skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I screenshot despegar's comment when it was the top one and sent it to my tech friends (with the implied meaning - see how useless HN has become, it's been overwhelmed by the ideologues, it's a write-off). So thanks for trying to defend the formerly great site.

And separately: in the last 5 years i took a break from the Silicon Valley and spent most of the time in Latin America, traveling and learning Spanish. Check my IP history. Had to deal with the medical system and with the so called "Cuban doctors" in various countries. The original comment completely distorts the factual truth about Cuban medicine.
A friend of mine in CT has problem now in the hardwood supply chain. The issue is that the kiln drying backlog has now caught up with hardwoods as many kilns are full of fir and pine. The supplies of paint grade poplar and soft maple are running quite low now.
I had sleep issues for years, including periodic limb movements[1]. My sleep doctor said to try 500mg plus of magnesium supplements. That was probably one of the most significant steps to (mostly) resolve the issue.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_limb_movement_disor...

PS full TMI story here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PelvicFloor/comments/kq089v/my_25_c...
Proton still has a lot of Steam integrations that make it a pain to use outside Steam. For example, Lutris no longer supports Proton.

https://github.com/lutris/lutris/pull/3330
Heard of bitcoin?
It isn’t survivor bias when the giant red rashes all over your body go away after nothing else has worked your entire life and your doctor says that for that to happen is impossible. It’s overlooked science.

But there could still be survivor bias in there to some degree. We need proper interventional studies.
Interesting. I recently started using Magnesium Glycinate as a supplement and I feel it truly changed my life, not exaggerating. I’ve suffered from chronic general anxiety for most of my teens and adult life. Magnesium has completely cleared this up, things I thought were just part of my personality (being anxious and other associated things) were actually due to a chronic magnesium deficiency. I just have to make sure I get a decent amount of calcium in my diet (via canned mackerel mostly) to avoid muscle twitches from the magnesium.
I understand this seems mostly to be about soil depletion. I'm curious more generally if vegetables are also less nutritious because they are selectively bread for high water content and size. For example, its appeared to me for years that you vegetables you get on a Subway sandwich must have almost no nutritional content. They are all way paler than you'd normally see, and super watery.

Thinking about it, I suppose the vegetables may get that way from growing in poor soil, and Subway et al just buy those ones because they're cheaper
"Extremely uncommon" would need to be quantified.

Beside the case of the strip you mention, there is also the more mundane physical space above the ground, or other physical limitations.

In my case it is not extremely uncommon since I thought to myself a few times recently "oh no, again this £¨%¨¨£ pin".
Really? I'm very interested in hearing why you think that.
> It's heartbreaking for BAs, POs, PMs, and every other flavor of functionary when they realize that, after some* years of experience, the programmers understand the business just as well as they do.

Shouldn’t be. Very few engineers want to move to BA/PM/PO or management track.
1 Year, $3.8B later: How 2020’s race reckoning shook up Big Tech
Confusing, Mr. Schmidt had an open marriage, which was public in the first place. But that was never mentioned in the article. Yet, extramarital was used consistently... I am not sure how much editorial oversight was in this piece.
I know geeks love Norman Borlaug, but there was a catch: the new high-yield varieties are dependent on fertilizers made from fossil fuels. These plants grow fast and have more carbs and less of everything else. There needs to be a second Green Revolution, this time sustainable.
It feels faster than VSCode, but I would wait until at least 0.6 before trying it out more.
Amazon is a huge company with a very large number of employees. I'm not making making any excuses for them and I'm sure there was some issues here, but many times it is poorly trained or inexperienced employees that end up causing many issues.

If they wanted to write about something that is a big issue, they should write about how Amazon reviews are borderline fraudulent.
I still don't see it.

> A great showing

This part is subjective, so perhaps is the most problematic, but I don't think we normally react negatively to calling scientific achievements "great".

> for a small,

Factual.

> socialist

Factual (although I would have expected "communist").

> island nation

Factual.

> under decades of embargo

Factual.

> by hostile anti-communist

I think even pro-embargo folks would be ok with this description.

> forces.

Small problem here maybe?
That's right. If you want magnesium you need to eat Cool Ranch Doritos … they have twice as much magnesium as the Nacho Cheese variety.

Seriously though a handful of Doritos has as much magnesium as a raw carrot. Vegetables just aren't a concentrated source of metals. Nuts are more reliable.
What Is Abstraction?
During the 80s, get tough on crime politics mushroomed pensions and healthcare obligations because state/local governments lacked the cash flow for raises during higher inflation times.

Police and fire pensions usually drive this stuff because overtime assigned by seniority spikes salaries and pensions.

