skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope that's wrong about the livestock feed. Beef bioaccumulates pesticides in fatty tissue just like anything else. You can't test every steak (yet), but that doesn't mean organic is a scam-- just means it's scammable.

It'd all feel much different if we had more data to empower consumers. Imagine e.g. a meat thermometer that gave ppb/ppt of 100+ pesticide residues.. suddenly you find one kind/cut of meat has orders of magnitude more pesticide than another.. "oh weird I never felt good after eating that brand of meat, maybe I'll pay an extra $2 a pound next time".
Nuclear reactor manufacturing is not a simple thing to ramp up quickly.

China is buying reactors from the US, France, Russia, and they have their own designs. They need to reserve pretty much all manufacturing capacity that exists and add more.
I find this line of argument very unconvincing because it has nothing to do with Pinterest.

> Pinterest, it should be noted, doesn’t cost anything to sign up for. But as the old internet maxim goes, “If you’re not paying for it, you are the product.’” Meanwhile, people who do use the service complain that the resolution of Pinterest images is often low.

It's annoying to make an account, but they are paying to host the image. That you want a particular image is already tracked by the other image hosts. It does not seem like a net loss of privacy.

One possibility is that Pinterest is really actually very popular and the people who reasonably hate the awful site are in the minority (which sucks for us but it's hard to be critical of their images coming up often). The other possibility is everyone hates Pinterest and Google is allowing their search to get gamed - and in that case the ball seems in Google's court? Like, your users hate your search, fix it.

Either way it seems like yelling at Pinterest for "ruining" photo search in one particular way is silly. They have either been so successful as to redefine how people want to access images or they're cheating.
yes but then you have to write your program in java
There's also the [Steam Link app][1], if you have an Android TV.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valvesoftw...

You just need to install the app on your Android TV/TV box, and if you've got a fast intranet connection, you can stream Steam games from your desktop/laptop PC via your Android TV (it also works on Android tablets/phones, but you'd probably need a high-end WiFi router).

The input latency might hurt for action games, especially since TVs tend to have pretty bad latency already compared to computer monitors. And, loads of Android TVs aren't very powerful; I've seen quite a few struggle with even the Netflix app, so I doubt streaming 4K 60FPS games with low latency will work well.
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Abort, Retry, Fail?

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Zillow’s Algorithm-Fueled Buying Spree Doomed Its Home-Flipping Experiment
> the government can create trillions of dollars out of nothing and still not get hyperinflation. The risk of this is that you go too far and people stop using it as the reserve currency

If the other big central banks around the world print money at similar rates, the US dollar will remain the reserve currency. The pandemic was global.

If the US were to enter a recession alone (which would be strange), and then chose to print lots of money, that's when its reserve currency status might be threatened.
Sure, but fixed cameras along the route must be a lot cheaper than the plane.
> "The only problem was that it didn't work. If the Seahawks had scored, the press would have called the coach's call genius."

Not at all. If the world thinks you are a fool, you are indeed a fool. Pete Carrol the coach (and also the person, given the magnitude of the Super Bowl) could only lose out by calling a passing play on the 2yd line, and the Seahawks as an organization as well.

Only other coaches and statisticians might think that he made the right call and that Bellichick screwed up by not letting them score (as he did in Super Bowl XLVI).

But in the end an HC has to get inside the head of the players, he needs players to believe in what he is telling them. They are his audience, not statisticians and other head coaches. The fans are also his audience almost in the same way as the players.

The reputational damage when you become a meme for bad decision making has to be taken into account.

Pete Carrol and the Seahawks franchise were heavily damaged by the epilogue of that Super Bowl.

There were 3 possible outcomes at that point, ranking them:

1) Getting a TD and winning the SB

2) Not getting a TD and losing the SB due to an epic goal line stand from New England.

then there are 50 ft of crap and then there's

3) Giving the impression that you threw away the SB with an extravagant and forced call (regardless of how good it was)

The 49ers didn't suffer the same reputational damage when they failed to get in Baltimore's end zone for 4 straight times at the end of the "blackout" Super Bowl.

