skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that it is in rodent. Aspartame hadn't been confirmed as a carcinogenic agent in humans.

That said, I don't think it's a good idea to subject to ourselves to drinking diet soda as a daily habit. It costs money, may or may not interfere with your blood sugar and the health of your gut microbiomes.

As a goal, I limit my intake of any sweet and/or artifically sweetened drinks.

Instead of being a chronic diet coke drinker, I instead became a chronic drinker of water. Two or three cups of water is typically what I drink in a daily meal.
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks the horse if they're an alcoholic considering all the bars they frequents, to which the horse replies "I think not!". POOF! The horse disappears.

This is the point in time when all the philosophy students in the audience begin to giggle, as they are familiar with the philosophical proposition of "cogito ergo sum", or "I think, therefore, I am".

But to explain the concept beforehand would be putting Descartes before the horse.
This could be true, but I personally found negative reviews valuable. While I'm not familiar with Yelp, I tend to read negative/mixed reviews on Amazon products much more carefully than positive reviews, or constructive criticisms than blindly agreeing comments on HN. I think we all want a "balanced" view, as it's elusive as it gets. While there's no single ruleset to define what's balanced and what's not, I hope we continue discussing it until the end.
I agree, and what really drove it home for me years ago was watching this video of a kid's reaction to receiving a doll like her:

https://youtu.be/yj5U-tr-E24

Who can watch that and say rocks and sticks would be just as good?
Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm
>1% of “serious events” sounds pretty bad? It’s somewhere on the order of COVID’s CFR?

I'm not a doctor or a statistician, but at the risk of stating what might be obvious - 1% chance of serious harm is much more tolerable with a medicine given to the sick as opposed to a vaccine given to everybody.

What the denominator is, is important.
In a Hybrid Office, Remote Workers Will Be Left Behind
Or a magnetized needle, or a butterfly...

https://xkcd.com/378/
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States

In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the Supreme Court ruled warrants are needed for gathering cell phone tracking information, remarking that cell phones are almost a “feature of human anatomy”, “when the Government tracks the location of a cell phone it achieves near perfect surveillance, as if it had attached an ankle monitor to the phone’s user”.

...[cell-site location information] provides officers with “an all-encompassing record of the holder’s whereabouts” and “provides an intimate window into a person’s life, revealing not only [an individual’s] particular movements, but through them [their] familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations.”
> do you think a story about coming together to save the next generation will work well on people cynical enough to see TLAs around every corner?

Absolutely not. I don’t think they need to persuade people who are convinced of their iniquity.

What they need is an environment in which those people look like they are arguing over how many dictatorships need to collude to detect anti-government photos and how this constitutes literal 1984, while Apple is announcing a way to deter horrific crimes against American children that they have seen on TV.
I wonder if there wouldn't be value in making the process of liking and sharing to something more onerous so it's not just one click away but requires work, at least for any negative sentiment to be re-shared.

Everyone would then have to put that small effort in balance with the actual amount of interest/outrage they feel.
I bet most re-shares and likes would not happen if they required any sort of effort.

If the outrage is not enough to deserve actual effort to make it heard, then the outrage is probably not worth being heard.
> creating 1984 in the literal sense

I take it you haven’t read 1984.

When Craig Federighi straps a cage full of starving rats to my face, I’ll concede this point.
> In the real world we signal our approval of a conversation by either engaging or walking away

What does 'engaging' mean, exactly? You also signal your disapproval by engaging. If I tell someone to go fuck themselves after they tried to get me alone in a dark alley... I engaged with them, I didn't walk away with a tacit approval of their attempted assault and say I remained disengaged.

If someone creeps on me online and I tell them to fuck off, the creepy cunt they are... then I engaged with them too. If I didn't engage and instead walked away, I might have a stalker to deal with because I never said no.

`engage` is doing too much work and, in my mind, it's an inhuman term. You're applying the logic of a toilet cubicle to a human.
reserve(4GB) doesn't actually touch the pages it allocates so it too is only reserving virtual address space... so it is the same after all.
I imagine this will end up like 3D printing though.

A 3D printer is fantastic to prototype your own designs. Or to build custom parts in low volume.

But it will never replace traditional manufacturing at scale. And even CAD is a massive barrier to entry.

And 3D printing is far more useful for everyday things but we still haven’t figured out a model to make the technology accessible to the general public.

This is a very impressive project though. I’m envious.
de puta madre
Many operating systems will provide copy-on-write pages as an option, but of course this just refers when the copy will occur.
As a US-er, everyone I've talked to regards me as overly cynical, but I think about Roth IRAs and to some extent all tax-advantaged retirement accounts the same way; that money is a fat target once it becomes politically expedient.
I explained in my comment here on how I achieved something very similar for free in my android app:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176237
Beej

Beej's Guide to C Programming: https://beej.us/guide/bgc/

Beej's Guides: https://beej.us/guide/
Vaccine manufacturers are making $20-25/dose in revenue, not profit.

