skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today is the 30th birthday of the arXiv, and they are posting interesting tidbits on twitter https://twitter.com/arxiv
What's the most exciting features recently added to Emacs (or coming soon)? I don't use emacs at all, so any feature you're excited for is fair game, even if it's not exactly recent.
I suspect that for every problem there are dozens of teams capable of solving it, but only one or two will receive enough funding and attention to reach the escape velocity. Investors know it so they want to bet on the team that other investors will want to bet on.

Ergo your job as a founder is to convince the investors and the journalists that you are the chosen one. Either that, or bootstrap.
in this article, they are functionally equivalent to bullet points for the headings and sub headings.

but ok.
Audi unveils a shape-shifting concept car
While many US politicians have been pretty poor on climate change, the US federal government, state governments, Army, many large corporations outside the fossil extraction industry and academia have put in a fairly solid performance. It was democracy that built those systems and they've done well against a well funded opponent and a somewhat abstract threat and the tide seems to be turning so maybe there's room for hope.
I'm reacting from a place of emotion here but your suggested approach just doesn't scale for an open-source project. Nothing is more soul-destroying than an ever growing backlog. If people don't care enough to follow up with an easy reproducible case or even open the PR to fix themselves then they have no right to squat the backlog.

Sure for commercial situations you expect the customer to sign off on a fix but a maintainer's responsibility in open source is exactly 0. Even having a bug tracker is an affordance from the maintainer, GitHub supports turning issues off.

I'm going to continue to terminate old issues where the problem described was vague or the reporter has gone AWOL and I would encourage all OSS maintainers out there to do the same, let's manage expectations.
All of the indicated research interests and criticism points in the article are left-wing (fair enough), but then it follows that this
may not be good faith research in the sense of being a neutral look at disinformation.

Facebook may well be underhand here, but the title claim seems to be disingenuous enough to undermine sympathy disinterested observers may have had with the researchers.

If in fact these researchers are in effect at least partially being seen as political campaigners themselves, then they are on shaky ground expecting special treatment being accorded due to an independent status claimed but not justified.
Your body and ashes are nothing. Your legacy is something.
You can grab the unofficial images as others say. Or simpler still, just usb tether your phone to your desktop and use that internet to install any necessary wifi drivers from the non-free repositories.
your dog can continue using his old tennis ball over and over again though.
Maybe applying contemporary ideology to legendary prehistory events that happened 30,000 years ago is boldly moronic. Makes you think.
That's still nihilism, it's just trying to build new values ex nihilo.
What Percentage of AngelList Seed-Stage Startups Become Unicorns?
SEALs do have a different culture from Delta, some of that stems from Navy culture I’m told. Some argue SEALs are too cavalier. I only went on one mission with SEALs and they were professional. Others who’ve been around them more seem to be more opinionated one way or the other. I have no desire to wade into that argument.

You brought up Sheen, people often confuse the various organizations that make up JSOC.
I like reminding those "misinformation fighters" that they will never be in charge. The look of disenchantment in their face is usually quite telling.
Apple Doesn’t Want to Hear from Me
Probably futile, but...
Please put wicd-curses back in the repos. Rumors of its deprecation have been greatly exaggerated. I find it continuing to work as well as ever while enduring the status as the only acceptable means of clean network management available in Linux.

-Debian Testing user

More practically, I beseech the compassionate and unglabrous-necked wizards of yore to impart their glorious mana to this dear and ailing friend, wicd. Please resurrect it. I beg.
I shouldn't have said the driver. The initial panic-buys were definitely what kicked it off. The need for retooling is what sustained the shortage for months despite rationing by grocery stores.
No one is requiring Facebook share data, though it could easily be argued that they owe us.

It's users who install a browser extension that are sharing the ads they were shown.

If FB wants to serve people ads, why should they get to stop them sharing those ads with researchers / whoever they want?

They claim the FTC is forcing them to, even though the FTC has stated that's untrue.

This is fairly open and shut. Facebook are full of shit, quelle surprise.
One notes that in BC/Western Canada, dentists gathered en masse at a convention while case rates were cranking upward. A shit-ton of them caught covid. One also notes that for decades, they’ve been working on people’s mouths, spraying nasty oral bacteria into the air, without wearing masks. What I’m saying here is that dentists have never been particularly intelligent about their own health safety.
Egregious? It is possible to write a short summary article at the beginning and give perfectly acceptable credit to the original reporters. It's not that hard. If anything, it takes almost the same amount of work.

