skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard to say beyond anecdotal impressions. There are rankings out there of average breast size by country, perhaps drawn from brassiere sales numbers, but I’ve never seen one which disambiguates cup size (itself an incomplete indicator) from overall BMI. An obese white European woman may have a larger chest on average than African women of a healthy weight, but it’s not clear which example theater audiences would find the most attractive on the basis of their bust.

That’s my juvenile speculation for the day.
What happens when the trolls create millions of accounts to overwhelm the 90% people with good intentions?
> No amazon and it sucks not to have it when you are used to buying everything and getting it the next day.

Bol.com is the Dutch Amazon with quick delivery. And Amazon.nl launched in March 2020 but is worse for most needs here.
Yes, let's fix both. That's why CA filed a lawsuit.
Exactly.

Plus, if you're using something like Remix, you don't need an API layer anymore. The data goes from the query straight into the view.
you need to travel internationally more.
This is true only if your range of available strategies is constrained to a closed competitive subsystem. The actual range of available strategies is unbounded, given unlimited rationality.
The US actually believed that for many years, at the start of the atomic age.
This actually made me laugh
It is a UX trade-off; it's easier for the consumers to receive offers based on their preferences than it would be for them to seek out actively content that is interesting to them. My idea was when you are casually and randomly surfing the web you can receive offers to unlock some paywalled or premium content that would be appealing to you and otherwise locked and never accessed. The same concept is similar to advertising and particularly targeted advertising; why would advertisers spend millions and billions when consumers already know what they are interested in? It's not that easy because consumers experience Opportunity cost and Information asymmetry meaning they are simply not aware of everything that is available to them and when they are they do not quite know which product or service is better than the other and they have to choose atm which one to buy and which one they are not going to buy.
> anytime someone says china doesn't steal technology

Does anyone believe that any non-CCP actors are disputing China’s ongoing, massive, organized trade secret theft?
From the posts I have read in /r/antiwork I would not like to employ any of the posters, I would not want to be a coworker to any of them either. I'm not convinced that the world needs to have everyone working, but if it comes down to a shortage of food, healthcare or consumable goods, the workers should be fed before the slackers.
came here to say this one
I don’t know how much of the US you experienced, but LA is hardly representative of the country.
You shouldn't be. Lead paint in-situ isn't dangerous. Disturbing lead paint is dangerous.

Mitigation/ removal of lead paint is more of a danger than the original risk.
> E.g. the lagrange browser downloads images and displays then inline in the page

That's true, but it's based on opportunistic guesses, not semantics, which prevents many use-cases (including alt-text for accessibility of images). For example, we could do the same with video, but what about alternative soundtracks/captions? HTML has <video> <audio> and <caption>. Building a browser based on auto-guessing which link is related to which one and what the relationship is between those is... hazardous in my view.

> this allows the user to be in control over how these potentially abusable externalities should be handled, rather than ceding that control to the webmaster

I love that argument! But that was also the premise for the web, and i don't understand why we're not enforcing it there. CSS was supposed to permit user stylesheets, and JS empower users to script their interactions with the server. I would argue the problem with the web is it has moved away from declarative to imperative model where the server dictates your rendering. I can see how gemini addresses this by removing extensible declarative elements altogether, but i don't think that's the only way.

Personally, i think adding more semantic elements in HTML (eg. no-JS web components) would make client-side sheets more realistic while allowing the webmaster to propose a specific stylesheet for their recommended UI/UX. Removing the semantics is not gonna help empower clients, except when it comes to plaintext content. So, adding a new content-type over HTTP? Sure. Just throw in some CommonMark: it's well-specified and more or less complete (depending on your use-case). Adding a simpler protocol for delivering content? Why not, but it's not that easy to future-proof: HTTP is arguably more complex, but has some interesting properties such as content-type/encoding negociation or decoupling from transport security (for .onion/.i2p/DANE or any other future technology).

