skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average person watching this video likely already spends $0 of their monthly income towards supporting poor rural foreigners. How many times do you think that number will increase after watching it?

You won't sell your elephant that way
Just a little aside. Your comment confused me a bit because ‘shelled’ in this context means the shells have already been removed from the nuts not that they are things in thier shells. As in ‘I’m shelling these nuts, but I’ve shelled those ones already’. It can also be used in the other sense, but usually only when describing the properties of the shell e.g ‘a hard-shelled crab’. Apologies in advance if you didn’t want the pedantic nut police!
Agreed, 140F chicken is weird. I did a bunch of test runs with my sous vide and my personal magic temp for chicken is 147F for an hour. Works great for dark and light meat.
>I think programming is slowly bifurcating. We’re growing into two disciplines.

It has always been like this. The distinction used to be: base software developer vs applications developer.

Base software developers went to work on operating systems, databases, web servers, etc.

Application developers worked on business software.

And most decent business software development shops kept a couple of devs with decent knowledge of base development just to go for when the needs got technical.
Even Canada was pretty good about unity on the vaccine rollout - the Conservatives raised strong objections about the costs and approach but, outside some really fringe elements, have been pretty consistent in not directly contradicting health advice. Ditto for the NDP & Greens (well, the Greens are a bit weird and sorta anti-vax but they managed to keep their mouths mostly shut at least).
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It comes off as agenda rather than sincere concern and that should be highlighted.

Surely not defeatism, when I think it's a reasonable thing for companies to plan around demographics. I don't think it's a good idea to empower social institutions to decide that you can't be considered a consumer until your 18th birthday.

It's whataboutism for sure, but in the sense that FB is literally less impactful than existing brands so the question comes to the forefront. Why? Well because Zuckman bad.
Do you have any thoughts on how you would do that? Isn't that as practical as outlawing Bitcoin?
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> We're not in a post-truth world; people have always made stuff up.

A post-truth world doesn't mean that lies now exist, but I suspect you know that. I'm referring to things like the dramatic declines in trust in journalism[1], a crucial part of how we build our aforementioned shared reality. There are cultural and technological explanations for this, but no small part of the blame falls on journalism itself (though arguably, this is just the inevitable consequence of the structural economic challenges that they've faced).

The explosion of communication and information access engendered by the Internet is a double-edged sword. Decent, intelligent people are able to sift through the firehose of lower-quality info to build a clearer view of the world than ever before, without being bottlenecked by the pitfalls faced by the institutions that used to have a monopoly on producing and transmitting knowledge.

But it seems that the vast, vast majority of people benefited from the paternalism of our scientific and journalistic institutions, and are helpless before the one-two punch of a) a firehose of low-quality info and b) the spreading rot in the scientific and especially journalistic establishment.

[1] https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Pro... The proportion of Americans who trust the media is at 2/3 of what it was even 20 years ago
Except it doesn't. On Ethereum and other blockchains, that computer code runs everywhere, and every IP address is a gossip protocol that may have originated an undetermined number of hops backwards.
You are misunderstanding my point here. I'm not saying that IT work isn't real work.

We're discussing flexible working times for all of society, and what I'm reading is people who somehow assume that most of society is in a job with privileges like being able to work from home or on "async" schedules etc. Few jobs are like this.
That's just the caption for the video which plays for about 7 minutes and is actually watchable if you're interested in the steps they need from people climbing into trees, collecting cones up there, and all the steps between that, and arriving where you can buy them packaged.
"Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show

Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-tox...

Their own research shows they know the negative impacts of their platform.
From the interviews and histories that I've read/watched, the EAD[0] dev team was doing some of the highest level UI design in the world in the 80s and 90s.

They started each game from the interactive experience and then fleshed out the details from there. Think running and jumping in Mario - they spent months getting the gravity and speed right, the button presses, all before the first thoughts to art, level design or story.

It was very iterative. They'd start with a concept and then tweak and tweak and tweak until it was as fun as they could get it.

Another good example is the development story of Super Mario Kart[1], which was supposed to be the sequel to F-Zero[2], but they invented/discovered new gameplay elements that fit better with the Mario brand and they took the game in that direction.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_Analysi...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Kart
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero_(video_game)
So, it's war, then?
Could be that! Another terrible name hahah. Although in their defense I get the "cockroach" analogy, while "gimp" is just an offensive insult and/or a very NSFW BDSM term, and has no other meaning, which makes conversations even more awkward.
This is cool. How long does an integration / testing take for companies to try out promoted.ai services?
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Really they should call this "PongoDB", it's less similar than mango and it's got a hint that this is backed by pg...
> One thing which usually happens is that engineers get overwhelmed with 2 threading models: They might already have a hard time to understand how normal threading works, and coroutines add another dimension on top of that. That's a non-issue for the engineers working on the proposals and some of the affected libraries since they are domain experts, but the minority of implementors of an API server or users of a HTTP client are actually IO experts.

IMO it's traditional threading that's hard to get your head around not async. Pre-emption makes things much more complex.
Democracy is when the people in general have power. Not when they are allowed (perhaps, begrudgingly) to demonstrate with placards outside of the buildings that house/employ people with power.

