skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The lab leak people did have evidence: the fact that the virus emerged right next to a lab doing experiments on coronaviruses. The people claiming it couldn't have escaped from the lab were the ones without any evidence. Their claims were basically "it wasn't from the lab trust us we're scientists".

You are way way underselling it. There's a ton of stuff we knew a year ago that were called conspiracy theories until a month or so ago, until suddenly the media is pretending they're both credible and were only just discovered.
Your account looks like it has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. Actually, not so much primarily as exclusively, which is really bad. Would you please stop doing that? It destroys what this site is for, regardless of which ideology you're for or against. (See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for more explanation, if you want it.)

We ban accounts that do this, and your account has unfortunately crossed far into bannable territory. I don't want to ban you (you've been here for 14 years!) so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

(Re your (presumably rhetorical) question about HN - that's like asking why a large data set clusters around the mean with bell-shaped tails on either side. You can't expect any large-enough population sample to be that different from the population at large.)
> In order to get 1 calorie of meat, you need to use 7-10 calories of plants.

But where does this counting of calories come from? The article is talking about proteins. It says "the production of one animal protein requires 7 to 10 plant proteins" (my underlining).

> So by necessity, if you eat 1 calorie of meat, you are producing (at least) 7-10x the suffering relative to eating 1 calorie of plants, since 7-10x as much plant mass (and hence plants) needed to suffer to create the meat.

So, when you say "7-10x as much plant mass (hence plants)", you mean that 1 unit of plant mass = 1 plant, or did I wilfully misunderstand you again?

> I'm going to stop responding at this point because I'm not sure how else I can explain this.

You can explain it if you get the units right. Are we talking of proteins, calories, or units of suffering? What are we counting exactly? Maybe try to explain that?
More untaxable money definitely makes it easier to achieve higher returns.
It's arguably even worse than just commenting "This." At least that is small enough you can scan over it and barely even register its existence. But this fedora-tipping "Thank you kind sir this is the type of Internet Content I enjoy!" doesn't even afford you that luxury.
Wouldn't it be less effort to figure out how to migrate off? Not every product works for everyone. It sounds as if you want to unleash the Spanish Inquisition.
The sites that actually have something good to say will never block out poor people by virtue of their owners being smart enough to factor this into their costs.
I published my first Steam game on Linux as well as Windows and MacOS, but I don't think I'll do it again because for a single person developer (as indie as it gets) the time spent supporting Linux doesn't pay off. Within days of publishing my game I had support request emails that said "so I'm on this specific Red Hat version, with this oddball graphics driver and three monitors and full-screen doesn't work with your game properly". As I only officially supported Ubuntu I couldn't really help each exotic (to me) setup that came into my email inbox, and there was more than a few. Which I still think is a shame.

But that was five years ago. I'm pretty sure Photon supports my Windows builds on Linux better than I was ever able to do with the native executables, and at least there's that.
Fear of government-enforced market shut-out vs fear of civil liability for facilitating medical fraud. The fundamentals of Google's decisionmaking are the same, but the legal, societal, and ethical contexts in which it occurs can lead reasonable people to widely different value judgements of the outcome.
I agree completely that the business model of Facebook or Google should be illegal.

They don't provide value to consumers, but give unscrupulous companies tool to manipulate people into buying things they don't need or want.
Not sure I agree with that interpretation, but it brings up something I've always wondered. The advertiser pays $x to show me an ad, presumably because their expected ROI (from me) is greater than $x.

So if that's actually true on average, ad-suppprted services aren't really "free"? I pay for them in all the extra spending I do because of the ads, and the margin on those product prices that goes to advertising.
The fellowship did not create vitalik and eth; he was giving talks about it on the crypto circuit before he accepted a fellowship.
Here is a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Fellowship#Recipients
Microsoft pivoting business model to being an Amazon referrer?
No argument about that.
So weird that the post focuses on how much revenue the movie industry could lose from these short movies, and claims that the movies are designed to discourage people from watching the movies. So what? All of capitalism is predicated on the idea of making something that takes market share away from someone else. The real issue here is copyright infringement, I can't see how a 10-minute version of a movie would fall into fair use. So they need to adapt and make their own fake content (with claymation or puppets or something). IANAL.
It's not like Microsoft hasn't tried very hard in the last 10 years to emulate the iOS business model, but I guess Windows users don't like walled gardens.
Thats a rather fancy way to say. poor people can't afford to pay a sub for every ad supported site they use.
I don't get it either. I literally had to replace the cat on my car after it started throwing a check engine light. I took the old one to a scrap yard, and the amount of info they asked me for was crazy. They wanted the VIN of the car, all of the car information like make, model, color, etc, then photocopied my ID and kept records of it. This is in Washington, so it may vary by state. You'd think this would be enough, but there's someone who is not asking questions...

