skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it was. There's no such thing as a billion dollar company that isn't functionally psychopathic, let alone a trillion dollar company. Never forget these devices are made in factories with suicide nets.
Interesting to hear about an experience that's pretty much the same as mine, but rebalanced differently.

For us, writing was the same way as yours ("strongly advised to start in certain ways and it's best to just memorise the beginning off examples and just change few words"), but it only happened a few times at most, and more towards the latter years, while reciting stuff in lit classes was the norm the entire time.

And now I am starting to recall another type of assignments going until late middle school, where we had to write passages from textbooks in cursive in our "homework notebooks", mostly with small changes. Like "here is this 1000 word passage in the textbook written from the first perspective, rewrite it from the third perspective in pen". Made a typo? Well, restart, because while a couple of edits won't take much off your final score, any more than that makes a full restart a more worthy option (because it was required to use pen for those instead of a pencil; more diligent students who didn't wanna bet on getting it right on the first try, they did it first with a pencil and then traced it and erased the pencil). Another evening spent rewriting the same dull passage multiple times by hand in pen.
you're telling me what I know, where I'm asking about the commenter's claim that there are cultures that do NOT do this
Yes, your body cannot have zero insulin. You do not need/want more insulin once your glucose is 70-75, though. I'm quite familiar with both hypoglycemia and ketoacidosis, having nearly died of undiagnosed type 1 last Spring.

Get another two decades of experience and then we can talk.

It's entirely possible to have blood glucose below 70 mg/dL without having "too much insulin"; healthy adults routinely fall below this level during periods of metabolic starvation. At such times, the body is in a state of ketosis -- this is normal and healthy! -- but as long as there's enough insulin (which there is, in healthy adults) this does not result in acidosis. When A.B. fasted for 382 days, his blood glucose levels stabilized around 30 mg/dL while he remained ambulant.

Ketoacidosis is not so much caused by hyperglycaemia as it is co-occuring as a result of hypoinsulinaemia.
I hear you, but that's also already a different argument involving complex externalities. I'm just asking why a better service with better tech* than taxis can't ever make money, when taxis do make money.

* I know not everyone agrees with this, but enough people do that it's clearer to put the argument this way.
The taxi business does not extract out 30-40% of revenue away from the drivers and into the hands of software engineers who keep adding useless features to an overbloated app. (not the mention the investors and the executives)
Are we seeing apex Facebook?

I still have a lot of friends that use it daily but it's all for things that don't hold a company with a 1T market cap.

Anecdotal data:

- Facebook usage from my feed it's just older family members posting cheesy political posts and selling items on marketplace

- Instagram became a selling channel for brands, be it with their accounts or with "partnerships" with meme/influencer pages. I see less and less content from friends. SO has a professional account there, she always has the feeling that if she doesn't pay them her posts are rarely seen, even by people that follows her. I'm using it less and less every week.

- I still use WhatsApp a lot, and I'm quite scared how they could leverage their ad network with my private communications to improve bottom line

- I don't use and don't see the point of downloading Messenger, Threads, Reels, Lasso and any of the other weird knockoff apps they release every few months

I remember the last chapter of Chaos Monkey and the author hit a very good point that Facebook bought their extension ticket of relevance two times with Instagram and WhatsApp, since then (if you disconsider Oculus) the company didn't manage to create or acquire their next ticket. Maybe they're going the same route as MySpace?

edit: small typos, posted from phone
This depends on the importance you assign to on-call.

And that value is usually defined by the likelihood of incidents and the impact of these.

If you constantly have incidents that are critical, you can either spend the engineering hours to fix the problems once and for all. If that is not possible because it's a different problem every time, it might be important to invest in more engineering resources and have them work shifts.

Printing for example has such a system where the impact of a stopped printing press can be catastrophic because no newspapers tomorrow. Thus there are on-site engineers that are paid to sit around and wait for a press to stop working.

