skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But my point is the “good critic” is doing nothing more than I am - sharing their own subjective personal preferences?

The only difference is they share the same preference as other “good critics”.

There is no objective measure that says their subjective experience is more “correct” than mine.

It’s no different than art, wine, music, etc.
In my mind, there is also underlying all this the idea that if a drug actually works, then there will be many doctors going on CNN to say that it totally works; that they're super excited by their patients recovering. In other words, the effect should be profound. If the effect is marginal, why bother, even if it is a real measurable effect in well conducted trials? I mean : that doctors observe that some therapy or drug works well is step 1, then step 2 is to conduct trials to prove conclusively that step 1 wasn't a statistical fluke. In this case we seem to have it backwards : we first observed that there is an effect in vitro, then ran trials which proved nothing much, then extracted noise from that data to prove whatever we wanted.
And what, a refund for 99% of the time what is a free at point of service to the consumer?

For paying private customers yes I'd day fine but in most of these cases in ruling to bet the "free" 1GB was more than enough
I globally import this via usingnamespace:

pub const string = []const u8;

This lets me do: &[_]string{“hi”}

A little better, but not great.
There is no good faith argument against the vaccine.

Just take it.
>He has lost $125, until he sells

Everyone who owns an asset is not selling it at this exact moment, so it is worth nothing and there is a 100% loss according to you?

This is a possible definition of "loss", but I think it's clearly non-standard, and not useful. You can't just pretend that's what other people mean when they talk about losses.
Corn is grown to feed humans, the humans eat the corn, but not the corn stalks. The corn stalks are fed to cows and pigs. There is no competition there.
>a $1,700 camera with >$1,000 lenses is better than a $1,000 phone with a camera attached.

The original assertion was same price, so a $1,000 kit body + lens is better than a $1,000 phone and camera.

Which doesn't change anything about how inane a point it is.
Since I'm a persistence person and not a UI person, I am more interested in what is on the other side of the Phoenix/Elixir/BEAM VM server cluster: the database/persistence. I understand that currently apps mostly talk to PostgreSQL, like a Rails/Django app would?

Then, if something modifies the data in the database not by using the Phoenix app, the Phoenix app would not find out until it loaded the values from the database. And what would prompt it to do that?

But if your entire active state can fit in RAM in a cluster of BEAM VMs, you might turn the BEAM VM cluster itself into a distributed database, in which the only way to modify the data is by talking to the Phoenix app (using Liveview, regular REST HTTP API or something else, maybe even postgresql protocol). If this is the case, the app server can guarantee that no state change could have happened by something else modifying the database or whatever, and a client receiving updates via websocket would be sure that it has a complete and accurate picture of the data.

Of course, you would need snapshot isolation (versioning of tuples in RAM) and you would need to store the transaction log durably on disk and you would need to garbage collect (postgresql vacuum) the no longer needed records. Snapshot export and "live update pushing" to a traditional SQL database would be desirable for BI and stuff. But basically, if a modern distributed database was also a good application server, it would be neat.
I make planning software at a quantitatively sophisticated tech company, and it’s quite ironic to me that we don’t have a precise understanding of the expected impact of our software on the company. But that’s normal. We don’t build software that will barely break even. We build software that we expect can be massively successful, and the resource allocation is more about opportunity cost and uncorrelated bets than predicted outcomes.

Companies that make low margin highly competitive products, like paper mills, are the ones with a rigorous understanding of the costs and benefits of every activity.
> But I prefer to avoid Unicode in the console (cf. terminal, I do not use a graphics layer plus emulator).

Why? If the alternative is garbled text, is that what you choose?
Might want to actually read your second reference. It doesn't agree with your claim.
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Not once in that article is an overdose mentioned.
How could you possibly interpret this new world of digital sharecropping ("cloud computing") as empowering? Where is the passion for 'personal computing' when nearly everything personal about it is delegated to the cloud?

Personal computing is a box under your desk or in your pocket beefy and smart enough to solve your problems without checking in with daddy warbucks and the mothership.

Nearly everything about modern cloud computing is the opposite... it disempowers individuals and creates an unhealthy relationship with things that are out of the users control. How many peoples' livelihoods have been messed up because FANG decided to lock them out for some reason or another? How many articles have been posted to HN and elsewhere begging for a FANG employee to come along and fix their problem because there is no other option?

The server in my closet or at my datacenter isn't going to lock me out because I pissed off Google.
Animals don’t care if they die. Just do it quick.
Radioactive pharmacy is another example of insane pricing complexity (and logistics) because of the short half life problem.
That just isn’t true. Most arable land is used to grow animal feed. And maybe the Brazilian rainforests can’t be used for much which has economical value, only things like producing oxygen and being one of the richest and biodiverse ecosystems on earth, but I still think it would be better to try to preserve them instead of converting them to land for grazing.
The concern with SMS is SIM cloning. An aspiring code thief doesn't need your phone once they can pretend to be your phone.
It's pretty obvious that everyone who works at Microsoft (specifically) hasn't got the motivation for personal empowerment or computing, or otherwise hasn't got the power to enact such. The end result is the same: a tech corp that oppresses the end user wherever feasible.