So many scrap yards are out of business in our area now too, I don't get where people are taking them to. Maybe people are taking them out of state to where people don't ask questions.
FDA will add warning to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
I believe the claim is this wouldn't happen. You wouldn't need to separately pay for 40 sites if they were content to have a few thousand users each like the old days. Hosting that really is close enough to free that people would still do it. Keep communities small. You don't need to network with 3 billion people.
> A new look task bar. Centred similar to the macOS dock by default but lacking the ability to position on any other screen edge?

This is confirmed on the Windows 11 specification site:

> Alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only location allowed.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...
I was calling universities a rich kid's club (esp. the ones that get the most gifts from the megarich). Trying to make the point that, while the Thiel Fellowship may not be objectively "good", it seems at least as good or better than the OC's suggestion that it is preferable for the megarich to fund things like universities.
1.1.1.1 is the solution?
Awesome and rare to see a progressive fee structure
Don Eyles' book Sunburst and Luminary has a chapter on this, and Don was primarily responsible for the Apollo 14 workaround. The book is also generally just a fantastic account of what it was like to develop software for the Apollo Guidance Computer.
You can get the free Microsoft Office from Android running on Windows 11 "natively"...
Is Godot a good game engine to learn?

I am looking to make an RTS 2D game on a global map, similar to an old game called Red Storm Rising - https://www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/r/red-storm-...

Any suggestions?

I am a Java/C++ dev
There should be a legal option to pay Facebook or others a monthly fee to use of the service and they shouldn't be allowed to use any of your data.
>But if you want get android app from playstore, you still need google account

nope, just use aurora store
> It does not justify current Chinese minority policy, but it does make them more understandable and relatable.

Does it? Strong democracies don't assure that atrocities don't happen, it just means that governments are able to be held accountable for them.

There will never be a Truth and Reconilliation commission in Xi Jinping's China, and there certainly is no mechanism by which any consequences can be had for their actions.

Canadian's and their politicians are faced with this current atrocity, and its politicians may face consequences if such actions were to continue or aren't reconciled.

I would say that actually the extent to which it is possible that politicians do not face consequences is a reflection of weaknesses in the representation of our democracy (e.g.: first-past-the-post, voter suppression, etc..)
I'm surprised theres no error correction in your uplink. Crazy.
I mimic the top comment here. I used to be an aerial photographer in the Northeast about 7ish years ago when drones were still relatively new. You still had to build you own back then, you couldn't just BUY them.

The regulations were super confusing. I even had cop sending me an email in case I ever needed anything, but I'm pretty sure at the time I wasn't really supposed to be flying because I didn't have a license. Regardless, regulations were ridiculously confusing so it's nice to see some clarity after all these years.
> But can a German court really order a company located in Switzerland to comply?

They sure can! It's just one of the many "perks" of the EU.
> Well, I've never heard of listing "achievements" on your resume

This has been standard advice for decades. Not necessarily in a section labelled "Achievements" but nonetheless, very orthodox.
Making one massive spyware conglomerate that collects every bit of personal data from individuals that's possible.
I would assume he did, unless there is any proof otherwise.

ProPublica specifically omitted this information, so assuming that it was all kosher seems reasonable.
Easy. He doesn't own the company, shareholders do, and he happens to be a shareholder. If you work for Microsoft, can you buy Microsoft shares in your IRA? Yes. This is why the IRS can't do squat about this. It's completely legal. If he owned a controlling interest (>50%) things would have been different.

If you bought the property as part of an incorporated entity, it would be entirely legal for you to do work or be contracted by that entity.
The residential schools are gone, but their goal -- getting rid of indigenous culture so that they stop being a hindrance to resource exploitation on their land -- is still going strong.

https://www.johnralstonsaul.com/non-fiction-books/a-fair-cou...

Has some good ideas for a mental model shift
Not exactly. Play services/GCM is the push notification system on Android. Even on my completely degoogled phone I have to use microG to support push notifications from google's servers because every app developer has hardcoded their app to use GCM. It doesn't have to be that way. An alternate push notification service with a client alternative could be made available. Developers and users could start using it. Ideally there would be a standardized protocol, and a system setting so that the user can set their preferred push notification provider. Apps would use the system provided endpoint for push notifications and we would get a little control back. I sure wish I could self host push notifications.
I wonder why the Roth didn't include any sort of cap or maximum exemption? It seems like that would have been an easy safety to build in, like a stop-loss for the government to avoid intentional and unintentional abuse leading to tax shortfalls. The federal gift tax has a limit of $11.7 million, seems like a gift to your older self might be considered similarly.
Check out the book Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the root of most chronic disease(0). TL;DR: Insulin resistance. There’s some great discussion about men’s and women’s fertility in there.

