skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Slavic languages have similarities. The same could be said for Germanic languages like English and German or Latin languages like Spanish and Portuguese.

That doesn't change the fact that the word "robot" in the meaning of artificial human was first used in R.U.R.
> Clear Linux performs well due to agressive compiler flags

Did they compare software built with different flags for different platforms?
I've been tinkering with a similar concept, where ML models and humans interact in a searchable forum with variable permission levels. It's a bit like HN, except with bots and ACLs.

One the bots said this about that comment:

> The bots are useful for answering questions in a structured way, but the human element is necessary to ask the right questions in the first place.

> I'm also thinking about something similar in the domain of machine learning. Tweaking the model to improve its accuracy involves a lot of trial-and-error, and it seems to me that it might be useful to have a place where people could try out new models and report their results.
Excellent observation apart from the profit-minded corporations bit. Corporate R&D spending has greatly increased, while USGOV spending has remained mostly flat.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2018/may/rd-busine...
From a quick search on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Environmental_issues :

> Environmental issues

> The manufacturing processes of lithium, including the solvent and mining waste, presents significant environmental and health hazards.[134][135][136] Lithium extraction can be fatal to aquatic life due to water pollution.[137] It is known to cause surface water contamination, drinking water contamination, respiratory problems, ecosystem degradation and landscape damage.[134] It also leads to unsustainable water consumption in arid regions (1.9 million liters per ton of lithium).[134] Massive byproduct generation of lithium extraction also presents unsolved problems, such as large amounts of magnesium and lime waste.[138]

> In the United States, there is active competition between environmentally catastrophic open-pit mining, mountaintop removal mining and less damaging brine extraction mining in an effort to drastically expand domestic lithium mining capacity.[139] Environmental concerns include wildlife habitat degradation, potable water pollution including arsenic and antimony contamination, unsustainable water table reduction, and massive mining waste, including radioactive uranium byproduct and sulfuric acid discharge.

Also from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Precautions :

> Lithium metal is corrosive and requires special handling to avoid skin contact. Breathing lithium dust or lithium compounds (which are often alkaline) initially irritate the nose and throat, while higher exposure can cause a buildup of fluid in the lungs, leading to pulmonary edema. The metal itself is a handling hazard because contact with moisture produces the caustic lithium hydroxide. Lithium is safely stored in non-reactive compounds such as naphtha.
"The other 42% are the much more regressively-distributed payroll taxes, where the middle and upper classes pay less-to-none while the working class pays heavily."

And the outflows (benefits) from those taxes are capped, right? It's a single payer paradigm. If were talking about a paradigm shift not mentioned in the prior comments then I think we need to point that.
I have hundreds of PDFS. I keep searching for an 8.5x11 e-ink display tablet. It doesn't have to do anything but store and display PDFs.

The original Amazon Kindle DX was so very close.
This reminds me of the classical efficient market economists perspective that it’s a waste of time to pick up a $100 bill from the sidewalk. Because if it were a real $100 bill somebody else would have obviously picked it up already.

I don’t know that you can make the claim that the mating market is completely efficient.
I'm not sure commentary on news is quite the same as a measurable amount of a thing that is barely in a product.
Consulting is a one-person business now? I mean it is technically but I guess this is sexier than "I made $880k consulting".
It reminds me of the Starbucks too much ice lawsuit: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/half-full-woman-su...
The difference here is that with GunDog(TM) the ATF doesn't have four bodies to explain when someone has the balls to shoot back at their boondoggle.

With a robot in harms way all sort of unjustifiable uses of force become justifiable when the risk to the aggressor is minimized

The same issues come up in discussion of droning people in the middle east.
I know it's probably to late to add any value to the discussion, but you can write this in Java;

var list = List.of("carrot", "fox", "explorer")

You are right about the builder, but most projects I have worked with use Lombok and the @Builder annotation to generate the builder automatically. I agree that a native syntax for this would be better.
Cars are vastly different than they were in 1980. Fuel injection, aerodynamics, airbags, driver assist, hybrid and electric drivetrains, etc… the difference between a 1980 Honda Civic and a 2020 civic is massive.

In 1980 we weren’t landing self piloting rocket stages on drone ships and reusing them a month later. The engines powering our rockets were completely different chemistry and metallurgy. We weren’t building hyper efficient carbon fiber airframes with high bypass turbofans (Dreamliner). Even my washing machine is using about half the energy compared to a washing machine in 1989.

Composites, manufacturing, and design are all completely different to how things were in the 80s

Just because something has a similar form factor doesn’t mean it is the same. There is a strong argument that the past 40 years has seen some of the fastest progress in the history of the human race when it comes to making things.
>> I would have to slather one with peanut butter to even consider it a semi-acceptable snack.