The “evil republican” angle is that “fiscally conservative” politicians usually balanced budgets by cutting pension contributions or buying support by reducing local contributions during tight budget times. Democratic legislators and governors did this too, but this type of fiscal behavior is a “conservative” trademark.

States like New York have mostly funded pensions, even with generous pension plans. The “secret” is easy - governments, especially local governments have to pay.
China's $50B Sichuan-Tibet railway project [video]
The Debug Toolkit
Where can I find synthetic stocks aside from Binance?
Wow very surprising! That really shouldn’t happen lol
> And if you are going to use Android App Bundles or whatever google is recommending, you'll be using Play App Signing.

As I said in another comment, it's not any better when Google is doing it instead of Amazon.

> I guess I'm just curious what "keys" amazon is forcing you to give up. I'm not sure they even care about your keys.

If we're being literal, they're not forcing you to give up your keys. They're forcing you to give up control over what code gets signed as part of your application -- that is, control over which signatures are considered valid. The end user has no way to verify that the application is what you released; they can only verify that it's what Amazon (or Google) decided to distribute on your behalf.

Imagine if GitHub decided to take every repository with signed commits and rewrite it so that the code was signed by GitHub, instead of by the original authors. Why would anyone have a reason to trust those signatures?
I don't see a problem with the information being available. But in my opinion it shouldn't be in the headline. IMO, it would be better if the headline just said that the vaccine is safe and effective.
Only thing that can compete with native app stores is the web, this means making the web standard even more bloated.

If you could install a store inside your browser and then buy web apps from there instead, your apps is no longer tied to the operating system, only to the store (that requires a compatible browser)

But I don't think it will happened because it doesn't benefit the two major players on operating systems, Microsoft and Apple.

What probably will happen is just solidifying the Android based native app as the dominant application platform, now you can develop against the Android SDK and cover 80-90% of the market, both desktop and mobile.

If you don't know Java already, it is time to learn. Welcome to the future - poms, jars, classpaths and AbstractFactoryFactory nightmares everywhere, buggy and slow Android apps running over a virtual machine with a user experience not adapted for mouse and keyboard. There will be Hacker News threads about how they miss good ol' Electron apps.
Can't believe people is so eager to believe in this without any real scientific publication of vaccine efficacy.

Cuba lacks things so common as soap, to the point that you can bribe police officers or even pay sex workers with a tiny hotel soap bar or shampoo flask.
> For millions of years, humans ate ruminant animals who’s herds they followed around, and almost nothing else.

This is just wrong. Nearly all archeological evidence suggests humans were hunter-gatherers. They hunted (meat) and they gathered (fruit, vegetables, nuts, etc). Hunter gathering represents about 90% of human history prior to the invention of agriculture.

> And couples who do it get pregnant immediately after failing for years. It’s all documented on meatrx success stories section.

Ah yes, because the company selling the diet plan has no incentive not to mislead you with highly selective research.
> I think whether your statement is correct or not depends on how you define “capitalism working right”

I agree, even I will say that it depends on how do you define "capitalism".

> Effective regulation is needed to prevent monopolies and cartels.

That's why regulations are and always have been part of capitalism.

A " purely free market with no outside checks" is Neo-liberalism or anarchy, even if there has been a push to label anything to the left of Neo-liberalism as "communism". Such a push have gained a lot of traction, and I see that many people in the general public thinks that Neo-liberalism = Capitalism, that it is not the case.

So, maybe the definition of capitalism is changing. And maybe the push have succeed and now "capitalism working right” just means the rich getting richer and has nothing to do with the original work of Adam Smith. That would be sad, thou. Capitalism is a good system as defined by Adam Smith, Neo-liberalism is just a pantomime that promotes authoritarianism dressed as free-trade.
If you're using Firefox, there are extensions that let you view an archived version of a webpage with a click. Almost every interesting article with a soft paywall I bump into has already been archived by someone. I use "web archives" and "save to the wayback machine" but there are others, and I'm sure there's something for Chromium browsers too.
That’s precisely my point. People don’t want to pay the true cost of taking on a 40 years deferred annuity.
You can just use podman to run Docker containers. That workflow is honestly what I wanted years ago when I first used docker, where containerization is put in the core system, and you can progressively add containerization to your core services while also running a full container on top of the same runtime.
DNA damage caused by diets rich in red meat found in colorectal cancer patients
Selling is mostly about communications. So, in the context of sales, it requires you:

1) Understand what you're trying to communicate. What are you selling, what are the benefits? Why should the audience care?

2) Understand who you're communicating with. Their desires, their constraints, their knowledge level, do they trust you, how much do they care?

One thing I've learned over the years is that any single particular sales approach/tactic/strategy will not be suitable across all markets and situations. Sometimes it's best to coldly list features. Other times it's best to develop a personal rapport. And yet other times it's best to focus on customer problems/product benefits. Pay attention to your audience and adjust how you approach them based on who they are.