(0) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49207255
I am no space expert but maybe they forgot to disable Android system updates, that's what seems to have caused my Samsung Tab S2 to slow to a crawl ;-)
Wow that's impressive
On a recent (i.e. the last 2 or 3 major releases) Windows 10 install (any edition) you can create a local account during the post-install setup assistant by selecting to make an offline account and then selecting "limited experience" when it tries to convince you an online account is better.

You can see this in steps 8 and 9 at https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-windows-10-local-acco...
How did he buy non-public-ally trade FB shares in his Roth?
You are completely right, considering only the USA, to be Top 1% you should earn $308,558 a year according to https://graphics.wsj.com/what-percent/

Now, for the world, you´ve got to make $58,000 USD yearly to be in the 1%

https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i?income=...
> A modern man's clothes may have pockets, but he rarely wears any kind of handbag in which to hold the reusable shopping bag

typical store-issued reusable shopping bags easily fold to pocket size, and bags that fold into convenient, integrated pocket-size holders are readilt available, too.

“I don’t have a way of carrying reusable bags” is a rationalization, not a reason.
You are exactly right. In fact, there are a number of approaches in this space: p4c-ebpf [0], p4c-xdp [1], and p4c-ubpf [2].

[0] https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/blob/main/backends/ebpf/README...
[1] https://github.com/vmware/p4c-xdp
[2] https://opennetworking.org/news-and-events/blog/p4c-ubpf-a-n...
Thanks to Regulation Crowdfunding, people can. Sites like Wefunder make it easy to do so.
The electric grid, too, started on coal fired plants; perhaps we should label it as "harmful to society"
This is false. A pirated Windows 10 Pro license costs like $25. These are not legitimate licenses, they're overprovisioned enterprise keys being sold in violation of the license agreement. And yes, they register differently in Windows, and can be easily detected. (Command is slmgr /dli)

Like, if you want to pirate software, go pirate software. If you're going to pay someone on a per-install basis for pirated keys, I'm gonna laugh at how easily you're being taken advantage of.
No way, American bacon is our gift to the world. The European stuff doesn’t even come close.
It's true that the salary of a tech worker making $400k/yr is closer to that of a janitor making $40k/yr than it is to a VC making $4m/yr.

However, the lifestyle of the $400k/yr worker is probably closer in most important aspects to that of the VC than the janitor. Both drive expensive cars, live in expensive houses, and can set up their kids for success. They don't worry about the cost of food (even organic/local/etc.) or worry much about health care.

Put another way, there are probably some $40k/yr janitors who would give their left arms to be making $400k/yr. But I doubt there are any $400k/yr tech workers who would give their left arm to be making $4m/yr.
Syncretism, an option search engine in Clojure
I work with these guys a good bit. Not a marketing driven company. The founders built the KVM hypervisor, so there's lot of low-level OS optimizations going on.

I found this article really useful in understanding how Scylla is different:

https://www.scylladb.com/2021/05/13/an-interview-with-pekka-...

Also, loads of teams use Scylla as a backend for JanusGraph.
Yeah, I think it says a lot about desktop Linux that running the Windows version under Wine is often a better experience than the native version.
The two great ocean plastic patches are hundreds of km large, and made of mostly plastic bags (polyethylene) and plastic containers (polypropylene) from household items. Not any kind of industrial source. It adds up pretty quickly when there are 8 billion of us.

I suspect you got it backwards here - the plastic you use in a year does much, much deeper damage than emissions from a flight. But in the end these different types of environmental issues are not exclusive. You can reduce your plastic consumption and plane travel!
Regarding caching and memoisation. Isn't the main benefit memory usage saving. I wonder if it's possible to do parsing for speed and then background deduplication for memory savings. (I don't know what the status is of multithreading in js or wasm)
He would have deposited them at company formation when they were essentially worthless.
I couldn't find Microsoft Teams on the Microsoft app store today. Maybe they should fix that first.
As far as data privacy goes, I will say that the sale of health data has some pretty significant upsides--specifically medical research. There's probably a better way to get the best of both worlds, but I would hate for us to just pull the rug out from under medical research without a satisfactory backfill.

