skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no cause and effect like "my parents consumed a lot of plastic, so I will be able to digest them", if that's what you're asking.

For humans to evolve to be able to eat & digest plastics, we'd probably have to be in a situation where we'd die or be unable to reproduce if we didn't. There's probably been some interesting research around gluten/lactose tolerance that might be related (or maybe not).
Generics in C# were also added after launch but have a significantly better implementation. While they are a key part of the language they aren't a key part of the platform.
For what it's worth, when I modified the dialer app to add a feature the developer didn't want, I discovered that there is a nag built into every screen that triggers randomly for "unofficial" versions: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Commons/blob/5ad...
at least somewhat its evading taxes/regulation
BEWARE: Until they clamp down and delete the files, you lose your data.

Good technical experiment though!
Yea - the thing that a lot of comments seem to be missing here is that evolutionary pressure comes in the form of mass die offs of those unfit for the new environment. If some people just have a higher incidence of cancer when they're 40+ there will be essentially no evolutionary pressure unless it's socially enforced (aka eugenics which is a really bad idea).
Definitely looking into this. We don't have a particularly complex development environment, but there is that little box of tools, CLI tricks, processes, environment variables, etc. which still cause troubles across the team.

I really want to build some golden development machine image so that everyone can start working in exactly the same terms. For example, instead of having to manually go out to a QA server to copy some state down for testing, we could add a script to the desktop that every developer can just double-click for convenience. I know IT folks at F500 companies are reading this and rolling their eyes right now, but we are a tiny shop and don't have a lot of time or money for managing this sort of thing. We already do everything in Azure, so this fits super well (if its actually good).

The dream is to have the desktop so intuitive (i.e. "new hire start here.pdf") that most of the boilerplate training is more-or-less automatic.
Who is still investing in biotech startups?
It's not that I advocate for wealth redistribution, quite the opposite in fact. But I certainly wish that these leaders would just, y'know, RAISE WAGES. Rent is skyrocketing, housing is skyrocketing, medical expenses are skyrocketing, car prices are skyrocketing, and after 40 years of this, it's finally just now that wages are starting to catch up a tiny bit. Meanwhile, CEO pay has risen >30% since the pandemic alone: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annefield/2022/05/23/ceo-worker...
I like that they have not disclosed the exact location. I am always concerned that publicity can lead to visitors and damage to natural preserves like this one.
The problem is that Python doesn't make the explicit distinction between declaring a new (shadowed) variable, and assigning to an existing variable from an outer scope
I'm reminded of the history of the term "open source" itself.

It came from Eric S Raymond and other folks to counter Free Software/GPL in a more commercially minded way.

I think Richard Stallman said it meant "you can view the source" without necessarily granting any other rights.

I think since then it has been more defined, but there seem to be hidden gotcha's possible. Like maybe https://github.com/rapi3/pfsense-is-closed-source
Ok, let's take a look at the examples.

Lebanon - a country torn apart by religious conflicts which could not even solve the physical security problem, as well as recognize the existence of its most important neighbour. Had plenty of run time mostly wasted. Worse than Chechnya.

Tunisia. Had a mild democratization which did not backfire to this point. Looks OK. Probably better outcome than Chechnya.

Egypt. Had a pointless coup which removed existing corrupt autocratic government and installed a new corrupt autocratic government, with a spark of terrorism in between. Large country which is punching under its weight. Worse outcome than Chechnya.

Iraq. I'm not really sure what to say. Let's pretend you didn't suggest it.

Iran. Had a lot of time to normalize relations with the West and failed to do so. In some respects a worse theocracy than Chechnya. Unlike Chechnya, which enjoys freedom of movement within Russia, you have nowhere to hide from the deeply islamist regime of Iran short of emigration. The largest outcast state (at least before Feb 24, 2022). Worse than Chechnya.

So let's see, it looks that from your list, Chechnya gets silver medal. I think that's quite good. You think that's not enough. Do you agree on the analysis?

"Russia is ultimately in charge of Chechnya" sounds like you expect imperialism to not have any alternatives. So you are saying that Russia can override whatever pre-existing culture there is and "install" liberal democracy? Did it work for you in Iraq?

I'm not even sure what's your central argument.

Speaking of which, let's return to the original form: "treatment of the predominantly Muslim Chechnians by Russia".
I think that being the virtual #2 of our successful Muslim states list an OK-ish "treatment". But it works a different way for you:

> pro-Putin

We don't like Putin -> We don't like Russia -> Let's say something mean about it.

This is something I would expect from YouTube comments section, but on HN it's pure disappointment.
>"I don't believe it because I'm missing context"

I genuinely don't understand where the mistake is, even in in your paraphrased version which is intended to caricature. Yes, I really do think that missing context is a good reason to refrain from believing something, and you should too. I find it bizarre that that is disputed.