Just to be clear i like gemini very much and i've been wanting to support gemlog to my blog for a while. I just think there's room for some other technical foundations to explore the political promises of gemini.
The luck is in how strong your appetite is, which is the real driver of how much food one eats.
I can tell you that when I played Ingress, I walked a fair bit more as a result. I also ran a lot, but tbh my runs would cut short because by mile ~10 my phone battery would be low.)
I basically only saw "Barry O'Bama" at first, and thought "oh good, another rightwingey troll/rant". I managed to pick up on the PULSE GAN before my mouse made it over to the downvote button, tho, so it wasn't me. I think you'd be better off just adding half a sentence of tl;dr like "... Barry O'Bama, where PULSE GAN incorrectly reconstructed a pixelated image of Barack Obama, resulting in a white guy that didn't look anything like the original" or something like that.
Like, 1984 hilarious? Like, when my mountain biking buddy warns me of some insane switchback-into-vertical-drop-then-duck-under-the-log-at-the-bottom-or-decapitate-yourself and says it's hilarious?
True. But if we're talking software engineering, everyone posting here is probably "privileged" in that regard.

Let me just take this moment to say, holy shit what a fascinating time we all live in and what a happy accident it was that I stumbled into software engineering in this particular era.

I'm not aware of a recent time in history when you could get what amounts to a doctor's salary without the lengthy schooling, rigorous training, certification.
Yes, if you want to go all the way. There are many simplified formulations of BDRFs that are commonly used that ignore polarization and even wavelength dependent effects (e.g. metallic/roughness used in physically based rendering for games which has only two parameters on top of the base color), but they would still be a huge improvement over not capturing any BDRF data at all.
Maybe all of your life is competition, but mine certainly is not. It's an unhealthy attitude to have in your private life as far as I'm concerned.
To be honest, I don't care about classes itself. What I do like are the interfaces - which are usually expressed as collection of methods. Classes provide easy grouping of those methods, so you can not only type-safe implement particular methods, but make sure that whole group of methods implement particular contract.

To be honest, this does not require classes per se - Golang manages to have interfaces without classes, Rust has traits.
> how would the ideal low and high level language look like in your opinion?

I really don't know. I didn't know about the utility of affine types for memory safety in a low-level language before Rust, and I didn't know how much could be done with just comptime before Zig, so I certainly can't say what would be ideal for me. In terms of values, I would like a very simple language that helps write correct code and has fast compilation. None of the low-level languages I know about fully meet those goals, but so far Zig comes closest. Then again, it's easy to look good before you're actually out there, so we'll see.

> Regarding the high level languages, do you find java’s Valhalla plans good?

TBH, I haven't been following Valhalla closely, but knowing the people involved, I have the utmost confidence in what they'll do.
Normal wear and tear?
> or (type) signature changes

This I would consider as refactoring. It won't be just making normal edits anymore. Yes, when it comes to refactoring everything goes haywire. But that is a conscious decision isn't it? Then you'll for sure be running linter/tests anyways. So yes, in such cases what you said is valid. However, having a mini-map won't be a hindrance here. At least I don't see how it could be. It might be useless for this case. That I agree.
It's not just because of the set syntax; it's also because Python dicts don't treat their keys as symbols, but rather evaluate them as expressions, whereas JS evaluates keys as symbols by default and requires `{[key]: val}` to evaluate them. So in Python you'd have to do something funky where `{a: a}` is `{value_of_a: value_of_a}`, but, say, `{a:}` is `{"a": value_of_a}`.
Because this would enable a 51% attack. If you could attack pool software for 51% of hashrate, you would be able to validate a fraudulent transaction and make millions of dollars out of it.
To be fair /r/antiwork USED to be actually be about not working and discussions on how that might be accomplished(ex UBI or government works programs). But as it got more popular it quickly turned into what it is today, which is mostly fake screenshots of people telling their bosses off.
I’m a Blogstatic user already!