TLDR: to learn how to sell better, learn how to communicate more effectively.
I suspect it can be solved in many different ways, but when you sell food by the pound, it's much more advantageous to distribute your limited quantity of nutrients in as much produce as possible.

This seems really, really hard to regulate.
Google starts adding “no reliable sources” tag to some search engine results
This isn't technically true, the extension host we use is directly the one from VSCode, such that we can support their extensions (well...a subset as we fill in the gaps in for the Oni2 <-> ExtHost communication).

But the actual core editor is all seperate, written in ReasonML (or OCaml if you know that instead), with a bunch of C libs in the background we've wrapped (Skia/Harfbuzz/We wrap real vim etc).

So the core editing experience has no code sharing, but the extension side of things does!
What happens when the voice actors themselves die and AI mimics voices with no audible error? Most VAs don't have copyright lawyers on speed dial and I doubt one can copyright one's timbre and vocal range.
The power of quantum neural networks (2020)
I have just now read the edit of your parent comment. I appreciate your clarifications as well as your willingness to nuance your position.

I can't really imagine the amount of effort you have to put into keeping HN on track. I thank you for that as well.

I do however want to mention that the US cultural context is not always that apparent for a non-American (such as myself). My comments were made taking into account strictly the GP and your comment, not any pre-existing cultural context. Back where I'm from (broadly speaking the EU) simply mentioning that Cuba is socialist or that the embargo is anti-communist doesn't come across as particularly controversial or flame-bating.
> "The US workforce (at the time) was sold on 401ks as a replacement for pensions, when they’re really for only the highest compensation earners as a tax dodge..."

pensions don't really make sense though, because they create adverse incentives all around. first, for the pensioner, who transfers future risk to the pension, and by extension to the company, its customers, employees, and shareholders. and second, it's a big pot of money just sitting there begging the greedy to tirelessly and surreptitiously work to siphon off just a tiny spigot of it. and those are just the two most obvious ones.

parhaps the risk profile is too far in the opposite direction, but 401(k)'s could be fixed, for instance, by requiring companies to set up and contribute inverse-proportionally to monthly take-home pay, and tax the company progressively on contributions based on total compensation, so that highly-paid executives who need a 401(k) the least would be discouraged from that avenue of compensation, while the least-paid employees get a (partially-)funded retirement account automatically.
> You mean companies don’t want to pay for them

Not just that, but most employees would choose higher paychecks and a 401K option over a company that offered lower paychecks but a substantial pension, even if the net compensation was equivalent.

Pensions become increasingly less attractive as young people recognize that changing jobs every several years is a quicker route to financial career growth than parking long-term at one company with a pension.

I was once acquired into a company that offered the worst benefits I had ever seen (zero insurance contribution, zero 401K match, basically just paychecks and nothing more). I thought it would be a death sentence for recruiting, but it turned out most younger candidates just don’t care at all about anything other than their salary number. We lost a lot of people as they grew older and had families, but younger people didn’t bat an eye at the near complete lack of benefits. We could win a lot of hiring battles by simply offering the higher bottom-line salary number since we had such little overhead. (I left quickly for a better company)
Replacement, maybe, no, I don’t know. It radically changes things back about 200y to a pseudogold standard but universally harder (energy usage over physical gold supply). I know I spend fiat over harder money. (I don’t spend bitcoin, I save in it).

I think you should not ignore the forest for the trees here. A small purchase today held for another 5-10y could prove quite lucrative for you.
The one sort of surveillance schools need is live webcams so parents can monitor lesson content
While I share your frustration with the general public's opinion on vaccination, I don't think that the idiots who can't comprehend the details would be convinced with fewer details. Those people aren't paying attention to the details anyway.

For instance, when the J&J clot "issue" hit the news cycle, vaccinations across the board went down, even for vaccines other than J&J. These people aren't looking at any kind of details or data and getting confused by them, they're just making a decision based on word-of-mouth sentiment from their social/media circles. They would have never been confused by details in the article, because they never read it.
You mean they force cubans to work abroad while the dictatorship charges dollars for it, that's some kind of modern slavery.
Why do people (schools) care?

What's the goal here?

How does tracking everything a student does help them and how can they justify wasting time and money on this?
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You can send me the .epub file and start reading it.
I just hope that some of that needless trash enters the secondary market rather than going directly to recyclers. First of all because Win10 will stay useful for most people for quite some time yet, second because these boxes/laptops make great Linux machines!
It IS a heap of needless trash!
Linux Easy Anti Cheat already exists. Games like Rust and 7 Days to Die do this fine on Linux.