Some points to back up my contention:

- Microsoft does not allow the Windows serf to uninstall Edge on Windows 10.

- Microsoft is hostile to the idea of allowing a Windows serf to self-sign their own TPM.

- Microsoft does not allow the Windows serf to inspect the code that arbitrates their computing.

- Microsoft does not offer the Windows serf any ability to inspect, reject, or roll-back "updates."

Understanding these harms helps my personap situation by enabling me to make informed decisions about avoiding serfdom to Microsoft and their legion of cog-like engineers, which is definitely to my benefit. Microsoft engineers actualize the harmful policy of "Windows users deserve less;" therefore, the sniveling SWEs at Microsoft deserve less.

Part of that less which I shall forever withhold is my money and my endorsement of their basic capacity to ethical computing. Microsoft engineers are simply not respectable with regards to any ideals of user empowerment they may pretend to hold.
That's what I was saying a true OTP is a cumbersome version of stream cyphers that trades some improvement in security for a huge increase in fragility and difficulty of use and distribution.
What do you do? Im in no way a great developer yet have 100% success rate so far (5 interviews, 5 offers, 5 landed jobs).
I would take this more seriously if this person wasn’t hocking a $150 a year book summary service and a twice-monthly newsletter. I’m not shading the hustle, you do you, but it just feels weird to advocate cutting out social media in your life, yet actively asking people to pay you with their attention and money to hear your thoughts and feelings. His first theoretical reason for using social media, for validation, seems to be what he’s after with his summary service and newsletter. Like, why write this blog at all if you aren’t after the validation? There is nothing wrong with wanting to connect with others, and this idea that only in-person connections and friendships matter is really absurd.

If social media or anything else is causing more harm than good, I say stop doing it. Even if quitting is hard. Don’t invest more into something than you get out of it, is something I firmly support. I have essentially stopped using Facebook because of that, but I recognize that for many people, quitting Facebook would have a negative impact on their life because they get more out of it than they put into it.

Still, I can’t get behind the whole “you should quit becusss x, y, z” thing. Like, as much as I like to rip on social media (especially Twitter), my life has been changed and enhanced and is demonstrably and unquestionably better because of social media. I realize that isn’t the case for everyone, but for me, it is. I use what has a positive impact on my life and don’t use what doesn’t, the same as with anything else.
Western meat production isn't unsustainable, at least not the one run in Europe. If the production method used in USA is unsustainable then it is only because you have so much space that you have more environment to ruin, if it looked like Europe where you don't have more nature to ruin you'd adapt meat production to become sustainable. It makes meat a bit more expensive in Europe but people still happily pay and eat it.
There's a good balanced article I recently read on this subject over at https://www.city-journal.org/ivermectin-sparks-yet-another-c...
Just saw this.

It generated hundreds of comments of discussion on Apple's advertising practices. I don't view it as unsubstantive.
I know what the FDA is, what they do, and I agree it is necessary.

The FDA has approved the use of Ivermectin in humans. We're not talking about like, heroin, or some toxic chemical that isn't even a drug.

1 in 5 prescriptions are off-label.

Meaning, to treat conditions that the FDA has not approved the drugs for. This idea that doctors are only allowed to prescribe drugs for FDA-approved use is just like, incorrect.
This is a good point until you recognize that you need vast resources beyond "unsuitable land" to raise cattle, let alone raise cattle at scale. Water, food (big one), medicine, manpower, infrastructure, transportation, and all of the subsidiary requirements therein all come into play.

When you properly recognize this your reduction disarms nothing.
I'm cynical too, though I frame Amazon's motivation somewhat differently: what low-cost political positions can I vocally support to placate the party that would normally support workers and oppose corporate power?
ARCH LINUX FTW!!! Best distro evah!!! (because of the AUR)
Fun fact..

The first 4 smartphones I ever owned all came with preinstalled malware or malware was added after a “security update”
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Fly.io is doing amazing things. I'm really impressed with their work. If any of the Fly.io people read this, my hat's off to you.
You'd have to be careful about doing this in the US, because I understand that, unfortunately, a lot of cow dung is contaminated with Grazon and other herbicides. People will get cow dung to fertilize their gardens, and accidentally sterilize them instead. Granted, given that it passes through the cow's digestive tract it'd probably pass through yours too, but I still wouldn't want to ingest large quantities of herbicide. This is all tragic and stupid, obviously. What could be a fertilizer is turned into a toxin.
the thing is, if you back up bad data to a RAID1, the mirroring isn't going to save you - you just wrote the bad data to both copies.

