skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you haven’t made it past the second heading and already felt compelled to “disagree wholeheartedly”? The article is _precisely_ about the knee-jerk reaction you’re exhibiting and trying to explain why that decades old principles makes more sense than it seems.

Please search for “If you’re anything like me, that makes no sense! What else am I supposed to mock?” and read with an open mind.
After a few poor experiences airbnbing in London I switched entirely back to hotels. The Airbnb experience was either: have your own place, but it's more expensive than even a nice hotel; or stay in someone's house who, when it gets down to it, would really rather you weren't there, because most people actually don't like having strangers in their house.
My understanding is that the Chromium folks handle security issues with: "version x.y.z is vulnerable, please update to (x+7).(y+25).(z+2), as it is the only supported version – the fact that the diff from x.y.z is 100 kLOC and touches mostly completely unrelated things is your problem".

This isn't sustainable open source development in any practical sense. Sure, it's technically open source, but nearly useless for anything but consumption straight from Google. I'd say that that makes it practically not open source.
Is it finally out yet?
>Our government is ok with Marijuana...

Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, considered illegal for possession and consumption, at the federal level.
Multiple inheritance can be confusing, but it's also powerful.

There are generations of Java programmers who have decided that because Java doesn't have multiple inheritance, it must be bad.

People mostly use frameworks these days, so inheriting from the framework uses up our one opportunity to have inheritance. Then when we would like to use it later to consolidate common code, we can't. Or we use ActiveRecord, but then can't actually, god forbid, model our domain using an inheritance hierarchy.

At this point, I think OO has failed to live up to its promise, and I instead use functional programming and macros.
Hubble Space Telescope starstruck by a globular cluster – Space
Which is…precisely what the article is saying!?
> so you won't really hear much from them

What do you think the value proposition is for them to share this on the internet?

HN upvotes?
It's a blessing and a curse, because since Google only builds web and mobile apps, it means their web apps that require specific features will have to be updated in the browser, so indirectly we got amazing tech like Slack and Discord out of it.
Rekwest – adv fetch-alike for Node, with h2 support
Airplane Design from Hell: Double-Decker Economy Seats
That would be exporting New York's problem to other cities, such as Philadelphia where the same sort of scumbags would buy them. If these were illegal guns, would you support sending them to other states?
I'm kind of torn on this - first, I can clearly see the dangers as well as anyone else, but considering the reality of the situation, the only browser engine with significant market share is Webkit/Safari.

Most webdevs I know consider Safari to be the new IE - they often lag years behind implementing features that are key for new capabilities like WebAssembly multithreading - and it's not hard to see why - the web is a primary competitor to their App Store business.

On the other hand, I feel like the browser is almost done. With WebAssembly and WebGPU and a bunch of other stuff, I can think of very little in terms of capabilities that need to be added to browsers in the future.
If anyone is curious about more data why the world (for humans) isn't actually getting worse, there is a whole book written about it (with lots of data points described and discussed): Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

> A commonly-held lay public perception holds that the world is in terrible shape; for some, 2016 was the "worst year ever" and the year that liberalism died. In contrast, Pinker argues that life has been getting better for most people. He sets out 15 different measures of human wellbeing to support this argument, with the most obvious being the uncontroversial fact that, statistically, people live longer and healthier lives on average than ever before.

> It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress; shows our progress with data that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide; and explains the cognitive science of why this progress should be appreciated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now
When I was trying to quit smoking, I tried e-cigarettes and found the devices to be quite unsanitary and the liquids questionable. I was under the impression that something like Juul would be solution to all that, I mean a proper large brand with end-to-end solution of the product chain.

I'm kind of surprised that Juul is targeted, real cigarettes are so much more horrible. I guess it's not a good idea to start smoking with e-cigarettes but in a world of legal real tobacco cigarettes I expected to see regulation on marketing only.

