skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lab-grown meat may be a net-negative if it takes too much energy to produce or requires other animal inputs (currently fetal bovine serum). It'll need a lot of improvement to beat chicken or insects in terms of feed conversion factor or carbon footprint.
Don't bother. Apple zealots will tie themselves into knots defending Daddy Apple.
The mechanical bits might last 200,000 miles, but no one will be able to use the software in a decade because it was based on some proprietary interface developed by a defunct car manufacturer. For example you might be able to replace a blind spot detection sensor in the future, but since the parts are coded and require a cloud service to 'activate' you are more or less screwed. And, most likely the manufacturer designed the computer to refuse to allow the car to start without the sensor so you are left with a heavy, environmentally-destructive paperweight to send straight to the crusher.
You can also just delete your cookies for medium.com
hmm. Do Microsoft or Tesla pay well? Last time I interviewed at M$ I had to turn down their offer because of how bad the comp was.
That doesn’t get to the student incentive though. If you feel like you’re already going to fail, you may as well give up until next time. But if you’d progress continually, giving up makes less sense.
Being semi-frozen isn't torture. From reports of human beings who nearly died by it, freezing to death is a very pleasant, dreamy sensation.
Only if everyone takes the same third day off. There's no reason why that should be the case.
> the company now has to navigate the entire new Colorado employment law, not just the bit about posting salary ranges

You didn't point to anything specific except the salary listing, so it's difficult to respond, but it sounds like you're describing the exact situation of interstate remote hiring everywhere. Even big cities usually have lots of employment and tax hoops to jump through, and how many cities in the US have less than 2% of the US population?
Webaroo[1] was one such product

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webaroo
Yea, I think this missed expectation is valid, I certainly wouldn't have expected the pin code to be used as an authenticator on an internet facing API.
Humans are still doing some pretty awful things to each other, I'm not sure our treatment of animals is really near the top of the list. We can obviously do much better with regard to our treatment of animals, but the same can be said about a lot of things.
> my local tax system strongly disincentivizes this by effectively having a 62% marginal tax rate

So high tax rates can be an incentive to work less...
The other ingredients in the vaccine aren't anything special.

Polyethylene glycol, for one, has never been used before in an approved vaccine. It is thought to be the cause of some rare anaphylactic reactions.

There are dozens of other compounds in the Pfizer vaccine; the reason for them being there and their effects are, for the most part, a trade secret.
Canadian governments are a joke and have always been a joke. I'm truly ashamed to live here.
I don't mean be invidious, but being overweight is an actual medical problem, one that's been strongly linked[1][2][3] with susceptibility and severity of the disease.

I can't recommend reading the World Obesity Atlas pdf enough as it provides possible explanations for the disparities in cases and deaths we've seen in different societies.

[1] https://www.worldobesity.org/resources/resource-library/covi...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/excess-weight-and...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32788355/
That might be more of a Honda/Mazda thing than an old/new one.

Hondas have a reputation for being fairly bulletproof and cheap to maintain. Mazdas have a reputation for being fun to drive and occasionally going "bang".

You might be pleasantly surprised by the TCO of a new Civic or Accord.
Why big companies like DoorDash, 3M and HP are making films
They don't specify the actual load-carrying capacity, but I would consider that the critical detail determining the practical utility of this product. Relieving you of the weight of a water bottle is a fun tech demo, but if it could carry a modest backpack's worth of stuff you'd otherwise be lugging yourself, that would have some real benefits in certain contexts.
There's a similar project (https://github.com/erik/squabble), that uses a portable version of Postgres' SQL parser to spit out an AST, which lints can consequently traverse.
This approach alleviates the need for bringing up a Postgres cluster to lint the schema.
I'd be curious to know if there's something to be gained by depending on a running database instance (especially because it complicates CI).
This is SO beautiful!!! Wonderfully done. All the best from my 2 girls to yours. I'll have mine read it.
Are you sure that the difference is due to the allocations? I would expect this to be dominated by matrix multiplies or svds. Are you comparing this with the same blas/LAPACK?

Edit : OK, I see those are small matrices. Then Staticarrays should be a nice contender here, both for speed and readability.
Do you want the obvious explanation? Because the string was passed into the format string parameter of some sprintf-like, a common mistake in C usually caught by warnings but seemingly ignored or suppressed in this case.

edit: turns out from the analysis it was CFStringCreateWithFormatAndArguments, so yes, a sprintf-like used incorrectly
Similar to my doctor's office (a university/corporate enterprise with multiple offices and hospitals) sending me emails during the pandemic to come in and get seen about this or that.
Only if it’s the same third day for everyone :)
What happens when you buy a new or used Android phone with malware baked into the OS image and a reset done through the UI doesn’t remove it?
In Sweden, we are supposed to work 40 hours a week. However, working time includes 2x15 min daily coffee breaks and 1 weekly "wellness" hour. So ... I guess it's a 36.5 hours a week country. :)
Like I said, I don't doubt that they happen, but given that you've also left the company and seem to have hit one of these areas of toxicity yourself, I'm not surprised you'd think so. Who was your last manager? I'm curious if it's anybody I know?
That's true, but I think for a beginner having more ways to do things is also nice, since you have the freedom of doing any one thing in multiple ways. Once you're more comfortable with the language, you don't even really think about it, you just pick what you prefer and what makes sense in the given context.