I actually went into a fair amount of detail about what specifically was contextually inadequate here, all of which you didn't engage with.

It's hard to understand what the tweet is suggesting unless you read the entire thread, one related twitter thread, and chase down an implied history of allegedly questionable BBC reportage the UN is complicit in, and join the author in making assumptions about what it all means. I stated all of this already.

And in additional to all the previous stuff I said, it's not obvious that a difference between traditional and simplified characters prove what you're asked to believe it proves, that it must have come from Taiwan. I'm assuming there's another thread somewhere that goes into detail about how Taiwan uses different characters in other documents, which is the basis for believing different characters here prove that its a forgery?

It's not about the effort involved in comparing the characters, it's about the underlying logic for the argument, which is assumed to have been proven elsewhere but not referenced.
> Without pesticides we could create more resistant cultivars.

Doesn't follow. We can create them today. Pretty sure farmers would be very happy on not having to dedicate resources to pest control.

It's probably not even feasible long term. Pests can and do adapt. The main problem is monoculture.

Also, those resistant cultivars are probably not going to do so well when it comes to other variables: shelf life, taste, etc.
Just curious why something like Apple doesn't support it out of the box? Is there some sort of regulation that won't let them or just plain ignorance of customers?

I guess we got softcore version where you can ask Siri be kind enough to attempt to send a voice message, which absolutely sucks for unsupported languages.
I'm not even sure Python is an acceptable Python
Luckily that's increased. MBK keycaps came out and which were some of the first to not have flat tops. Then they put out a colored variant, and there's been a few other companies readying new ones (MCC, WRK(work louder), and chicago steno if you want something really fancy). Nothing like mx mount switches though, with a few dozen group buys running at once but it's getting easier to find good stuff.
> If a site has prices stored on the frontend and a user edits the price to make it lower, do you think the user has a legal basis to receive the item at their new specified price?

There was a case like that in the early days of online shopping, which was actually decided in favor of the customer. The prices of items in the shopping cart were stored in form fields, and the customer edited them before placing the order. The court considered that a counter-offer which was accepted by the store. (It probably wouldn't go that way today; for one thing online stores have gotten smarter about trusting data from the client.)

That's a bit different from simply editing the client-side view and never informing the merchant about the change, of course.
perhaps the 70B only exists denominated in USDT - ie, the only people not pulling money out are people who never put money in

and by people i mean exchanges who benefit from the printing of counterfeit dollars
> The 1960s broke authority, and it has never been repaired. It discredited adulthood, and adulthood has never recovered. The attributes of adulthood—responsibility, maturity, self-sacrifice, self-control—are no longer valued, and frequently no longer modeled. So children are stuck: they want to be adults, but they don’t know how. They want to be adults, but it’s easier to remain children. Like children, they can only play at being adults.

Is this true? Did adult-aged humans feel "grown up" pre-1960s?

Or, is a fundamental lack of certainty more intrinsic to our nature?
Hey, RevenueCat Head of Product here. I'm sorry that you have had a bad experience with RevenueCat – we definitely aim to provide just what you outlined. Could you let me know what kinds of bugs you experienced? We're doing our best to abstract those messy APIs, and unfortunately some things are outside our control, but if there are any issues we can fix, we'll do our best to do that!
as a starting point for figuring out the drop in wealth, I think we should calculate things in terms of number of man hours worked to achieve a given objective: shelter, food, water. Using dollars and CPI numbers is fraught with problems due to problems in their methodologies, which are quite numerous.

The most important aspects of wealth are the basic needs of human beings: shelter, food, water and by extension transportation (because it's required to earn "money"), healthcare (because if you have an accident they can come after your shelter), and education (because it's a requirement for earning money").

Now we have a framework for identifying drops in wealth.

I think the biggest drops in wealth have occurred in shelter, medical and a little bit in transportation. if you dive into those with the methodology of number of man hours worked to achieve them, you'll see what i'm talking about. Sometimes it's not obvious. Cost per mile in transportation can decrease (progress) and you can still get a decrease in wealth, if for instance the average commute distance increases faster than the drop in cost per mile. Just an example, of where increasing capabilities over time, don't necessarily translate to greater wealth. Generally speaking don't just calculate the increase in capability/man hour but also the amount of capability required to achieve the objective.

Growing Govt:
over the last 100 years we've seen countries grow govt spend as percent of GDP from low single digits to 40 to 50%. You may be in favor of all this spending but I strongly suspect that the total amount you get back from govt, is less than what went in. example: "this is especially apparent when someone needs to pay 5K for a lawyer, just to apply for medicaid." alot of wealth can be lost in this way. solution: society needs much more efficient means of wealth transfer mechanisms.

