skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are welcome to use wool and invest in new methods of producing artificial fibers without using oil.

They've had decades to work on this, never did. Let's not forget about the massive catalogs they used to ship out in the 90s, far larger than they needed to be. They were huge because they were so dedicated to putting pretty pictures of people in nature to promote their lifestyle brand. How many thousands of trees died for their catalogs?

While we're talking about how amazingly benevolent and caring they are, what about the workers in the US they laid off when they outsourced their manufacturing? What about the CO2 they introduced into the atmosphere as a result of this decision, courtesy of their products having to be shipped across the world?

This whole reminds me of my former CEO, preaching to the company about equity, meanwhile due to Colorado regulations, we all knew that his salary was 111X that of the average employee there.
The movement can be summarized as this: "I'm really, really, really fucking rich, but don't focus on that. Focus on these terrible people who don't vote like you who do dirty, nasty, bad things people who vote like you don't like. Sure, they're getting screwed by the same people screwing you, but I promise you, your problems are THEIR fault. Now, please protect the planet, I gotta get on my private jet and fly to my chateau in Switzerland."
Because Apple has 10% of the market, but a better product. Google arguably has the best product, but they also have 99% of the market. Nowhere else to grow.
Imagine where this meta was as big as facebook and solving problems through chemical, material, and biological products ...
Yes, and remember that the IFR varies widely with age group demographics, from insignificant for kids to damn scary for above 80.

Also, there are other factors than age involved, like obesity and other comorbidities, for those who want to roughly judge their own personal risk.
This is roughly how https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/examples/dups.... can work. There is little question that changing the scale of the problem very much lessons performance sensitivity to the hash.
Four big socials and their relations with well-being during the Covid pandemic
I think its naive to believe that they aren't. Obviously big tech has done very well during this
pandemic...you think they don't know that. What do you think they talk about? And Google in particular
is in a position to actually help maintain the status quo (lockdowns).

Why is a business using its economic and political power to further its own interests
a conspiracy theory?
It is incredible how simple it would be for banks to allow you to create an unlimited number of "accounts" (they are just yet another row on their database, after all), and yet how few banks actually allow you to do that without paying ridiculous amounts of fees.
The data in my second link is a quantity index, so I believe price is not a factor
Machine Learning You Can Get Excited About
> why do you care SO MUCH about the tax revenue that goes to poor people

I really think you might have made your way into the wrong thread. Both I and the thread OP are arguing against the idea that UBI can replace existing social spending. That is to say, we would still need to keep some of the existing social benefit programs if UBI were implemented.

No one here is saying we should take away benefits from the poor, and anger about gov't contractors is not even a tiny bit related to the actual discussion at hand.
Nadella joined Microsoft in '92. Cook joined Apple in '98. I'm not sure I'd describe either of them as "mercenary".

Tim Cook told an investor to "get off the stock" over criticisms that investing in things that don't contribute to the bottom line (such as sustainability initiatives). "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI" is not something you expect a bean counter to say in a shareholder meeting.
Apple behaves ethically with those file scanners on your devices? Iphone parts that show errors when replaced with the same parts from another phone? Lobbying against the right to repair? Blocking access to 3rd party app stores?

lol. It's just marketing, nothing more.
I assume the reason for this is that many journalists out there don't consider Assange as a journalist and therefore the whole thing no fight for "Press Freedom".
Not everything is mentioned in this list. Check out the release notes[0].

[0]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.2.1/docs/html/users_guid...
Saying that the police should use the presence of cash as reasons to search someone's phone and travel records with the backing of the Drug War is a losing proposition. Always seeking to tie in actions to the Drug War is how we got to the instance that's being discussed.
If this was a one off event I could see your point of view but Patagonia has a long history of putting their money where there mouth is including donating 1% of all revenues and pretty much alienating about half of their addressable market with stunts like putting “Vote the assholes out” in their tags and suing the federal government to prevent a scale back on designations of federal monuments.

Corporate activism frequently does seem to be a bit about PR but Patagonia is one of the best examples we have of it in practice.
>Originally, most Indo-European languages had the three classes of feminine, masculine, and neuter.

Early Proto-Indoeuropean is theorized to have 2 genders - animate/inanimate, but by the late PIE period it evolved to the classic three.
Millions of same-sex couples may benefit from this research in the future if it helps make it possible for them to conceive (directly biologically related) children.

EDIT: Oh gosh, it's right there in TFA, that's what I get for skimming instead of reading deeply. All I saw were comments on the ethical implications of the biology work when I commented.
A PWA is a Progressive Web App.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
> Why is the absolute 5% and the RR 32%? What's the difference?