I'll address the points you made since I love talking about Ruby lol, hope you don't mind!

I'm not sure what you mean with the 3.times {} point. I personally prefer the 3.times do ... end syntax, because it's basically English, it makes it very easy to comprehend what's happening as a beginner. You're doing a thing 3 times, it might as well be pseudocode. IMO it's much more elegant than the whole for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) syntax that's more common in other languages.

The optional return thing I'd agree with, it can lead to some confusing situations. Even after years of Rubying, I sometimes get caught by an unexpected return, especially if I'm working in other langs for a bit. Though if you just disable Rubocop's warnings, you can put a return in no problems! I even encourage beginners to explicitly put in returns, so that the methods they write do what they intend them to do. Didn't intend to return that specific thing there? Now it's clear!

What specifically about strings and symbols? The only caveat that I can think of is that symbols are immutable whereas strings are not , but I don't know how often beginners come across situations where they're confronted with symbols outside of a Hash anyway.

The hash conventions are simply a matter of legacy code. I forget when the rocket (=>) syntax was 'replaced', for lack of a better word, but that's just because before a certain version of ruby you couldn't do the foo: :bar syntax. For legacy purposes, the rocket one remains, but in my experience most people writing modern ruby stick with the foo: :bar convention.

I'd also agree with the optional parenthesis bit, though again for beginners I just tell them to always put parens since it makes it easier to reason about methods.
> These people are annoyed because they know all the other hardware is terrible.

This is an untrue myth that Apple fanboys continue to push.
It's a BLT. But thanks for the history!
Like us looking at times before slavery was abolished. We're probably on the wrong side of history.

The really big issue staring us in the face though is that our treatment of animals is accelerating the pace of pandemics.

Every tightly confined animal farm in the world is another lab doing serial passage gain of function experiments with zero BSL protections by the lab workers.
This could be really cool to protect a garden or bird feeder.
This is probably the first time I read about these side effects. Are you certain it's your perception that has changed (ie. neurological changes), as opposed to the actual smell? I would not be surprised at all if Covid has an impact on the gut flora.
It’s very easy to argue rhetorically that it’s all luck, but the point does not stand up to any kind of rigour at all. Even if you make extremely conservative estimates, just one of the top funds is microscopically unlikely to arise via chance, let alone the multitude that do. Renaissance Technologies alone cannot be explained as random.
True, he doesn't even mention what the pilots say they saw, what is curious for the case that he is discussing.

I don't blame him for his anti-alien position, but his "there is nothing weird here" position is kind of unsustainable. If instead, he would say: "there is no reason to explain this with aliens" and stopped there that would be a perfect rational position.

But he solved the problem like this:

>>"Utter incompetence: It took me under an hour on the internet to find the above explanations. I looked for explanations on YouTube, and the first video I found referenced Mick West. I then looked up Mick West’s web site, which lists all his videos. That was my research."

That was his research. Mr. West also forgot to explain (in the Tic-Tac case) the pilots testimony and, if I remember correctly, the previous radar signatures from the ships.

So, a professor of epistemology solve the problem estimating his priors from how he feels about the issue, an argument from authority (because he didn't bother to check if Mr.West get his facts right) and selecting only the evidence that fits his theory. Wonderful.
Honestly, I like the idea. I've been meaning to pick up the GUIX package management layer to try out.

I love declarative reproducible systems in theory and figure they'll hit the sweet spot 90 percent of the time, though I'm not 100 percent sure they'll fix all my issues, as I tend to do horrifying things like making one system's dynamic linker aware of another system's set of libraries (crossing distro boundaries is ill advised, but doable after forcing yourself to read up on how ld works), and other daft things like that. Was distro hopping for a bit, and have settled on something I like, just need to unite all the other things into a single overarching system image.

Obviously, this would require me going one-man package maintainer for doing this, and I'm reluctant to start, because I see the value of these package management techniques everyone settled upon, and I'm just trying to figure out the right way to store everything.

Basically, I'm nuts, I do horrible things with linkers in the name of "screw it, I can't break it any worse" and I have an update turnaround time worse than Slackware.

I figure give it a couple years and the stubbornness will be broken through.
Despite ballooning tuitions, software development is still a career that people of modest means can aspire to.

