there are few overviews to tell you how an entire area works.

I once spent days trying to update old AV player code get close captions working with Vimeo streams on iOS, half that time was just trying to understand how captions worked in AV streams at all.

Every time something like AV gets a new set of APIs, Apple should update a detailed overview that explains we used to do things this way, then added these Kits to make it easier to do these things and you should only use them for these specific things now, because we have now have added these new Kits to address these new needs, or make this other thing easier, etc.

And I’m sick of watch videos. Give me a high level overview of the why and how of the managers, and in it link directly to detailed documentation pages, sample source code and pertinent WWDC videos so I don’t have to use my Google fu to figure out those links myself.
On the storage capacity
I'm not sure I suggested that the trackers believe there is a linear correlation. Rather that to the extent they believe there is a correlation they should incentivize it by tying it to compensation.

Naturally, many metrics can be gamed, but to the extent that can be gamed is also a good indication of the actual value of the metric. For example, a sales person's compensation is typically tied to a metric: the revenue they brought in in a particular quarter. I'd suggest that metric is pretty important and hard to game. Similarly, a CEO's compensation is often tied to EPS, again pretty valuable and hard to game. A factory worker's compensation could be tied to the number of widgets that they create. Tying a software developer's compensation to mouse clicks and keyboard entry for example, is a very gameable and thus low value metric.
Note that a lot of the flat earth stuff is a large troll to make people mad, crazy stuff comes out of 4chan…
He wrote a blog post about a language and tools that he doesn't personally use or understand that he was trying to use to stress test his system. From reading the responses it seems that he may have misunderstood Firefox specific issues as being rust issues by virtue of having insufficient understanding to disambiguate. Had he communicated he probably would have been able to derive this understanding easier from conversation thus the exhortation that he ought to have do so sees to be productive and correct.

I don't think its apt to call the people critiquing the critique "apologists" when the entire original blog post seems to be misunderstanding on the part of the blogger. Posts that critique things the poster do not understand tend to themselves generate critical feedback which seems fairly measured to me.
The Moon is Down; I have not heard the clock
Only if you leave out the paragraph directly afterwards, where they tested it experimentally:

> The researchers grew two types of famine weed, one invasive and the other non-invasive, and exposed them to the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide recorded in 1950 and 2020. In the invasive variety, parthenin concentrations peaked at the highest carbon levels. The results suggest that modern levels of carbon dioxide have contributed to the noxious weed’s toxicity.
CO2 levels were much higher in the Earth's ancient history, and boy did plants love it. Nice way to cherry pick one specific species, though.
If giving Apple developers tools that automatically generate useful API reference documents frees up the devpubs team to generate the other kinds of documents necessary, I'm all for it. If there's nothing but the API documents, DocC won't really address the issues.

> They’re a small but mighty team that’s constantly overwhelmed

Perhaps Apple needs to spend some money and effort there, but that sounds like a management problem.
A startup equity consists of the startup's net assets, so the owners have a claim on these assets. In the case of these "governance rights" what assets do the holders have a claim on?
In places where micro/services were *really* needed people/orgs were implementing those even decades back. I personally was doing it in the 90s. For myself the criteria for making something as a service was simple: it will really cost the organization not to have it as a service.

Now as with many things that nothingburger got suddenly overhyped and ended up being shoved into every hole disregarding of any technical rationale.
Doge is probably too dodgy...
I hate networking and loathe networkers. People who get their job done by emailing, making phone calls and sitting in meetings are leaches. They know little which isn't told to them (they're too busy socializing to read a book), produce nothing, leave the details and hard work to others, yet somehow are given all the credit and reap all the benefits.

Never Eat Alone is basically a guide to creating and maintaining insincere relationships with others so you can use them to do work for you. Just like Tom Sawyer, it's considered clever if you get all your friends to paint the fence so you don't have to. I personally find it nauseating.
Or else it's research that won a Fields Medal. There is no middle ground.
>“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

From a philosopher writing in the 1600s. I don't think it's an issue with any particular society. It just seems part of human nature to be inable to sit and do nothing for a significant period of time.
We probably would need to somehow uncover massive deposits of rare "earth" elements or similar to convince people to push for reaching to space seriously again.
I am not a fan of the SwiftUI docs, but I have yet to do a full-fat SwiftUI app.