Cite any reputable social science that says that democracy is an actual thing implemented in liberal democracies. Then we can take it from there.

> actually, funding lobbying efforts.

Billionaires and multi-millionaires will outspend your gofundme lobbying. It’s simple economics.
Inflationary Hikes
An interesting thing about doom is that they actually made really nice level editing tools when they built the game there's some throw away lines in a few of the documentaries to the effect that they marveled at the levels people made given how shit the tools the community had invented (by reverse engineering the WAD format)
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I respect that. Do what you love to do then ;)
There are quite a lot of channels like that - the week I spent running around warning as many big projects as I could get hold of that there was clearly no way out seemed to help a lot, but of course there was still the problem of "who's actually online when the hammer drops to -execute- the planning people had done". It was kinda exhilerating watching practically the entire userbase move as one, but I'd really really rather not have to do it again :D

Still kind of amazes me that given the number of signatories I got nobody thought "hey, maybe this isn't going to work" but it turned into an excellent mutual support resource for those of us moving instead: https://gist.github.com/shadowcat-mst/998cea12794768bdb3da2d...
Agreed - Igalia encourages companies to work upstream, it's part of the idea that we stand for.

A patch like the layer based SVG engine is imposssible to maintain by a single company - e.g. Vorwerk, downstream, for an extended period of time. You want to be able to follow upstream (e.g. for security updates), and that's hard when you change a piece of the core engine with your own stuff.

To suceed, you _need_ to work upstream :-)
Freeman Dyson's autobiography tells how in 01956 he joined General Atomics, a nuclear-reactor startup, and his small team designed and built a new kind of nuclear reactor in two years, the TRIGA; Teller was one of the team members. The prototype operated for 39 years, 33 of them were manufactured, some are still in operation, and none of them has ever had a nuclear accident.

A few years after that, when Project Orion was canceled, he stopped working on nuclear reactors. He said it just wasn't fun anymore. And I imagine he's right; since about that time, working on nuclear reactors enmeshes you in the national security state, where promotion depends on political favor as much as technical competence, and rank is measured by headcount and by project classification level. There's a certain kind of person that's fun for, but it's usually not the kind of person who spends his Christmas vacation working problems from a calculus textbook. It's not the kind of person who discovers a lot of new things. Atomic Energy merit badges went out of style.

About 20 years later, at the end of the 01970s, the costs of building new nuclear reactors started to skyrocket, which is another way of saying that our productivity at building nuclear reactors started to collapse.

I just read Atlas Shrugged, which tells a story of a technological society strangled by regulation, unpredictable kleptocracy, and a brain drain ("draining the brains", the book said, 6 years before the Royal Society coined the term "brain drain"). This aspect of the book resonated with me, although many others did not, perhaps in part because I live in Argentina, whose technological development is strangled by regulation, unpredictable kleptocracy, and a brain drain, though the brain drain is to the US and Europe rather than to a secret conspiracy. We had a famous fusion energy program, Project Huemul, which turned out to be a scam.

I wonder if the same thing happened to nuclear engineering? Maybe the potential Tellers and Freeman Dysons born in the 01960s and later never got involved in nuclear physics, except for David Hahn, who ended up with paranoid schizophrenia after his mother committed suicide, and died at 39 of an overdose of opiates. Maybe nuclear engineering had a brain drain to electrical engineering, computer science, and related fields.
There are a lot of things that drive war (or withdrawal), and public opinion is just one. Media is certainly another, and maybe related.
I’m not sure extremists are able to actually apply logic and understand that difference though - the kind of mindset that leads people to join paramilitaries that commit terrorism and murder police isn’t especially vulnerable to reason. The lawyers that they follow (Lin Manuel, and the other Kraken lawyer) are currently being sanctioned for this exact same pattern of dishonesty, and know that their followers will accept their words unquestioningly, regardless of reality.

You can see it in their reply to you: they skip over the argument to focus in on the part they think will discredit you. The fact that he thinks he’s successfully categorized you as “antifa” means that they can safely dismiss your idea. Your argument didn’t reference MLive at all, but they needed to fixate in that part as the logic in your answer wasn’t debatable.

You’re not going to reason with them, for the simple fact that reason has nothing to do with this. They’ll just cherry pick one part of your argument and throw in more unsubstantiated allegations and then use the fact you want proof as more evidence that you’re against them.
If Debian is perfectly fine with anti-POSIX, why go to the effort of making and switching to dash over bash? One of the impetuses for that project was bash’s inability to confirm to posix even when launched in posix mode. What’s that about?
Honestly, who cares? Why care? I do not understand this drama.
Considering that those acquisitions proceeded before the intense scrutiny Facebook has received in the past year or two, it is quite likely that it would be blocked.
I'm happy with chicken thighs below that, but I pulled a turkey out at 165F internal temp once and it felt disturbingly underdone. Some of it was still pink. Safe, but not very enjoyable.
"Mongo" is a pretty bad slur for people with Down syndrome.
I mean, there was just a huge recently an outbreak of salmonella from onions. Every food has some risk of being contaminated or spoiled. I assume you wash your broccoli and peppers, right?
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Yesterday I was stopped at a red light on a highway and a Tesla Model S rear ended me at high speed, twice! There were two impacts somehow. It was a 4-car pileup and my car was destroyed.