RAID is not a substitute for rotating backups.
The summit was organized and sponsored by beef, egg, and other animal-based food industry groups

No conflict of interest there.

I've long heard that most Americans eat too much meat/protein. My understanding is that's a completely reasonable claim, citations or no citations.
Well if such a universe exists, there is probably one where it turns out exactly the same w/o math PhD, and another where its a very different game. In any case, we're not privy to those universe's goings on :/
I had thoughts about it too, but in a way it makes sense. These are characters whose actions you rarely can influence directly.
Indeed. It was pretty breathtaking to see it happen so completely and quickly (it had to, the election was fast approaching).

Normally they’d wait for the story to die on its own after a few news cycles.

And your comment about “crazy far right people” is correct and why we shouldn’t censor. The same websites that everyone rails against as “kooky and conspiratorial” (many are!) were the only ones actually reporting on this.

All of the stakeholders involved - CIA, mass media, political parties - have a vested interested in labeling websites as “disinformation” and pushing them out of the mainstream conversation.
Most of Brazillian beef came from natural grassland area, "Serrado"

Also Pantanal (a kind of swampland of sorts) create some awesome natural pastures, although raising cattle there is harder because of the floods.

Amazon Rainforest destruction has much to do with stupidity (the land there is sand actually, destroying the forest to plant ANYTHING there, even soybeans, is stupid idea), logging, illegal land grabbing, and issues related to certain US companies (Cargill in particular is a big offender).

Also there a lot of conflict is going on there, including political, that made the destruction faster, including destruction being sped up in name of conservation, for example worldwide media was all happy when a particular logger got arrested, only for the destruction to speed up after his arrest, because the people that kept calling the police on him were actually trying to use the police to push him out so they could squat the land, and indeed they did so, as soon he was kicked out, illegal loggers and miners moved in, and fortified, now THOSE people can't be kicked out because they are heavily armed and the police fears the political fallout of that. Meanwhile the area they squatted had logging sped-up a lot, and trees that previously were being preserved as seed stock got cut down, ruining the management work being done there.
Pair programming reminds me slightly of chavrusa, the switching off of who's driving, and the intense discussions when stuck.

They also both serve as a very powerful learning experiences, sharing the struggle, and then learning how the other person solves problem.

Another characteristic pair programming and learning in chavrusa share is you can't do a threesome. If you are in a conversation with one person and they say something you know its for you. Some how this makes it easier to track a conversation while tackling an intellectually challenging task.
I think a certain segment of the population refuses to believe that there would be purposeful suppression of information that could potentially save millions. They will not believe any information that leads to that conclusion no matter what the evidence. Period. Full stop.
I thought Objective C was dead - it'll still be supported (probably) but https://developer.apple.com/ calls out Swift a lot but makes no mention of Objective C.
Maybe. Maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28622417

> I always like to point out that before the Europeans decimated the American bison, there were more head of bison roaming the west than there are head of cattle today. Just turning our monocrop soy and corn farms in the midwest back to prairie (by actually doing nothing to the land - just leave it alone), we could have regenerative ranching and cows and more food for less energy input than we do today.

I don’t know for sure if that’s true, but it sure as hell wouldn’t surprise me.
i think a lot about this, these days, to be honest. re-run the next/apple playbook? no. build an integrated hardware and software company that fixes personal computing through ground up rebuilds of everything from processors to operating systems and programming languages to solve the annoyances of security, privacy, software bloat and the generally humdrum nature of new technologies being shipped these days?

maybe.

it would be amazing to build systems that are are so beautiful that they inspire people like berners-lee and carmack to do their things.
I immediately want to test it out and see if I can get it to JIT itself. I feel evil.
I will read your article more thoroughly because it does sound interesting, but I'm curious how well this server-side state works from a scalability/robustness point of view.

It being stateless is normally a feature, as it doesn't matter which server the request hits, we can elastically scale them up and down.

With a "session" being server-side statefull, you now have session affinity and are you persisting/hyrdating that session somewhere? Is it kept in memory and lost of the server goes down? How long does that session persist? Lots of questions...
The problem with all non-animal sources of protein is their ratio of protein to carb+fat. I eat ~.8gr of protein per lb of body weight per day to maintain my muscle mass. If I had to get that protein from non-animal sources, I'd be way over my total daily calorie intake.
This is exactly how Google markets Drive. Go visit https://www.google.com/drive/ in a private browsing window and take a look for yourself.

> Your content is safe, private, and never used for ad personalization

> And Drive is cloud-native, which eliminates the need for local files and minimizes risk to your devices.

> Your important work, files, and precious memories are protected by our industry-leading security. You can rest easy knowing that the things you care about are stored safely in the cloud.

