skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not necessary coding work for someone who intends to use the project themselves and can run

tail -f /var/some-log-from-a-clipboard-daemon | grep big-tld-regex

They asked for a project idea and he gave them a product idea.
Scroll: Extensible Alternative to Markdown
Eh, I find it hard to relate to complaints when Gnome devs have spent the last 20 years treating users like they don’t know how to use a mouse & telling anyone Who wants to make it better that they are wrong.
Bill Gates comes out looking a bit like Ellen DeGeneres.
> No vaccine is 100% effective at providing absolute immunity. Not the MMR. Not Polio. Nobody has claimed otherwise.

Sure, it's not 100% for those other vaccines, but it's close. Once you get the polio vaccine as a child, you live the rest of your life the exact same way you would if polio were eradicated, without ever having to take any special precautions against the spread of polio again.
Johnson and Johnson Chairman Alex Gorsky Joins Apple's Board of Directors
PHP Is Killing Python
> thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse. Another slide offered a blunter conclusion: Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression. This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.

In 2018 "obesity prevalence was [...] 21.2% among 12- to 19-year-olds." [0] according to the CDC. That's one out of 5 being obese, not just overweight. And it has more than tripled since the 70's [1]. I have to wonder if it's related.

> These revelations sparked a media firestorm. Instagram Is Even Worse Than We Thought for Kids, announced a Washington Post article published in the days following the Journal's scoop. "It's Not Just Teenage Girls: Instagram Is Toxic for Everyone," claimed an op-ed in the Boston Globe. Zuckerberg's public comments about his platform's effects on mental health appear to be at odds with Facebook's internal findings, noted the New York Post.

I find it interesting to see the traditional media's position here considering... Facebook effectively beats them at their own game! Advertising revenues are down for every legacy news outlet while Facebook is growing its add business year after year. So of course they are not going to be thrilled about that particular company.

> In a defiant post published on his Facebook account, Mark Zuckerberg pushed back, stating that the motives of his company were "misrepresented." The very fact that Facebook was conducting this research, he wrote, implies that the company cares about the health impact of its products. Zuckerberg also pointed to data, included in the leaked slides, that showed how, in eleven out of the twelve areas of concern that were studied (such as loneliness and eating issues), more teen-age girls said that Instagram helped rather than hurt.

Especially with lockdown, I can see how social media probably helped teenagers. And that's the tip of the iceberg; for LGBTQA+ youth it can literally save a life.

Also, notice how Zuckerberg is "defiant" when he contradicts large media conglomerates?

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_child_15_16/obe...
> This translates into paying 300k to feel prestigious. At dinner parties she gets to tell everyone about how she's a USC grad.

With an online degree? Why would anyone brag about that?
My narrow perspective is that Python is the one language that both companies engaged in ML research (like Google) have been using, and also a very common language of instruction, for instance in the CS program at the school where I studied. If you were a CS student interested in ML/AI, starting school ten to fifteen years ago, but not particularly interested in software engineering, you'd be able to get by with only really knowing Python. Depending on how widespread this is, I'm guessing it's a part of the picture.
I spent a couple of minutes trying to turn it into a usable vegetarian recipe filter by selecting every exclude that was meat related. An overflow auto on the excludes ingredients list would help avoid it spilling over into the results.
Not sure why:
Quick-Broiled Pork Chops With Peanuts and Gochujang

Almond and Dried Fruit Pilaf With Rotisserie Chicken

Freestyle Roasted Chicken Parm

etc. Still show up even with chicken, pork and 150+ other meat terms in the exclude list. But overall it's much improved.

Unfortunately can't find a way to bookmark the exclude list without a JS injection, and the source is obfuscated, so I'm probably not gonna bother figuring out how to do that.

... hm. I see that it does send out a promising looking API request that could be possibly turned into something bookmarkable. Looks like it has a handy array name too.

https://pastebin.com/nddrvGcy <= a start at meat filtering
Will ITER make more energy than it consumes?
@bananabat, congrats on launching your game and on your beautiful write up here. It made me remember Randy Pausch‘a famous “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, better known as “The Last Lecture.” (https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo). Like many others, I remember being deeply touched by it. It is ultimately being about a man reflecting on a life well lived and achieving some childhood dreams like this is part of it.

It is wonderful that you have been able to do something you find worthy in and of its self and find fulfillment here. Thank you for sharing.
What do you think of System76 developing their own desktop environment?

HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29137180
That thread was moderated. You can tell because the founder’s opening introduction was pinned above dang pinning his own comment about a related thread. Those are conscious moderator actions which are about as transparent as it gets and illuminate the thinking on the other side (hint: you’re not aligned, but it sounds like you already expected that)
The 99:1 numbers are very strange. Latest data from UK, which admittedly has a higher vaccination rate than US, gives a death ratio of 1:9 unvax:vax. Caution, Simpson's paradox is at play, older populations where the bulk of the deaths are, are significantly more vaccinated than younger populations. Unfortunately it is really difficult to find equivalent detailed reports (breakdown by age, date & vax status) in US either federally (CDC) or at state level.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Edit. Oh, I see now. From the fourth article: "99% of Alabama’s 2,379 COVID deaths from January to June were unvaccinated". Alabama had a covid wave in Jan, which then subsided. Mass vaccination only started in Jan, by the time the wave was over maybe 10-20% of the population was vaccinated. The numbers are dominated by the pre-vaccination wave, plus VE is high early on which limits the vaccinated deaths. Verdict: technically correct, but highly misleading.

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spr...

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...
If you use left-inclusive, right-exclusive intervals [), then then the overlap condition is:

meeting_a.starts_at <= meeting_b.ends_at && meeting_b.starts_at <= meeting_a.ends_at

So, indeed, the scenario as described in the article is more complex than needed.
Someone could make a site similar to the one that retains deleted Reddit comments. But I agree it would be better to manage our own censorship anywhere online.
100 - 49 - 11 = 40
> It goes both ways: local talent will learn from the biggest companies in the world without having to leave, meaning their know how can be turned to local entities as well.

It really doesn't. You end up with a whole segment of engineers that effectively become invisible to the local tech scene, because they are way above the local rates. Local companies are, basically, a waste of time for them.

Also, keep in mind that working for a foreign subsidiary opens up many additional visa to someone who wants to relocate to the US main office. So a "first remote" approach might actually accelerate brain drain in the long run.
There is a specific belief here around something which changes under these substances, around memory, recall, ideation, I'd use the word "plasticity" but thats not what I mean. Taking these drugs (or MDMA) and undergoing some kind of guided psychological engagement, appears to have lasting effects on how mood is mapped over experience, for people suffering negative ideation/PTSD.

I'd love to poo-poo this because I believe in (and do) CBT and have a continuing high level engagement with somebody which is strongly anti-drug: the SSRI are a weapon for a problem which are being over-used. Its classic hammer/nail analogy stuff.

There was interesting, good science being done on these drugs before the "war on dope" took everything offline.

Consider the work on its effect on timor mortis. If we can ease people's passage into an inevitable end, Isn't that net-beneficial overall?
I don't use Insta or Tick Tock so I can really compare them, but I know YouTube is constantly trying to push junk in front of my kids.

We have a YouTube time limit here at home and I often login to the kids accounts to prune their subscriptions and attempt to block the most egregious morons.
Ask HN: Book to Study about DNS?
Is there some book/site/resource people would recommend for learning all about DNS. I've seen there is a nice book by O'Reilly but it's quite obsolete at this point as it doesn't cover anything about DNSSEC for example.
MLooks like this post won't play out well for Gnome. Plus System76 is building its own desktop environment in Rust.
Rows.com – Spreadsheet that supports external API integration and collaboration
I would put it mostly down to Spark.

Originally, it was only available in Scala/Java but then they added Python support courtesy of Py4J. And since Python was massively simpler than Scala it exploded in popularity very quickly becoming the default language.

So then you had Data Scientists who were already writing a lot of data transformations in Spark looking around at the rest of the Python ecosystem finding libraries like pandas, IDEs like Jupyter and basically staying there since it was so much easier than alternatives.

Their interests aren't really in computer science and so they look for whatever language can get them to an outcome as quickly and easily as possible. Even if it's not the most optimal, elegant or maintainable.
What are your thoughts on this reality I described, its at odds with your reality and I’m wondering if you have a response.

I may have jumped the gun imagining goal posts moving because its predictable, but I am still curious about your thoughts.
This (from the article) was unexpected -- Surprisingly, the cost includes “lost” contributions from community members who had accounts already, but whose activity appears to have been catalyzed by the (often low quality) contributions from those without accounts.

So the crappy hot takes that cause the "quality members" respond to with a quality post are a net value to the content quality?
কোরআন থেকে ছেলেদের নাম বাংলা অর্থসহ
God damn I need to unlearn those because it will spoil my capability to develop non-postgres systems.
How to make Penalty Free Retirement Withdrawals
Tbh, personally, I only care about Safari because iOS. If iOS user are able to use other browsers, I wouldn't really hesitate to not support Safari.
Suffer. Probably migrate. I don't believe humans will go extinct; we went through an ice age fine. Stopping climate change seems to as tough as stopping a volcano from exploding, though.
Problem is you get same alert deduplicated hundreds of time. And with those limits, you miss others.
Sounds cool. If they can fund it & have fun doing it could be neat.

