skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commercial secret practices would have had 3D printers reverse engineered 20 years ago. So yes, maybe they worked as expected, but it's not clear the public benefitted more under that system.
I’m not too concerned about transmission. Time of day billing can solve this. What concerns me is power generation. We’re phasing out nuclear power, and replacing it with solar (doesn’t work well during most of the times when grid use is low) and then of course natural gas which is obviously problematic.
I sorta wonder where the line on organizational formalization ought to be.

I'm part of an organization that functioned well for many years with little internal structure, but now, many of the original principals are aging out of the org, and things are just not working as well without those strong personalities to guide things.

Formalization allows you to swap people out like interchangeable components, but it also acts as strictures that can reduce or in some cases completely eliminate flexibility and dynamicism.

I personally advocate for policy and structure as guidelines, but not as law, it gives folks a seed as to how an organization ought to function - but not so rigid as to act as a girdle to prevent the organization from dynamically responding to changing situations. You want a some critical path areas to be written down as law, but everything else should be lose convention that can be changed at dynamically as conditions suit.

This analogy even extends to programming, somewhat obviously.

It's an interested and relevant discussion for corporate culture, how we govern, and how we organize non-profits. I long ago concluded that the largest cause of failure for startups with an otherwise marketable product, was failing to create a self-sustaining organization, and organizational culture.
Who’s to say the parents comment isn’t describing said executive?
He strongly pushed the "natural origin" theory and branded "lab escape" theory as a conspiracy theory, despite knowing (and without revealing) that the lab was involved exactly in that kind of virus research (in order to conceal his involvement).
It would be fun to pull datasets of collision data based on this version of mini and earlier versions to see if there is a statistical increase in damage to cars while that are currently in a move that used a turn signal.
For anyone looking to pick up shaders for the first time, I recommend not beginning with the book of shaders. It’s an excellent introduction to a particularly heady slice of shader programming that, in my opinion, is a blind alley for folks new to shaders. I think focusing on fragment shaders rendering as full-screen quads makes the process feel more arcane and mind-shattering than it does when you consider the frag shader’s role in a 3D rendering pipeline. In the latter context, the simultaneous invocation of every frag doesn’t feel like a puzzle to solve but a reasonable part of getting pixels onscreen as part of a 3D render. For that reason I recommend newbies work on using fragments in the context of materials that include vertex and potentially compute shaders to manipulate geometry and to replicate things like phong shading or a shader-based particle system first.
I think stagnating is okay.

Think about medical science. Drug innovation at the rapid pace of the current year pulls out life saving medicines every year only to keep them out of reach of the vast majority of patients due to price.

Technically more lives are saved this way, but the emotional toll on people of knowing a medicine exists to save their life but they will not be able to afford it is high and not measurable in statistics.

Perhaps it is not worth the rapid innovation cycle. If the costs are so high and can only be recouped with extremely high medicine costs, maybe the pace of innovation should slow for the betterment of society.
@eurasiantiger stated that studies show that MAOA-LPR has been shown to be connected [positively?] to criminality and violent behavior. I would expect that when @eurasiantiger specifically links that to MAOA inhibitors found in coffee, that means there is a linkage between coffee inhibiting MAOA and criminality in certain genotypes.
> Nah. He has no uMkhonto we Sizwe behind him,

You can change that
Erm, last I checked the U.K. justice system wasn’t the “USA”.

The U.K. just denied the US extradition request, so the US isn’t even close to “capturing” Assange.
Maybe the root cause is the laughably easy barrier of entry to have a license to drive a death missile?
It's a multi faceted issue of course, but to me, getting better educated drivers on the road is by far the easiest problem to solve around driving.
So I haven't been in hackernews that long, but I'm still not sure what topics are allowed/not allowed. Because imo this isn't very relevant?
How did those make it into production?!
Yes, they were. Fox News hate democrats. CNN hate Republicans. Assange hated Clinton ever since she said "wouldnt it be easier if we just drone striked him?".

He still didnt conceal any leaks in pursuit of that goal and he wasnt a russian spy. Nonetheless, both claims are frequently made in the mainstream media linked to Democrats.

They are lies.
My employers tactic is to have 9 to 5 meetings and force everyone into mobbing on stories. It's the most annoying place ever.
It might work if we remove all non autonomous vehicles and non-vehicles...
> it's no longer a religion. It's a social organization.

That's a rather narrow definition of religion. Perhaps consider one suggested by Paul Tillich in his writings - "faith is not simply the will to believe" - such as The Dynamics of Faith and The Courage to Be

- concern with the nature of ultimate reality

- doubt is included in every act of faith

- courage to make a personal commitment

- the will to believe does not create faith

- venture: acting when the outcomes are beyond one's own control
Oh gosh, the comment section will be fun no doubt.

