skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As papi used to say, “follow the money.” If you’re a retailer, why not raise prices and blame inflation? I’m not saying increased labor costs and higher costs for raw materials don’t play into the equation, but if I can charge $7 for a gallon of milk instead of $6.50 and pocket the extra $0.50, seems like a good deal to me!
China's Evergrande Group officially defaults
Hey, can you please make your substantive points without swipes? You've broken the site guidelines several times in this thread.

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.
There are dozens of companies on g suite (ad others, like Zoho), I work with some that have 100,000+ seats. The idea that the only solution for businesses is MS products was never right before and isn't today.
Still hit the issue with large media that doesn't fit in memory and your gain is still minor (resist a compromised filesystem.. maybe.. if they didn't compromise the binary too)
If both false positives and false negatives are irrelevant, then the whole system and argument is irrelevant.
> 2. Is the diet a realistic diet? Are the mice or rats eating a significant amount more of palmitic acid than what would be reasonable in a human participant?

I'll have to go digging for it, but I want to comment on something this reminds me of.

Someone a few months ago linked me to a study that showed that MCT oil caused weight gain in mice (might have been rats?), despite how MCT oil is known to be much less fattening than other fats based on how it's metabolized. If eaten in great enough abundance it may even cause weight loss.

Having learned my lesson from just relying on the abstract, I found the full text for the study using Sci-Hub; the diet fed to both groups of mice was a high sucrose diet, the experimental group having more MCT oil than the other. The experimental group had less weight gain than the control group. I'm pretty sure that detail was entirely left out of the abstract.

My point is that this person was trying to persuade me that MCT can "still cause weight gain" even though the study they linked to contradicted their conclusion, including the conclusion of the study itself.

EDIT: I think it was this one, although I'm not sure this is of interest to anyone here, but whatever:

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpendo.002...

Honestly, when people read studies and jump to conclusions, I have to assume that most of the time they're just trying to appear clever and are counting on the fact that few people are willing to actually read the full study.

Worse yet, journalists have a terrible track record in my experience. I've lost count of how many referenced studies I looked up that either contradicted the journalist's conclusion or didn't have any mention of what they were even talking about.

> 4. What are the systemic effects? People don't eat fatty acids alone, they eat them as (ideally) part of a diet composed of whole foods. Might the effect hold in a realistic diet with more palmitic acid?

Also this. How the diet interacts with the Randle cycle can change how these nutrients are ultimately handled. Palm oil in the diet may have no appreciable negative effect until you start eating it along with sugar in the form of things like Oreos and Twinkies (or sucrose-laden mice chow).
Migrating from WordPress.com to Hugo on GitHub and Cloudflare
Bad. Probably really bad. I mean maybe a strong blonde ale, a floral gin, and you’d be ok, but still.
I don't think Apple is concerned about the <0.1% of CSAM aficionados who read about Apple's plans to scan for CSAM and thinks "hey, let me blindly trust some tool I found on the internet to slightly mangle my highly illegal images so that I can continue co-mingling them with personal photos in iCloud, accessible to anyone who picks up my phone while unlocked. Or any other device synchronised to the same iCloud account."

The App Store is presumably full of easy to use apps which can store photo galleries in a separately encrypted vault. This is where people will go after being shooed away from iCloud, not image manglers.
Ah... I had a motorcycle stolen in NYC. Smoothest insurance claim process ever. Granted the cops had the thief on the bike going over Brooklyn bridge at 3am.

Progressive paid for full value of bike (which at the time, pandemic just started was higher than what I paid for it). Plus any add-ons they reimbursed full price. I had pictures and receipts for it all. But all in, from moment of noticing my bike was gone cash was in my bank account 4 weeks later.
Intentional false negatives are mostly irrelevant. If you want to store galleries of illegal material on your phone, there are much better ways to do it which don't involve them being visually mangled, even if only slightly.