In conclusion an organization which is worth billions such as any NFL team cannot afford to call plays like they have nothing to lose from a financial and reputational standpoint, they are not some High School in Montana and it's not like the Seahawks were going to be dissolved after the end of that game.
> Oh wow. I do not like that "global using". It harkens to the auto-loading issues I've had with Rails. "Where was this defined? I dunno! It probably works here, though!!1"

It's been a feature of Visual Basic .NET for a very long time (from recall: at least 2008), I'd hope Microsoft heavily queried user feedback before implementing.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-add...
https://archive.md/IaMMQ

An overview of all of the issues that were encountered summarized neatly with discussion from all sides of the industry.
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Not sure he's done yet. Good new fonts are a rare thing and he might be on to something.

With hdpi now very common, typography for screens can evolve. The stark minimalist typography of early computers was very much driven by the necessity of having very limited resolution, contrast, and dynamic range. Sans serif fonts like Helvetica, and its many derivatives, with its straight lines & simple curves were optimal for that type of screen. Serif fonts, with their fiddly details are a lot harder to render in a pleasing way on such screens.

However, with modern screens, those problems are addressed to the point where there is little practical difference in resolution between print and screen. So, making the most of modern screens through design becomes a challenge. Serif fonts are still popular for print for a good reason: they are pleasing to the eye and it helps readability. If you work from first principles to address such a challenge on a modern screen, you'd start with a font and a serif font would be not such a strange choice as it used to be.

Just my opinion, but both font and logo strike me as rather beautiful.
are you still doing desktop work? if so, what are you using?
Japan's Covid Cases Drop Drastically
Fascinating. Could you describe how you deconflict your various named algorithms and prevent them from competing with each other?
Follow up to Show HN: I’m a pregnant hacker. Here is my side project
Hi HN! In February 2011 I launched a side project on Hacker News. The HN post was #1 for about a day and was titled: “I’m a pregnant hacker. Here is my side project” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175757

Babylist has grown since that launch day into a $250M/year revenue business. We announced our first significant funding round yesterday: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaklich/2021/11/04/babylist-raises-40-million-expects-to-hit-250-million-in-annual-revenue/

I wanted to say thank you. Our very earliest adopters came from that post. We’ve hired amazing team members through HN Who’s Hiring over the years.

I wrote that post on Feb 3 2011 and had my son two weeks later. Being home with a newborn was difficult for me -- in reality it was isolating and boring. Being able to work on Babylist for 45 minutes a day used my brain in a needed way. Through that first year Babylist scaled to about $3,000/month with an affiliate business model. Babylist was then what it is now: A better baby registry that works across retailers.

Over the years we’ve made our experience and offering better and better. We’ve launched amazing products, we’re both a vertical marketplace and e-commerce company, we have the best content to make product decisions and most recently are creating amazing product recommendations via our data and machine learning. Years ago we made an explicit decision that we weren’t a registry company, we were all about this monumental life stage and serve a baby’s entire community.

The journey from engineer to CEO of a growing 100+ person organization has been challenging and amazing. I stopped coding many years ago and bite my tongue when I have technical suggestions. I have given our Engineering Culture interview to almost every hire we’ve made until very recently.

I’m happy to talk about any part of this journey with y’all. I’m very grateful to this community. I would love to read your feedback or answer questions. (We’re also hiring remote engineers and happy to answer any questions about that.)
What's an Operating System? (MirageOS library operating system discussion)
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Do you know if their perspective has shifted over time?
> Moreover, no, emperical evidence shows the neutralizing antibody effect of vaccines decreases the spread of variants.

The world started vaccinating in January - 10 months ago. You won't even begin to know the true effectiveness of the vaccine and its outcomes until at least one more year goes by ey? Then you can begin to compare year over year health outcomes in highly vaccinated groups, vs unvaccinated, in the same region (same viral seasonality profile), across age groups. I can't wait to see regional all cause mortality with accurately age (and other vars) adjusted data between the vaxxed and unvaxxed.
The Random Number Generator Hypothesis
> It does tend to flatten other identities into "black" and "white"

Right. Those aren't ethnic identities, just racist classifications.
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141891 (yesterday, 20 comments)
Things a frontend dev would know that a backend may not:

- HTML and CSS (facility with selectors)
- JS syntax and semantics, common patterns and idioms, gotchas
- Web APIs
- CORS
- Frontend data persistence mechanisms (cookies, local storage, etc.)
- Critical rendering path
- Service workers (how and when to use)
- Accessibility (ARIA)
Correct.

There's a reason why you get geographically specialized pilots - little bits matter a lot
https://www.sitepoint.com/spam-roi-profit-on-1-in-125m-respo...
Currently Flickr overrides right click with a zoom 'feature.'