Anyway, as a matter of curiosity I counted the Dutch parliament, and 60 out of 150 seats are taken by women, or exactly 40%. I was just curious how it compares (data isn't on the website, so I just counted manually from the pictures, may be off by one or two members by accident; data at [1]).

I had expected the younger MPs to be more balanced, but it seems it's the 40-50 bracket that's the "most equal": almost 50%, vs. 20% of under 40s. Not sure what to make of this; maybe women are more likely to go in to politics after pregnancy? Not sure...

Would be interesting to do a more detailed analysis over more elections.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/arp242/edc381cc34a437662be931d1783bf...
All of that can be done better with a micropayments system without crypto.
Employers Are Rejecting Millions of Qualified Workers, New Harvard Research Finds

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/hiring-resume-screening...
Peremptory challenges?
You have it backwards: why should we permit people to claim ownership of ideas at all? We arguably have a natural right to mimic what we see others do, or apply the ideas that other teach us, or retell the stories that others told us. What a backwards world we live in where we have to justify exercising our natural rights.
Why would anyone take seriously the opinion of SF government about “safety” when it’s official policy explicitly condones open IV drug use?
I wonder who the anonymous “nutrition expert” this article claims to be authored by works for?
Oh you mean a thing you could solve by public transport and proper street planning?

Or reducing commute due to remote working in non physical labour?

I feel that there are a lot of simpler ways to address the issues at hand.
I also like them for the same reason. The languages themselves evolve slowly (Clojure) or not at all (Common Lisp). A library that emphasizes simplicity and does One Thing Well can be stable and continue to be useful indefinitely. There are network effects too -- if my library uses stable libraries and is built on a stable language, it need not change at all.

On the other hand, there are the big libraries that, for convenience, pull one or two small things from several others -- their surface area becomes so large they are practically guaranteed to generate more work in terms of security updates, dependency conflicts, and the like. I experience this at times developing in Clojure, whose hosted nature means issues can emerge from the Java ecosystem, which is obviously enormous and dynamic.

We recently had a defect at work relating to a conflict between transitive (Java) dependencies from a third party library used to serialize exceptions prior to transmission to their service, and another tool used only for generating "literate"-style code documentation. While not a production defect, it cost us some time and could have been avoided (both by us and the libraries' authors) by more hard-headed evaluation of the tradeoffs involved in introducing certain dependencies in the first place.
I have read somewhere that about 50% of a vehicle emissions are from the tires and the breaks, so we're still far from 0 emissions even with an EV.

In your scenario the idiot that let his vehicle circle the block all day would still have to pay for breaks, tires and electricity. And judging by the inflation trajectory since last year, I'm not sure many of us will be able to afford this kind of waste in 2030.

But I don't think we will get level 5 autonomy by 2030 anyway (if ever).
I've got to say, I'm shocked to see this piece chock-full of fallacious logic in the Guardian.

> Is mother nature a psychopath? Why would she design foods to shorten the lifespan of the human race?

Mother nature isn't an anthropomorphic being and "she" doesn't design anything. There are plenty of poisons found in plants and animals.

> “Base your meals around starchy carbohydrate foods” – another nugget of government “healthy eating” advice that is contradicted by robust science and well overdue for a rethink. In February the Pure study, which followed 148,858 participants in 21 countries over nine years was published. It concluded that: “High intake of refined grains was associated with higher risk of mortality and major cardiovascular disease events.”

Government authorities typically recommend against the consumption of refined grains. So, the author is actually citing evidence against this argument.

> Fruit contains lots of sugar. A small banana has the equivalent of 5.7 teaspoons of sugar, whereas an egg contains none.

A cup of canola oil doesn't contain sugar either. This makes the mistake of conflating all simple mono and disaccharides as "sugars" without consideration of the context. A cola and a piece of fruit both contain sugar, true, but the fiber in fruit slows absorption and moderates spikes in blood sugar (this is why fruit juices are almost as bad as sodas). Dairy also contains sugar, which makes it even more strange that the author would target demonize the sugar in fruit but ignore it when praising dairy.

I could go on.

I'm not going to make the claim that this article is sponsored by some lobby, but it certainly reads that way.
From what I understand, this is a USA problem. European legal system isn't based on case law and there is a lot more of the jugde interpreting the loosely defined laws and the constitution. There is also this "law practice" or how would you call it which is when a similar thing has been decided in the same manner you can expect yours to be too but it is not guaranteed and these "trends" regarding the same thing can change from time to time
Every serious programming language I've ever used...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.console.f...

It's even easier on UNIX-like terminals, where ANSI escape codes should work.
tl;dr Three 100-line JS packages (about the length of a really nice exhaustive stackoverflow answer) duking it out for social media superstardom.