So, you're accepting that Apple's approach is useless for anyone who's "determined" but you still seem to be arguing there's some merit in this complex "architecture" of surveillance.
Please cite something relating to any of this; in August the uproar was that the phone would scan, too. Not just icloud.
Baker
http://cmosedu.com

And Weste
http://pages.hmc.edu/harris/cmosvlsi/4e/index.html

are both very good. Weste is used in more Universities but it also has a digital slant to it.
Here's a recent video with a peek inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SwvtBxxp2w
You're still susceptible to me owning a second device that can take photos. If it can be displayed, it can be copied.
> I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching.

That's the problem. You had a tool to judge a video was worth watching without having to watching the ads.

Now you have to watch ads to find out if the video is crap. This is a very good thing. for Google
If legal porn can be modified to match CP, do you think the human reviewer is going to analyze the picture more closely or just press the report button and move on?
Eric Kenneway! His posthumous Complete Origami remains a favourite. As were his models in Robert Harbin’s books.

I personally have just bought a Lexus (old) in the UK and think it’s well put together, and can completely understand the reasoning for pushing their top-most technicians into improving their brain plasticity by making them do things that are decidedly uncomfortable with their non-dominant hand. It’s not about folding paper at all.
What are the knobs for? EQ? that's terrible. Digital room correction can do it almost infinitely better. Balance control? just say no.

And you can't have been talking about tuning controls because that's radio, and why would anyone listen to radio on high quality audio systems today?

So maybe just a big fat volume knob, milled from virgin aluminum, and used a heat sink for the non-existening heat production from the non-existent amplifier (it's all in the speakers). Yeah, I can go for that.
The real "break with tradition" was America and the CIA ousting Prince Sihanouk, who had been fighting militant communists, but was in dialog with the non-militant Cambodian left. A puppet Lon Nol was put at the helm, and the US then invaded eastern Cambodia (and shot Kent State students protesting that invasion) and carpet bombed the Cambodian countryside. This is what began the destabilization of Cambodia. Prince Sihanouk in exile allied with anyone against Lon Nol, which included the communists, and he supported the Cambodian People's National Liberation Armed Forces, which liberated Phnom Penh in the spring of 1975, right around the same time Saigon was liberated from western colonialism.
Good catch. My bad.

I should have said American/Premium pickup trucks sell exclusively in the US & Anglophone countries.

In every other country, the most sold car is the affordable Toyota Tacoma/hilux, which is purchased by people who need to get work done, first and foremost. I see no indication that either Rivian or Tesla are anywhere close to or have any motivation to target the low margin/ high demands market of the Tacoma.

Also, Tesla started off by cannibalizing the market of premium sedans : BMW/Audi/Chrysler. This was arguably the weakest performing sector in the auto industry at that time. The pickup truck market & budget cars market is far more cut throat. I would not expect Ford/Toyota/Honda to get caught sleeping at the wheel when Tesla comes for their big money making cars.

Ford has already hit it out of the park with the F150 lightning. Toyota has a fully developed competitor in the Prius to hold the ground until they catch up, and Honda is quietly electrifying their entire lineup while making actual production cars like the cute little Honda E.
Theres a sucker born every minute. That applies to job openings too.
Even if they take Taiwan, won’t they be completely shut out of world markets?
I’m no more a freeloader watching ads on YouTube than I am a freeloader watching broadcast TV or listening to FM radio in my car.
Got it, thanks. And was that to save the city from insolvency? The original article here also phrased things as the state allowing the city to switch sources. The reason I am probing is it seems wrong in a sense for state taxpayers to be punished for attempting to help a mismanaged city, although I recognize it’s complicated. I also am probably missing key background information here.
> controls are put in place when the communications and trust has been violated right?

Oh yes, i certainly broke trust of my parents, but mostly by bypassing controls they put. That deteriorated trust (and encouraged more trust-breaking) much faster than if the controls werent there.
How do they justify that? Or is it part of some agreement with the primary claimant that they'll take the case for free but get some % of the winnings?