PS: later I quit by just not smoking anything and a happy ex-smoker ever since.
I'm not convinced of the limited slots point - 16 (AMD) / 24 (Intel) DIMM slots in commodity single cpu socket server mobos, it gets you a few TB of RAM. 48 sockets in multi CPU socket mobos if you need more.

I can see "recycling refurbished previous-gen DIMMs" working for certain cases but it sounds a bit niche unless someone productises it really well.
There are 2 kinds of a**holes – by Tony Fadell with Lex Fridman
Those were cannabis cartridges. This is the exact misinformation that gets vapes banned unfortunately.

Vitamin A is far too thick to vape in a Juul type pod system. The only use it has is as a thickener for concentrates which use a whole different type of wicking system.
I feel like a well known euphemism such as "slept with" would suffice.
Not necessarily disagreeing, but do you have some metrics to show the scale and speed of the problem?
I don't believe they ever prioritized their tech ahead of their marketing campaigns.
How a Car Works
Yes, these are all limitations. But the advantage that Firestore has is significant, and for some applications it's worth accepting those limitations:

* Firestore is truly a "fire and forget" datatabase that scales without effort or maintenance. If your app works for 500 users, it will work for 500 million. Without a devops staff.

Yes, Firestore (aka Cloud Datastore) feels crippled compared to running aggregations and joins on an RDBMS. If your data and load fit on a single node Postgres, by all means use it, that's a great solution! When your requirements exceed that, you're in a different world. You can look at Spanner ($$$) or its clones (operational load, maturity). Or you can do what I did, and run the firestore/datastore as a master database and replicate data to other stores (eg BigQuery) for analytics.

Firestore's sweet spots are very small (eg, you have many microservices and want simple cheap zero-maintenance persistence) or very large (where scaling and availability would give you headaches anyway). In the middle, traditional RDBMSes are great.
A Q&A with Airtable’s head of growth engineering
I worked there and met Feras and only have good memories of the place. It's a very difficult industry to be in and it sucks that fair criticism gets mixed with a hate train.

Feras himself seemed very motivated to make the company and industry bigger. He was a very motivated guy and I look forward to see what he'll do next.
A side-effect of a Chromium-only web is that it gives the Chrome team at Google less incentive to invest in the web platform. It used to be a way to differentiate Chrome from other browsers. Now-a-days that is no longer the case.

Competition is a great way to drive innovation. What will motivate innovation on the web platform going forward? Will there be stagnation? Will another company emerge to push the web forward?

What will this mean for companies that have enjoyed all of the innovation on the web platform in recent years? How much longer will it take for bugs to get fixed?

This will not be a sudden shift. It will happen gradually.
This is what credit cards are for -- you can dispute the charges. I hope you did. Credit card companies tend to err on the side of supporting consumers.
Uh, it's in the name. A Chromium only web is a web controlled by Chrome which is a web controlled by google. It's laughable that these dudes maintaining a fork think they're in control and doing open source when they're basically just eating google's table scraps.

The only way to stop this is personal choice: don't use Chrome or Chrome derived software. There's no other actions any human person can take with more impact.
It's not dead. I use it. Not that I dev for it though.
It's an interesting argument and something I struggle with. I don't generally support prohibition. I do think Juul (along with all tobacco and liquor companies) is monetizing suffering in a way that's unacceptable. I don't think making them illegal is the answer. But there is no amount of regulation which will stop these companies from doing harm, nor any that will be particularly effective at containing it, since their mission is to harm.
I use it to play Total Annihilation on LAN. I tried out all the 3rd party patches, nuking firewall/defender with DefenderControl but nothing worked except full virtualization.
I hate installing new apps as well and prefer mobile websites for most things.

So on a new project, we just created an amazing, reponsive web-app.

The most frequent feedback we got from users we showed it to was: "That's awesome! When is the (IOS/Android) app ready?"