Mainly to add blogging alongside existing Carrd sites.

Nice and simple!
- UK (but I also lived in Spain & Italy for a bit)

- Largest sacrifice is not visiting family as often

- Came here because my wife is English

The UK is close enough to the US that things seem almost normal, but lots of subtly different things. The biggest thing is the culture, the English tend to be quieter, more reserved, and that manifests in a lot of different ways.

I speak Spanish, but not Italian. Italy was very difficult to find housing and communicate, Spain was a bit easier, but Spanish culture is very different than US culture and had some very surprising things. It would be good to be familiar with any culture you dive into.

Northern Europe tends to have a larger percentage of English speakers, so basic day to day things are easier to do (like finding housing).

The most difficult thing is probably a bit of "outsider" feeling and the language barrier in other countries, but there are lots of Americans in the UK to help ease that, and UK culture is easier to get used to than some of the others, especially if you have an English partner
They selected the parts that were the most up to spec (not necessarily the strongest, but the most faithful to spec).
>No amazon and it sucks not to have it when you are used to buying everything and getting it the next day.

In NL there are are multiple similar companies (Coolblue, Bol.com) which offer next day delivery on everything and even same day delivery in the major cities (i.e. including Amsterdam) on some things.

Amazon.nl has also been here for a couple of years (again with same day delivery), and you have been able to order from Amazon.de (again, with same day delivery) for many years.
Lots of info here. Thanks a lot!
Or just "undersample".
I guess it really matters whether you are in a cart or not.
> Here's a hot take: a lot of these health issues and negative outcomes can be tied back to the automobile.

Possible. Though personally I'd lean more towards the increase of heavily processed high calorie, high carb foods.

Consider that Europe still has a high obesity rate, but much less of the urban sprawl the US has.
>Find the capital for long-term investment somewhere and follow a path to improvement like AMD did.

They did, it was called SoftBank and now SoftBank needs its money back. The comparison to AMD isn’t comparable; AMD already had a high margin business in a proven market; it’s unclear what ARM is going to be pressured to do; either they will have to put the screws on their licensors or start making their own chips (which would be no different from the concern under nvidia)
1) None of what you just said addresses the claim that inflation "enables much of the corruption in our current financial system".

2) If you have debt, like a lot of people do, inflation means you now have less debt.

3) You have provided zero justification for why "bitcoin was invented to combat corruption", except through your unjustified claim that inflation and corruption are somehow connected.
One way I am trying to differentiate in terms of "Newsletter sending" is allowing users to send Newsletters not just of their posts. In other words, a Mailchimp/Convertkit functionality of sorts.

Other ways it differentiates is: Multiple blogs under a single account (same price) and lower pricing ($39/year at the time of this writing).

Stats (Newsletter and visits) is something I want to further advance and giving bloggers a way to monetize their blog without any fees (besides Stripe fees from connecting their account).
To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work
If lipids can directly modulate the activity of RNA in a simple synthetic system I wonder if the type of lipid is important. Like Omega 3 vs Omega 6...
Their marketing isn't great. It's quite unclear exactly what they do. "One click checkout" means they do what exactly? I know what it means for me as an e-commerce company, but what does bolt do?
> China didn't want to trade much except for silver and opium

The Manchu Qing government wanted this, many Chinese considered them to be foreign oppressors not much better than the British and the French and were happy to trade with the Europeans (not only for opium).

> of opium...

Again, opium was only a part of it and it was not that important by the second Opium war. China was falling apart due to internal issues and European powers opportunistically used this to peel of parts of China and to expand their overseas markets (for all kinds of goods besides opium) further increasing internal instability.