Either way, mixing justice and profit feels slimy.
+1 +1 +1. People look down their noses at the old Ranger, but it’s about the perfect utility truck if you don’t need to tow anything.

I am much more interested in the R1T than the F150 Lightning, as the former is smaller. It is pretty hard to use contemporary trucks as trucks, with how oversized they are. They’ve become minivans for overcompensaters.
Old school 27MHz CB radios would have 1/4 wave antennas 2.75m tall. In practice, for vehicle mounted use, they'd almost always have bottom or centre coils to allow overall lengths down in the 1.5-2m sort of range, with compromises accepted there for practicalities and convenience. Fixed base stations would often use a "proper" 2.75m antenna though.
4M type volumes are possible at only lower price points.

I am very skeptical that battery costs are going to drop that much that Tesla can make cars for say 15-20k and retail at 25-30k to make the 10k profit you propose.

Battery chemistry is rapidly evolving of course with lesser conflict resources / better performance etc, but raw material costs for basic ingredients are fairly expensive, that puts a hard floor under which it would be hard for Tesla to go below.
Regarding storing files: They either are using https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/app-spec... and other apps would not be able to access those files at all, or they should be using it instead of just using "external storage".
starting price is nuts, also whats not being said is reliability is an uncertain. Given barely any Rivians are out there, I know the rock climber Alex Honnold was given one, who can say that they are not buying a very expensive problem.
"Frankly, your author has been on the side of the right-to-repair movement since day one."
Jesus, don't remind me. What a joke of an outcome for the Equifax fiasco.
There's some real confusion here.

There is:

* dynamic range compression, referred to above as "audio compression" (confusingly)

* psycho-acoustic aka "lossy" data compression

* lossless data compression

The last two have nothing to do with the first.
Did someone run on an agenda of making the water more acidic?
I just like how it was passed in 1976 by the Nixon administration just as the proportion of Black students in universities was exploding (from 1960 and 1975, Black enrollment in higher education increased at a rate 3.5x of total enrollment growth; the legislation was introduced in 1975), and soon after, the number of Black students enrolled started dropping[1].

The proportion stayed low for about 20 years.

The "original sin" in 1976 was just one of many acts of legislation that were "compensating" for the Civil Rights reforms by cutting down the funding available to Black students.

It's amazing how little one has to peel in all things that suck in the US to find racism behind it. And now all of us are screwed.

[1]https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/muj/article/download/20...
yes, it's been doing that for years. It's how it looks "crisper"
Yes, it isn't a new idea.

However I see geeks debating file formats ad nauseum, and I did too for many years as well when storage was expensive. But when aiming for best quality, master quality becomes the primary factor.
The problem right now is that there really isn't a single demagogue to attack.

Also, for the more cynical, here's a headline from 2016 Washington Post:

“Joe McCarthy was brought down by attacks on his decency. Trump will lose the same way.”
It is result #1 for me when I search.

Is this because today is the first day Firefox has been available on the Windows Store and it took some time to build reputation?
If you're on chrome and have visited wikipedia before, it will let you search it directly. In a new tab, I type "en", which autocompletes to "http://en.wikipedia.org/", then press tab to move forward one UI element, highlighting "Search Wikipedia (en)" then type my search string.

I have a bunch of the autosuggest and omnibar stuff turned off though, I don't know how well this works on a stock install.
> It's a sort of anger at the lionization of Western, Capitalist claims and ideals, at the whitewashing of the means by which they were asserted, at the implacable sneers towards anything in opposition to this story of glory.

Alas, capitalism isn't all that popular in the west anymore. Perhaps you need to look further afield to find its champions.
What is that ? Is it generated ? It's impressively funny if it comes from a robot.
So in your opinion, should Go also not have generics for maps and channels (as they effectively do today), or are those also one of a kind data structures that are worthy of generics?

Thats exactly the proper dichotomy. Those choices were made by great language designers, not by programmers. Generics are some type of macros, of course they are useful. In some rare, very sensible cases, where the added complexity is really worth it. In the hands of programmers eager to show how smart they are, they are deadly. Code reviewers all around the world are gonna be like "why dont you use generics here?" just because they can. Bloated code, everywhere.