That we don’t talk about it more here I think says something about how you only talk about escaping in certain company. You can’t pass for upper class if people know where you come from.
I was always told that the reason lobster is usually sold live is because bacteria in the lobster starts to multiply quickly after they die and the meat will become unsafe.

Cooks have told me to either run a knife through their brain or throw them in a freezer for half an hour to shut them down.

Incidentally, I used to do the latter as a kid when catching bugs outside to feed a green anole I caught and was taking care of for a Boy Scout merit badge...
I just switched from Android to iOS, after a period of adjusting I only miss f-droid and the gems it brings (like GadgetBridge, OsmAnd full, a good Bitcoin wallet and my dear Firefox).

Ok, maybe I also miss that the auto correct does not correct things AFTER I press send ;)

Other than that I’m pretty happy, most of my foss/self-hosted needs are taken care of (Home Assistant, Nextcloud, WireGuard)
I guess I stand corrected. It’s been a long time for me.
For me, going for walks and listening to podcasts or audiobooks helped a lot, especially during the dark winter months. I also started learning Japanese which kept me quite busy and I started cooking more.
I, for one, am grateful to be a Canadian and appreciate everything the governments (federal and provincial) have done.

Edit: wrt COVID-19 response.
The lockdowns quickly became less about actual science, and more about government power.
You are here: Letter to a new member of the human species
In my experience in the north, cars you drive in winter can get about 15-20 years before you really start to have body rust and things like brake lines start rusting out.

Right before the pandemic, I got rid of a 22 year old Honda del Sol. But it had been garaged for about the previous 10 winters. The mechanics at the dealer always went to look at it because they basically weren't on the roads any longer in New England.
This particular part of your argument is overwrought IMHO:

"Imagine someone was kidnapped against their will, and once we were to discuss the rights of the person being kidnapped the person kidnapped with stockholm syndrome have argued in favor of the kidnapper, as if it was within his rights to break its own rights."

1. Apple did not kidnap anyone here. Their customers _voluntarily_ buy Apple products. Don't like Apple's products? Do not buy them. Pretty simple stuff.

2. The government forcing Apple to do certain things is closer to your kidnapping argument. Apple doesn't want to relinquish software control on the devices they make. That is their right. They invented it, created it, and marketed it. Just because they are popular doesn't give anyone the right to control them.

3. You have the right to not buy Apple products.
The simple counter argument is that most life in nature does not end well or painlessly at all. Dying sucks. Especially when you are being mauled to death by some predator. The best you can hope for is that it will be quick. Violent death is a near certainty; unless some crippling decease gets you first. The reality of nature is that there are no nursing homes, only jaws of death.

It's of course not an excuse to be needlessly cruel. But it is a valid reason to re-consider how nature works. Leaving animals alone does not mean they get to die in their sleep surrounded by their loving families and mourned by their loved ones like we all hope for. Worse, a lot of the animals we kill in order to eat them exist solely because we eat them. Ceasing to eat them adds up to genocide.

We have entire sub species of all sorts of animals that would not exist or continue to exist if it weren't for the fact that we breed them in order to eat them. Cows, pigs, and chickens are good examples of animals that have no place in nature and would likely die out quickly because of the very same properties that caused us to breed them in that direction.

Many billions of animals would not exist if it weren't for the fact that we plan to eat them. Equating veganism to genocide is clearly a bit of a stretch. But just ask yourself if it is better for the animal and its species to not have existed at all or is eating meat under some circumstances perhaps not that unethical? It's what the rest of nature does after all.
But these are things that you play with as opposed to what we hope to have in the future which is something that "plays with you". Aka a friend or a guardian of sorts.
Thought experiment: Would you rather work 4 days a week, so you have one to run errands; or work 5 days and have someone run errands for you. Let's assume the net income would stay the same.
Ehh, building codes and land ownership mean that I don't expect much progress.

Two things that jump to mind. Build houses out of old tires. There's a lot of them and mostly they get burnt. Not enough for everyone to have an old tires house in their lifetime, but enough that maybe 10-20% of houses could be old tires?

Shipping container homes that can be transported easily that hook into some kind of "dock" providing septic, power, etc. Most would probably consist of a few segments, but even one 40ft high cube is bigger than many people's apartments. Of course basically what I'm describing is an RV, so why aren't those more common?
Knightscope has tried to deliver this (security guard mobile robot) for years, with decidedly mixed results:

>In December 2017, the San Francisco SPCA rented a Knightscope K5 robot to patrol the area next to their animal shelter, including the public sidewalk, to deter vandalism. The SPCA received complaints about using a robot on a public sidewalk where homeless people were encamped, and the robot was covered with a tarpaulin and smeared with barbecue sauce; the SPCA discontinued the contract.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightscope
Seems cool, but why not show the actual apps I can install using this? I’m not going to install it on my Mac just to find out there’s a bunch of stuff I don’t care about.
If you find yourself saying or thinking "It's so simple why don't people understand" with regard to a political or social issue, there's a good chance you don't fully understand the issue.
If you truly believe that viruses are here to keep our population in balance and we should be part of natural world, why would higher chances of dying affect your decision? Following your logic it just means that nature have much stronger reasons to decimate humanity. Shouldn’t you accept it?
> So you are OK with others getting vaccinated for your benefit but wouldn't do your part to benefit the herd.

