skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the best I can gather, the new CEO is trying to pivot GameStop from a brick-and-mortar company with online presence, to a tech company with a brick-and-mortar presence.

Cryptographically proven digital ownership of content has been (games or in-game content), with freedom of resale, had been a long discussed topic in crypto communities for years. They have not given any details yet, but I do hope that it can be it.

Scaling is still an issue, tho.
> If you spent twenty years being called a "smart kid" [...] you may have a rock-solid self-image.

This is, of course, why we programmers are famous for the delight we take in coding on a whiteboard in front of a large audience; the comfortable ease with which we talk to beautiful members of the opposite sex; and the fact none of us have ever been described as shy :)
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It's basically differentiating the original equation wrt the only quantity you can say something about, which effectively throws out all the things you know nothing about and which you can then "conveniently" ignore.
if cryptography is a weapon, isn't folding proteins also arguably a weapon?
> However, only in hindsight is it obvious that Afghanistan could not be turned around, to reverse the decades-long descent into tribal mob rule. It was a mistake worth making.

Dubious, but at leaat arguably true. But, unfortunately, the mistake you suggest is worth making is not the mistake we actually made, the serious effort in Afghanistan being shortchanged early on for the distraction of the war of choice in Iraq. Both Iraq and Afghanistan were (among other issues, particularly with Iraq) afflicted with “counterinsurgency on the cheap” disease in the Bush Administration, with fairly predictable consequences even if one thinks that nation-building with counterinsurgency warfare by the US as a key pillar was viable.
Deep scuba diving is quite safe as long as you don't push the limits. It's not even particularly expensive as long as you don't travel to luxury dive resorts.
Actually, it's worse than Newspeak, because it's retroactively editing people's writing.
I think there are different goals here which aren't necessarily overlapping. I would support making plant-based meat subtitutes that are so frikking delicious that people want to eat them instead of meat. Not because I'm vegetarian(I'm not) but because it simply makes sense from the point of view of ecological impact of animal farming. The modern western diets where people eat meat 3 times a day are crazy(in my opinion) - we just don't need that much meat.

So from that point of view, yeah, it would be great if at least some people switched to plant based substitutes instead.

Now obviously the problem is that we possibly have the science to make these substitutes so delicious, people will overeat them and in the process make themselves worse than had they just had meat. That is also a concern, absoluteley.
There is some value added. Customer protection and return laws. At least for Europe run shops.

Or do you buy your electronics directly in china?
It's not rude. It's something a bunch of trolls just made up. It never happened organically.
You must have really good rhetorical skills besides your technical skills.

How many managers are apriori opened to use a tech that they think stopped in the 80s?
I thought we already figured out at least part of the problem or the main problem

Sugar

Yutkin
Lufkin
Etc

Book: Pure, White, and Deadly
Constant hunger is a hallmark sign of insulin resistance. The good thing is you can actually measure it in HOMA-IR test.
So is it still worth reading LYAH nowadays? Are there any other resources that you could recommend instead of it?
The root problem is that current technology doesn't help us: processed food can only be either palatable or calorie poor.

The person who will invent low-calorie bread and cheese, she'll be the Messiah :-)
Why do you HAVE to believe that?
You need a motivation or two for that. Telling people to non-conform ain't that. Motivation may be innate or externally influenced, but need to be concrete.
I'm confused. Are you saying that every time you receive a package of medications from India, you send a sample off to for spectrometry?

That seems extremely arduous.

The point is that you don't trust this specific supply chain/manufacturer, which is part of the approval process.

"India/China" is not some monolithic entity that is either good or bad, there are some manufacturers that you can trust, and some you cannot.

Quality control in drug manufacturing is what ensures that every single pill has the correct dose, and not some random batch accidentally having 100x the active drug you need - or 0.01%.
In my university every new faculty member needs to go through 200 hours pedagogical training and further 50 hours of training every 5 years. But it is unfortunate that these training programs are same for all disciplines and designed by pedagogical theory people with no CS or even science background. It was a waste of time who focus mostly on theory of pedagogy which is hardly applicable for CS.
Voice cloning of growing interest to actors and cybercriminals
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> Drugs are more expensive in the US simply because there aren’t any pricing controls...

There aren't any other markets where "pricing controls" are needed. Drugs are more expensive in the US simply because it is illegal for a 3rd party to sell them.

If it were legal, anyone could buy the drugs where they are cheapest and ship them to America. The problem is obviously that competition is banned. If that isn't the problem, the entire population of the world is remarkably indifferent to a really easy opportunity to make lots of money.