In one place, he's claiming that he was inexperienced and it was all a beginner's mistake. But here, he's pretty much saying "plagiarism" from the beginning. He knew what he was up to.
A threat model without a discussion on threats. Nice.
I'm confused by your argument that this is similar to prior rollouts of new instruction sets. In the past when Intel pushed into instruction set, it generally went to their whole line of chips very quickly. That's not what I've seen with AVX at all.
Are the unions restricting new memberships? If there's a surplus of unfulfilled jobs, the unions can just get new members during the peak times, and then when demand drops, they can give priority to senior members.
Jikes that sounds like a nightmare; clubs for useless things just to belong. I think we can start with the simple point that many people do not know what real friends are. What many people consider real friends are, in Rowan Atkinson's words a 'close personal acquaintance' [0]. And a lot of people have 10s to 100s of them. That makes no sense and those are, probably none of them, friends at all. When your situation changes (wealth, illness, poverty etc) you will notice that quite rapidly.

[0] https://youtu.be/mq78D-3HwEM
Pretty bad, by design. It cannot really integrate with the OS, that's why OS packages exists.
I think this has a use case. Not the current implementation, but there are people out there who truly do need help with writing eulogies. They're hard to do, and something to make it easier would be a benefit. I think the author's story here shows how that struggle can play out. Funerals themselves are hard. Coordinating a ceremony that is supposed to coincide with everyone's processing of emotions about the loss of a friend/loved one is stressful. I'd might even argue that morning the loss of a loved one according to a schedule is unnatural itself. Now you've got to write an essay about someone's life on top of that?

Personally, it's exceptional to have a relationship of any where I feel like I truly understand the person deep down. Without that understanding, how can I write a proper eulogy? Furthermore, how do I get the funeral audience to all agree with what I write? Maybe I can describe their general accomplishments in life, but would did graduating from that school really matter to them? What if they hated being there? Were they proud of their time in the military or not? Yes, they had a career, but is that how they wanted to be defined? Presenting any of these as unimportant might hurt the sensibilities of those who came to the funeral, not just in terms of their understanding of the deceased, but also in their general sense of what's valuable in life. Y'all want to hear hilarious story about that one time we almost got arrested? The most honest and accurate thing I can say about the deceased is what their life meant to me, but no one comes to the funeral to hear about me. So usually I let someone else more in tune with what people in general want take the lead on it.

The above challenges contributed to my decision to include an outline for my own eulogy in my will - as an optional guide, at least. This removes the guesswork from those who would be burdened with my funeral arrangements. Not everyone plans ahead on these things, and so a resource for writing a eulogy can be valuable to some. It may not be an answer to the burning meaning of life question, but it an AI might help the process along.

It's 2021, and maybe it is time there's actually an app for that. I don't mean it in a dystopian sense. Certainly I'd hope it would be offered by a non-profit and not some cryptocurrency startup seeking an ICO. Unless you're an oligarch or ancient ruler, coffins costing more than a used car is a characteristic of modernity. Recently it was announced that FEMA's given $1 billion towards Covid-19 funeral costs since deaths started climbing in 2020. Funerals are expensive and stressful. This is undesirable. Funerals should be efficient where possible. If an app can help with that, then some families would be grateful for it.
There are a variety of generic DSLs for encoding configuration concisely with composability, functions, custom validation, etc. Some examples would be jsonnet, dhall, and cue.

If the configuration needs to be transformed into a more computer-friendly format like json or yaml for later loading by a binary, that's easy enough to do at build time in a modern-ish build system like bazel
Translate is an AI search for meaning. GPT-3 is an AI search for meaningless bullshit.
It seems like ammo has been in experiencing semi-perpetual issues for the past 12+ years
You seem to have the wrong end of some sticks.

Users are installing a browser extension to specifically share the ads they were shown.

Facebook are claiming this is against an FTC agreement and so they are sadly forced to shut the researchers down - the FTC says that's bs.
Yeah. Especially seeing the effects the pandemic has had on peoples' social lives, and as such quality of life, I'm not going approach grownups who are unlikely to form new strong friendships, and tell them to cut off a major source of casual semi-social interaction with old buddies.

For context, I'm a man in my thirties, and I notice that a lot of my peers are super busy balancing work/life, or just bury themselves in work.

I'm from a Nordic culture where we don't have Southern European social customs and strong multi-generational families. I'm really worried about how our norms basically push us into loneliness outside our attempts to run nuclear families, which often fail and leave people divorced with limited additional social bonds.
I did a empirical study on CI/CD and finding companies to participate took a lot of time. If your platform could connect me to people and companies who want to get better at processes like CI/CD I can help the company out and they can help me out by being a company versus an open source project. Open source is easier to get access but does development differently than companies so findings in open source are not always generalizable to companies.
That’s a fair point. I still think it’s true that they will now experience life differently from you so prepare for that. Don’t worry about how you compare to them, focus on your own goals near and long term and maybe they can invest in a friends and family round in the future :)
This topic is addressed in the movie Her.
Just to throw in another solution for anyone looking. Abbyy FineReader has a comparison module that is excellent.
https://pdf.abbyy.com/how-to/compare-documents/
I think I'll be dead and buried before my ISP (Virgin Media) rolls out IPv6!
They give confidence intervals in the text for about 51 MB(mega bases) which would be about 2 percent or so if that was across the whole mappable genome. Just a note that does not translate to 2% different genes or something, but rather that specific mutations they know can be traced back to a specific population. Most would have no effect.
Ask HN: Do you have use cases for an open source clone of Google Slicer?
In OSDI 2016, Google published a paper describing Slicer, a system to make it
easy to build stateful applications by solving the distributed problems
associated with sharding applications.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi16/osdi16-adya.pdf