Try turning it over and put butter on it while hot. Yum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlsFgDjyePc
I used to think that. But I bought a wireless Canon Pixma nearly a decade ago, and haven't had any issues with it yet on any of my Windows machines. Just get on my network and print to your heart's content. No fuss.

Now... previously, I've had printers with multiple hundred megabyte driver downloads... that stopped working when a new version of Windows came out, and they ended up in a landfill. Ugh. But over the past decade, printing doesn't seem to require drivers. It just works.
Show HN: Mouse Moover – Moves your mouse to keep Teams online
If you mean a Text-like representation (basically ropes of codepoints) then sure, but Data.Text has a bunch of i/o including lazy i/o stirred in with it. Lazy i/o in particular is part of the still-lingering schizophrenia in Haskell about how to do i/o cleanly and safely. The current Streaming library is yet another try at that. I hadn't seen it before and it looks interesting, though I'll have to examine it more closely, and it still seems to be Iteratees deep down.

I had the impression a few years ago that Pipes was the most cleanly designed of these schemes, but haven't been keeping track.
The sound vibrations were nice, but that's the best thing I can say about the IMAX version.

I watched it first on a smaller theater screen, and found I was much more able to focus on small details and contrasts. I enjoyed the IMAX version a lot less: sure, you are immersed in the movie, the soundtrack is terrific (and sounds less out-of-place sometimes). But I found it hard to focus on the movie, being reduced to a passive viewer.

I just caught a lot more details in my non-IMAX screening, that I completely missed the second time. When I recall scenes, I think those are from my first screening. I admit I don't know if my opinion were reversed had I seen it on IMAX first, but overall I'm not sold. Plus the ticket was more than twice the price (which I gladly give to fund the second movie -- I wish that made "pirating" legal for me).
> The suit filed by the Illinois woman focuses on her perception that strawberries "protect your heart, increase HDL (good) cholesterol, lower your blood pressure and guard against cancer." But the filling actually contains more dried pears and apples, the suit contends, and she was expecting the health benefits associated with strawberries.

Anybody who actually believes that eating unfrosted strawberry Pop Tarts, with 190 calories, 12g of added sugar, 180mg of sodium and 3g of saturated fat in each pastry, is going to be good for cardiovascular health and guard against cancer should be laughed out of court and ordered to complete a basic nutrition course.
It's just sad we've gotten to the point where we are unable to solve any problems using government means. If you talked to someone in the 60s and told them about the future, they'd be astounded.
Skip the paleo baloney (that crust ain't holding up) and just use a standard flour and butter shortcrust recipe. Super easy & fun to make. Chuck what you don't eat in the freezer for next month.
Agreed. I have had several artists reach out to me to help them mint NFTS and I explained to them why its a bad idea and how they will most likely lose money. Only one of them ended up minting an NFT and are still in the red.
younger people, at least where i live, are mostly using instagram, tiktok, and whatsapp.

so two out of three are facebook properties.
Windows 10 was supposed to be the last Windows and I'm sticking with it forever.
At least regarding the actual whistleblower in question, it very much is about not censoring things when shared outside of posts on facebook.com, ie. Facebook wants to enable E2EE on Instagram and Facebook Messenger, which would allow them to say "well we don't know what they're sending now" in regards to misinformation, so it is a fight against secure communications on that regard[0].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28999844
We shouldn’t ask others about their private medical information.
> The concept of valuing companies based on quarterly earnings growth

Maybe not quarterly earnings but there was always some sort of financial metric.

Because financial metrics cut through the BS. If you read HN and reddit you'd think Zuckerberg is some sort of terrorist hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, conspiring 24/7 to compromise the mental health of Americans, whereas in reality if Facebook is ubiquitous in our lives, there's a clear reason for it.

And even if Zuck mandated a maximum Facebook time per day per user, you'd have people creating burner accounts to circumvent that.

That's how people love Facebook, and it shows on quarterly earnings, nothing but perfection ever since they went public.

Same goes for Google and Microsoft.

The market for techno-utopianism is alive and well even without laws which mandate things such as forceful carbon sequestration, all you have to do is look at the price action of Tesla and Bitcoin.

Plus once you make a law it's very hard to remove it, just look at the Patriot Act.

Americans don't care about terrorism the same way they did back in October 2001, but still the Patriot Act is as harmful to privacy as it was back then.

There is no guarantee that Americans will care about climate change, 10 years down the road...matter of fact it's more likely that people will forget about it altogether once they'd start losing their parents to heart disease, cancer, alzheimer and not glamorous climate change
Of course Paul Krugman is a fan of the Dune and Foundation books!