And, I suppose almost to obviously to add, if competition is illegal then prices go up.
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If a shop has free samples, I would reasonably assume you are welcome to take one or two to try to see if you would consider buying. But I wouldn't reasonably assume they would be OK with me taking all of the samples, even if there wasn't a sign saying so, or any mechanism preventing me from taking all of it.

Just the same, it seems reasonable to me that Apple leave the computers unprotected so that customers can try out software on them before buying. It does not seem reasonable to me to install software to secretly take photos of other customers for an art project, whether or not it is explicitly stated.

Note that I'm not saying calling the Secret Service is an appropriate reaction to this; just that it is ethically questionable, if not outright illegal.
> it is insane and negligent...

Perhaps, but irrelevant.

It sounds like if you were in charge of safety for these cars, you would be just fine with firing this person, replacing them with someone else who promises not to do the same, and call it solved.

We believe that likely will not solve the problem whether or not the monitor abides by their promise not to watch TV. The conditions are inherently unsafe, because no human being can sit passively without stimulation and remain alert enough to respond in a literal split second, quickly enough to avert an accident, for hours on end.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/intel-digita...
webxr, webasm
> <list of hearing aid functions/>

Yes, a hearing aid is not the same as a noise-cancelling earbud, they use different algorithms and the former needs to be more configurable than the latter. Then again, this functionality is implemented in firmware and uses common audio processing algorithms on off-the-shelf low-power DSPs, just like those noise-cancelling earbuds. The IndieGogo example I mentioned seems to be able to sell a pair of multi-purpose buds for around $250 a pair, $600 for 3 pairs. Assuming they are actually making a profit on these sales - and I don't see why they wouldn't, the hardware seems quite standard for noise-cancelling earbuds - this is proof of what I stated before and gives lie to the "overhead" excuse for the high mark-up, especially given the small size of the company behind the things. Of course I do not know whether the buds sold through IndieGogo are as capable hearing aids as "regular, overpriced" ones and I do notice that the stated running time (18 hours) is that of the buds and the charging case together - the buds themselves last for 7 hours between charges. They're specified for "mild ~ moderately-severe hearing loss" and seem to have the required amplification and equalizing capabilities [1]. Maybe give them a try? I don't need hearing aids myself but my mother does use them so I'm thinking about getting her a pair of these once her current pair is in need of replacement.

[1] https://c1.iggcdn.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upload/...
It's not wrong tho. There are categories on AliExpress where there are like 20 similar products but only one does what you actually expect it to do.

Ex. Clothing sizing is a big issue there. Or real CE signs. If I have to compare 20 products myself and only add the good one to my store I definitely added some value for customers

Also as said somewhere else local customer protection laws apply to dropship stores, but not AliExpress

Clearify:/ I don't dropship. But I know the game
You're not telling the whole story. Twitch Turbo ($8.99/month) removes ads from every channel.
This series of blog posts is a fascinating read into conjectured factors behind the obesity epidemic.

I wish the author had continued their rigor in reasoning throughout the two blog posts. Step by step the author is lured into proving a single factor explains the rise in obesity. That maybe a futile attempt from the outset.

To make an example, the author notes, correctly and to the point,

> "Calories are involved in the math but it’s not as simple as “weight gain = calories in – calories out”."

but then moves on to claim that "X provides evidence against CICO" when in fact the article cites numerous examples where an increase/decrease in calories results in a (short-term) increase/decrease in body weight. So what the author really meant was "X provides evidence against CICO as the single factor".

I'm not an expert in nutrition science but it seems very unlikely that a single factor (sugar! trans-fats! exercise! genetics!) will explain a real-world, highly non-linear phenomenon. I personally find the paragraphs where the interactions of factors are discussed the weakest and least convincing.

That is not to say the article is excellent and hammers home two very important points: Firstly the idea of the lipostat and as a result a short and a long-term time scale ('system') for body weight gain/loss. Secondly that factors relevant on one time scale may not be relevant to the other time scale. And of course that there is still a lot we simply don't understand (yet).
I used Evernote for 2, now it's mostly https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox (still using Evernote in those cases when I need to clip a page behind login). Image handling is a pain point of all text-first note apps, sadly.
If you really use vim, you typically are "always" in normal mode. When you want to type text, you go into insert mode, and you leave it when you're done. If you sit around in insert mode, you miss out on a lot of utility.

>Also define “smooth flow”. I my experience pair programming, by the time you are starting you command after choosing among all possibilities, I have already performed the change with VSCode.