My current team at Square is building a (simplified) clone of Slicer to
simplify feature development, improve load balancing, and reduce latency by
relying on soft local state. Examples of our use cases include replacing Redis
(for Rpc response caching) with application memory and allowing chunked image
uploads to be coalesced in application memory. Since Square's tech stack is
built on gRPC, HTTP, and Envoy, our clone will be built on these open source
technologies.

We hypothesize that such a clone might be useful outside of Square. However,
we want to validate this hypothesis and understand the use cases, so that we
can build a system that might be useful to the open source community.

I ask the Hacker News community:
1. Would the systems you are building be able to take advantage of an open
source clone of Slicer built on Envoy with support for gRPC and HTTP?
2. If so, please name your company, a brief description of your system and use
cases. Additionally, what minimal subset of Slicer's features are sufficient
for your use case?
Artificial sweeteners have even more evidence for the safety.

I agree with your second point but I generally take a lot more issue with the lack of skepticism put towards the alternatives rather than the skepticism towards science.

Evenly applied skepticism leads you to accept the thing which has the most evidence in support while also letting you change your mind if the evidence changes. The problem with the "alternative" medicine crowd is that evidence didn't lead them to their conclusion so evidence can't lead them out.
Luxury NFT platform turns to crowdfunding
There a lots of case studies of lottery winners where they end up massively overspending their winnings and have a hard time returning to their old way of life, but can't maintain their temporary standard.

I think (but have no data) that that's less likely for people who made it big through business/startups. Although you certainly hear some stories about people who blow the money and have to go back to the grind.
There are plenty of "real problems" whose solutions failed not because they didn't work, but because the founders couldn't communicate effectively.

A great solution without good communication is just as worthless as an aspirational pitch deck with no solution. Both result in a problem not getting solved.
There are plenty of "natural" carcinogens. Tobacco, for example, is perhaps the largest single cause of cancer in human history.
Pediatric deaths were down from 199 to 1. Admittedly the 199 was a peak, but still that’s an impressive drop.

Even if we assume last year was traumatic enough that things got missed, it seems evident that the flu took it on the chin.
I'm curious why Apple went with USB-C for laptops but not phones. With laptops it was more surprising, because they ditched the beloved MagSafe.

I see no technical advantage in Lightning over USB-C. So the only reason I can think of for Apple to prefer Lightning is profits. But then why relent on MagSafe? Is it because it sells so far fewer laptops than phones that laptop accessories are just a blip?

Also what makes Apple's history incongruous is that they were the ones who first embraced USB with gusto, putting no other kind of port on the iMac, in 1998.
I’ve lost* data with just RAID1 thanks to btrfs bugs post-1.0 that corrupted the entire metadata on both disks. There was no good place to get support nor any instructions on attempting reconstruction of corrupted metadata at the time and I haven’t bothered with it since. Apparently I wasn't the only one that suffered such a loss and as I recall, it was blamed on OS-integrated CoW under certain circumstances but it was quite shortly after adopting it and not a particularly weird configuration so I swore it off and have been happily btrfs-free since.

I should have known better since during my initial evaluation in search of a better llvm for Linux, I set up a root non-raid btrfs volume comprised of multiple dissimilar disks and lost all the data after an unsafe shutdown (a kernel panic that may have been caused by btrfs in the first place) even though all the disks were still functioning fine. I was an early adopter of ZFS - first under OpenSolaris, then under OpenIndiana, then (and now) under FreeBSD, so I thought I understand what "initial stable release" meant but it is clear that what ZFS devs consider to be stable and what btrfs devs consider to be stable are leagues apart.

* I was able to use forensic tools and low-level fs-agnostic recovery methodologies to get some of the important stuff back, but the btrfs volumes were completely lost.
I've been upgrading company servers and personal desktops and laptops for 21+ years without getting an unbootable machine.
I remember a really good issue of national geographic that I read as a kid that talked all about this. Level is a bit higher but they showed how they have found evidence through bones and dated them in different ways and how they reconstructed different parts of the evolution to modern Homo sapiens.
the stories have really changed in the last ten to twelve years with DNA evidence; so much that one 'recent' book may not be in sync with another
Show HN: Run a global VPN with tailscale and fly for you and your friends
At my job I have learned which people ask for things that they aren't really serious about. Only so many times I am willing to reorganize my work to install some "urgently" needed software or system configuration changes, only to later observe that they were never used.