The price for vaccines currently being charged is absurdly reasonable. I would pay 10x the price out of pocket without a second thought, and I wouldn't care how much of that is profit for the manufacturer.
I was surprised to see a Prop 65 warning on the organic frozen spinach we get delivered by Amazon Fresh/Whole Foods. Apparently it's due to Cadmium.

It makes me wonder if the stuff you buy in-store doesn't have the same risk, or if they just don't label it as obviously as online.
Can you explain a bit more on your requirement? I could build something like that if I understand a bit more details.
I hypothesize that any "short reactions" like reaction buttons, shares and ~200 characters posts are used to express outrage and hate because it's the only emotions that can be accurately expressed with such limited way of expression.

"Fuck you" has a lot more meaning and impact than a "thank you" without additional context; anger encourages short and impulsive actions, kindness necessitates understanding and sophisticated social interactions. "Thank you for helping me out when my wife threw me out of the apartment" has more punch than just "fuck you" but also requires more involvement to even produce the initial situation that began the chain of event. Researched arguments are nearly impossible to find compared to the sea of impulsive reactions.

As an example of this is the difference between 4chan's /b/ and /r9k/ boards. /b/ is pure random, with nothing off limit except what is illegal under the law while /r9k/ is similar but no duplicates of text or picture are permitted across all the history of the board. While the post on /r9k/ remain vulgar, insults are far less prominent.

Specialized groups/boards/subreddits are also similar where content and researched opinions are the main point of those groups by their nature.
I agree. You saw it with Trump's Diet Coke habit - it somehow was tied into the many ways he is a complete garbage human, as if it was one more petty vice to pile onto the long list of his vices.
I'm sure there's no malignment of interests between these corps & taxpayers..

/s
And the insider-friendly FDA process.
> Personally I would not. That's a political consideration and not something I want to hear a technologist weigh in on while defending their technology.

It’s not. The abuse case flows from their architecture. Perhaps it isn’t as ‘easy’ as getting multiple countries to collude with Apple. If the architecture can be abused the way you think it can, that is a technical problem as well as a political one.
I dedicated a lot of my spare time to it in college (and after) too. What did I get for it? I make just $200k a year at the least impressive FAANG and literally everyone considers me to be a mental defective.
bill gates is/was a diet coke fan. if i ran into him, say at dick's drive-in, i'd ask if he still drinks the stuff. i'd likely follow whatever he says. but for now, i'll continue to enjoy my 1-2 cans daily.
How about they just make the tax laws so simple no one needs a "service" to figure out how much tax to pay? I know, that's crazy talk. Politicians wouldn't be able to carve out loopholes for their big donors and our entire system of government would fail.
Until Microsoft actually starts breaking backward compatibility on a large scale, this is by definition true.
Perhaps this is exposing a gap in my knowledge of programming language history, but I'm not aware of other languages that mark types as threadsafe with an otherwise empty Send(able) implementation.
This is the most interesting headline I’ve read in a while
Raspberry Pi Projects

:-(
Years ago I found good instructions on a website targeting kayakers (it was presented as a way to avoid geting cold in the water) but I am unable to find the reference now.
Pop Sci W2018 was "78 ways to die" - https://reader.magzter.com/preview/jfaq2t3uhas38jmmxblff3095...

Nothing immediately pops out from the Popular Mechanics June 2018 cover.

The Nov 2019 might be because of the "Turn Rice Krispies into Beer" article? - https://www.magzter.com/US/Hearst-magazines/Popular-Mechanic...

That Rolling Stone issue might be because of the "The Nazis Next Door" article. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rolling-Stone-Magazine-Issue-1313-1...
> The question from the government's point of view has to be whether you could have had the vaccine cheaper.

The answer to this is emphatically no.

Countries that paid more per-dose got vaccines earlier. Manufactures are producing vaccines as fast as they can, but there's still unfilled demand for over 5 billion more doses. And in low-income countries which can't afford to pay as much, even today only 1.1% of the population has been vaccinated so far...
Atari published the listings of the ROMs for their 400/800 line of computers. They also published the BIOS for the Atari ST (which I helped write, and wrote the documentation for).

No schematics, though.
Pretty sure OPs point is that the play version is stuck multiple versions behind the repo. So, it works, but you're not anywhere near up-to-date.
What I like in The Guardian is that we are always fucked. Everyday a new tragedy
Hard to give a concrete source because it’s simply not there. See my comment in the sibling thread. I can make a case and you can judge for yourselves.

The key insight in analytic geometry is that geometric shapes and algebra are facets of the same underlying concept. This allowed Descartes to develop coordinate system. This in turn allowed development of calculus and everything else. This was a striking discovery in the western world.