Fortunately however - depending on the license - you can trivially download various sizes of images (including "original") with a click, using Flickr's context menu to choose between the image sizes. That seems like a reasonable approach.
No money in preventative thinking. People want the convenience of the magic pill, people don't want the lifestyle change.
Alternatively, maybe they do give a shit, but it's easier for 10,000+ companies to hack your SEO than it is for 10,000+ employees to come up with a way to mitigate it.
> nobody thinks that the Swift libs will be wrong as a first guess

This is highly dependent on which version of Swift you started with! When Swift introduced the new substring API I hit a bug where certain UTF-8 character sequences caused an index out of bounds error internally. Unfortunately we learned this in production when an entire organization couldn't launch our app due to a string they were feeding through it.

That is how your trust in the standard libs is forever broken. Library and compiler bugs were quite common in the Swift 1-3 days.
yes, to buy 1 square meter it is 5-7x the total average salary
Sure, but WoW doesn't use NFTs to enforce scarcity.

What does a Google/Facebook/Microsoft metaverse want NFTs for? Once you start enforcing permissions on which issuers the metaverse honors, the metaverse might as well skip the whole NFT thing and use a database.
> I'm pretty sure this stuff happens in countries that aren't communist nor dictatorships, too. See the treatment of First Nations people in the US and Canada for examples.

Are we going to bring up slavery too? It's 2021.

> My grandmother didn't learn Arabic because her mother insisted the children not speak anything but English. They had moved from Syria to the US long ago. Realistically, it was so they did not get treated badly. No wonder her children and grandchildren (me) do not speak Arabic.

That is a common story, actually. Again, the immigrants want to erase the ethnic distinctions (to a degree, of course).
Being a salesperson doesn't somehow make you immune to being an immoral actor. There are sellers all over eBay selling junk tech or empty boxes using weasel words and attempting to exploit people with less technical know-how.

This Mohammed guy is just a slightly different version of it. He knows exactly what he's doing, which is peddling snake oil hoping to lure in the scared and the less knowledgeable. Morality is certainly a factor and I will continue to criticize these actors on that basis.
LOL

Ok, I guess that's a plan.

It's kind of like you have a tube-based ENIAC and your plan is to jump to silicon microprocessors.

"Other materials" have been claiming to replace silicon for >50 years now. Currently the few that exist amount to about 1% of annual volume/revenue even among the leaders in the industry today. This 1% is so seriously hard, uncooperative and unproductive as a technology that even with the leverage of all the capital equipment, technology and financial multipliers of silicon, it still doesn't exceed 1%! Without silicon it would be far, far less than 1%. So this is the Chinese plan?? LOL! That's as much a "plan" as Theranos had a plan!

The other thing you have to realize about Chinese "semiconductor companies" is that those founding them really don't understand anything about the market, the business, etc. To them it's no different than raising money to start a new coal mine or steel plant - they are that much out of touch.

Part of this disconnect is how most of the newest Chinese semiconductor firms are direct ties to Evergrande and its founder who is pretty much nothing more than a serial Ponzi scammer.

SMIC is really the ONLY legitimate Chinese semiconductor firm as well as certain Chinese fabs of Taiwanese companies. The rest are scams and in this case new scams.
Haha you're right, definitely different. It's hard trying to defend it.
Have you never met a business-school alumnus/alumna that had zero knowledge about the craft of software engineering and software development, still getting a management position?

That is sad, especially wrt the effects on the team mood.

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To be fair, same goes with a software engineer turned manager without any guidance, landed there by sheer inertia.
Wow, what a diverse body of work. Could you give an example of a paper that you feel fits your description of having "almost never even been properly formulated before"?
> racist parents getting mad about children learning the story of Ruby Bridges.

Let your political adversaries choose which true, uncontested historical facts are taught in schools, and you too will find yourself in the uncomfortable position of getting mad about what children are learning.

Did you know governor Ratcliffe, depicted in Disney's Pocahontas as greedy and arrogant, trying to start a war so he can steal the Native American's gold, actually met his end trying to trade copper for corn for the starving Jamestown colony (his fellow colonists accused him of being too generous in trading, that they would soon run out of items to trade)?

He and 25 others were invited to a Powhatan gathering, promised they would be given corn for their copper. Instead they were ambushed, and only two escaped. The rest were killed, while Ratcliffe was captured, and:

Women removed the skin from his entire body with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into the flame as he watched. They skinned his face last and finally burned him at the stake. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ratcliffe_(governor)#Deat...