I was introduced to this app, which I think is a great help (I referenced it above): https://swiftui-lab.com/companion/
For some, it is clear that this brief moment of consciousness is an amazing gift.

Soon our bodies will go back to the dust that we began as:)
It's like how many dictatorships have the word "Democratic" in their official country name.
Reads like the man page for "git rebase".
Isn't this just confirmation bias? The sort of journalist who would publish work on this sort of scientist's publications, they both seem like the types of people who rather publish than do nothing.
It's a parody/derivation from the monad joke, where one explanation for a monad is that they're "just an monoid in the category of endofunctors".
Wow. This is going to have a big effect. We can't call Russians felons anymore!
Secure Sessions in JavaScript
I’d argue the original SE is magic... but it’s just a 6s crammed into the 5 case. As a mini 12 owner, I’m still sad “my spoon is still to big”.
+1 - crypto-based lending is an incredibly smooth digital process vs legacy dollar-based lending, which is frankly a nightmare of "wire cutoff deadlines," entering the same info 40 times for 6 people, "security theatre" like call-to-confirm and notary public with people who don't know you and are trusting pieces of paper, etc etc etc
Big deal. I just installed ubuntu 21.04 on a ten-year-old machine. There is no non-evil reason why the latest OS cannot run on yesterday's hardware.
What percentage of cryptocurrencies are backed by real world assets? Who ensures that this backing is actually baked into the cryptocurrency and isn't just some marketing speak? For example there is Tether which claimed to be backed by USD. "[I]t turns out that the stablecoin that used to say it was 100 per cent backed by cash reserves is in fact . . . 2.9 per cent backed by cash reserves".[1]

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/529eb4e6-796a-4e81-8064-5967bbe3b...
All I've found is that the more I help people, the more I get taken advantage of. It hasn't stopped me from helping others (although I probably should...), but it really galls me when they toss me aside after my usefulness to them has passed.
Instead of reading about commodities on a site called "The Hustle," may I recommend reading another site that is specifically about lumber? Madison's Lumber Reporter[1] is a great site for tracking lumber prices.

[1] https://madisonsreport.com
I just think of git as a graph and branches/tags as text pointers to nodes in the graph. Doesn't seem that complex to me...

Maybe I "got gud" though and can no longer empathize with git beginners
I would hope there is some middle ground between "live to fulfill their needs" and "seeing them twice in 30 years and never seeing your grandchildren".
As always: https://xkcd.com/1597/
They do youtube shorts for 1 minute videos
Any alternative recommendations? I am OK with publications having biases (in fact, I don't think there could be one without any) as long as they tend to be upfront about it and I can find opponent views to balance things out.
Sure, I wasn’t commenting on the preferences of women, but more of the culture of dating apps, which seem to reduce people to some photos and a few snippets of text. From what I hear women have their own crap to put up with on those platforms.
Ah, back when you could safely ignore a racist tirade because it came from xXBone_Lord420Xx instead of John Smith from Accounting.
“Pay-to-win” is generally not considered to be a recipe for fun games, as far as I know. Having a sudden flood of rich assholes coming in and crushing people because all the best guns are a trivial real-money purchase for them sounds like a good way to kill a game.
Wow, what a king.
worth pointing out that a huge amount of the longstanding freenode policy & other bits of content (history) were unceremoniously taken off the website 3 days ago.

"Leenode" really is trying hard to burn itself to the ground.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27475592
No wait, he has something here. Not about who is better; that’s irrelevant. But, on “rules”. What’s being discussed here are “best practice” rules —- strategies of social construct that are sometimes smarter to bend or break, or maybe can be changed entirely if you can prove a more successful method. The “rules” you’re mentioning are perhaps more akin to physics —- fundamental laws that govern the game. You really aren’t supposed to break those, regardless of talent or success.
> I had the same experience trying to use older versions of Rust or trying to use newer versions of rustc on older crates. It doesn’t “just” work. For many of us this coming from Go, this seems like a step backwards.