If the occurrence of an incident is rare or the impact of them is basically nil for whatever reason, feel free to consider on-call not that important. Maybe an SLA of 6 hours is acceptable in such a situation.

If incidents are happening often and are important yet you do not want to spring for extra engineers but have your existing staff work on these on top of their regular duties, you need to come up with the right incentives. Massive pay helps to sweeten the deal and also provides incentives to prevent pages.
DeepMind’s Perceiver IO: A General Architecture for Variety of Ins and Outs
This is a bad drawing of Silphium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium#/media/File:Silphium....
Decentralized Finance (MOOC)
Agreed - HN as well has been trending towards the outrage / doom model. The coverage of Apple just rips the worst articles (ie, apple committing child porn felonies), and the headlines are often wildly overboard (imply all Google workers going on strike etc).

TikTok has avoided that somehow - def more fun and interesting there - I do keep on getting exposed at times to somewhat weird idea, but a bit less of the yell in your face while clapping kind of stuff you see elsewhere so they are doing something interesting with their algorithm.
Because people won’t pay $25 to take a 15 min ride. They’ll just stay where they are, drive themselves, or coordinate a car pool with their friends.

Uber subsidies changed leisure for many folks. When it’s $6-10 for a ride, even middle class incomes don’t even think twice about it. But when the true price of the ride must be paid, those people won’t be a part of that economy.

And without those mass short rides to fill the gaps, there’s not enough “fat” rides to keep enough drivers on the road to keep the wait times low. So the product might exist, but it devolves to a taxi rate with a taxi wait, just done over an app.
I agree with the context that you described. In fact, I'm delighted that we agree on that context.

I agree its not clear, though I might lean the other way. Who knows.
Yup, that was poorly phrased. My bad.

Let me try that again:

I'd say a lot of people view meat substitutes as a healthier choice. But the Beyond Meat burger is, to me, the very definition of an "ultra-processed" food.
I learned a lot from watching YouTube. I was able to complete many home improvement projects based on DIY videos. And learned about many different subjects: history, science, engineering. I probably learned more from YouTube than from books. I do have YouTube Premium subscription so I don't need to watch ads — makes a big difference.
Membership-based shops and clubs seem to work much better than 'everyone can come' scheme. Even at Google the maker spaces require an intro class, and an approval from one of the managing members. And one can make a case that a googler is expected to be a more responsible person than a random member of the elite no-car community.
Would like to say "Fix that something of undefined error" some day.
??? How? I'm looking at a good 15 minutes, almost all hands-on time, from the moment I decide to go make overnight oats, using either of what I'm pretty sure are normal methods (crock pot, boil-briefly-and-leave-covered stovetop). That's assuming I don't discover that something I need is dirty.

I'm not saying that's a ton of time, but seconds?

Quick oat packets (awful stuff, full of sugar unless you get really expensive ones, cutting it 50/50 with rolled or plain quick oats helps a little and also makes up for the fact that one packet isn't, realistically, an entire serving) aren't even seconds. Talking maybe 2-3 minutes hands-on to lay out a bowl for each kid, rip and pour the packets, set the electric kettle going, then pour some on each when it boils (microwaving it with cool water is even slower once you're past a single serving—kettle saves time)
Also, though:

> So far, the CDC has collected and tested more than 100 samples of products, soil, and water from the four patients' homes, but none has turned up positive for B. pseudomallei. The agency noted that tracking down a source of B. pseudomallei can sometimes be difficult as the bacteria can take two to three weeks to develop into an infection, broadening the window of possible exposure times and testing patients' memories.
It probably can scale, but we're nowhere near the computational power we need to even recreate the brain. And don't forget, our brain took a billion years to evolve.

A typical brain has 80-90 billion neurons and 125 trillion synapses. That's a big freaking network to train.

