skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do they have to be the same? Both are vile, just in differing/varying ways. "Don't judge a man for a spec in his eye while you have a plank in yours", "those in glass houses..." etc etc.

I'm not saying that condemnation isn't deserved in either direction, I'm agreeing that it is deserved in both directions simultaneously. For country A to tell country B they shouldn't do anything, they should absolutely expect country B to say what about X that you country A are doing.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/377808/distribution-of-f...

80% of Facebook users exclusively use mobile, and iOS has the largest market share in Facebook's largest market by revenue.
Not completely fair . In some countries Mcdonald is expensive hipster place (Japan, central europe).
I don’t understand why Scala chose “var” for mutable variables. A variable is not defined by being mutable—it is defined by being variable, i.e. not a constant. And it is immutable in math (where we don’t have to care about performance). So “val” is also a “var”, conceptually.
HN's favorite historian discusses blockchain and NFTs in relation to state power.

Best line for my money:

> "In this sense, any cryptocurrency faces the same problem all non-governmental actors face: the larger you become and the more you appear to threaten the state, the more the state becomes hostile"
Please don't take this question as snark or really as anything other than what it looks like:

> It certainly gives people like me the belief of a quid pro quo for policies enacted during Clinton’s Presidency.

This statement made me think quite hard. Why do I not really believe in quid pro quo's (especially like this)? I didn't come up with any particularly good answers, but it would seem to be related to my own childhood and probably the rest of my life, that seems remarkably free of any such arrangements. I've seen them written about, portrayed on TV and in movies, but never in a way that convinced me that they were real (or common, or something). Now, there's every chance that I'm just simply wrong about this, and quid pro quos really are how the world works. It just doesn't seem that way to me.

But then I thought, why not turn the question around.

What do you think makes you believe that quid pro quo's like this are actually a thing?
could be interesting, however I'd hope for something more visually distinctive that val/var as it took about 2-3 reads for me notice what was even the diff between L2 and L3.
A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner
Amazon trots out YouTube-sized advertising business
Honestly, slinging prototype code probably could be outsourced. The hard problems of finishing, polishing, scaling, running, and iterating are where you need deep tech and business expertise.

I suspect if you expand more on details, you may be able to help us understand what makes you different, but "we code" isn't making that argument.
Where in Europe is McDonalds a "hipster place"?
> So you don't believe a person should be compelled to be vaccinated or otherwise stay away from other people unless tested for infection no matter how contagious and deadly the disease?

What I believe is that the truth is far from obvious, and I'm describing how different ethics reach different conclusions for what is true. Thus, it's far from obvious that the choices you describe are the truth or "moral", so much as convenient and expedient. These are not the same thing.

> Why should a person be free to infect others through their unabridged freedom

Freedom is not unabridged, it simply has different limits under different ethics.

> yet one should not have the freedom to drive while drunk?

I already addressed this in my very first reply to you.
One caveat about this index is that is does not consider the fact that Macdonald's has different types of customers in different countries.

In rich countries, it targets lower income strata.

In the third world, it targets middle and upper middle class. You can get much cheaper local food (and probably more nutritious food) on the streets.

Therefore, Macdonald's is relatively more expensive in poorer countries.
We should check their tax filings to see if they use these leaks as losses on the balance sheets. Maybe the leaks are actually a benefit to the company?
> That still doesn't explain consciousness itself.

Well, which part doesn't it explain? It's pretty conclusive as far as I am concerned. As among other things, you can explain why philosophers would even ask that question in the first place.

> A cell just replicates because that's what the molecules in it happen to do

And transistors just go on and off, yet people still spend years studying computer science. The existence of simple mechanism at one level doesn't prevent higher order mechanism at another, quite the opposite. Those cells aren't going to do much replicating when you get killed by a tiger, some awareness of yourself and the environment helps prevent that.
How is this possibly true when the average household income of iOS users is higher in every country that has any significant iPhone presents
I always wonder about that. I've never worked at Amazon, but I've worked at places with people who really, really, ought not to be working in computer software - yet they blunder around, causing problems for everybody else, because nobody knows how to or can think of a way to get rid of them.

OTOH, I think I'd be insanely stressed about being judged unfairly for things outside my control (or even being made into a sacrificial lamb) in an environment like that. Even if they kept telling me everything was fine, I'd feel like I had the sword of Damocles hanging over my head all the time.
Have any of you tried .NET?
Your comment reflects a strange perspective, as if the community to which you're talking is only from a single place and somehow excludes Russia/Turkmenistan/US/whatever. That's not the case, HN is an international forum.