There's really not much thought involved. If you can imagine yourself using keyboard shortcuts, it's probably pretty similar. In a simple example, you don't think "I gotta hold ctrl, press c, release c, and then release ctrl", you just think "I'm going to copy this". I think you have the idea that vim is really complicated and its users must be bogged down and thinking more. At worst I would say it's probably the same as what you have now, unless you count very early stages where you actually just don't know your way around too well. When you're situated and experienced, it's not ever slower in my experience. On the contrary I feel a bit disabled when I have to edit in something without vim keys. It's not like I can't jump around with home/end and select text with ctrl-shift-arrows and whatnot, but it doesn't feel as fast or comfortable or natural to me.
Hilton was planning to build a hotel on the moon back in 1967.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hilton-hotel-on-moon-...
That was an interesting read.

I just left this comment in the site (maybe it would interest somebody here too):

"Have somebody checked a correlation between breast feeding vs. infant formula in early infancy and hungry feelings in adulthood (or weight as a proxy of that)?

It’s just an random idea, but it seems to me that the timeline of increasing obesity and increasing of use of infant formula could be correlated."
US needs Japan and Korea to counter China tech: ex-Google CEO
Who knows what's in that soil?

You can use the same plastics as in water pipes.
Don't mess with other people's computers is the TL;DR lesson from this post.
Here's the identical result to the C++ output, for reference. https://godbolt.org/z/6sa3zf555
I am not sure if this has anything to do with the clusters' orientation, but usually the soles of the dead's feet would face the Qibla (direction towards the holy Ka'bah)that is known one of Islamic burial customs.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/burialcust...
Indian politicians took that line. They assumed that covid was gone, done and dusted. Some coming from the folds of the ruling party believed rolling in cow manure or cow piss would give us enough protection and trees will give enough oxygen.

Then the second wave hit. Drone pictures of thousands and thousands of dead bodies abandoned in shallow graves (the majority religion cremates, but crematoriums could not cope with the rate of arrivals) on sandbars of rivers is ample testimony to how dangerous it is.

If it wasnt one would have seen such level of excess mortality and sand burials as routine.

The government of course wanted to cover it up. They arrested and jailed people who were seeking medical oxygen on social media. The public was being openly threatened that they will be slapped with antiterror laws should they do that (till the supreme court stepped in). The government removed the commemorative shrouds placed on this shallow graves so that the extent of these deaths could not be counted.
I agree, it's not great but I guess it's the price we pay for how easy it is to take money over the internet nowadays.
In practise, yes. Monopolising the only water source in town will get your property seized by the majority right quick; why should the legal system pretend otherwise?
There was a similar technique used to prevent botting on MMOs. The game would drop extra loot in a way that humans couldn't see or interact with, but bots would pick it up. Once picked up it couldn't be dropped and wouldn't stack in inventory, eventually making the toon worthless.
IMHO tact is more about how than what. You can make a correction as a statement which cannot be disputed and not supported (by facts, arguments) or you can make a correction and be ready to explain why you think so and be open to being mistaken.
> Voynich, Hill, Crumb: A Hitherto Vexing Codex

The author is evidently a fan of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid ...
I have a similar opinion. I see emoji use, especially excessive emoji use as a indication of someone who cannot adequately express themselves using normal speech.

If you are seriously worried about interpretation of your comments then it is worth learning to write clearly and unambiguously. Adding an ill defined emoji is not a solution.
Is there such a guideline ? If there is, I've never noticed it. I've certainly seen people address HN on HN quite a few times, I might even have done it myself, but I was always under the impression that it was fine insofar as you're acting sensible.

Anyhow, if people get so invested into HN that they feel the need to vent about it, the problem might not be HN.
You can literally just right click and press 'open'. Might not be obvious to the layman, but you don't need to do a whole code signing bypass song and dance.
Excuse me but.. what?
Regarding Rust's compilation slowness, wouldn't a Rust interpreter be a good solution for developing code? A Rust interpreter would drastically cut down slow compilation times, and then when the final product is needed, the Rust compiler would kick in.
Or you could just use emoji like a normal person, and stop treating being stuck in the nineties as a virtue?
In this case, I'm glad it's actually targeting Apple. There are a bunch of small innovative companies targeted by patent trolls that don't have means of Apple to fight back and actually change the system to be more level-headed.

But I'm afraid Apple will not fight for the reform of the patent system, but will just try to protect itself. In which case I don't care about the outcome, since Apple also uses the same patent trolling tactics elsewhere to suppress its competition, e.g. litigations against Samsung in Germany, to name one such case.
> Are you aware that the US government already spends far more on health care than it does on the military

At least 34% of that is spent on admin alone: https://time.com/5759972/health-care-administrative-costs/ and most of that is on privately insurers overhead.

> Half the US defense budget is no where near the amount spent on healthcare in the private sector

It would be way more than enough if there was some political will behind it.
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Old farts use Scribe markup and superfluous exclamation points instead of emojis!!!!!!!!!

The most emotional arguments in the old days were about text editors that didn't support emojis, and characters you can't even see.