In all likelihood you have each of them copied a dozen times in your node_modules for some reason, all different versions and out of date (scary!) and they all give you vulnerability warnings when you run npm audit.

(Being a former front-end engineer writing Java for the last couple years, reading anything in the modern JS world is mind boggling- just my lived experienced)
What is the alternative that doesn’t force you to use a completely different platform/ecosystem (a la Elm)?
She lost because she was a woman and because she rightly declared a large chunk of America is deplorable at the same time as Trump was speaking so effectively both to those deplorables and to many who felt left behind in our current America.
or when the back of the car is covered in snow or a million other reasons
That's as realistic as all men voting for a all-female parliament. The point is that realistically, given a spectrum of political stances, a purely meritocratic system would statistically be more likely to yield a distribution with similar representation rates as the base population rather than a lopsided distribution.
Sounds like "Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander.

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Software-Kanat-Alexande...
Super pleased about this. Has it ever happened before anywhere? Certainly not that I’ve seen.
Less pleased with some of the comments on here.
Having gone through a process to lose > 120lbs I know that in my case, a lot of food myths are not based on people like me :-). Between "official guidance" that was put together by the food industry, the relatively deep and uncharted effects of your current gut biome on your body, and the debate between the physics based or enzyme based concepts of food metabolism it is clear that we really really don't have a clue at how this "simple"[1] system works.

[1] It was always presented to me as a simple system but the more I look and read and the less simple it seems.
> Why? Colorette clearly copies that line from nanocolors, no?

And he copied the entire source code earlier and didn't mind hiding who wrote that? But now suddenly a tiny fix (which might be tiny and obvious enough to not even meet any copyright standard, although that's always vague and difficult) is worthy of demanding attribution for? That's really not the moment to go nitpicking the other guy. (Would a mention in the commit message have been really good style anyways? yes.)
Then again, companies like Github and Heroku use it, and even UK Government. Maybe it does produce value for them?
That is trivialization of the RnD required even after you have prediscovered a potent molecule. After that you need additional 6-10 years of development work & clinical trials (which btw have very high probability of failure) for which neither universities nor generic drug companies want to pay.
That does not at all explain their overly aggressive approach and (initial) lack of attribution.
Something I often repeat on here: popularity and merit are not the same thing. And lacking a strong error correction signal, various disguised forms of cheating and stealing are often rewarded by increased popularity.

Maybe we should add some consequence to these types of things.
What percentage of cannabis users do you estimate are smokers? I'd guess 70%, but I'm not a user.
Eggs Good For You This Week - https://www.theonion.com/eggs-good-for-you-this-week-1819565...
Yeah, he did. Disliking Clinton does not make him dishonest, a Russian spy or somebody who acted against the principles of wikileaks, however.

It makes him a journalist who doesnt appreciate being threatened with a drone strike by a sitting secretary of state for practising journalism.

The fact people give him shit for this is pretty unbelievable.

Excusing Russian style journalist assassination is not compatible with respect for Democracy.
I think the answer here is to improve the legal system, not limit the number of laws. IMHO it's inevitable that as society progresses it will have more and more things to take care of / regulate due to the evolving needs and general progress. Regulation of autonomous vehicles or e-scooters was a non-issue 10-15 years ago, but now it needs to be done. The same way that regulating ISPs or social media wasn't a thing that was needed 40 years ago.
If I understand correctly, the parent is talking about the original author of the library, not the person who forked it.
Most probably a non-issue with HTTP2.
> If a trait doesn't matter for a given task, you would expect that trait to probably be proportional in the sample as it is in the population.

The whole point is that it doesn't.

Humans aren't rational machines; they're sexist, racist, bigoted etc.

This result may indicate a betterment on some of these fronts.
Are there any stories or studies showing how solutions like these actually help?
> They are both practices that can exist without mythology, sacred texts or believes of what happens after death.

While I agree with your main point, that they are equating things that and not the same, you seem to be to be making the same mistake. None of the things you list are required for religion either.
You've got buses everywhere, trains connecting the cities and the underground all over London.

In the USA we might have buses. They're usually designed for poor people who don't have enough money to buy a car to get to work.
You don’t have to move to the back seat forgo paying attention in a vehicle.
Why are you wasting so many 'watts' sending this out? Every watt you use for debating on HN is a watt not used for something more productive. [ Personally I prefer units of energy like joule, power is not a measurement of wasted energy. If I wasted 10 kW for 1 minute it's not as bad as wasting 1 W for 11,000 minutes]

>If it looks like an value gaining asset, and people treat it like a value gaining asset, then it’s a value gaining asset. Not a currency.