Sigh...
> GMO is harmful

On the basis of the article that you linked to, I think it would be more accurate to say that "currently available GMO food is not thought to be harmful to humans."

There is nothing inherent in genetic modification that prevents if from being used to create food that is harmful when consumed by people (or animals) - whether due to toxicity or negative dietary effects. There probably isn't much incentive to do the former (except maybe as a weapon of war or terrorism), but engineering unhealthy but addictive foods isn't hard to imagine.

Similarly, theres nothing in the technology that prevents it from being used to develop plants or animals that cause harm to their environment - for example by runaway reproduction, excessive use of resources like water, affecting species equilibria, etc.

I personally wouldn't be worried about eating a GMO foodstuff, but I'm extremely unhappy about the environmental impact of ideas like terminator seeds or engineered pesticide resistance that leads to over-use of pesticides, and I wouldn't call them "safe".
> appear to be temporary

That's a good point to bring up, but I do wonder if this is splitting hairs just a little bit. A shift in your microbiome might be technically temporary while still making things feel very weird for that temporary period -- however long that takes to change.

Also keep in mind:

> Whether prolonged dietary changes can induce permanent alterations in the gut microbiota is unknown, mainly due to a lack of long-term human dietary interventions, or long-term follow-ups of short-term dietary interventions.
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> Our understanding of the duration required for a dietary intervention to have an enduring impact on the gut microbiota, and consequently health, is hampered by several limitations. Firstly, there is a lack of long-term human studies, or indeed follow-ups of short-term dietary interventions, that seek to establish if a diet-induced modulation of the gut microbiota endures, though the wash-out periods of cross-sectional studies provide some indirect insight.

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All that to say I actually kind of agree, and I also don't see super-strong scientific evidence of induced lactose intolerance, but I qualify that by saying that it might just be a lack of study. And again, could also be a difference in what people mean by "permanent". If something makes you lactose intolerant for a month, that's still interesting, even if that's not meeting GP's "in a year" claim.

I've been vegan for maybe a year and half at this point, and was vegetarian before that. I'm curious how my body would react to eating a meat/cheese/lactose heavy meal if I sprang one on it out of the blue (not curious enough to actually try it, but it would be an interesting experiment).
This list of medieval prices lists two swords:
https://regia.org/research/misc/costs.htm

One costs 1625 shilling, or less than the cost of a female slave.

The other costs 24000, more than the price of 9 female slaves.

Clearly, for the second sword, the steel was not the main part of the cost.
I’ve always wondered, what does “holding a passport” entail? Can’t you just go to your embassy and make a new passport as if you’ve lost the old one? How can some other guy holding your documents make you a slave unable to leave if you want?
To be honest I never understood why Apache even started in the first place. By that time the LibreOffice fork was well underway.
If you can’t stand on one leg for 10 seconds, you may die within 10 yrs
This isn't exactly what you're asking, but consultancies that produce mobile apps on behalf of clients can see significant revenue. This is particularly true for apps that require user-to-user interaction or other functionality requiring a decent amount of backend code.

Unlike websites, which are largely commoditized by big players, custom apps still fetch large sums. The pros in this space charge project-based (or at least per diem) rates, so you'll need to be good at estimating your work.
Juul is 35% owned by Altria (formerly known as Philip Morris, Inc.). Vuse, another large ecig company, is wholly owned by Reynolds American, the second-largest tobacco company in the US and a subsidiary of British American Tobacco, the largest tobacco company in the world. At this point, the ecig industry is big tobacco.
> the “next big thing” I think will be on the battery

You'll get the same mediocre battery life but the phone would be so thin you could slice bread with it.
Bitcoin is a bubble. Protocol that arbitratily rewards holding is what makes this Ponzi.

Awarding tokens without efficient mechanism to destroy them causes inflation when speed of printing exceeds the speed of raising demand for them. And there's no way to correct it so inflation can turn into hyperinflation and run on bank and collapse of the whole scheme.
Same exact sentiment and behavior on my end. I’ve become what I call “app-averse”
Genuinely curious, not trying to be confrontational...