The practice of using equations for geometry however was very common in India. Brahmagupta was the first to have a formula for area of cyclic quadrilateral in 6th century [2]. Notably the proof used trigonometry. Earlier similar result in West is Heron’s formula for the area of triangle. However the proof doesn’t use any algebra.

Bhaskara had devised ideas of differential calculus by 11th century [2]. A concrete example of this is the use of sine and cosine series in Kerala School of Mathematics [3].

This is really just the tip of the iceberg because majority of Indian mathematics is simply lost. What remains is poorly understood. But when reliable translations are available you can see that idea of using geometry and algebra interchangeably was common.

Maybe I’m biased. Curious to know what others make of this

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta%27s_formula
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara_II
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_school_of_astronomy_and...
Simply audit the events where data is accessed (they also suggest this in the article). What advantage does monitoring keystrokes give? This smells more like an attempt to detect unproductive workers to me.
> A low-quality trollish sentence is quick to write; drop a few of them here and there and you got a few lurkers graduate to what the platform can now claim as “active users”. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

Agree, trolls will always try to game the system. I like the idea of optimizing for quality users vs quality content. You can always add optional controls for conversations as well e.g. account age restriction.
The baker cannot guarantee I won't discover a gluten sensitivity, or choke on the bread, or any number of other things.

Very little in life is guaranteed. Vaccine efficacy fitting this rule shouldn't be surprising.
First, the science in developing a vaccine is not the only work involved. Clinical trials and scaling up manufacturing to name a few.

Second, it actually is the scientists getting rich at least in some cases: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/biontech-covid-v...
Can someone educate me on why these 2 links resolve to localhost?
I thought it was sort of an opposite; people in the Bay Area can't save, because they spent 4x their income on their rent. People in West East-Northington, Ohio can't save, because Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Denny's gutted their towns. So the only savings accounts are in Pittsburgh and Omaha.
Great summary. Got to the meat of every presentation.
When are we going to see Tesla Model T(ank) or A(rmoured personnel carrier) and military bases covered in solar panels?
Anyone who doesn’t like it can switch off iCloud Photo Library.

I can imagine many people doing that in response to this news.
Now this is some cynicism I can get behind. People like to tell other people what to do. Politicians are people so...it's almost like they don't care about their fellow citizens and just want to be in control.
Even if your funds are 100% clean, AML flagging can lead to weeks of funds being frozen. People also regularly get refused bank accounts not because they were convicted of any crime, but because these AML risk assessment systems mark them as suspicious. To convince the bank you're not suspicious, you have to give their employees extremely intimate information about your personal business, and even that doesn't guarantee approval.

The asymmetries this creates in possession of private financial information, between the general population, and those who work in the banking sector, undoubtedly leads to the latter attaining a major unfair market advantage in finding investment opportunities, which will contribute to the growth of incomes of those in the financial sector outpacing the growth of income in the economy at large.

And we do see those working in the financial sector receiving a significant pay premium:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/make-elites-compete-why-t...

And seeing rapid growth in compensation between 1979 and 2005:

https://www.epi.org/publication/ib331-ceo-pay-top-1-percent/

>>Those in the financial sector were associated with nearly a fourth (23 percent) of the expansion of the income shares of both the top 1.0 and top 0.1 percent.

Beyond the inequality AML gatekeeping fosters, the global AML compliance industry costs trillions, and by at least one account, does almost nothing to stop crime:

https://www.effectiveaml.org/aml-compliance-oxymoron/

Which is obvious from common sense, considering cartels are not only successfully laundering billions of dollars in illicit drug sales every, but actually distributing billions of dollars worth of highly restricted Schedule I drugs to every city in North America, which is a much more difficult feat than laundering the proceeds of those sales.

The special interests that have emerged to provide these enormously illiberal and costly, and dubiously useful AML compliance services, like Elliptic mentioned in the article, will continue pushing for more mass-surveillance of financial transactions and criminalization of privacy.
Big phrama and their lobbyists will have more money now to influence policy.
Acrylamides.
I don’t know but if the government thinks it’s bad then I definitely want to know.
not only is it rodent the amount of Aspartame / kilogram is huge even at their lowest value (20mg/kg). Coke no sugar has ~87 mg of Aspartame in it, you need to do drink ~20 cans of it to meet the same Aspartame level in a 90kg human.
"The manager of a fruit-and-vegetable shop places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: "Workers of the world, unite!" Why does he do it? What is he trying to communicate to the world?"

Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless, 1978

https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/...
GCP free $300 credit only work for 90 days, so not 3 years - but 2.25 years.

Azure free $200 credit only work for 30 days, so not 2.25 years - but 1.33 years (if you need credit instead of free 12-month services).
There are certainly some treatments that work - setting a broken bone for example - but there are many that don't work. The problem is that the truths are mixed with the untruths, and unfortunately the treatments that don't work tend to be the expensive and, by definition, the risky ones.