I have read the blogpost... and this isn't really the substance of the complaint? It is Mozilla's fault really to be honest, they should be sticking to a nightly if they want to use weird and non-standard features.

I personally think the only similarly between yours and the authors' is the (supposed) unmet promises of backwards compatibility - guess what, I code in different languages (including Go) and I can see breakages regularly, mostly not due to breaking a "backwards compatible" promise but because the broken code has been always there, just not being enforced by the compiler. Specifically in Rust, the backwards compatibility promise wasn't Microsoft's "everything including undocumented features" backwards compatibility: it was only limited to documented features used properly. This can surprise people who relies on the Microsoft definition of backwards compatibility.
The result is: import the open-source Observable runtime and then use it to run the reactive notebook code. What else would you expect?

The reactive notebook code is written to work when run against the runtime. If you want to translate it to run in a different context where there is no reactivity, you are going to need to read the code and modify the parts that depend on that reactivity.

For example, if a cell depends on a variable that was set to be the reactive output of an HTML slider, then you are going to need to put the slider separately into your page, and write the code yourself to hook up the slider’s event handling logic.

This is not too difficult, but the notebook version is typically nicer and more legible.
I bet the author had a lot of fun, but still, I must ask: "why, oh why!!?? Just why!!?"
I am not a climate change denier, but aren't most plants supposed to have faster growth with increasing C02 levels?

And, aren't most toxins made by living beings on this planet carbon based?

This kind of stuff is what feeds the conspiracy theorists. it is not helping.
Actually, I'm not sure about that math...

50,000 * 30 games = 1.5M people per year. Let's say regulars/repeats/tourists are 3/4 of the people - 300K new local visitors.

A lifetime is (say) ~80 years.

In a lifetime, (7.7/8)^80 = 4.6% chance you don't go to YS at least once in your lifetime.

If I had to guess, MSG is better than YS because it hosts a wider variety of events and it's in the center of town with easy transit access, i.e. more new local visitors per year. The better analogy might be a venue like Forest Hills, which is far from the city.

Take Grand Central Station - certainly, most NYers visit once in their lives...
Future of Cinnamon in Debian
The tools I used had a parallel requests option.
> Once new mills are open

That's assuming someone wants to open one. The demand was spiked by the pandemic which is subsiding. According to the article a new mill take 2 years and technology impacted by the microprocessor shortage.
A good illustration of this is riding the NYC subway. I think most people would choose a slower-moving local line if it shows up before the more efficient express line, even if the express would get you to your destination sooner.
I don’t live outside a big city. I live in a Canadian city of only 1 million people.

Thanks to the incredibly bad city planning (which is common all across North America) and complete joke of local transit options (also common in NA), you regularly see folks with 45 minute to 2 hour commutes one way.

Folks are losing as much as 4 hours out of their day even though they live in a small city that should be easier to commute but isn’t due to corruption and laziness of the city.

To be clear, we’re not talking Seattle or Portland, we’re talking obscure cities like Ogden, Calgary, Edmonton, etc.

North America is a massive turd compared to practically anything in Europe. Some of your far flung towns have better transit than some of our metropolises.

tldr; it is drastically worse for commutes in any non-major American cities. You have no idea how good you have it in Europe.
with GCC long double is always an 80 bit precision type.
Sheesh, and I thought I was jaded :)

You're right, it's just not that apocalyptic. I think we should be worried, yes, but this can be mitigated with stricter regulation and better public education. And of course engineers choosing to work for respectable companies instead of following the digits on their paychecks.
> there really are not a lot of real world use cases.

It's effectively just one. To make illegal transactions. That's a long list of things: drugs, hiding wealth, evading currency controls, extortion, and so on. Otherwise, existing currency and transfer mechanisms are more or less available and convenient.
>substituting titillations for profound organic satisfactions, cleverness for wisdom, and jagged surprises for beauty...