What steps have you taken to try to prevent yourself from hearing them shout, "Housekeeping," at 8AM and waking up early every day?
On the local level, yes. But I pointed out that the issue is with "wide-scale" adoption. GMO manufacturers make it so that the same, e.g, rice or carrots or tomatoes are grown in different parts of the world.
I feel Copilot indispensable - with the constant emergence of frameworks, languages I need to keep learning, it really shortens the time it takes to get productive in an unfamiliar environment.
You could extend the decoding procedure to tolerate errors. Shamir's secret sharing is the same thing as Reed-Solomon code, so you can reuse the error-correctimg property of the latter.
The paper you link isn't a study, it is a "discussion", and the author also states the following:

> The emails further demonstrated that since 2005 Monsanto has attempted to destroy my team’s work and reputation, in particular by recruiting third-party, supposedly independent experts at the highest levels to voice ghost-written and biased arguments (Henry Miller or Wallace Hayes, for instance [10,11,12]), who did not, however, publicly disclose their links with Monsanto

I'm not saying that the author is wrong, or that their criticisms of the other study are meritless (I have 0 experience in this field), especially with the widespread ethics concerns they point out.

But this particular paper doesn't draw any conclusions.
I didn’t say you are able to. I said you need to. But you probably knew that already.
Salesforce was going to take over the world with their 'No Software!' SaaS platform, circa 2000.

We're still writing code in 2022.
Why are you using it instead of LibreOffice? Genuinely curious.
> The blockchain, smart contracts and NFTs are amazing technologies that could do wonders for mankind

Like what? I'm seriously. (Not trolling, not trying to feed fires.)

To me the whole thing seems bad, period, but I'm willing to entertain the idea that I'm wrong.

FWIW, I think "crypto" et. al. (in quotes because to me the term means "cryptography") is pointless because the Earth is small relative to the speed of light. Once we go interplanetary maybe there is a use for blockchain &c., but until then trustworthy centralized systems are obviously better.
> Bayer has argued that the cancer claims over Roundup and glyphosate go against sound science and product clearance from the EPA.

> The agency [EPA] has upheld guidance that glyphosate is not carcinogenic and not a risk to public health when used as indicated on the label.

> Bayer has said it should not be penalized for marketing a product deemed safe by the EPA and on which the agency would not allow a cancer warning to be printed.

> Bayer plans to replace glyphosate in weedkillers for the U.S. residential market for non-professional gardeners with other active ingredients.

1. It’s not carcinogenic you weird hippy anti-science freaks.

2. Okay it is but not if you follow the directions.

3. Okay it’s carcinogenic and we wanted to print a warning but the EPA said no. But even though we knew it was dangerous we still used it because the EPA said it was fine?!? wut?

4. Even though it’s totally safe, because it’s not safe we’re going stop using it.
absolutely - a good meme takes on a life of its own...
Also on the flip side - the notion the GMO are all the same risk.

This should be obviously untrue.
I think the difference with this product is the transceivers are $150 each and you don't need anything else to use them except for a couple of power supplies.

I do find it interesting that their box diagram claims a 2km range.
If you don't mind me asking: why? What does it have going for it that LibreOffice doesn't?
Question is, do any apps, other than a tiny percentage at the top, get a significant number of users that discover them via the app stores?

My guess would be most apps are discovered through other channels, and then the user just clicks a link on a website that takes them to the app store. Or they already know the exact app they're looking for, and search for it by name directly. So the store doesn't provide any value in such cases, yet they still take the 15% or 30%.
This is very nice feedback. The short answer is that we want to solve problems that matter for the people who need them solved.
But this is hardly like comparing to Java as Go gives you a lot of flexibility in how you organize, allocate and use memory thanks to pointer support and composite value types. Making an Arena allocator is something you could do in Go as well.