The driver said she was using Autopilot, that an OTA update had had a problem earlier in the day, and that she had actually had the same kind of collision on Autopilot previously!

I talked with the NTSB who said that they won't investigate because no one was killed.

I talked with the NHTSA who said that they can't take a complaint: only the driver can file a complaint and they will only investigate if they "see a trend".

This seems like a serious issue that someone should be looking at. Does anyone have any idea about how to get this actually investigated to see if it was another Autopilot failure?
Perhaps I'm oversimplifying your comment, but it seems like a very good thing that the government continues to be people/organization centric and doesn't embrace a future where "reality is determined by computer code and people are a bit players". We should hope our democratic institutions continue to operate this way.
Multi-site, active-active, fully synchronous object storage replication
What’s wrong about Nestle? Also Samsung is strange company to boycott.

Overall boycotting both of these companies is easy because replacement products for everything they do is plentiful, widely available and the same price. Not much sacrifice here.
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The presence of the env command is required by POSIX, and /usr/bin/env is the closest thing we have to a standard path for it.
Nope. I just don't believe hyped up spin; especially when the deliverers of the content are biased. I like research, and facts.
MongoDB is a 12 year old database. And yet people are still using this disparaging argument that anyone that chooses it is doing so for their resume and not because it meets their needs in any way.

But by all means replace your production system with MangoDB which is unsupported, significantly slower, has no built-in HA/clustering and written in Go which is a GC language.
> The U.S. is about to start destroying tons of Huawei and ZTE equipment.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!? Tons of perfectly good, top notch quality and 100% reliable RF gear are going to be destroyed because they fear there is spyware contained in the digital chips? I totally understand the arguments, but it's like throwing away a car because one doesn't trust the brakes. Just strip out the logic and sell the rest! Pollution aside, this is an insult to those who struggle to buy RF parts because of the shortage prices.
New NES game, Blazing Rangers, released
I love lifting, it has had a positive effect on nearly every aspect of my life. It's also allowed me to finally be able to run again after ten years of failed PT on a hip injury. I am confident now that I won't reinjure myself since I am how stronger than I ever have been in my entire life.

I was lucky and had a friend who also lifts, so for the first 6 months we lifted together 4 times a week. It's a big help to lift with someone initially so that they can critique your form and keep you accountable.
These days though I work out alone and I look forward forward to that hour alone nearly every day. The routine and the goals and the tracking make me feel so good about my day, as the article mentions, even if I get nothing else done I am still happy having pr'd some lift or knowing how good my form was on squats or whatever.

I highly suggest Strong for those looking for an app to track their workouts in. It's the best I have found.
The primary targets here are going to be folks issuing stables backed by real world assets and fiat. Under-collateralized algo-stables will probably be targeted as securities by the SEC, while overcollaterized debt based ones will probably just be ignored for now because of how capital inefficient they are.
Didn't the stripe team do something like this 5 or 10 years ago? I seem to remember them having a translation layer or doing some sort of streaming conversion from mongodb to pg?

Ah yes - https://github.com/stripe-archive/mosql

6 years ago
> a future where reality is determined by computer code and people are bit players in the script.

When you put it like that, it does sound a bit creepy.
Watchmakers took their stance, setting 12 at the zenith.
>I would not expect a health agency, which requires processors to use a chlorine rinse that presumably the agency approves as "safe and healthy", to say that your chicken should be rinsed of any excess chlorine before cooking. They think the amount of chlorine is safe and want you to believe so as well.

why not? health agencies approve pesticides as well, but they advise you to rinse off vegetables/fruit.
From:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6065530/

"ballooning mechanisms are not fully explained by current aerodynamic models. The global atmospheric electric circuit and the resulting atmospheric potential gradient (APG) provide an additional force that has been proposed to explain ballooning"

So perhaps a combination of drag and electrostatic force. And, unless the spider can build up a substantial charge on the thread, I am guessing that drag is the more important part.
This is f*cking awesome!
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From the footnotes:

"""Stablecoins that are purportedly convertible for an underlying fiat currency are distinct from a smaller subset of stablecoin arrangements that use other means to attempt to stabilize the price of the instrument (sometimes referred to as “synthetic” or “algorithmic” stablecoins) or are convertible for other assets. Because of their more widespread adoption, this discussion focuses on stablecoins that are convertible for fiat currency."""
> We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky.

Generally, the hope is that we don't have to further destroy the world that we know to keep it from killing us.
An API for Health Insurance Coverage as a Service
Great! I sort of see that in the "typing" one the candidate manages to solve the problem using type-level (compile-time) computations alone. But I can assure you that for the majority of Hacker News readers, trying to read the "hexing" one makes them feel stupid because it's so far over their heads. Would you be able to give a summary of the technical content?
Especially when the most visible actions are ridiculous stuff like banning plastic straws.