Disclaimer: I work for a company that uses this data to match terminally ill patients with niche treatments and clinical trials, and the work literally saves and prolongs lives.
> buy a stake in a startup that has a good chance of one day exploding in value

Sounds easy and straightforward.
For me it has maybe a 10% success rate for searching strings within files. Yet it takes minutes to search for file names even when spelled exactly. Finding files by name is the primary use-case, maybe optimize for that first.
Yeah, it is. I did check that twitter feed afterward. I didn't edit as it doesn't really affect the point I was making. People just love dunking on their enemies.
Just finished my last semester at a CC and I'm transferring to a UC this Fall. I think that CCs will never really be able to shake off their stigma because of the fact that they are an entry point for EVERYONE. Telling someone you go to a CC could mean anything from "I'm a lazy fuck up" to "I'm a bright student who wants to avoid student loans". I feel like a lot of CC students just grit their teeth and accept that they may be looked down upon until they transfer and "prove themselves" so to speak. There's really no getting around this without changing the very nature of CCs' inclusiveness.
The Sun X4500 "thumper" server had 48 drives, if I remember correctly, and came out in 2006ish.

It had hot-swap SATA disks (up to 512GB disks initially!) and was actually pretty cool and forward thinking

https://web.archive.org/web/20061128164442/http://www.sun.co...
Except he's not wrong about that. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. The press is definitely an enemy of the people.
The fact that someone used a vehicle that limits your yearly contribution to $5500 a year to amass $5 billion is worth investigating. The investment return needed for that is close to 60% annually, an inconceivably high rate of return for any long period of time.
I occasionally saw signs that said "nothing of value" on car windows near where I lived, but I always figured the thieves would assume that's what someone who kept stuff in their car would post. Did you get broken into a lot?
If Google were to ditch Android for Fuchsia, I could see this Microsoft/Amazon alliance stepping in and saying they'll build Android moving forward.
Speaking as an introvert, that's certainly not my intent. But if the only way to share ideas is to do things that make me miserable, and the people who need to listen my ideas made it that way, they're clearly not interested. In most cases I have better things to do than fight uphill or shout into a void. It's probably a lot of stress for no benefit.

Ed: incidentally, suggestion boxes (mentioned nearby in the thread) are also probably not helpful. Absent strong evidence to the contrary, I assume those are ignored and don't bother.
not really, Haskell is slower than C++/Rust.
You get faster performance by being mechanical sympathetic, i.e. you care about how to laid out your data in memory efficiently for the CPU to process, when and how much to allocate, which code path to fold together (inlining) to create a smallest possible set of instructions.

JIT is theoretically possible to figure out all that and transform your code into optimized form, but practically? we don't have Sufficiently Smart Compiler[1] yet.
Usually, JIT is worse in restructure your data layout than figure out which part to inline.

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler
This is exactly why we're building EthicalAds. It's an ad network that only targets based on the content of sites, doesn't allow any third-party JS or images, and is currently only focused on a developer audience: https://www.ethicalads.io/advertising-vision/

We had the same choice on Read the Docs, but didn't really have any other way to make money but advertising. We decided to build ethical advertising, so that we could be proud of the ads we show, knowing we weren't adding to massive pool of data out there. I talked a bit more about it here: https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2016/aug/31/funding-oss-ma...
Former Amazon (retail division) mobile engineer here.

A lot of the comments in the OP are true, but possibly a bit overstated.

They definitely expect a lot of engineers to leave after one year with only 5% options. In fact, they'll refuse to give raises if your stock price hikes put your pay "above band," but then they won't make up the missing raise if the stock price tanks.

They do PIP a fixed percentage of the workforce every year, even if they're talented at their jobs-- but it was about 15% when I was there-- and half got to keep their jobs if they ran the gauntlet of hard tasks without a complete mental breakdown.

There's no question Amazon is a difficult employer. But the exact details vary from division to division. It can also be a place where you meet a few very talented engineers and learn a lot. But the good ones rarely stick around. I found that the best managers got quickly hired away for better positions at other companies. I personally had four managers within the span of one year.

They also seemed to have a ridiculous legal policy that drastically limited speaking at conferences, blogging, or personal open source projects. It was far easier to moonlight and get the okay from legal than it was to give a talk at your local Meetup or contribute to Open Source outside of work. I stopped asking for permission or telling anyone.

I also noticed that the corporation seemed to encourage taking on unpaid extra work as a bar raiser or security reviewer, but your division might take no interest in anything you did to help the wider company when performance review time happens. There's a lot of politics and jealousy at play. If your team is working 60, 70+ hours, they won't care that you're producing just as much quality work in 40-50. Managers routinely sacrifice their employees as pawns to gain favor for themselves.

One of the most troubling things wasn't the long hours, busy on-call periods, stack ranking, or PIP policy, but their complete disinterest in firing execs who used abusive behavior. There was one in particular who would scream at our managers and cause some to cry in meetings, but rather than disciplining him and making him change his ways, he was able to transfer to another division where he continued his abuse.
You can find a bunch of these if you search for jam stack resources.
What would this type of support encompass? Is it limited to things like “Blender is crashing with this file, please help”, or would it include things like “this particle system is using all of my memory, am I doing something wrong”?