Go was a niche language suitable for 10x programming. It was modern C. Not C++, not java, not C#, not F#. It was C. The extraordinary, unexpected, return of C. You could write a modern server in C. You could write a modern application in C. It was amazing. It's now victim of its success and might become an industry language. As I mentionned, the grammar being changed, it's literally a new language that's being born. Go++ is being born. Why would you terminate a language which in 12 years has become one of the top 5 choices on the server?

This is not a sensible choice. This is not the choice of the hackers. This is the industry putting its dirty paws on a great piece of technology.
I consider YouTube and Hulu basically synonyms for TV. While this generation isn’t watching “TV” they’re still streaming and there are ads everywhere.

I’ve also noticed most people with kids on the age bracket have TV because it’s just easier.
No, instead we've made cars remotely controllable and programmable so that someone can kill you or pedestrians from their computer, then download some CSAM onto the car's infotainment system for good measure.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/24/9032179/chrysler-announce...
> then you don't "accept the vaccine"

What does that even mean? What makes you think saying yes to vaccine but no to vaccine mandates means they don't "accept the vaccine"?

> Additionally, most people agree with the mandates

From the latest poll [1] (conducted between 11/05-11/07):

> Table POL11: Even if neither is exactly correct, which of the following comes closest to your opinion? Government mandates to receive a COVID-19 vaccine

44% of registered voters say they violate the rights of Americans

45% of registered voters say they protect the rights of Americans

1. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-0982-d3c9-a77d-0b9a9...
imagine the smell of people’s mouths inside the stagecoach
Kids should have got at least 100 times that amount...
I am interested in understanding this better. Any references that you can share?
What is HackersNews and tech’s romantic obsession with Tokyo / things Japan?

I went to this building last month to take pictures ( but I do with everything in Japan. Even the 1000th torii gate). Japanese people only started to stop after I did. Japanese people don’t care about this. That’s why it’s decaying. This is equally true of other things about Japan which westerners are obsessed with. Pretty much all the stuff on Atlas Obscura. Like the Namba Shrine in Osaka, one of the more edgy tourist spots, but the majority of Osakan natives I asked did not know it existed.

You know what actually gets Japanese people wide eyed with excitement when a non-Japanese asks about it? The Shinsengumi.

Meanwhile, what’s permeating across Japan are restaurants offering ingredients and a bbq pit for DIY American style BBQ , as well as camping/glamping equipment as a “lifestyle”, setting up tents for a picnic park.

Edit: The trigger word about the article to me is “beloved”. To whom? Clearly it resonates with the HackerNews and tech crowd who romanticize that Japan/Tokyo is some futuristic cyberpunk fantasy. It’s really not. To the Japanese, this was an edgy building during experimental times in the 70s, but now it’s a liability. It just doesn’t make sense for Ginza anymore. If the concern is lost of neighborhood identity, the concern would be in the redevelopment of a bohemian neighborhood like Shimokitazawa. Otherwise, it’s like a Japanese article saying how beautiful and beloved the New York subway train graffiti of the 80s was and we shouldn’t clean it up.
If you can show me a passage which seems to indicate sightedness, perhaps it can serve as an antidote.

I think I deserve an expansion of the accusation of willful zealotry on my part, at least.
According to wikipedia, the initial release was 20 July 2001. By 2001, we had been using mpeg type audio for some time, whatever audio Cinepak pushed, RealAudio, etc. Hell even AAC came out in late 90s, but didn't take off for much much longer. FLAC was a baby while other formats were wearing long beards and suspenders. Only audiophiles used it, and it really didn't take of until AFLAC and iTunes/iPods.
"If they're allowed to practice however, I suppose it gatekeeps for commitment / "how badly do you want this""

Yeah, this is absolutely the most generous interpretation I can come up with, and even then I find it a bit wanting. If you are the best on the floor at task X but have a complex and stressful personal life, or even just other interests, or simply not the dexterity for this particular task, you get shut out.