It comes down to overreach by the "experts". This is also not a novel concept - Socrates' famous saying "I know that I know nothing" actually refers to how most "experts" DON'T know what they don't know, and thus overreach their authority. By recognizing what he doesn't know, Socrates thus establishes his intellectual superiority. Interesting story that I don't feel like writing out in full right now, but highly relevant.
Sending each response from our side via official api is expensive and most small businesses can't afford it if we start charging per lead.

Main advantages of the current solution is that its dead cheap and businesses get message from customer's genuine WhatsApp number. Followups can be done easily. I think advantages outweigh the disadvantages for at least some businesses.

Having said that we are planning to add a fallback system like email notification and viewing responses in our dashboard.
There is some movement in this area. While this is not absolute it at lease a reversal on the US's previous stance of protecting patents on the vaccine.

> Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine patents to boost supply - 06 May 2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57004302

As I recall, this move needs further agreement between the US and its allies.
A serious critique of Genshin Impact [video]
If you want to read some of his more somber novels, I highly recommend Fiasco, Solaris and His Master's Voice.
No one owes the inventors or patent companies anything for bad patents. They're meant to do a specific thing and I think we're light years away from that at this point. At least originally with mechanical patents you had the basic working form of the idea but with software patents there's nothing there.
We are one and a half years into mass work from home and the idea that everyone in a company would need to jump in their cars and rush to appear on an office floor at 9:00am or something already (finally) seems completely ridiculous. Its like some Jetsons type bad sci-fi fantasy of how the future will work- as if the environment just becomes aesthetically more futuristic while the underlying social patterns are still set in the 1950s.
They should not work to potentially incriminate its owner.

But that ship has long sailed, right?

Every packet that leaves a device potentially incriminates its owner. Every access point and router is a potential capture point.
No secure enclave is needed, the system uses strong cryptography to protect Apple and their database providers from accountability.

I gave a semi-technical description of how private set intersection works here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28124716

Assuming they implement it correctly and there are no apple-internal leaks we won't be discovering the content of the database.
Or we can learn to get unfucked.
So sacrifice privacy on the altar of convenience?
It’s free (it’s right in the title)
My sense is that was a recent change, a feature as integral to internal design f the language would be baking for while, and you would expect his influence to outlast his presence.
In the wake of 9/11 Bin Laden released several messages in which he spelled out how America would lose the war on terror.

"We cannot let the terrorists win" said Bush, before the US did precisely what Bin Laden said America would do. It is now history. The terrorists won of course, just the way they said they would.

The hunt for Bin Laden was an international policing/special forces operation. It took 2 years.

What was the rest of the war about?

Bin Laden provided a business opportunity too lucrative to resist.

Anyone with half a brain knew that establishing a functional government and security force would be a futile and fruitless endeavour 20 years ago.

On May 1,The US Military abandoned their bases, slipping out unannounced, quietly in the middle of the night. They left behind military vehicles (including 4000 humvees), small arms, and ammunition. They left it there for the Taliban to take. They did this at the beginning of "fighting season" in Afghanistan.

Before 9/11 radical islamic extremists in Afghanistan were our allies. The Mujahadeen were championed by Reagan in the 80s for driving out the Soviets with American supplied stingers (lightweight, portable anti-aircraft and anti-tank rocket launchers).

Only months before 9/11 Bush awarded the Taliban with $43 million for supposedly eradicating opium production in Afghanistan.

The Taliban were our allies then, and clearly and still are. Their job was to play the "heel" in a nihilistic, multi-trillion dollar act of kayfabe more outrageous than anything even Vince McMahon could dream up.

What did we get wrong in the Afghan theatre? Nothing! It was great theatre! The show ran for 20 seasons.

As a reward for a job well done, we've handed the Taliban the keys to Afghanistan.

She's yours now, boys! Why don't you take her for a spin? See how she handles.
They cannot and monitoring keystrokes won’t stop it either.
It’s hard to imagine any politician being able to sell their voters on “we’ll stay there as long as we feasibly can”, because that’s what the US signed up for after 9/11. The scope of the project crept almost immediately from kill AQ, punish Taliban to Nation Building because there was no standing state to punish and most of the leaders involved just melted away. Now, the way the US is pulling out, makes it very likely that Afghanistan will once again become a hub for Islamic terrorists from all over the world.
Yes. Trans fats and nitrates, for example.
But, but, but this guy I ran into at the park would not shut up about it so it must work. Plus I just like to take neurotoxins. Why would I want to take some fancy new tech mRNA vaccine that would allow me to travel internationally when I can just take some of my dog's heartguard?
Japan Mayor Apologizes for Biting Gold Medal
American Information Exchange
Is there a difference nowadays?