Very few shows or movies can pull off exploring how a system works, from top to bottom, to show how the world is shaped by rules, customs, etc. The Wire comes to mind as the best "real world" example. I was very impressed by how the Dune movie hinted at the underlying systems while translating the salient points and the "feel" of Dune to the language of film. While I feel it failed in some places, it's a hugely impressive achievement. I love Lynch and like his Dune, but really it's a totally different work from the books with surface level similarities. 2021 Dune feels like a true film adaptation, no easy feat.

Well at least I can take the Foundation TV show off my "to watch" list now
There's a lot of food that has evolved to taste "like a thing" but man I swear it has evolved into it's own thing. That is just referencing something "like another food".
Return Sacoolas[1] first. Diplomatic immunity (and even if she had it is debatable) is not supposed to be a shield against criminal activity within an ally nation. It's supposed to protect officials within a hostile nation.

The UK has issued a red-notice to Interpol, marking her as a fugitive from justice, worldwide. I guess her supposed intelligence career is at least limited to US soil now.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56246511

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/11/interpol-red...

Edit: Grammar [sigh]
It is not about "censoring enough/not enough".

It is about making FB responsible for the consequences of the content they promote.

FB has long ago gone far past the point of being any kind of neutral carrier, yet they cling to the carrier exemption like stink on a dead rat.

FB actively curates every shred of content by their criteria, and promotes or silences it accordingly; this is done on a scale orders of magnitude larger than any news organization.

The fact that FB's editorial criteria is entirely focused on their perceived path to profits, and not on any kind of moral compass or value to the society from which they extract value is also relevant.

FB's business model is to poison the common well for their own profit, and they literally DGAF if people get killed along they way, as they already have in Myanmar and other countries due to fanned hatred and ethnic cleansing, or in the US and EU from fomenting anti-vax conspiracy dezinformatsiya mania.

It is long past time to hold FB accountable for the consequences of their editorial decisions, just as any other publisher is responsible for their content. Just because the editing/curating is done algorithmically is no reason to evade responsibility.
>> Lockheed Martin created a spin-off dedicated to consumer 3D graphics tech called Real3D, mostly using employees from GE Aerospace.

Imagine aerospace trying to compete with startups like NVIDIA and 3Dfx
The new legislation to require showing added sugar is very helpful.
There's some completely different programming patterns that are useful when dealing with streams. Streams really come into their own within DAGs. DAGs are to streams what module structures are to programs. You organize streams within a DAG, and can manage different use cases and goals with different branches. Exceptions can be handled flexibly if they are turned into data for the stream. Same goes for configuration.
It depends on what you mean by elitism. Languages are not undifferentiated, it is perfectly possible to talk about some languages being "better" than other languages, especially when you are talking about specific tasks.

The parent doesn't make any reference to PHP programmers, and doesn't appear to be looking down on any person or class of people, so this doesn't seem to be the embarrassing brand of elitism.

There are precious few good reasons to use PHP in 2021, a world of much better languages with much stronger ecosystems than the world of two decades ago when PHP was a reasonable choice.
The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains
You wouldn't touch VSCode with a ten foot pole, but your product is essentially just a less capable VSCode. Seems a bit disingenuous.
It is to Facebook’s great delight that you are repeating its own talking points.

> they don’t get a similar PR which they well deserve.

Not sure where this came from. We just had a leader spend four years calling them fake news. Why don’t you name an organization instead of just referring to “the media” (which includes everything from Infowars to The Intercept).
> However, most users who aren't willing to become technically savvy will have a better time with windows.

Yes, but they'd have an even better time with a Mac, and a better time still with a tablet or phone. The days of "windows is easier for end users" are largely at an end. In the modern world, these are *both* enthusiast/professional systems intended for special purpose deployment.
Playing devil's advocate here: isn't this just another step in the progression of warfare? Do you think people questioned the shear destruction that could be dealt using gun-powder when that was first used in anger? Same again with tanks, and guided missiles. I'm sure questions were asked, but then if your enemy is going to be using the technology, you'd better be using it as well.

Biological warfare scares me far more, and I don't think we've seen anywhere near the potential for that in any way yet.
Perhaps a level of professionalism that you would expect from someone working at a fast food restaurant? The fact that fast food restaurants can require less and pay more than ECE makes it sound exactly like a licensing problem. As a father of 4, I think a person cannot possibly be professional enough to be super effective at teaching anything to 30 kids at a time, but anyone with a bit of diligence and a few basic techniques can teach something to a handful of kids at a time, so I'd lean towards getting a lot more people into the field while relaxing education/licensing requirements.

But besides that, it sounds like there are just a lot more people who are attracted to ECE as a career, so the powers that be can pay less while demanding more education. That's a harder problem to solve.
I am certain I have tried every fixed-width font in existence. It's this constant unsettled feeling to find the "right" one.