...And porn for relationships and intimacy. If there's any modern ill that has exacerbated our inability to be comfortable with boredom (which is essentially inner loneliness) it's porn. It's an escape for loneliness and a terrible salve that leaves the intrinsic desires for intimacy and connection unfulfilled, akin to drinking salt water to cure thirst.

A psychological pandemic in its own right, and you can't escape its ubiquity and influence.
My understanding is that, while plants thrive overall, higher CO2 in the atmosphere is expected to “dilute” the nutrients in farm crops because they will grow too fast[0]. These nutrients may already be impacted by industrial agriculture practices[1]. So it’s still not good news for humans.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/140507-cr...

[1] https://news.utexas.edu/2004/12/01/study-suggests-nutrient-d...
Potatoes for McDonald's fries are reportedly grown on Bill Gates' farmland
This might not be true. Most religious people change their beliefs.

A religion is a set of assertions or axioms that, like any mathematical or logical system, cannot ever be proven or disproven (by their very definition).

When one goes about living one’s life, they require life experiences that guide them one way or the other.
For the A8 gen:

iPad mini 4 is A8 with 2GB of RAM and remains supported. iPad Air 2 is A8X (with 2GB of RAM) too and remains supported. Other devices to remain supported are Apple TV HD (A8 with 2GB of RAM) and HomePod (A8 + 1GB RAM, but no big UI to deal with).

Unsupported A8 devices:

iPod Touch 6, iPhone 6/6 Plus, both because of RAM size
> He's a public figure, if he wants privacy he shouldn't have run in national elections.

Others have commented on how absolutely ridiculous and insane this is, but it also highlights one reason (among many) that we generally have such shitty politicians. If you believe that running in national elections should make every single aspect of your private life open to public scrutiny, don't be surprised if the types of people willing to run for public office only care about increasing their own power.
The reality is that we need a new term than ponzi scheme to determine if we are willing to respect a financial model or not

The state (us government) has made it clear that there is no distinction it can stand behind anymore

sometimes earlier investors get paid out by newer investors

whether it’s a high yield investment program, a poorly run hedge fund, or the entire corporate bond market, or social security, or herbalife, or defi

The debate over the name of the payout system is no longer productive, as ponzi scheme - as a pejorative term - doesn’t tell you anything
Good technical documentation needs dedicated technical writers.

Comments and internal docs can be handled by the engineers themselves, but turning that into an organized and properly formatted manual in a consistent style and voice for outside consumption is a specialized task that can’t be done piecemeal by the same people writing the code.
const x = ...
it's usual to read code to understand it
"helps overcome JavaScript's dynamic nature", you say that like it's a good thing
The problem is that not all plants will win there, and probably not the plants we rely on: for the higher CO2 levels to be useful to a plant, it needs to be growth-bound by carbon acquisition.

Guess what no fertiliser I've ever heard of contains? Carbon. Carbon and oxygen are the two things agriculture has no need whatsoever for. If anything, higher carbon level might make agricultural products worse by making the plants grow faster at the cost of nutritional content.
I'd be surprised if most people who advocate that drugs be tested on consenting adult humans would themselves give consent... especially to drugs which weren't already shown to be safe when tested on animals.

It would be interesting if every citizen was required to act as a research subject every year, to more equitably distribute human testing.

But of course most people would freak out if such a requirement was ever seriously floated, as they want drugs tested on others not on them, so it would never happen.
What’s the real difference? It’s the same with good testing. Engineers are expected to operate on timelines and meet deadlines that are often not generated by someone who values good testing and thorough documentation. If Apple wanted good documentation they would have to be comfortable with something that was going to take one week now taking two weeks and they’d probably need to include willingness and ability to document as something they select for when hiring. Or they’d have to spin up documentation teams that work alongside feature engineers, or something. In almost every environment I’m been in, people balk when you force them to confront the reality that good quality things take time and effort. So I don't think it’s just a careless “whoops we forgot to tell the engineers to document” type of scenario. I think it is fundamental to the fabric of the company and those that operate it.
I’m a skeptic of this, but couldn’t you control oxygen levels in industrial scale indoor grows?

Edit: this isn’t cannabis. Keeping post because lol
I would be curious if you could find a rule book that says you must believe this rule book.