Hopefully we can figure out how to train parts of it and then assemble something very smart.
One time when my daughter was 2 years old, riding on my wife's back in an Ergo baby carrier while we were walking up the Brighton Pier eating an apple, a seagull came stealthily hovering in from behind on the strong winds and took a bite out of the apple from my daughter's dangling arm before any of us could react.
I'm not sure how this is a counter to the above comment. Seems to still apply.

To add nuance, it's also not a binary problem. Is it influence from a country with closer values to you/your country or one further apart? Obviously your country is likely to be one end of the spectrum. I'd also say that US and China have very different cultural/political/economic views and considering a significant percentage of HN posters are American, this is why the specific comparison is frequently made (and a Dutch, for example, social network isn't really a world player right now).
I love to see well deserved success and well deserved decline.

Tiktok's experience is making you like people you don't know. Facebook's experience is making you disappointed with people you know.
Mmmh, I don't think so. At least efficiently. You might be able to decelerate emitting photons in front of you but they would escape to infinity unless you put them in orbit around a black hole. In that case perhaps.

If we will ever have the technology to instead create proper massive particles at scale you could eject those in orbit around some other massive object and then re-steal their angular momentum to accelerate yourself. But that I believe would be an extremely lossy process so you would lose most of the energy.
Twelve Dilemmas Behind the UK’s Afghan Defeat
All the houses are single bedroom? They expect no kids at all?
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 – Realistic 777-200 Full Flight to Stormy Japan
As an example, there's a meal app called ChowFun that charges restaurants a monthly fixed service fee instead of UberEats/Grubhub's abusive 30% commissions. It's just as user-friendly and I don't feel like shit for using it.

There's room for a sustainable middle ground, IMO.
In my experience even small-scale commercial fleets have a really bad understanding of their cost of ownership.

Cost of ownership has huge variance. A surprisingly large number of people have no idea when to do an oil or brake or battery change. Small accidents can change your cost equation dramatically. Random crap like hitting a pot hole, a hailstorm or someone scratching your car while parallel parking can trivially drain a month's salary.

It is very difficult to foresee these expenses unless you have an extremely consistent driving experience, and given that most of the drivers are not doing this professionally and don't have great numeracy skills, many will be in trouble.
HN is still relatively balanced, but I see a lot more reddit style comments. Usually 20 min on HN I find nothing really new, tons of polarizing topics, discussions are decent but ultimately pointless, I really feel like I need to take a break.

Even niche reddit communities end up being full of newbies and self promotion spam. There are exceptions (/r/steroids comes to mind back when I was into that) but programming/tech subreddits are just noise.
It was a rhetorical question, sorry :) It sounded like they were saying that the only cause of kids being confused about their biological parents was infidelity.
They should have released this first instead of GitHub Copilot. The focus would then have been much more on "look at the cool stuff they can do" rather than "Microsoft is releasing a product that plagiarizes GPL code".

Once people had digested that and there had been a few other proof-of-concept business ideas around turning Codex into a SaaS (because some people will always queue to build their product on your API), announce the evil version. Not that I really think Copilot is evil, but the IP concerns are legitimate.
Did the fragrance industry also?
For something radically different, I'd suggest you look at octopuses. They're as different from human as can be.

Surely BBC or NPR has a decent documentary on the topic.
> I have too many paid-for Mac apps like Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, Photo Mechanic

See uLauncher, AutoHotKey and Darkroom, respectively. They're not 1:1 in terms of feature parity, but you can get pretty close for free.
Sure, but it is not necessary privacy invasion.
True or not it's still dishonest to exclude information that moots the point
Thank you. I'm picturing something similar to MANPAD but for tanks.
On my hypothetical island, pretty much the only thing in abundance is sand. Everything else you have to work for. Who is going to do that work?

Your problem is that you don't see that all that "abundance" of food was grown by people, transported by people, prepared by people, and served by people, and none of them are your slaves. If they had the chance to get their own free shit without having to do all that labour, they totally would. But then who would remain to do the work?