Example:

(20/100) 20% of patients die without treatment

(10/100) 10% of patients die with treatment

absolute = 10 percentage points difference (20->10)

relative = percent decrease. 20 -> 10 50% difference
This tends to happen at a smaller scale with gaming consoles. Towards the end of a generation, the games coming out usually perform/look a lot better than the ones at the beginning of the generation. I'm assuming due to a lot more careful optimizations due to not being able to change the hardware.

I've always been curious about how far we could really push modern computers if somebody wanted to spend the time going to the lengths in the original post when creating practical software. Of course it's usually not worth the tradeoff, but it's interesting to think about.
Incorrect. A buff we overrun injects new code into the system that gets executed that was never part of the original system.

This is more like setting your screensaver or debugger to cmd.exe on windows NT and waiting for an admin process to crash or the screensaver to start. (I forget exactly how it worked)
yeah all the other stuff is fluff if a language doesn't have a compelling story about tests. As much as I love static typing and algebraic data types, they don't really prove that the behavior of the code is actually what is expected.

Doubly so with a language that attempts to bring distributed programming to the base level of the language. How do you test distributed programs in a way that simultaneously doesn't require everything to be an integration test but also gives you certainty that you aren't creating loads of bugs? This is an example of something Ballerina could have excelled at if it was given priority.
many studies who the impact of not providing community water fluoridation: https://bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...
https://ucalgary.ca/news/study-shows-tooth-decay-worsened-ca...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2925000/
Interestingly, NC's requirement for student housing is actually done internally by the UNC System rather than by any code authority. The last unsprinklered dorms at UNC were torn down a few years ago.

As far as I know, building codes do require sprinklers in new residences just judging based on the 2010s era complexes around campus. I had assumed this was standard everywhere now, but maybe not. The place I live in now is from the 60s iirc and so of course does not have any. Interestingly, the entire buildings fire panel and smoke heads seem to have been retrofitted rather recently, but the old continuous bells are still in use with no strobes. Surprisingly, many residents do not seem to understand the significance of not having sprinkler protection and do not evacuate with any urgency, if at all.
To him, robbing banks was an extreme sport.
> Considering we wear masks in the office now

I think many people haven't returned to the office yet. Almost no one I know on the west coast has been returning to office. Most offices weren't even open.

Where do you work?
How many people actually have the expertise to evalaute medical data like that? They don't. There's a very very small number of Hners that if they are honest with themselves are qualified to do that. I'm not saying that from a high and mghty position, I'm doing that from a place that I see HN talk incredibly ignorantly about all the time. HN is supposed to be smart.

You give the average person the ability to do "research" and they are killing themselves because people fall for all kinds of bullshit. Cults exist. Scam artists are a dime a dozen.

This stuff gets associated with trump and the right because they associate themselves wth it. I don't vote Democratic, I just don't think you're being realistic about how people operate, regardless whether I beleive that "censorship" is the answer or not.
> It is precisely the presence of weapons, including RPGs, that goes a long distance toward explaining why cameramen for Reuters—pointing television cameras around corners in a battle zone—were readily mistaken by our gunships for insurgents.

There weren't RPGs, and even if there were, the presence of RPGs have never been a valid cause for use of force under any Iraq ROE. It's not just international law that was broken, but internal US military regulations on the matter as well.

> The video makes plain that in this incident, as in almost all military encounters in both Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers are up against forces that do not wear uniforms—a violation of international law precisely because it places innocent civilians in jeopardy. Responsibility for civilian deaths in such encounters rests with those who violate the rules of war.

The other side committing war crimes is not carte blanche for you to do so as well.

> The Wikileaks videos also do not reveal the hundreds upon hundreds of cases in which American forces refrain from attacking targets precisely because civilians are in harm's way.

'We should get a pass on war crimes because of all those other times we didn't commit war crimes (or didn't get caught).' I don't think they even tried that specious of an argument during Nuremberg.
And there's also little reason to think that anyone on Hacker News is more in-touch than Zuckerberg of 2021 with what the public wants and the tech trends. Someone who owns Facebook and Instagram can identify the trend easier than you. Unless you also happen to have a platform of more than billion of users, then please share your thoughts about trends.
Unusual Locomotives
possibly related news:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-29/amazon-di...

None of the new EV automakers (Rivian/Lucid etc)seem to be Union

Also, Elon linked to this article on UAW corruption, not sure if that sways opinion:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/10/second-uaw-president-sentenc...
Most major tech companies seem to be betting that non-shit AR glasses aren't far off, and are prepping to be ready for that day 1.

Big VR bets makes less sense to me. AR is the next smartphone. VR is the next... TV or workstation monitor, and even then, only for some use cases. Just seems like a much smaller opportunity.
Patagonia's approach perpetually teeters on balancing pragmatism, quality, and environmental values.