The font that seems to not make me want to try others is Recursive Mono (medium, casual). https://www.recursive.design/ Even I admit it looks a bit off at larger sizes but at say 15pt it's fantastic.
Actually, I sleep pretty soundly in general. I prefer vacations to cities or mountains, so I haven't spent that much time near the ocean.
> You are clearly anti-COVID vaccines, as indicated by a number of your comments here. That makes your assertion that you are "not antivaxx" untrue in any contemporary discussion.

> Relentlessly searching for ways to discredit COVID vaccines and spreading FUD are not mere "hesitance".

Critical skepticism is an important element of science.

Do No Harm is a key part of the Hippocratic Oath

Just like Informed Consent with Medical Ethics.

> Informed consent is the process in which a health care provider educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention. The patient must be competent to make a voluntary decision about whether to undergo the procedure or intervention. Informed consent is both an ethical and legal obligation of medical practitioners in the US and originates from the patient's right to direct what happens to their body. Implicit in providing informed consent is an assessment of the patient's understanding, rendering an actual recommendation, and documentation of the process. The Joint Commission requires documentation of all the elements of informed consent "in a form, progress notes or elsewhere in the record." The following are the required elements for documentation of the informed consent discussion: (1) the nature of the procedure, (2) the risks and benefits and the procedure, (3) reasonable alternatives, (4) risks and benefits of alternatives, and (5) assessment of the patient's understanding of elements 1 through 4.

[1]

> It is the obligation of the provider to make it clear that the patient is participating in the decision-making process and avoid making the patient feel forced to agree to with the provider. The provider must make a recommendation and provide their reasoning for said recommendation

[1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430827/
Safety, performance, handling, comfort, ease-of-use, reliability, and efficiency have all significantly improved.

The difference in experience of driving a 2020 Tesla Model S vs a 1980 Cadillac Seville is more drastic than that same Cadillac and its 1940s equivalent.
Don't forget removing the damn headphone jack. People are still ranting and raging about this and it was what, 5 years ago? I say, give it up: Apple's target market is the person who is constantly buying new stuff. If you have a lot of legacy peripherals (and yes, 3.5mm headphone jack is ancient--it was introduced around the same time as the old serial D-sub connector), you're bound to be frustrated with any new Apple product. I dumpster dive for most of my stuff, and I probably haven't bought a new computer or peripheral for close to a decade. If I were to suddenly get a brand new M1 Mac, I don't know if it would even work with half my stuff, my stuff's so old.

My next computer build will almost certainly be a traditional tower-style PC running Linux. I can't keep up with the peripheral treadmill.
Thanks, I'll look into that. It might be a good way to get going quickly.
Consensus shifted away from MOND and towards LCDM due to degrees of freedom in observations. A trivialized comparison would be "Why did artists give up on finding the best color and instead focus on finding the best arrangement of color on canvas?"
I like this explanation from Numberphile as well[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuA2EAgAegE
I'm not young :)

I just couldn't get past the horribly stilted dialogue, the clowny costumes, and the completely terrible "inner monologue."

Oh, and the last scene where the emperor himself jumps on the merry-go-round and is shooting things. wtf.

The movie was so completely bad in every dimension.

The only positive is that after watching it, I got a better idea of what was happening in the 2021 version.
I forgot there was a time when people used the word "cucked" unironically until I read this. Why is this Tumblr post on HN?
> and they suck on Linux.

I have to say I can't remember the last time I worried about a printer on Linux. My current one, a network-attached HP, just popped up when I wanted to print something. I never installed it - it was just there.

Not sure how that would qualify as sucking.
Sure, one can look at the development arches, from tinkerers to creators to the masses.

But there's another view, these parallel lines of development. For example, computers have had games on them since the start.

So what else is occurring on social media platforms used by people on their phones, beside manufactured outrage? Or are there games that teach kids some valuable skills instead of addicting them to some loop?

For one, one can still organize events with the help of Facebook. Real physical gettogethers. I learned a lot of English, typing and how to use the mouse from games - and I use these skills every day at my work, to a great advantage. Some games made you think, at least a little bit. People are still discussing and learning on Hacker News. I think in general the etiquette is better than ever.

There's entirely new forms of humor - memes. That's awesome. There's a theory that humor exists for learning purposes. The best jokes have a surprising punchline.

We can look at older media platforms like television. Sure, there are talk shows and reality TV filling the ever growing number of channels. You see filler with some tubers just sitting there talking. Is youtube considered TV? The front page of youtube on anonymous mode is complete garbage, probably worse than any TV channel ever existing anywhere. There's the formulaic Netflix show that feels like it's made to tick some boxes. But on the other hand, there's more variety, as there is a smaller threshold for publication. I've seen great TV material made in Spain, Korea, France, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Denmark and China. I think TV is more artsy and multifaceted than before, maybe not on average, but there's more of that material available.

So I would say things are still evolving. Some fields, where no new technical inventions have happened, like fashion, are still changing, but they have become cyclical.