The all you can eat restaurant stays in business by charging enough for meals that they can be reasonably sure that you'll won't eat more than the food is worth. However, that doesn't reduce the value of the food to zero.

Let's try another thought experiment. In my experience, all you "shit should be free" types assume all value flows from the state. That's wrong; it flows from individuals that are taxed by the state. Why don't you, as an individual, open an all you can eat restaurant where people can eat for free? Why not be the change you want to see?
Thanks, I'll have a look at writing a web extension, sometime.
It sounds like they might not be such a pain, after all.
Here, I just forged forward with what I already knew I could get done while goofing off on the weekend.
Which country has closer values to your country? US or China? Take the parents comment above and turn it from binary into a spectrum using this metric.
Yeah that shit's like "made in China = bad" by now. But I'm not surprised northern countries keep "reporting" on it.

Oh no, we found a dozen servers and power tools in some Polish guy's car, must be stolen, they can't afford to buy them second hand!

Jesus wept.
I live in a master planned community (Daybreak, Utah), and while you can definitely scoff at the building quality (state of things everywhere right now, it's all done fast and with low quality materials), it's been fantastic, especially during the pandemic.

The whole neighborhood is designed to be walkable, with parks, pools, trails, train stations, grocery stores and restaurants (added in the later phases, which are being developed right now) within 5 minutes of your doorstep.

It gets a bad rap from locals on the outside, but talk to the people living here (mostly expats from out of state) and nearly all of them say the same thing:

> "We love it here!"

and

> "Why aren't more communities built this way?"

I will say though, the US is poorly equipped for bicycle commuting. Even our neighborhood doesn't have many dedicated bike paths, opting instead to share the road with cars. Most diehard cyclists I know will tell you it's a matter of "when" not "if" you have a scary encounter with a driver. And with the amount of gigantic trucks on the roads out here that people use as their commuter cars, you can imagine these encounters don't typically end well.
This isn't really the case anymore. And I am someone that has been super critical of tiktok.

In fact, the most recent viral tiktok reposted on twitter yesterday was that dude in the white house, and it was getting reposted to both praise and criticize how queer-positive it was.
One-bedrooms start at $1250 / month.

Can a community be designed so that the people working there can also afford to live there?
Re: the China thing, is Instagram's Reels not a better alternative? Where you know your data is only being spied on by non-totalitarian regimes?
That is less invasive than making you blow. But there will always be edge cases.

Imagine a medical condition that makes it look like you are impaired. Now, you have to go to the dealer with a doctor's note to get this system disabled. Or when you want to rent a car.

Or, if there is a case when driving impaired would be better then the alternative. You and a friend are camping in the woods out of cell range, you both have some beers then one of you trips and gets a deep cut on the leg. Now you have to wait a couple hours before he can drive you to where you can get cell signal, hope you don't bleed out.
Oh no. No more drama from mentally unstable people with weird pronouns.
There is a lot of copyrighted music in TikTok clips. I wonder what percentage of their growth is because of that. Do they get away with it because they're a Chinese company or is it because the music industry hasn't wisen up to it yet?
Yes, it does sound terrible, on any level. Just get rid of minority viewpoints rather than enforce some sort of basic civility when discussing them? Just get rid of the harassed rather than the harassers? How will that iterate over time?

That would be like firing the current women coming forward against Governor Cuomo and leaving the governor alone to continue his ways, to put it in a current headline context.
The soviets were nationalists who believed the utility of the citizenry was in their contribution to their country.

You reinstill love of country, which really means love of society and others, which is another word for philanthropy, and you will quickly get this.

In America, instead of education and work being for the greater purpose of your nation and people, education is for the individual.