If the company doesn't exist, it can't effect change. If a product doesn't perform a top-notch job, people won't buy it. There is a lot rolled into the phrase "Cause no unnecessary harm" [1]; I imagine it is a perpetual internal struggle within Patagonia.

[1] https://www.patagonia.com/core-values/
> The government could have spent the last 18 months encouraging people to lose weight, stop smoking, drinking, and eating fast food.

Instead, the "solution" did the opposite. But worse, kids stayed inside, didn't exercise, put on (likely more) weight, didn't share illness (read: weakened immune system) and then those kids were ordered back to school in that highly vulnerable state.

The solution? The jab. With absolutely not acknowledgement or recognition they were prepped to be put in harns way.

This isn't a conspiracy theory. This is what happened and continues to happen. Unfortunately, such observations and analysis get marginalized as being a Covid denier or anti-vax. That doesn't make sense.
Will do, and thanks for the leads.
Humans Reacted When AI Began Umpiring Baseball
>At what point do they attain human rights? At conception? At "birth" from an artificial womb?

This is hardly a new issue
But it’s a great argument if you want to derail a discussion about reform. Instead of talking about reforming mining industry or reducing single use plastic, you can get everything focused on “hypocrisy” and who should be able to criticize and how genuine Patagonia really is. It’s a great argument if you know what it is actually trying to do.
Global Warming Projections (Per Country)
Ah yes, that is the one I am looking to upgrade to, and hence the $200 difference from the M1 Pro.
I don't need 64GB, and $800 to go from 16GB (w/M1 Pro) to 64GB is highway robbery, despite the usual Apple inflated RAM pricing.
So, if 24 Core GPU can give 13-14 hours of battery, that'd be ideal.
The one thing they might have done that is closer to a metaverse than just immersion though: creating a completely digital economy, where work inside the metaverse has value based on creating within the metaverse. Facebook has nailed the economic walled garden, so may have some good ideas for digitalizing people's work using VR/AR as a starting point.
There are dorms at my university (University of Maryland) that are over 100 years old, but have been renovated enough that it's fine. I would hope that Universities have a long enough time horizon that things would be built to last an extremely long time with regular renovations.

With catastrophic climate change on the horizon, the theory is that pandemics will become significantly more frequent.
> nearly all bank to bank transactions are free, and irreversible ... 'Get paid, stay paid' as seen in blockchain

A key difference here is that if you screw up your payment in Thailand, you have legal recourse to reclaim your funds. If I fat-finger my rent to the wrong Khun Somchai, and he thinks he wants to keep it, I can use the legal system to get the money back from him (and he knows that), and what's more I know full well that his bank will know who he is and where he lives.

If I send money to the wrong Bitcoin address, nobody can help me with that.
I'm pretty sure "vote the assholes out" is a strategy most of us can get behind. We might disagree about who they are, exactly, but voting for good governance is a widely-shared aspiration.
Covid's endgame: Scientists have a clue about where SARS-CoV-2 is headed
> This is not what begs the question means.

Yes, it is what “begs the question” as a transitive verb phrase means (though the colon was superfluous, there.)

It is different from what “begs the question” as an intransitive verb phrase, which is older, means, but it also serves as something of a generalization and rationalization of the older phrase that makes the dubious and at best quite outdated translation from Latin have the appearance of some sensible relationship to the common definitions of English words in the phrase, so the pointless pedantry of opposing the clear and distinct transitive use which makes the intransitive use less detached from the rest of modern English is dumb. And tiresome.
Data Plane Is Not a Commodity
> mortgage securitization (CDOs)

I don't think those things are synonymous. You can have mortgage securitization without CDOs.

IIRC, the issue with CDOs was they were used to "innovatively manufacture" "low risk" investments out of high risk assets. They were so complicated that sophisticated professional investors lost track of the underlying situation, made decisions based on a flawed model of them, then got caught with their pants down when their model failed.
I agree, but with WFH its so easy to invite the entire team. I found the number of meetings I attend has skyrocketed in WFH - most would be better off with 1/3 of the attendants who took time to prepare instead of the whole team just to gather info.
I like the fact that in most languages with 3 genders, the word kid is neuter: German "das Kind", Slavic "ditia", Greek "teknon".

I guess that's because a child is not a fully developed man/woman, so it's assumed genderless.
> You allow the dialog to take place and make up your own mind.

I'm not sure this applies to medicine or vaccines. I don't think any of us are in the position of "making up our own mind" about what works in medicine and what doesn't, which is why we have double-blind clinical studies. We can't even explain why/how placebo works.
Why do we need an account anyway??