All desktops started at Zero and competition will drive others to stay ahead or fall behind
I'm clearly failing to communicate my intent here :) If I don't treat a commit as a meaningful layer of abstraction, then it isn't one. If I say a commit isn't meaningful then it isn't; Git's semantics are secondary to mine. Right? Is this controversial?
The only way most people can time-shift charging their electric cars to the daytime is if their parking spot at their job has a charging station. Practically, that means a very large fraction of office building parking spots will need charging stations. That sounds prohibitively expensive. Incentives can only nudge so far before you run into genuine problems of logistics.
No definitive answer, but educated guess: I'm not sure how things are in Ruby, but in Python frame object lifetime does not correspond to the C stack implementing the interpreter. If your code throws an exception, frames are returned as part of the public API of the exception object, and can thus indefinitely outlive the associated function execution.

You could still implement an array-oriented frame stack in Python, but I think that would mean exceptions become more expensive, as it means making a complete copy of the array any time an exception was thrown, even if the user never makes use of it.
This is the most dangerous and irresponsible disclosure, EVER! ;->
https://www.leadersedge.com/brokerage-ops/the-risk-of-being-...

"Every professional knows the discomfort and fallout that go along with having to deliver bad news."
Not OP, but one problem that they mentioned which is "wrong" from an economic point of view is that afaik, there is no way to calculate the total cost of ownership of a nuclear plant.

This is due to that fact that there are no viable plans for long term nuclear storage to calculate the cost of.

Is this not "wrong" in a very material way?
I think there is a "Show Dead" button. Also you can click on a message's timestamp and if you have sufficient karma, you can "Vouch" for a message, and then upvote it.
This was my first thought as well. StackOverflow to the rescue https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9968680/view-source-book...

my next step was to look at the chromium bug tracker and apparently that was "fixed" in 2019. weather it still is or not, i don't know.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/ccda1d8...
Well it's just the CPU. You still have to plug it in somewhere.
They got the joke wrong and imagined something completely different, that is completely fair game to be made fun of. Is that really whats considered toxic right now? I’m genuinely curious.
Yes, I understand that's that was the point. But again, Google clearly didn't actually particularly want this since nobody from that company actually worked on this bug during the three years it was open.

Your suggestion seems equally invalid. The Chromium bug tracker currently has about 9k open feature requests. A lot of them are more niche than this, have no indication on the bug that they're relevant to Google, and have still not been closed as WONTFIX.

So it really was not a valid point to start with, and I don't understand why you're doubling down on it like that.
Sibling comment links to the relevant Wikipedia page, but most people who've dealt with YP probably know it as NIS (turns out using a trademarked term wasn't ideal). https://lwn.net/Articles/874174/ is a discussion of the current state of the world - Fedora is considering removing support for it in a future release, but it's otherwise still hanging around in Linux distributions.
For some definition of "killing"

For other definitions: No, its not. I don't think people are coding GPT in PHP. [1] There are people doing the exploration in Python libraries.

I haven't seen PHP bindings for Kubernetes breaking out into the world. [2]

(there is probably some variant of rule34 here, that if you mention something, there probably is PHP and Perl for it. Thus:

[1] https://github.com/ldobreira/gpt3-php
[2] https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/client-librar... (search PHP)

oh well.)
Then run that experiment, too:

Psilocybin + anesthetic

Psilocybin + nothing

Control + anesthetic

Control + nothing
The Great Plains in the US are huge. Lots of cattle grazing out there in an environmentally sensitive way. Most of the feed is hay cut from fallow farmland. Maybe what you’re describing happens in South America, but it’s not at all what happens in the US.
Rosicrucianism
Yes, google will charge a service fee for the use of their platform by taking a cut of every transaction, even ones not processed by them.

If we get a lawsuit that says “you can’t take a cut of every transaction” they’ll just charge a percentage of total revenue and audit developers, or find some other way of getting their cut. It is highly unlikely a path through lawmakers or courts is going to bring down apple and google’s cut. They’re running a platform and they’ve determined a price to be on that platform. They just happened to get that price through IAP, but they have many alternatives.
I did my "corporate" picture and it came out looking like I had been badly beaten and with really bad teeth (100 years of coffee and cigarettes). Bit of a blow to the self-esteem.

Just not anime material I guess.
> what Google did with their payment alternatives - i.e. adding a "service fee" to in app transactions but allowing alternative payment services.