The issue is those developers aren't releasing a Linux native version of the game that can use the native anti-cheat. And getting a Windows version of anti-cheat working through Wine is harder. Games like Valorant and Apex will never release a Linux native version
Nope, it's still entirely incorrect. Again, the release team misjudged things. I was part of the GNOME release team at that time. We were actually warned about it, then misjudged it ("it'll be fine").

Further, it wasn't even a hard dependency. You're really not understanding components and APIs.

> This forced other distros to either switch to systemd or drop support for GNOME.

No, again entirely incorrect. GNOME runs without systemd. A few distributions worked on ensuring GNOME runs without it. It took a while to make that happen, so for a bit some distributions needed to keep some components back. But still: you're talking about systemd while it was an interaction of a few components. Systemd consists of loads of bits.

GNOME _runs_ on distributions without systemd! It took work to make that happen, we coordinated to ensure the problems would be solved.

> I suspect that had Red Hat employees not added hard dependencies on systemd to any other software, that no distributions other than Fedora and RHEL and its clones would require it.

Again, you're so incorrect it's not funny. Arch was really quick to switch to systemd. I help out with Mageia, they really wanted to switch as well, but it took (volunteer) time to make it happen. Opensuse took a while, but still, they would've switched.

The only unique ones were Ubuntu (political crap) and Debian (partly due to political influence by Ubuntu).

Systemd was selected on merit by loads of distributions, not this conspiracy thing you're pretending it to be.
All of your articles are from 2016 and 2017, meaning they predate the indictments and muller report.

Why do you cite older and less extensive reporting as though it debunks more recent and more thorough investigation?

> Furthermore, IP addresses change constantly

Yes, and if this was the only evidence, you'd maybe have a point. But, the collection of evidence is:

- a russian-state associated IP was used to
- deploy software developed by the Russian government
- to steal data that would be beneficial to Russia if published
- and was ultimately published via channels known to be associated with Russia (I'm not talking strictly WikiLeaks here, but also how they got the data)

For each of these bullet points, there are multiple pieces of supporting data.

Your alternative explanation is what, exactly? A random ukranian group hacking for the lulz successfully stole this info and either did it so well that the us thought it was actually Russia, or the us lied and claimed it was Russia. That lulzy group proceeded to publish the data via russian-appearing channels or Russia then stole the data from the hackers to publish it. And said group never took credit, even though "we tricked the CIA" is about as much cyber hacker cred as you can get.

I apply Occam's razor. What's your excuse?

Keep in mind, I can apply exactly your logic and say that appearing amateurish is good operational practice for a state actor as it will make it more likey for people to claim that the attacker wasn't a state actor. That's the problem with unfalsifiable claims like yours, I can simply invent a better conspiracy, so to speak.
Regardless of your feelings you're missing the point. The middle class is the bellwether of the economy. Though, I don't think you're truly interested in the economy at large.

When middle class wages go up, small businesses open, they employ more people, creating more middle class people, and the cycle continues ad infinitum. The middle class pays the bulk of the taxes since they lack the finances to avoid them, and additionally is responsible for creating the bulk of the jobs in small business. The middle class also leads consumption. See the previous point for why this is important.

If the middle class fails everything below them fails. The only people that win in all scenarios are the ultra wealthy. If the middle class cannot retire, effectively no one can retire. Since their suffering is magnified in the lower economic strata.
Nah. My point is that most people off the street assume salesmanship is about touting your product effectively. Anyone can talk a big game.

Making people feel heard, and then specifically responding to their pain is the real answer. Yours and many other comments on this page make the same mistake, which is based on a widely-prevalent flawed assumption that is almost universal among the general population.
interestingly when I worked at Jack-in-the-box in the early 80s their produce seemed much better than what I saw at the supermarket.
Great examples, well done!
My schools tried to require school owned apple equipment that both restricted actions (couldn’t message with parents or email) and monitored all activity, even when used from home.

I forced my own equipment and they tried to install and reinstall various spyware throughout the year.

It seems like rather than proposing a basic system of assignments and material and grades, they are trying to treat as a wholly owned ecosystem.

This is also one of the things that frustrates me about “work computers” but at least they have a bit more claim since work computers are tools for work while school should be about learning.
I think the 100% number comes from the fact that the one vaccinated severe case in the original study just was just barely below the threshold of oxygen saturation they had defined but the person required no medical care, so it wouldn’t be classified as severe by “regular people’s standards”.
Oni2 is available for use for free for non-commercial usage, it just needs building from source at the moment. The steps are in the user manual if anyone is interested: https://onivim.github.io/docs/for-developers/building

Partially that is a thank you to those who have supported our development, and partially its to help put up a small barrier to entry, just so we don't get too flooded with issues and feature requests!

A public release is coming soon-ish, and can be used for non-commercial use.