If Google markets a product in a specific way I don't think it's unreasonable to criticize Google when they fail to live up to that marketing.
The publishers won't be too happy with creators who are seen to be accepting money bypassing their cut.
Fwiw, net-positive nuclear fusion now legitimately looks to be less than 5 years out. See Commonwealth Fusion. Here's a technical deep dive:

https://youtu.be/rY6U4wB-oYM
In your favor “How can we go faster” has been a question people have been asking for thousands of years, and we’ve made pretty steady progress on it.
That was the trial that only had 40k participants. Adverse effects are so rare, it had to be administered to tens of millions of people to the public at large before just a few showed up.
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It's not the ability to negotiate that you want, because that wouldn't go away just by public pay. You think that in an information-scarce negotiating environment, you can do a better job than your colleagues. You don't want them being able to reference you in their negotiations.
There was an interesting paper (poster linked below[1]) about the unique risks that are posed by high velocity lunar regolith. The amount of exhaust mass you need to decelerate a lander is proportional to that lander's mass. Since you can either eject more mass more slowly, or less mass more quickly (momentum being simply mass times velocity), to save mass for the payload you want to get your exhaust velocity high.

However, when that exhaust collides with the lunar regolith it transfers its momentum there. Further, given the low gravity of the Moon, you run the risk of accelerating dust and rocks so much that they actually go into an elliptical orbit with the lander at the perigee of that orbit.

If that happens, you touch down and anywhere from 20 to 35 minutes later a rock you kicked up comes right back at you from the other direction!

Perhaps worse, that rock hits a satellite or support module that is currently in orbit. In any case its not a good thing and something that was avoided in the Apollo program because the landers had relatively low mass (< 10 tons).

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20205007525/downloads/Hi...
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Even if we had fusion most of the mass in the solar system exists in the sun, so that’s where most of the energy is. E=mc^2.
The vaccines are not sterilizing, which means they do not stop you from catching or spreading the virus. It seems to me that any drug that is actually a prophylactic for covid would be a massive improvement.
I would like to know what are the inputs to lab grown meat. I am unconvinced that this is any better for the environment. I expect masses of soya and an inefficient process.
The most sane comment here, sadly.
This took me a minute to figure out, mostly because I didn't immediately intuit that "sorting algorithm" == Facebook and "Burma" == Myanmar.

I believe they're referencing Facebook's role in the Myanmar coup: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55929654

(reference for "600" as the death toll: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56703416)
Thanks, that makes more sense why the Lithuanian authorities included it in their (cherry-picked?) subset of the filtered ad phrases.
What percentage does "plenty" represent?
> At a Sutter hospital in San Francisco, a procedure can range from $22,865 to $101,571.

What if ... that's actually a very egalitarian approach? Procedure cost is what you can afford.
Was that 20 more dead from thrombosis than would normally be seen in a similar population of that size? Or 20 total? Because my understanding is that it was only a few more than usual.
It will become the only way for growing meat if climate change will be not stopped.
@skosie
>Host locally, and push encrypted backups to a cloud service.

Is there any "grandparent friendly" way to do this today?
But what does the smaller lander land on? It's landers all the way down.
This would be much more interesting and useful if it didn't cost $47 to find out how to do it.
I'm sick of just being ghosted. Especially if its after an interview.
More optimistically- Facebook groups are great. They are the only reason I still look at Facebook and truly bring value to me
Banking is known for skimping on IT staff, hiring cheapest possible workers from 3rd world countries and essentially running sweatshops.
I wonder if there's something like this that supports Plex?
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It becomes cost efficient if you start taxing carbon.
Firefox is odd in this regard, though. Chrome tried to make it so you could only add extensions while signed in to Google, but have since abandoned that policy and currently permits side loading, while Firefox doesn't allow any extensions that haven't been signed by their certificate which means that if they forget to renew that certificate you can't use any extensions...which actually happened. It's bizarre to me that Chrome offers more user agency in this regard than Firefox.
Woohoo! Looking forward to seeing what all this hype about Rust is about.
No- this isn't US economics where there's a cost below which land use doesn't make sense for them.

These people were cutting and burning these forests just for timber and firewood, and have been for decades.

Even in places where it's banned to do so, and they risk jail.

A smaller profit margin isn't going to prevent them from utilizing the one resource at their disposal.
But we are not asking for how much the insurance is going to pay, this is between a person and their insurance companies, we want to know how much the procedure cost, a simple price list.
LiveView in its standard configuration does not use Redis, it uses built-in Erlang distribution. But you can use Redis if you want to or if direct connections between nodes aren't possible.
I love how "population surveillance" was explicitly mentioned as a goal.
Another reason to not use Google/Facebook or similar identities to login to a service. You lose access to your Google account, you lose access to all those other services.