As usual, most people find more motivation when helping others than themselves, but the focus on ourselves in American education means it's easy to slack.
This. You can only win with quite a bit of work which a company without issues will not put in.
That would still seem to cover the coagulants necessary to make tofu, the rennet used to make Gruyère or Parmigiano, or nitrates and nitrites for cured meats. I suppose "nor normally used as a typical ingredient" could be the turning point, but that does seem to acknowledge the question's complexity by, effectively, grandfathering in traditional additives.
I was thinking about a rigid body vacuum airship, landing would be easy because all you need to do is lose the vacuum which can be done with a valve and cost no power.

Taking off again can be done over days so you can power it with solar panels if you can’t fit an RTG.

I honestly don’t think winds would be that much of an issue they won’t be strong enough to structurally damage the airship they’ll blow it off sure but not break it apart, and crashing into things isn’t as much of a risk at any reasonable altitudes no buildings no trees, sure there are cliffs and mountains but that can be solved with altitude.
It's all relative, though. If you increase salaries for retention, it has to come out of some other pot. Maybe that isn't your new hire pool, but you're going to see a negative metric of some kind somewhere. Now don't get me wrong, I still think it's better in the long term. But my point is that you'll get some kind of negative signal by pulling back funds elsewhere, and a firm at that point has to have the discipline not to freak out and stay on course.
> You are assuming that the person you respond to is american.

No, I was responding with my thoughts as an American. And frankly, his comment was ambiguous enough to be open to multiple interpretations (e.g. 1. to a non-American, US-controlled networks are foreign; 2. and manipulation/propaganda happens on US-controlled networks already, so why should it be any more concerning on one from China; 3. etc.).

> He's dutch, and is regularly spied on by the US.

The issue I was talking about isn't spying.
Then unsubscribe from the subreddits that cause you angst and subscribe to subreddits that you enjoy.
You could also have taken out as a .tgz file because they contain a lot more of your photos in one shot.
Isn't a "vector" of parameters is really more of a tuple since they don't follow the vector laws and have fixed types in each field? Why do they use Base.Vector?
> maintenance or an accident

The analogy falls apart when you say 'maintenance'. Maintenance tends to have fallback detour paths, is expected, and isnt a 'deal breaker' like this kind of outage is.

This is closer to an 'accident'. And if accidents are frequent at a road location, it _is_ considered an indictment of the civil engineering of that location.
Arguments against Christian mushroom trees:

The Fungi-Pareidola of The Psychedelic Gospels by Chris Bennett https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/08/05/__trashed...

Mushroom Trees Debunked by Thomas Hatsis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrfeNp1FSUY

I remember Hatsis elsewhere referring to a chemical study of the pigments used in the Plaincourault fresco revealing the red was originally green. I can't find the mention atm.
This literally was the primary reason to build my peer to peer browser that has a persistent cache which can be shared with other (local) peers.

I think the cache needs to be persistent and offline ready, ignoring ETags and other stupid headers. Otherwise it's a useless cache that is not controlled by the user.
Dill - same family - has also been traditionally used for birth control.
Both of those owners (a chinese company vs facebook) seem terrible for the public interest in the US.
> You need "K" prefix instead.

You mean when I start up the Plasma desktop, open my home folder in Dolphin, start playing a movie in Dragon Player while I edit a document in the Calligra office suite?

"Need" is an exaggeration.
Agreed. There are def good use cases. The sushi one is a good one. Starbucks is another great example of where it just works.

But I would say many places, esp fast/casual service places are just trying to shave some labor and make it difficult to not buy combo meals, etc.
Turkmen Internet Users Forced to Swear on Koran They Won't Use VPN
> I can get a cab anywhere within minutes. This used to not be the case... they improved society, period.

They added an extra convenience to your life, and made your life better. This may or may not be true for a lot of passengers. It may or may not be true for a lot of drivers.

It’s a stretch to call that an improvement to society, when the only example cited is a minor convenience improvement, that only the upper 50% of the society you live in can afford to use regularly.
Could you give me some productivity tips? I would love to become better at managing my time. I seem to always be able to fill my 40 hours and still feel like I didn't accomplish enough.

I'm a SWE working on a small team.