These laws need to be implemented in each country.
Putting OP's "small side project" aside, anything, including houses,
that can sell for close to half a million USD is going to involve
lawyers who will ensure the seller is made whole.
One tends to save in crypto and convert to spend in local fiat or USD as late as possible in order to maximize their protection from debasement of the fiat currency.
don't say you have a bright idea, are paying nothing, but offering 3% equity
someone requested this video here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29990613
but I cannot comment there.

now that I've found this video I see that I've had overestimated the length of the applause
I think they were referring to Daniel Dennett, not Antonio Damasio or Anil Seth. Damasio is interested in how the self is constructed (so, similar to your idea) while Seth is saying that experience is a controlled hallucination. Dennett is the one claiming consciousness is an illusion. These are three very distinct research programs.
i have 3 kids, an Apple IIe, a MAME arcade box, and a MiSTER as well. I would have died and gone to heaven as a kid with all that stuff.

They just want to watch youtube videos, ipad games and minecraft. every now and then my oldest wants to play ms pacman or puzzle bobble (she just turned 8). i think there's just stuff that is specifically designed now-a-days to instantly reward the kids its hard to compete with.

even my friend who is also into computers asked i boot up an apple 2 game. he was slamming enter after 10 seconds asking if it was stuck. people want some instant gratification now-a-days!

mister is great btw, i got in before they raised the price a few times and the stock depleted. if anyone can get a hand on one i highly recommend it
I was under the impression that the vaccine would prevent infection in most people, start to wear off, and that a booster once a year for the next few years would get us to herd immunity.

I recall that being a pretty common expectation.
Well said. I think one of the problems is, that most just think that consciousness is a given and have a hard time to acknowledge, that we actually have no damn clue what it really is.

It's easy to say, that believing in a soul or something like it is hogwash, but just closing your eyes and telling yourself "I think and therefore I am" does not bring us any closer to an answer.

We have to assume that all unfalsifiable arguments could be true until we have proof, that they are incorrect. That is the only scientific approach.
This is definitely true in EU (and presumably in UK as well). If your bank doesn't like the businesses you're interacting with, e.g. gambling sites or cryptocurrency exchanges, they can close your account without notice or recourse.

And even if your account doesn't get closed immediately you are still subjected to invasive KYC procedures, even if you haven't done anything wrong. Failure to comply of course leads to your account being closed.
“Template” is a term of art for this sort of thing, but if you’re looking for an alternative, there’s already “macro processor” for things like this. It’s what GNU’s M4 is called, for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)

But - whoops - now you’ve got collision with C++ “macros” - which already has collision with Lisp “macros” and text editor / word processor macros - and “processor” which looks a lot like the C++ “preprocessor” and …
One of the brothers was also kidnapped in the 70s, and there was a whole court case about him writing off the ransom money as a business expense
That's way too old.
Did they perform the rituals?

3 days after your birth, you need to Drink water soaked in raspberry pis.

By age one, you need to learn how to say mama in binary.
Any time there is more than one channel being selected for it needs to cover them all equally.
>Well no one's arguing that targeted ads are not effective.

Oh they sure were. All ads are useless. Targeted ads are evil. And Ads should not be targeted were the HN's view, which later became there shouldn't even be any ads, it should all be subscription. That is 2018/19. By 20/21 HN were even targeting those who were working inside the online Ad industry. And this is seen across the tens of thousands of comments. ( Say 50 Thread of 200 comments )

It became such a problem that people working inside Ad industry were even afraid to post their views on HN. And they have to be upvoted to make sure there are still sanity inside the HN community.
Considering the emotional maturity of your theoretical co-workers and managers? Definitely a question worth considering. ;)
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

US income hasn’t increased equally though. The rich could already afford a Big Mac.
So long as that is in fact the point of the article, I agree completely. However I'd still have to point out that comparing the Rails framework to solutions which do not try to fill the same role such as React made for a confusing article.
The personal carbon footprint is just a dodge for the elite, a way to push the problem off onto us rubes. The reality is that the producers have far more power over CO2 output than consumers ever will. "Let the market decide" does not work with large, hugely imbalanced indirect externalities.
I would say the reason it's a taboo to eat predators and scavengers like cats and dogs and rats and bears and sharks and coyotes and tigers and lions and what have you is because predators and scavengers accumulate parasites and toxins.