I get it, excellence and all that.. I have too many hang ups from hearing people make fun of folks for bad spelling or whatever, touches a raw nerve.
Did anyone expect the state to fix flint after fifty years of mismanagement?
No, the availability argument. Even people who are dirt-poor (by developed country standards, of course) can have top-quality means of listening to and producing audio, thanks to computers, the internet, and Free Software. In the 1970s this was restricted to affluent people. So quite a narrow perspective to say things like that.

We take it for granted but when I think about it I'm amazed that I can on a whim decide I want to listen to Beethoven and 10s later I'm listening to world-class musicians playing any piece I want.
Yes. But the state took over because Flint was not financially able to run their own municipal water supply.

I'm not saying the state was right. They were very wrong. Lead is awful. But if Flint had been a functioning city, we'd never be here.

A state or federal government is never going to care as much as you do about your own lives and children. If you abdicate that responsibility and assume that "someone up there" will take care of you, you'll be bitten. It sucks, but it's reality.
When I played with Uno, There was a UWP designer (At the time Uno relied on UWP for the API/Translation, IDK if that's changed.) It worked mostly like the WPF designer but I think it was slightly more limited.
>It's a neat trick. Lawyers take 600m out of the voters back pocket, hand back 400m, and the people rejoice.

and that's fine, because you're not taking $60 out of everyone's pocket and giving back $40, they're taking $60 out of everyone's pocket and giving $4000 to the people affected. The point of the lawsuit is to force redistributing wealth to compensate the people affected, not as some sort of money-maker.
I don't know about other countries, but getting a student visa into the US requires a lot of resources too.
Brilliant.

People will often watch something they dislike with more intensity than something they like. The number of dislikes isn't the reason they want to watch it, it's the idea the title or cover image brings to mind. And those ideas and images are curated by Google.

Take the number of dislikes out of visibility and you strip the noise away from the signal that makes them money; views.

And who knows, the user might end up watching something that they wouldn't normally due to dislikes and, surprise, they like it. More exposure, less echo chamber-like. Less potential influence over a viewer's opinion of the content.
Spinlaunch with Basic Physics [pdf]
I’ve poked around the code a bit - not thoroughly, so take this with a grain of salt - and it looks like it’s all Common Lisp. There’s a very thin JavaScript shim that applies commands from the server, but that’s pretty much the only non-CL thing.

That said, it presents as a “GUI”, but it’s really more similar to Blazor or LiveView than, say, Qt or even Electron.
hash of CSAM is not CSAM

do you really think there won't be a large list of CSAM hashes on torrents if you go look for it?
Try searching for stuff by name in Apple's iOS app store. I'd say it's a joke, but it's not funny that they're fucking developers over. Apple replaces exact search terms that have matches in the store with other terms. So even if you know the name of the vendor whose app you're searching for and type it in correctly, Apple can and will bury (or not return at all) the result. Disgraceful, and Apple has lied about what "objective criteria" it's using... and has pledged in court to continue this scam.
Palm oil also has major deforestation implications. Congress recently introduced a bill to target the trade of palm oil called the Forest Act of 2021 (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congress-democrats-targe...), which has a low chance of passing but is worth attention. I wonder if there is cancer attributable to the environmental impacts of large scale palm oil harvesting, apart from the alleged issues with the fatty acid here.
Red-Hot Housing Market Drives Biggest Home-Equity Drawdown Since 2007
And Google uses it as a propaganda tool to remove votes on unpopular videos they want to boost, whether there's actual money changing hands its an undeclared in-kind contribution.
Also, if you want to be a "chip designer" then you can work for a fabless company too. They're basically everywhere.
I used to use cdb a lot for random access of small key/value pairs (~100k entries, 10kb per entry). It's effectively a hashtable on disk.

https://cr.yp.to/cdb.html
Most other trucks these days have tiny beds, too, because of the crew cabs.
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