VI and tabs suck. All hail Emacs and spaces!!!!!!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_(markup_language)
>Occitania might be a separate nation today

There might have been a State across the lines of Old Gascony, and one across the lines of the lands of the Counts of Barcelona and Provence. But an "Occitan nation" is pure fantasy. There's never been much of a unifying cultural force (even at the peek of the Troubadour age), even less of a political one (save for France itself). That word "occitania" wasn't even used before the 70s and it's still far from widespread use outside of Languedoc, and for some reason Italy.

People have way too many daydreams about that stuff. But having one major Gallo-Romance nation is a natural outcome, even if the way the French State was re-factored around the turn of the 19th c. looks forced.
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They are in agreement about the fact poor people will never pay no matter what.

They disagree about whether 99% of people who can afford the game (i.e. successful adults) will pay.
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When I read "patent company" I can't help but understand it as "patent troll".

A company specialized in making money from patents can't be any good...
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Sure there was anti-German sentiment, but it doesn’t appear to be for the alleged purpose of improving another group’s political power. It’s also not clear to me how widespread this anti-German sentiment was (was it limited to nationalist instituions)? I hail from ~45 minutes away from Cedar Rapids from German stock on both sides (immigrated around the 1850s) in an area that is very German (lots of Weber’s, Becker’s, Youngblut’s, Vogel’s, etc) and I’ve never heard anything about people feeling compelled to forget their native language. Rather the sentiment I’ve heard was always that they just wanted to integrate into their new society. Obviously we’re both dealing in anecdotes, and I’m not trying to disprove yours, but rather understand how both fit in the larger historical narrative.
But what if it solves the problem of barcoder not understanding stuttering? I mostly agree with you, but in principle subtitles and voice over does the same thing - not everything is so simple.
Yes, but only because if cryptography is a weapon then everything is a weapon.
>Every human being knows, if only unconsciously, that we are not the roles and personae we occupy in the cultural drama of life.

Reminds me of Catcher in the Rye, only older and more cynical.

The author should reconsider "connection to a reality that is non-conventional": the physical activity he lists is only non-conventional to a select few, especially in the past. His evidence feels like an argument for festivals as a ward against idleness, not as a relief valve of simulated violence, which is poorly-justified.

Perhaps Girard put too much faith in what "genuine artists" sense out of something like a harvest festival, which is the leisure of hard-working laborers. The author might consider that daily labor could be more violent than playful festivals, and what Girard sensed may have been relief from that, not from a crisis averted.
If you worry about that, you're probably not having the issue:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/sociopathy
I'm unfortunately not an expert in teaching Haskell but I know people often recommend Real World Haskell:

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

It comes up quite often on r/haskell, for example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/muzun2/is_real_wor...
Even when outside of the EU, this is still very much possible. The cayman islands aren't part of the EU or US and still very popular tax havens.
As a college student, I like the conventional note-taking apps. But I kept switching between them instead of sticking to one. Because the next one always seemed more lucrative for productivity.
So I created a lightweight but featured app to help me type less using bookmarks.
I could just bookmark a tweet and then it would pull the entire Thread for me.
I could bookmark a website to copy notes from later and it would export that to Markdown.
I'm going keep incrementing the feature set but keep the UI looking lightweight
It's public right now if anyone wants to check it out:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alekha.net.
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Everyone's phone is full of spyware installed by someone else (Apple or Google). This isn't any different.
Yeah, I think this is probably sufficient without whole-program optimization, but I'm not sure it is with LTO. It might be sufficient today, but I can imagine Clang optimizing it away eventually. Really, the only realistic-yet-futureproof method I can imagine (and I'm not sure if it's even within the jurisdiction of the language spec) is either (a) exporting the variable, or (b) exposing its address through some other established I/O mechanism (like printf).
Without emoji, understanding written communication in most languages requires knowledge of two to three dozen of symbols. With emojis suddenly you need hundreds. We invented alphabets for a very good reason.
The quote in the article didn’t read like a threat to me. I don’t have the full context, but the quote from Apple’s lawyer is:

> I'm not sure that is right. Apple's position is it should indeed be able to reflect on the terms and decide whether commercially it is right to accept them or to leave the UK market. There may be terms that are set by the court which are just commercially unacceptable.

Perhaps that’s diplomatic lawyer-speak for “we’re leaving and taking our ball with us” (any lawyers please do comment), but as an outsider I don’t see it.
An Azure MS dev .. for running on their VMware vSphere 7 home lab.

This dev sure is not only looking at their in-house toolset.
I'd say that that is a good thing.
The current feature set includes:

- pulling entire threads for a tweet

- offline support for markdown

- tags

- search for notes

- qr codes

- sharing entire blocks of bookmarks with other people