At any rate, you're still not explaining why, merely pointing out an inconsistency across animals as a whole. What if it is wrong to eat dogs but right to eat cows? Why couldn't it be so?
The dominance of Rails for its use case within the field of Ruby is is only one half of the equation. The other half is that Ruby has mostly collapsed into Rails, there's not much Ruby happening outside of Rails. This could never happen with a js framework of similarly scope, because all the other js use cases won't go away. One example of such a thing that won't go away is doing client-side stuff in the scope of a Rails protect. JS would have to lose a lot before it could achieve similar focus.
I'm working on two inherited Django web apps right now, for the same customer. I wish Django has a default project structure like Rails. It doesn't. The only common ground between the two apps is that they are written in Python, use the same ORM and templating engine. One is a spaghetti monster of a zillion of apps that depend on each other (so the separation in apps is useless) and the database is totally opaque to inspection. The other app luckily tucked nearly everything inside a single app so its saner to navigate and we can query the database with SQL tools.

The point is that Django lacks a sane default for project structure and it costs time/money to people using it.
I think I have seen that... I don't mind it in a way as I'd rather watch it on youtube than install the tiktok app.

Granted I'm also not going out of my way to watch it so not a big win for YT.
All USD flow from a single institution, the central bank. Other banks can create debt, but only with permission (the initial money supply) from the fed. You'd have to really squint to consider that decentralized.
When I was your age I rode my very first unicorn
Facebook Is Breaking Apps in Production While Running Ads for Them
As it says it does not load the video. But it downloads it. This file is from the Audio only YouTube extension
Letter shapes usually have curves a bit more complicated (in the sense of "how many parameters do I have to write down to reproduce it?") than this typeface. It feels like it's made of straight segments and ellipses, and all the strokes are uniform width and have round ends.

Also, the 'a' and 't' look like the kindergarten versions instead of the more usual two-story 'a' and 't' with some sort of curve at the bottom.

Most of this is almost certainly driven by the context this typeface was designed for. The simple shapes probably come from usability considerations for the lettering machine: the user had to trace each stroke in the template by hand. The uniform stroke weight and rounded ends come from how the engraving tool worked: basically a drill bit you drag sideways.

The curves are probably that way because there was a fashion for "modern" shapes a while back, which meant roughly "describable with a simple formula and few parameters"

We're accustomed to typefaces that were designed for use in movable type, where variable stroke weights and end shapes are basically free.
Yeah I went out of my way the last day there, I almost missed it for the same reason. It's pretty amazing how consistent it is
The way you get everyone to do things in a society is not by setting an example and doing it yourself but by getting the government to set taxes, incentives, penalties, negotiate treaties - so that people have a clear incentive to behave properly (financial or otherwise).

This presupposes competent governments who care, obviously, which is the crux.
Can You Own a Color? A New NFT Marketplace Is Trying to Find Out
they broke it IN the LTS kernel

deliberately
I don't think this solves all of it since it makes some weird assumptions. Does the developer really say "Hmmm, I want to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player" before adding lootboxes? I am pretty sure they don't, so this definition is not a very good one. OTOH, maybe just changing "to cause" to "that causes" would clean this up quite a bit by removing the assumption I disagree with, so maybe it's just in the way I read it.

Note: In my opinion, it's perfectly fine to say "this is tough to define but I can try to say 'yes' or 'no' to specific examples". It's also acceptable to me to admin (as you have to for some words) that a word doesn't have a real definition but is rather the product of confusion or convenience.
Hey man, I'm 15 and never missed a beat.
I would be also interested in mini vacuum packets, that one could strap to their car or backpack, and make it a touch lighter.

Just imagine the energy savings!
> I'm sorry but once again, hospitals aren't currently overrun by illnesses due to smokers, obese, etc. They are overrun by people with severe Covid cases, with significantly more unvaccinated people than vaccinated people.

In my country, Germany, the hospitals are not overrun because of Covid. The Covid share of patients at the top of the most deadly wave was 5%. What actually happens in the health care sector is massive mismanagement. Not a good reason to mandate vaccines, I think. Instead invest in the healthcare sector and pay the workers appropriately.

> Why aren't you considering the possibility that your not-mild covid could have been worse if you weren't vaccinated?

Why aren't you considering that I did consider that and came to the conclusion that there is no way in the world to tell if that is true. Omicron was said to be generally milder after all.

What did intensely lower the severity of the disease without the slightest doubt from my side was a massive vitamin and minerals booster package that we started a few days in. I know, n=2, so nobody will believe me, but for those who are interested and are in a similar situation:

Vit B(complex), C, D, K2, magnesium, zink, potassium, also melatonine for sleeping and R-alpha-lipoic acid and Q10 against brain fog and neurologic symptoms, as well as probiotics for general vitality and against the Omicron constipation.
This week sure was a roller coaster for stoners.

"Long-term cannabis use damages lungs, but in a different way to tobacco": https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/942244
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That description of Simpson's Paradox doesn't really agree with my understanding. Simpson's paradox goes with how the same data is cut into subgroups and can invert the numbers.