But it is hard to manage memory effectively everywhere in C without creating a lot of overhead for the programmer.
Federal government is not ok with marijuana. Only some states. I presume that because of some legal precedent, individual states can legalize the Devil's Lettuce, while the federal government keeps considering it illegal. The benefits of federalism!
I think we're going to see this view change quite a bit with legalization. Consuming large amounts of THC (regardless of delta 8 or 9) on a daily basis is not well understood.

If you're eating 100+mg a day you will have physical withdrawal symptoms. This kind of consumption just hasn't been possible, or more likely affordable, for a large swath of the population until a few years ago.
I'm not sure you could "prove" either way on this with any amount of data.

My personal anecdote is that hard times made easier times more fulfilling, and early hardship in my life has made later hardship much easier to deal with, in comparison to my peers.

But there is also a limit to that of course. Not sure how I'd handle losing a child for example, or if I'd ever be able to overcome something like that.
Have a look at tldraw (https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw). Based on a podcast the author did on Slow&Steady I believe it does what you're looking for.
You can in fact create a server side query in Firebase if you wanted.

The fact that Firebase isn't using SQL is obvious and comes with up and downsides.
I moved to straight.el several years ago when I was working on making my Emacs config more repeatable. It’s been simply the best tool for Emacs dependency management. Several packages that I now drive daily I found before they were on MELPA/ELPA; with straight, it was trivial to configure it to clone and install them just with a URL to clone. I’ve also had many bleeding edge updates break stuff for me; I just cd’d into the corresponding elisp directory, git checkout’d the version I wanted, then let straight rebuild the byte compiled files for me automatically on next launch. So. Nice.
There's no need to get so worked up. But yes, you have to provide more evidence than just a claim, expect everyone to assume that it's somehow logically congruent, and that all skeptics are stupid.
What is the conclusive evidence against drinking 8 glasses of water a day?
If the Vitamin A Acetate were in a Juul pod, you'd be just as dead. I'm not particularly interested in the mechanics of Juul pods that stop this particular chemical from being used - it probably isn't going to be the only chemical we thought was safe and turns out to be deadly in this new context. Vaping is, in fact, dangerous, and framing it as distinct and safer is, in my view, the misinformation.
I suspect your neighbors are in violation of the law. You may be able to stop them -- at least for 9 months of the year:

https://www.portland.gov/bds/astr-permits/you-apply
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Nothing happens even after repeated reports. I've even had some from a *@university.edu and I don't think even reporting that to the University got any action from their part. I've been using Zoho for better part of a decade as a backup and it does better job than Gmail in my case.
May I gently submit you are making the same mistake?
I really wish Google would just accept it's a dumb advertising company and forget about these moonshots. It's just to stroke the founders ego. They are big enough. Pay out a huge dividend or something.
Correlation is not causation. Without a proper randomized trial, these observations aren't worth much. The sort of people that keep their Tdap vaccination up to date likely do other things that reduce their risk (or are just in a better mental state than average).
Biodiversity effects on yield and unsown species invasion in a temperate forage ecosystem (2009)

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2707887/

Grass-legume mixtures sustain strong yield advantage over monocultures under cool maritime growing conditions over a period of 5 years

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29790908/

Biodiversity loss in Latin American coffee landscapes: review of the evidence on ants, birds, and trees (2008)

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18759777/

Temporal changes in genetic diversity and forage yield of perennial ryegrass in monoculture and in combination with red clover in swards (2018)

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30408053/
‘Get your boy Elon in line’: NASA tell-all over private space race
The world itself never gets better or worse. Facts or data about the world are not value-laden. We impose our values and judgments of the world and decide whether things are getting better or worse.

We might make judgments to this end that misalign with our values or misunderstand the data, but that doesn't mean a judgment like "the world is getting worse" will ever be wrong. It will always true in some respects and not true in other respects.