Shouldn't they be okay with getting vaccinated? They did it for their own reasons, and that's a good thing, but they're not martyrs or saints.
Calm down, warrior. It links to a free intro with five references to very good, up-to-date, freely downloadable internet references for people willing a general summary of the field. No cookies, no ads, no tracing, no purchase, no subscription. Free lunch.
HIV is effectively treated by tri-therapies.
I don't think the intended use case is dog replacement. Human beings just can't help but anthropomorphize, thus it's a robot dog instead of a quadrupedal load-carrying robot.
I love it! I just hope this gets deployed with more rugged hardware than a raspi. Especially if they're relying on it for medical info.

Sd cards suck.
AltStore many not use any private APIs, but I believe OP's point is that AltStore also cannot guarantee what you are installing is not using a private API. Apple's app-store at least does some static analysis on the app to investigate what calls it will be making.
And to be even more precise, "octopuses" is the standard modern usage. Octopodes is increasingly antiquated.
0.849 for me
According to a Harvard article I read, it's caused by damage to the sensors in the nose, rather than brain damage. I have the problem myself and it's definitely not changes to the smells themselves.
I'm with you. But we're probably in the minority. I notice that my after-work hours are vastly improved if I work 1-2hours less than my usual 8 hours just because those last hours are the most draining, somehow, mentally. So cutting those would improve 5/7 days instead of the 1/7 day improvement with another free day. But anyway, I think in the modern office environment both options should be available. It's available where I live (Germany) but I think most bosses don't really like people exercising these options (I'm waiting for my next promotion before I do it ;)).
Why would it affect Sony or MS at all? Gaming is thriving market, not an unregulated duopoly. When market power becomes so great it negatively affects consumers we step in with anti trust regulation.
I personally love them. I don't care if my house is not unique or personal. In my country those neighborhoods are optimally planned around facilities and that's all I care about.
Shhhh you'll anger the Apple zombies.
I am not if Google (Facebook, etc.) always respect the location tracking preferences of users.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location...

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-science-technology-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-location-data-violate...
I worked at Amazon years ago (2010-2012) on the retail website search navigation. I didn't like it, but it was nowhere near as bad as this hyperbolic post.

Joining Amazon was the best thing I could have done with my career at that stage in my life. I learned a ton! But the culture does grind you down, especially when your alternatives are much more cushy.
The Radiotochka (Radiodot) is interesting in that Soviet and Soviet block governments installed radio where the signal was transmitted over mains wires. This was cheap to manufacture, regional or even municipal transmissions were easy to make (for example beekeepers could be informed when pesticides are going to be used) and you can only listen to approved radio stations (No Radio Free Europe for example). In workplaces messages from management could also be transmitted, similar utility was also found in barracks. This tech used in the West for sure, but totalitarian regimes found endless utility for it. Surely, it is also the inspiration for 1984s telescreens (in that they couldn't be turned off and they were always suspect of being surveillance devices)
I use reducing the rate of incoming tickets as the primary OKR for on-call engineers. Has never failed to reduce that burden over time. Just like you say - I'm convinced it's the only correct strategy to make the problem go away.
Being a part of a chain of transmission that kills someone, when you could have instead been the person who broke the chain and saved a life?
I have a 2003 250k mile 4Runner, and my maintenance calculation is about $1,500 per 50k miles (tires, oil, filters, brakes incl labor). Which comes out to 3 cents per mile, fuel is at 25 cents per mile assuming $4/gal and 16 mpg. I max out liability only insurance at $45 per month for 5k miles per year, so let us round that to 1 cent per mile.

So it comes out to 30 cents per mile plus my morbidity/mortality risk. Hard to justify a new car if I am happy with my current driving experience, which all I care about is CarPlay and air conditioning. I am hoping electric cars are fully tested and reliable by the time my car dies. Or someone steals it.
Whats the best stack for building a website or webapp in CL these days? Is it worth it?
From a safety standpoint, we'd have fewer deaths after implementation. Everyone would be on modern safety features.

From an environmental standpoint, the benefit would be on vehicles where parts get more difficult to find or the owner deems the vehicle to be lacking sufficient safety features (and possibly both, a couple hundred dollar repair prompting the owner to retire the car).

I don't have any numbers to estimate the impact, it's my shower thought for how to maximize asset utilization and minimize vehicle deaths.