That is, it's less about "metrics up, other unmeasured metrics down" and more "we're up in all subgroups, so we never noticed that our numbers across when we combine the subgroups are down."
Yeah, the CEO of a company saying numbers on official communication to investors is pretty compelling evidence on its own, especially if it's bad news. Executives don't generally lie about specifics to their investors, unless they're doing something completely fraudulent. And if you think that's the case for Facebook, you're going to need more evidence then just a gut feeling.
> Also, your second statement maybe applies to the US,

Since we are discussing a distinct American center-left faction’s position on domestic group relations, I don't know why you'd think the positions ought to apply to conditions elsewhere.
> I knew that he saw this day coming perhaps years ago

The only way the Metaverse would be a viable replacement for Facebook would be if Occulus (or similar VR headset) adoption was to rise to the level of iPhone adoption, and subsequent integration into nearly every aspect of daily life. This seems to be incredibly unlikely to me.

I have an Occulus quest. The first week I had it I thought it was the most amazing device I ever owned. A month later I used it less, and now, a few years later, it's gathering dust on a shelf. VR is great, but it takes a fair amount of energy, space and time to use. Even from solely the perspective of gaming, the low-power, light weight Switch has had a much bigger impact on my life than the Quest. I can play BotW for 4 hours without fatigue if I have time, with VR more than an hour and I start to feel very tired of the experience.

Now compare the Quest with the iphone, I'm looking at my iphone as I type this on my laptop. I use my iphone to order food, find directions around town, communicate with my family, check up on work. 8 or so years back I tried going back to a "dumb" phone and ultimately went back. I switched to android for a few years and still went back to the iphone since it has so many services nicely integrated.

I simply can't imagine any world where the "metaverse" comes anywhere near the adoption of facebook, even if Meta mailed an occulus to everyone on the planet for free.
I've settled with Svelte (SvelteKit and Sapper), after having spent lots of time with React and Vue.

Svelte works in a way that jives with how I think and work, and I've built enough components for myself that side projects now only take hours to design and build into working prototypes.

I think everyone needs to have a "home platform" where it's just mindless to get started. Regardless whether it's JS SPAs or Rails or raw HTML!

For handling data, it's either Supabase or Airtable's API, hands down. Tailwind for design system.

I've tried Rails before, but as a newbie to Ruby, I couldn't even figure out how to write for loops. To me, that was too foreign, and too much thinking involved. And with Rails, you need to run a server too right? That's even more not-mentioned work.
In many European countries, these green parties gained a significant boost during first hand experience of failing nuclear power during the explosion of the Chernobyl plant.
CDK is an abstraction layer of infrastructure as code: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

I've only seen it written in typescript so node-module and package-locks are a thing.
How much money do they earn in Europe?
I think this option makes the most sense, rather than treating "Trader Joe's" as one unit that has different rules than normal language
One post in a subreddit makes this settled fact? Yikes.
Do you think it's been good for you to use Duolingo consistently? I think a lot of people are unhappy with the design patterns used in it because they feel it gives a greater sense of learning than it does actual learning.
Yea sounds like put options, an outright short wouldn’t have gained that much %
I haven't followed the whole apple privacy push and how it impacted advertising. However, isn't everyone always logged into Facebook? If so they already know who is using it and any interaction will tell them exactly who used it. How does the Apple's platform level change effect them? Am I missing something?
Apparently "central europe". In western and northern europe its certainly not a hipster placer.
The issue I have with the JS world is that the most used libraries and frameworks are just "good enough for a small project" and no more than that.

* Javascript has such a minimal standard library, you will need to get one or three third-party libraries to augment its core.

* React is an excellent view library and nothing more. You will need to get one or three third-party system to turn it into a fully fledged web framework.

* Frameworks like Next.js are good enough to create a static page, but as requirements grow more complex, its limited feature-set and lack of in-depth documentation will feel like a prison.

* Dev tooling is non existent, so it's on you to get and _configure_ a linter, type checker, testing framework, bundler, etc.

Without speaking of the DOM and CSS, which are just _now_ starting to feel feature complete for most use cases.

Javascript proponents say the ability to mix and match is its strongest feature, but to me the analysis paralysis of having to stop and shop for a library that does X (and will only do X) is a total productivity killer.
Perhaps because on your phone it shows only phone apps?
Singapore real estate is so sparse, I'm surprised they even have room for a datacenter of any notable size.
tldr: the answer is no
> I don't get the stock market.

There's nothing to get, it's just gambling for rich people.
Any particulate service agreement isn't decentralized necessarily (I am still using one central bank), but the market is (I can change providers if I choose).

A _standardized_ API would allow providers and consumers a choice, which distributes the power to some degree and can encourage the parties to make choices that support the entire ecosystem rather than just their own ends.