Now when I get requests from those people, they go immediately to the back burner. If I hear nothing more, they get closed; if I get followups then maybe it is something they need after all.

It's easy for people to ask for others to do things. But many people are scatterbrained and can't prioritize, and can't see beyond their own immediate needs and how their requests might impact other work. Rather than try to demand some realistic sense of priority for these requests, this approach lets the urgent stuff bubble up naturally and the rest of the chaff sink to the bottom.
100 grams of strawberries looks to be about 8-10 large strawberries

http://www.wholefoodsplantbasedhealth.com.au/wp-content/uplo...
For the anecdote, it's possible to upgrade a windows machine in place from XP to Windows 7 to Windows 10.

I've done it at home for multiple computers and it works. I don't do that sort of things at work however.

There are obvious limitations on the hardware if you really want to go all the way from XP (32 bits), don't expect it to take SSD or high core modern CPU.

P.S. Debian has order of magnitudes less desktops/servers than Windows. There's a tremendous amount of embedded devices on Debian but that's a completely different use case, if anything they never get an upgrade from the manufacturer.
If the latest iPhone chip is as powerful as the Intel chip used in MacBooks, why shouldn't I be able to connect a hdmi to usb c cable to my phone and get a full MacOS machine on the external display? (Like Samsung dex does this or so did Ubuntu phone from 2014-15?)

Same question with Android phones and Chrome OS.

What's the technical challenge?

I feel the only reason Apple won't do it is because then instead of buying 2 to 3 devices, people would buy just one, which will hurt their revenue. (Doesn't explain why Google won't)
Awesome, thanks for the answers all! Sounds simple enough!
You are getting down-voted because you are posting a knee-jerk emotional response. The poster you are originally replying to isn’t making any kind of comparison to European colonialism, you are. Then you are getting upset at your own comparison. That is not productive.

For the record I interpreted the original post as saying “the legend speaks of another race coming and bringing civilization. Since the timeline is such that the denisovans were there first and the sapians came after, wouldn’t it make more sense that this is a legend told by the denisovans about sapians?”
Yes, in a perfect world, they would simply choose to not track. We (I'm a co-author on the research) chose to change things such that we don't need to rely on carrier benevolence.

Our fix changes the architecture to nullify an identity that has long been used to track users. The data has simply been available for them to sell as a byproduct of running a network.
There's a large body of people, particularly here, who measure success by how much money you can raise, and nothing whatsoever about actually running a viable business.
Using those scientists to made the bomb to end the war was one positive outcome.
> Currently there are panic memes spread by idiots

How about educating, or else just ignoring, idiots? Seems simpler.

The problem with idiots is that they're idiots. Besides trying to educate them you can't do anything about it. If it's not this thing they don't understand it will be some other thing they don't understand or misunderstand. That's the nature of idiots.

We shouldn't try to create an "idiot-prove" world, as this world would be just idiotic in the end.
I'm pretty sure the increased cancer rates and cardiovascular incidents caused by obesity far exceeds the the little aspartame-cancer causation studies have demonstrated so far.
If you're gonna be generating at build like that, you might as well be using a binary encoding like protos (this is for devs, btw)
This isn't the first time Fauci has tried to kill a bunch of people with HIV.

Fuck your vaccine passport.
burn in hell
Thank you for the explanation. This is new to me :)
I thought oil boiled at 300 °C, how do you get up to 390 °C?
Wait a minute. If some idiots think their TV is demanding their child as sacrifice because of a error message we should fix the idiots, because sooner or later someone will use their intellectual deficit to cause havoc.
What if federal income tax was just eliminated and replaced with selling ad-targeting information to advertisers? I'd do it.
Actually 10 distinctions between "liberals" and "progressives", demonstrating that there are many criteria by which progressives are closer to communists than to liberals.
No, no analogy. GMail scans every email and every attachment. Server side because - of course - it’s an online service. It’s main feature is analyzing and indexing so it’s a direct example of a killer feature based on content analysis. Even spam filters are.

The same slippery slope applies there.
Why Everything We Thought About Drugs Was Wrong
People really don't like having their overconsumption and shallow consumerism-based self-images pointed out.
All reasonable, but why does it have to be Facebook?
There’s a big tradition on the left dating back at least to Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs, the Climate” of insisting that building a zero-carbon future requires the adoption of radical anti-capitalist politics. And I think that people who insist that liberalism can’t reckon with contemporary crises are from that school of thought.

But it’s completely absurd.

As long as capitalism is the guiding light of society, it's probably absurd to think a solution is possible.

The capitalists control the politicians, and the voting populace underestimates the degree to which they can be manipulated.