Hypothesis:
exponential Growing human population on a finite planet with finite resources (finite amount of developal land), ore, oil, commodities, will lead to or has led to decreases in wealth which show up as paying more and more for things.
Strowger Switch
Just FWIW, I tried it.

It does work, but it's a little clunky IMHO. For instance, if you press Return in the middle of a line, I expect it to split the current paragraph into 2, but not in OutlineEdit (or Outlinely or OmniOutline).
I've seen drone metal videos where the video and audio could both be 90% steganography and I wouldn't know the difference.
I love this solution for a number of reasons:

1. I find the posting experience on Discord far more seamless than that on a typical forum. From navigating channels to posting messages, I prefer the quicker navigation and viewing that it provides.

2. Discord servers tend to be more active than forums.

3. It fixes the gap between loads of pre-existing communities that would have been difficult to migrate over to a forum and document any sort of solutions that they provide in a searchable manner, something that even within Discord was rather difficult to accomplish.

4. You can also access loads of 'forums' now with a single account (you only need one Discord account in order to do so). A password manager makes this trivial, but the advantage that Discord has is being able to navigate seamlessly between many different servers or 'forums'.

5. I assume that it would be easier to document whatever gets put onto Linen than it would be to document Discord servers, but I'm not entirely sure whether this is truly the case.
What's your experience with group texting? I've been looking for a dumb-er phone, but I need good group texting support to stay in touch with my family. I've tried phones like the Nokia 3310 and Nokia 225 TA-1282, and have been disappointed in the way they handle group texting.
Impacts on road networks and access to critical locations during extreme floods
> Global Pandemic? Check
> Transnational Giga Companies controlling the world? Check
> Military Dolphins? Check
> Smuggling Gigabytes of Data via Implants? Not yet.

I rate the current situation as a strong 3/4 Johnny Mnemonics!
I disagree. The way the format is designed has a direct effect on how likely implementors are to implement it correctly. So the format designers bear some responsibility.

For example how many Protobuf parser libraries have security bugs? I'm guessing very few because the standard is nice and simple, and it's very clearly defined without much "it's probably like this" wiggle room (much easier for binary formats!).

XML had a ton of unnecessary complexity that could have been avoided to make implementations simpler. I haven't actually read this bug so let's see if it was one of:

* Closing tags having to repeat the name / two different ways of closing tags.

* CDATA

* Namespaces (especially how they are defined)

* &entities;

Edit: Ha it wasn't any of those - but it was still an issue with text based formats. Seems like Expat assumes the content is valid UTF-8 (and doesn't validate it), while Gloox assumes it is ASCII. Obviously this couldn't have happened with binary formats.

If you care about security DON'T USE TEXT FORMATS!
IPFS is a file system, Web3 is an idea/marketing term to promote blockchain services, so I'm not sure what you mean by that.
Billions is a small number in the US Treasury market. They do not move the market with that kind of size.
Rate of population evolution is proportional to generational turnover rate.

Microbes can cycle through generations in minutes. Humans these days 2-3 decades.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-living-things-die/answer/Vas-Su...
> - the 2020 pandemic recession

Did this affect the IT sector? Seriously asking because I didn't notice it.
Agree! That’s super interesting. I’ve longed for a life that is much less coupled to work. Thinking about the US, it is somewhat ironic that many US residents think of themselves as self-reliant yet end up inadvertently supporting systems that undermine true autonomy.
A Better Model for Valuing Startup Equity
iko.ai looks neat! Our developers hang out in Discord (https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat) — this seems like a good question you can chat with them live about.
I don't think it's implausible. I think it's more implausible that human language is unique
Well it depends on the asset. If it's regular corporate bonds that are being actively traded on an open market (liquid) then just use a recent market price. If there's no market then valuation becomes highly subjective. If the borrower has some kind of credit rating from a trusted rating agency then that can be used as proxy for default risk. Or if the borrower is publicly traded and releases audited financial statements then you can estimate based on those. But if you don't have any of that then pick a number and try to get the auditors to swallow it.
Language is a word we invented to describe a certain category of things. It's not some big mystery, there's not some objective, universal meaning that we have yet to discover.

By the broadest definitions, chimpanzees have a language, and maybe even multiple dialects. By the narrowest definitions, only humans have languages.