That part was omitted from the Disney version. Is it time to teach this in schools, to correct the popular, mistaken impression of early settler-Native American relations?
Yeah I'm with you on this one. I consider small talk sometimes but honestly, the emotional/social effort it takes + the risks of engaging with stranger men (as a gal myself) aren't worth it. I'll do my grocery shopping in silence, because with how stressed I am right now, I don't have extra bandwidth for entertaining chatty strangers.
I emailed Lansky with the answer in 2000 or 2001. Unfortunately I no longer have his reply, but the link to his "second computer piece, which has never been recorded (commercially released), and never will be" was to his 1976 piece "Artifice (On Ferdinand's Reflection)": <https://paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu/artifice.mp3>. The piece is also (publicly) available via <https://paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu/mymp3.html> and on UbuWeb with this little program note:

> Here is my very first speech piece, never recorded, done in 1976. The entire piece is made from a male and female speaker uttering the phrase "This music crept by me upon the waters". It's about 22 minutes long.
You're absolutely right. However, I'd argue that per capita emissions is a misleading metric here, in light of the fact that when you drill down even deeper and look at the top 100 corporate polluters, which are collectively responsible for 71% of our greenhouse gas emissions[0], virtually all of them [1] are energy companies.

Now, yes, individual people consume energy, thus forming most of the basis for this "per capita emissions" metric, but, in the alternative timeline where the world got serious about clean energy 20-30 years ago, guess what happens to that metric? It drops in direct correlation with the amount of investment in clean energy.

But, as to the rest of what you write here, the solution, at least in my mind, seems fairly simple, if not easy: developed countries must invest massively and immediately in clean energy and carbon sequestration technologies, as well as properly pricing carbon emissions via carbon taxes so that that negative externality is included in every single consumer decision. Further, developed countries must engage in clean energy technology sharing and development projects throughout the world[2]. We need the entire world to be on the same page, and, China, the US, and Europe need to be leading the way.

So, yes, absolutely, the problem scope vastly exceeds the US (it's global), so, therefore, the solution must be global as well.

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[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

[1]: Perhaps literally all of them. I had to scroll down to about number 75 before I saw one that might not be an energy company, just from the name.

[2]: This solves the "clean energy or a hospital" problem.
So what's next for you? build your own platform?
I strongly disagree with the premise here. Anyone who hires based on this mentality will be compromising significantly on their team's performance.

Within a specific part of the stack, there is a vast quantity of micro-skills that a developer needs to know. The language syntax, the language built-ins, the language ecosystem, best practices, canonical designs, the debugging tools, other development tools, etc.

Many things are Google-able, but searching for answers to problems is like making a network call. It's WAY faster if you can pull from cache.

My specific context is frontend development. I would never hire a frontend developer who cannot clearly demonstrate their skills in the domain. There are ~140 HTML tags, each with different attributes and behaviors. There are ~200 CSS attributes with 2-10 meaningfully different values each. JavaScript as a language is moderately challenging for some developers and there are many hundreds of built-in methods, behaviors and functions to know.

I've seen time and time again the differences between a talented frontend engineer and a senior non-frontend engineer trying to solve the same problems. Given a description of a problem, an experienced FE dev can quickly identify the problem using dev tools and make the necessary changes to solve the problem. It might take them 20 minutes. The "senior" non-FE engineer might spend a full day searching, debugging, experimenting and learning. By the end of the day they might be proficient at Flexbox layouts and able to solve the same problem in 2 hours next time.

But depending on your business, can you afford to hire an engineer who takes 10x longer to do things, with the hope that after 6-12 months they might only be taking 2x longer to do things?

And don't get me started on architecture and design sense. How can you expect a senior to make wise decisions in a domain they know little about? Nearly every time I've seen mostly-BE engineers build FE projects, they create bloated, complex and over-engineered designs that are hard to develop and maintain. There's a thousand little details that you learn over the years when working in a specific domain.

For me, I hire based on demonstrated expertise in specific domains. When I do that, my teams move fast and effectively. It can be hard to hire the specific skills you need, but I've found it to be far more important than anything else.
War only pushes the reset button in a positive way when it's WWII and you're America. See the economic consequences of the war in Vietnam for a more typical outcome of putting military spending to use.