I’m not trying to exonerate the British or to downplay their imperialist policies but the ‘Opium wars’ were not merely about the opium trade, they weren’t even widely called that until much later. The modern popular perceptions of the wars is highly influenced by Chinnese civil war propaganda (from both sides) which portrays them as beginning of some western plot to destabilize and destroy China while it’s much more complicated than that.
Sorry for the late reply. I think much of the help available is cost prohibitive, I think addiction treatment programs should be free. A much better use of money than locking people up in cages which is both inhumane and more expensive.
This summary is not very good. Not wrong, but misleading I guess? Seems sort of confused about how arm and fabless semiconductor companies interact?
The "knowing" may possibly be creating the result you observe.
Well this is nightmare fuel.
>but at the end of the day the Chinese government/courts handled in what it thought was in the best interest of Chinese citizens

In the short-term, you're absolutely right. In the long-term, no one will continue to invest in Chinese businesses if China gets a reputation for banditry like this. Is it in the best interests of Chinese citizens to ruin their reputation for the next generation?
Australia is a different dimension altogether - you have a lot of the trappings of Western (US/European) culture, but none of the advantages of access to a free market. Personally, I can't stand Australian culture, nor American either these days - which isn't to say I'm launching into an adopted German/Austrian stance, just that .. being away from these lands for a decade at least in each case, I started to see the shine wear off long, long ago.

Quality of life is pretty high in Australia, though, I have to admit. Nothing quite like hitting the beach after work - which I did a few times in LA, only to get a horrendous infection. But, still, I am lucky enough to choose my path and I am for sure never going back to Australia to live. Or, LA/USA.
> No amazon and it sucks not to have it when you are used to buying everything and getting it the next day.

Of course there's Amazon in NL. But more importantly, there's also bol.com and Cool Blue, which are better. Or at least less shitty.
So happy to have you on! Thank you for being a blogstatic client. The first one and still on!
This is a really painful article to read. It paints a very clear picture of a new Cold War that was being launched under the guise of preventing espionage.

Of course, this much has been suspected since the initial indictment (from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/us/mit-scientist-charges.... )

> There were two counts of wire fraud related to disclosure. In 2017, prosecutors said, when applying for a $2.7 million grant from the Energy Department, Dr. Chen had failed to disclose five affiliations — he served as a “review expert” for China’s National Science Foundation and a “fourth overseas expert consultant” to the Chinese government, for instance. Then, in a progress report in 2019, he failed to list those and three new Chinese affiliations, including one that pledged to pay him $355,715, the indictment says.

> A third and fourth charge were more straightforward: Dr. Chen had failed in 2018 tax filings, the indictment says, to declare a Chinese bank account containing more than $10,000, as required by law.

> [the prosecutor] acknowledged that Dr. Chen was not accused of passing any sensitive information to China

Serving as a review expert? A consultant? Not reporting a Chinese bank account in his taxes? The prosecutor went so far as to paint him as loyal to China based on these! From the above article:

> At a news conference that morning, [the prosecutor] said he believed that Dr. Chen, 56, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen two decades ago, had remained loyal to the country of his birth.

> “The allegations of the complaint imply that this was not just about greed, but about loyalty to China,” he said.

This was a case of guilt by association. Dr Chen did nothing wrong but by god, he’s a Chinese immigrant with a Chinese bank account, and scientific colleagues who are Chinese, so he must be a Chinese spy
The secret YouTube plot against Internet Explorer 6
You might consider checking Jython out as an option. It's JSR-223 compliant and trivial to drop into a Java app and just expose Java objects to the Python scripts to be used as is. I've had a pretty great experience with it.