People behave like there's some profound truth here, but this is really just semantics. I don't see why it's such a touchy subject, other than the fact that people like to believe humans are a special case.
"With frickin laser beams!"
I'm on v.6.23.6, maybe v.6.23 is when these changes were introduced.
my plan is to teach cs101 at a community college. pays basically nothing compared to tech, but it can be an extremely chill way of life while making a huge impact on people's lives and the benefits are amazing. might also work on side projects and sell whatever makes sense, since i really enjoy doing that
So... why are Alpine docker images a dead end? :)
I recently read a fascinating book about trees. It was called The hidden Life of Trees.

One study they talked about in the book, tried to find out why pipes were often destroyed by tree roots. Most people assumed it was from water leaking or condensation around pipes. However, the study found that it was actually because the soil was far looser and less compact around the pipes.

It is almost impossible to really gauge all the ramifications of any choice within the analog system we live in.
Only if the stablecoin operator isn’t lying about the backing.
You can Google the stories of US mask manufacturers. Most were only able to sell for a little while before Chinese suppliers came back and undercut them again.
I don't mind Beamer, there's some boilerplate but it is like a once-per-institution setup so it doesn't seem like too big of a pain. It was hopefully done by someone else, and if not, I only have to do it once for myself -- and then I can share it.

However, drawing figures in TikZ seems to be the main way of getting figures into a beamer presentation. This is a total nightmare and not really worth the effort, IMO.
You’re right, inlining is the actual key. My comment is a bit jumbled.
Large Image Datasets Are a Mess
Same here. People talk also about the "2020 pandemic recession", and at least in IT I didn't notice it at all. So, yeah, maybe we (software developers) are the privileged ones. Touching wood.
They do provide private networks now, but AFAIK they didn't in 2017. Today, one could use “vSwitch” or “Cloud Network”, or both, to set up private networking. But, if you want to easily encrypt all traffic, Wireguard might still be a good idea.
Yeah this is really common in people trying out niche things.

Not only in software. Remember the "Don't worry, they'll tell you" jokes about vegans and crossfit?

I think it must be some sort of evolutionary strategy to justify the risk/anxiety of going against the group.
Web 3.0 has been used for a long time to mean any P2P/distributed/... approach, not just blockchain, even if the blockchain people try to completely take over the term sometimes.
Hmm. Do you think you could do the same with human languages?
The Gentrification of Disability
Morrowind lore is deeper and more interesting than most real religions. It's incredible what they managed to achieve, there are very few games that have come close since
I tried searching for some exact phrases from the live demo, but didn't get any results in Google.

Maybe Google isn't crawling all the pages on the site? Possibly related to being an SPA?

Otherwise, I think this is a pretty cool project. I've always thought that Slack and Discord communities lack a good way to find them.
> X should be easy

> proposes solution that involves YAML

Am I crazy, ignorant, or is YAML the most tedious and error-prone format edit?
Documentation-as-an-artefact of the continuous delivery process - every feature is feature-complete only when counterpart documentation is generated and integrated/built as part of the pull-request procese.

I.E. A code/solution review must also consider the documentation alongside the feature or solution.

This implies that the documentation is (held beside) source code too and can be diffed/compared e.g. Markdown for text, mermaid/graphviz for diagrams and that this can be built, rendered or published easily/readily (Hugo, zola, etc)
> But how is this productivity measured across an entire country?

On a total GDP basis it would be GDP divided by labor hours, no more no less. A national economy is complex, and especially one like the US or Europe, in which a lot of financial services are involved. So typically it is done on a sector basis (labor force productivity in steelmaking or construction, or mining, or office work).

Sometimes it's quite tricky: when the "output" of a given person goes up a lot it could lead to a different product (e.g. when the spreadsheet meant one person could do financial analysis that had previously required multiple people and a lot of time, it didn't mean less time doing analysis but instead significantly more sophisticated analysis in the same time, with the objective (at least) of finding better deals or avoiding worse ones).

> How does unemployment factor in?

It doesn't. It's simply output divided by input. Don't mix the two.

The same output with half the people means a doubling in productivity for that activity. What happens to the other half of people? Orthodox economics says they find some other job, perhaps a more productive one or more likely less so. Pragmatics says some never work again, some find a (often but not always) better job.

That's harsh, but the "lump of labor" fallacy is indeed a fallacy.
hilarious and super convenient, assuming there are no side effects nastier than inhaling and ingesting plastic as we all inescapably do now

honestly sounds like a potential best case scenario
I'm not defending a thesis here. You asked for a source for the assertion that one could have high yields under organic farming and I provided one. I understand organic farming yields are lower when comparing against most conventional agriculture, but your original assertion (I hate we don't have thread context in reply windows) was implying that we couldn't properly feed everyone fruits / veg using organic agriculture. I highly doubt that. Maybe organic would require more labor or different automation than simply dousing everything with roundup and pesticides, but we could do it. We simply have to decide to prioritize health and environmental impacts over cost.