>I’m not sure how you’ve ended up deciding that you think I treat crypto as an investment, not a currency, after I’ve explicitly said the opposite.

Again you go on contradicting yourself whenever you find it convenient. You are possibly the most disingenuous, contradictory, hypocritical person I've met on HN. Fine to waste 'watts' on social media news sites but not to send a payment to your unbanked cousin in El Salvador. Have fun thinking like a person who only looks for ways to fail, rather than ways to succeed.

Not a biblical person myself, but I'm going to take a note out of the bible on this one : " Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself."

Have a good one.
I didn't ask you for credentials nor accuse you of anything. It was an honest question.
Ok I’ll bite. I’ll assume for a moment that, as you postulate, morality is purely a function of genetic fitness. Even if that was true, genetic adaptation occurs at evolutionary time scales. In a rapidly changing environment, genetics will always be out of phase with what is optimal. In other words, any sense of what is “good” or “evil” will always be outdated by hundreds of thousands of years at the least.
Client was showing something like "this content is illegal" instead of bot answers. It is now showing the original answers instead of these placeholders, which means the data was always there, it was just replaced on the fly for accounts with Russian registration.
I love kefir and ryazhenka, but never had it without also having pasteurized milk mixed in the diet. Will definitely try it now I've been off dairy a few months. Raw milk sales in Texas are tricky, until this summer you could only buy on-site of the farm where it's produced. New regulations make it easier so maybe it will start popping up in farmers' markets.
I love hobbiest operating systems! In a world of billions of software projects, it's sad only a small handful are OSes. I really love to watch what the Serenity[0] project is working on and I've been working to get it running on an older computer. However parts are harder to find & the spec requirements are very specific (drivers are hard).

I love the idea of doing more operating system experiments on RPIs just because of the availability & consistency of the platform. You don't have to worry about thousands of drivers for the most part, plus if you're using the RPI 400[1], basically everything is included in the keyboard!

Rust seems like a good way to get people involved as well, because of it's innate following. Excited to give this tutorial a try.

[0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/
I'm not scientifically versed enough to vet the paper, but this seems very unlikely to me.

Can someone better trained here try and analyze this paper?
This is an opinion piece by an unknown author that references a lot of nutrition papers that are heavily controversial. For example their evidence for the claim that meat "isn't bad for you" is the very anecdotal following passage:

> The International Agency for Research on Cancer’s 2015 claim that red meat is “probably carcinogenic” has never been substantiated. In fact, a subsequent risk assessment concluded that this is not the case. Epidemiological data has been unable to demonstrate a consistent causal link between red meat intake and disease.

The author makes this statement as fact, but in the scientific community these claims are heavily debated. By the way, no where do they cite any references for meat being health promoting, despite the fact that the title reads "...steak may be good for you after all".

I'm not saying their claims may not eventually prove to be true, but based on the totality of the evidence we definitely can not take this advice as scripture based on the state of science of today.
Food studies are tough,especially when many are self-reported.

It's important to avoid the obvious pit falls. For example, sugar, alcohol, low nutritional density, etc.

It's important to sort out what works for you. We're all slightly different and one diet size does not fit all. And monitor that over time. Your gut of 10 or 20 yrs ago might not be your gut of today.
> Zero interest in 'human rights and democracy', lots of interests in oilfields, pipelines, military sales contracts, etc.

Is this a shock to anyone? "Human rights and democracy" is the new imperial "white man's burden". We use it to justify invading, colonizing and stealing from others. When have we ever cared about human rights and democracy? I forget if it was chomsky or someone else who said that we've murdered more people, caused more human suffering and stolen more wealth in the name of "human rights and democracy" than nazi germany did in the name of nazism. Think about that.

I wish the non-western world would just collectively laugh at and mock any western leader when they talk about "human rights", "democracy", "western values", etc. How can they stand the hypocrisy? How can we?
Or at night, in the dark, unlit two-lane roads of most of Europe?
Only do this if you a) love chasing down bug reports of lambdas firing at 6 minutes rather than 5 or b) make it really, really clear in your marketing that the only guarantee is firing _after_ the given interval
At some point every well intentioned movement becomes a caricature of its former self, it seems.
The layout and URL are part of the joke. The article opens with "In this unhinged rant"--I really don't think this is any sort of attempt to fool the reader.
Other logics need to have their own consistency rules too.
You may want to try this project: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse

But I don't recommend using only ALSA without a sound server on a desktop, the usability of it is pretty bad.
The best way I have found to work with the tool is the docker image. This brings up an entirely new issue of docker on windows and bridging localhost access, so replacing one problem with another.
Why does the salary indicate they are not chosen for their ability to do this job well? Do you also believe people who own a Tesla would be better at serving food than most waiters because they have higher income?
No More Cookie Warnings