The only downside is it's stuck on supporting Python2.x so you may end up wanting to properly integrate CPython eventually. Since you're targeting running Python code that doesn't exist yet and the language differences aren't huge though, I doubt most users would mind (I wouldn't). Just an idea to consider, esp for an MVP

(One /upside/ is Jython is a Python2 interpreter fully written in Java, so the concurrency and performance may be better than CPython2 with its GIL)
Prefix and postfix notations permit a great distance between the operands and the operators. If done in a disciplined fashion so that they're merely swapped (at least in the majority of cases), then sure, it's not too different. But consider this: (¬ used for unary negation)

b ¬ b 2 ^ 4 a c * * - √ + 2 a * /

The two expressions being divided are quite large, so there's no easy way to just move the division one token to the right, it goes all the way to the end. Which two things are being divided at a glance, just point them out. I've even selected a more familiar expression for this exercise that should make it easier. But what about an expression people are less familiar with? Which thing are we calculating the square root of? This is what RPN looks like when entered into a calculator, which is handy and quick for computations (I mean, I have an HP-32S II at my desk next to my laptop, I like it). But even the HP-48G with its graphical equation editor didn't force you to think like this, algebraic notation provides locality of information that makes it much more comprehensible without overburdening your working memory.

And once you start adding parentheses or indentation to convey that information, you're on your way back to a tweaked infix notation. The same for prefix notations. If you can see past the parentheses of Lisp/Scheme it's not too hard to see what's being expressed (using the same symbols as above):

(/ (+ (¬ b)
(√ (- (^ b 2)
(* 4 a c))))
(* 2 a))

This is more comprehensible, but it's not a strict prefix notation anymore, we've used parentheses and indentation in order to convey information about the grouping. I've even borrowed Lisp's use of variable numbers of arguments to simplify *. If asked, "What is being divided by what", you can, rather quickly, identify the divisor and dividend, at least point them out if not express totally what they do. But a straight prefix notation or postfix notation makes that task very difficult.

You could start naming subexpressions, but then you get into one of the two hard problems in computer science (naming things).

And then we get to the other things people want to do with mathematical expressions, which is largely symbolic manipulation. The present infix notation (or a highly demarcated prefix/postfix notation like the Lisp-y one above) is much better for this task than a strict prefix/postfix notation.
Michigan woman checks spam folder and learns she won the lottery
> At any rate we’re 17 years out from the movie now, long enough for the pendulum of consumer preference to start swinging the opposite way: Merlot is back on the menu.

Crud. Underpriced Merlot has been the best thing ever for the last decade!
You'll want to double check your math. 350kCal/day for a month is just over 10kCal. That's definitely not 30lbs of fat or even remotely close.
The first points are salient. The last point is interesting, since a car is generally much more required in the US, yes it is easier and more convenient to have a car in the US, as well as a buttload cheaper, but life without a car is (generally) a lot less easy or convenient.
OH and thanks for this too!

All wealth is the product of labor. Intellectual labor is labor, and the understanding it brings is wealth, but that inherently leaks out into the body of people, eventually becoming common knowledge, or at a minimum well known, or documented. Some secrets do die with their originators too, but that's more rare.

I changed careers watching those MBA's tear great companies apart, and the example close to home for me was Tektronix. There is a video out there "Spirit of Tek" that kind of gets at the powerful innovation culture once practiced there. In that culture, Joe Bloomstone can walk off the street, get training and advance into product design and even spin off into a company backed by Tek!

It happened a lot and the area was rich with technical understanding, manufacturing, all the good stuff.

Then it got sent over there...

Today, people want it back, many people are taking hard won skills to their graves, leaving current people to climb back to regain what was sold off for a little money in the now, leaving the region doing hair, nails, tires...

The people who can make stuff matter. Physical things matter.

Agreed.
I wish :( couldn't find it on YouTube.
The Jeopardy thing was pretty brilliant in a sense - wrangling an episode of free advertising from one of the most popular game shows. A memorable episode at that!
Where can I find such solutions?
That subreddit changed its rules recently; now screenshots of text-message conversations are only allowed on Sundays.
Ugh, I almost got detention in middle school because of this app. I was talking about it and the teacher overheard me, thought I was saying FUBAR. He pulled me into the hall and started chewing me out, and I had to be like "No, it's my music player."

I remember the thing I really liked about it was all the custom skins it had.