How about ... no accounts.
Here's hoping Microsoft's HoloLense takes off in the corporate world.
"Passive usage of Facebook was related to social comparison, which, in turn, was associated with lower well-being. Besides, active usage of Instagram was related to social support, which, in turn, was associated with greater satisfaction with life but also negative affect. Regarding Twitter, active usage was also related to social support, which, in turn, was associated with greater satisfaction with life; but passive usage was rather negatively associated with upward social comparison, which, in turn, was associated with more negative affect. In contrast, TikTok use was not associated with well-being"
Why Outdated jQuery Is Still the Dominant JavaScript Library
The US has "bigger guns diplomacy" here -- they can kind of do whatever they want to unless the country really wants to put up a fight. There's a lot of non-empty threats the US will make.

France for instance will protect her own citizens at all costs. It's why Roman Polanski, a convicted rapist, still walks around a free man there. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski_sexual_abuse_ca...
> (but modern Karens sometimes use "round" for the earth and moon instead)

1. Isn't the full moon visibly a circle? What made it flat?

2. There are many concepts for "earth". Are you referring to soil, the ground, the landscape, or the entire world?

Thanks for the list of classes, it was interesting to read
Just had a quick look and it seems you can achieve the same thing with Capacitor:
https://capacitorjs.com/docs/web/progressive-web-apps
The issue is currently limited to pregnant women.
Apple has certainly displayed some anti-consumer behavior. No one will argue with that. But not all sins are equal. Let's not say that blocking access to repair stores is the same thing as knowingly aiding and abetting genocide.
> This is not merely a coding bug but a basic design flaw that should have been caught by anyone with even a basic understanding of oracle design. It really reflects poorly on the competence of the entire DeFi space, considering CREAM is a pretty major protocol.

How is CREAM a "pretty major protocol"? It was forked from Compound so no innovation on their own, and their token is not even in the top 100, and their platform is around #30 compared to others in DeFi. There is so much shit things in both DeFi and Cryptocurrency that it's unfair to judge other projects based on how bad they are.

It's like saying a well-written Rust project gets bad rep because some PHP developer once had a SQL injection, and somehow all programmers are the same...
I great term I came across in the retail gas industry is "hostile purchase"... as in no one "wants" to buy gas in the sense that you wake up one day and think "Oh boy, I can hardly wait to go out and get some 87 octane today" and after the purchase, "wow, that was awesome gas!"...
Patagonia's leadership doesn't seem very competent, they thought covid would be over in a month[1], and turned out to be very wrong. Alienating a huge swath of America by siding with a narrow political spectrum never seemed like a bright business move.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/business/patagonia-reopen...
App Review, the same as any other app really.

(and ofc, the risk of false negatives is present)
Would you please follow the site guidelines, including these ones?

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"Eschew flamebait."

Comments that consist only of denunciatory rhetoric and add no information are the opposite of what we're hoping for here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. The idea is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do.

Just in case anyone is worried, I have no opinion about the building or any of the people involved. Moderation like this is purely concerned with comment quality on HN.
Capacitor is great! At the BBC, we significantly reduced the cost of producing apps for children by adopting Capacitor. We write one React PWA and ship it to the Play Store, iOS App Store, Amazon App store and Amazon Kids+ store. It's native integration helps with push notifications and also reliable persistent storage on device.
I've never heard anyone who's not an X'er describe themselves that way. I don't think Zoomers really could be stuck in the past, given that they don't have much depth of memory yet (and the rapidity with which trends shift in that community). My own generation, the millennials, do remember the '90s, but we tend to remember them as a rather weird and embarassing, if simpler, time. I'd characterise us as pessimistically forward-looking, maybe that's a function of my friends group though.

Which leaves the Boomers, and while there's certainly a lot of nostalgia in that community, I've known more that were looking forward to their retirement than would go on about the good old days.

But of course, this is all anecdotal.
"The company owes $50.5-billion in total damages and and fines globally. The largest of those payout judgements is for $9.5 billion in environmental damages representing 30,000 plaintiffs in Ecuador where the oil damage is so severe, it’s known as the 'Amazon Chernobyl'."

Okay, a few sentences in and that's enough for me to dismiss this article out of hand. The Hague ruled in favor of Chevron several years ago and said the 2013 Ecuador Supreme Court case was obtained "through fraud, bribery and corruption".

Call the Hague wrong, justice perverted, Chevron a big meanie, or whatever you like, but contrary to what this article asserts, Chevron does not owe $9.5 billion in environmental damages.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chevron-ecuador-idUSKCN1L...
This potential for others stealing your content has always been present though I suppose this tool would make that even easier. Android has the Trusted Web Activity which somewhat solves this problem: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/02/introducing-trusted-web-ac...
I'm not the guy you contacted, but I've had my head down in Title 24 crap for months, but here's the egress requirements in CA:

https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/CFC2019P4/chapter-10-means...

Read the section on "[BE] 1004.2Cumulative occupant loads."