As of September 2021, all apps on the Play Store must use Google's mobile payment platform exclusively, and developers can't link to alternative payment methods.
A fool and his digital property are soon parted.
My laptop does have a sim tray and an internal modem, the antenna is in the screen. (HP Spectre x360 13" for those curious)
Except @dang was hiding negative comments about You.com. There's nothing transparent about that.
That point is specifically re: the changes Google is making in South Korea due to their new law: https://developers-kr.googleblog.com/2021/11/enabling-altern...
ubu/debian/centos: do you mean desktop, or are you adding in servers?

those distos have undeniably won the server market.

But they also don't really care about the desktop market as a result.
This is really sad that they choose Go over Crystal.
Yes, there's lots of garbage on YouTube, but it's still "passive garbage" for most people. It's the equivalent of parents limiting cartoons for their kids when TV was the popular medium.

This article isn't about that, it's about the impact of more interactive platforms, which have the potential to affect people much more deeply.
NFTs neither do nor can enforce uniqueness too. Blockchain is a method to, as you put it, trustlessly couple a particular instance of a datum with a keypair.
Game developers can duplicate the blob describing in-game asset in their own database or on the blockchain. For off-chain data blockchains are nothing more than a datastore which provides immutable link between a datum and a keypair.
Microsoft Secure-Supply-Chain – Improving OSS Provenance
which negative comments where hidden? The entire threads are full of negative sentiment?
> Look at the average number of flu cases and deaths per year, then look at how many COVID cases and deaths just this year, and maybe you'll understand why.

I just took another look at the numbers, the flu kills ~27k people total every year and Covid kills ~33k under 50's every year, which largely covers the attend a concert and eat in NYC crowd.

Not that it means anything, I'm deliberately comparing different age groups and those numbers would certainly be higher if not for lock-downs and vaccines. I just find it interesting how close the numbers are.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
For neovim: https://github.com/Pocco81/TrueZen.nvim
France is at 75% nuclear; we can get to 75% renewables without storage.

And storage is quickly getting solved. California has gone from almost nothing to more than a GW of storage in a year, and is adding more GW at the moment. Even the "free market" in Texas is choosing to add many GW of storage, even more GW of solar and wind, and almost no new natural gas. And in the US, the majority of new solar projects include storage now, because for a long time there has been more DC production power than ability to convert it to AC, and a few hours of storage makes financial sense because storage has gotten so cheap. As it gets cheaper, there will be bigger an bigger amounts of storage added to every renewables project, on site.

Meanwhile we can't build nuclear in Western countries anymore. France can't, the US can't, the UK is likely going to fail.

The problem in the nuclear industry is that they are stuck on getting even first of a kind plants out. The idea of scaling up to hundreds of GW in the next few years is a pipe dream for the us and Europe. Maybe China will be able to build their 150 planned reactors, but even if they do they will be building far far more renewables than that.

The production capacity of modern Western economies is very well suited to wind, solar, and storage. It is absolutely awful at massive construction projects, like nuclear. Construction productivity has barely changed at all since the 1970s, while other fields' productivity has soared. We should take advantage of that.

And this ain't even talking about the new types of super cheap long duration storage that have high energy/power ratios. There's iron batteries in both traditional solid forms and in flow forms. Noe that the market need is becoming apparent, there are new chemistries being developed all the time that are suitable for stationary storage but not as well suited for cars and other mobile applications. Which is fantastic, as we can then reserve all that quickly growing production capacity for transport.
Nonsense. He's long gone back to his own country, scot free.
Exactly. Banks should not be lending without some risk. Bankruptcy exists for a reason.

Far better for the government to decide how many of each profession it’s willing to subsidize than the current free for all. It would give people a rough idea of the value of their debt.
Or the asset class is inflated for..some reason.
i was thinking of all sorts of ways how a testing platform could prevent this workaround. but then i realized that with the same effort they could just prevent answers showing up in the source...
OpenBOR – 2D side scrolling engine for beat em' ups, shooters, and more
It's the only way to be a real search engine right now with a monopoly that blocks you from the navbar of your browser.
Without that convenience, would you really try it for a few days and go back every time until you're convinced?
My last job was at an ML company.

Most ML people there cannot build large robust systems and some struggled with the non-algorithmic bits of software. I am sure that some can out there in the world, but for the most part our ML people were very good at creating models and not very good at the development part, especially as the program grew (part of the motivation to hire devs like me in the first place).

Python gets rid of as much of the developmental complexity as possible. No types, no memory management, libraries for everything, No need to create a class to run "hello world." Pip makes it trivial to import things. Use PyCharm and you just need to click the run button, with no complicated JRE and JDK setup.

It is the fastest way to start writing models.
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29149184

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141891
Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Microdosing LSD for Adult ADHD