skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gentle reminder to steel man, not straw man, but whatever. You brought up a point I am curious about, since my own formal education was severely lacking in many many ways.

Is the teaching of evolution really such a big deal?

I was never taught creationism, nor evolution, nor anything even remotely touching those subjects. In High School, I was barely taught what a variable was; my math education capped out at rote solving of quadratic equations. I learned the atomic model. of the day, and memorized a quarter of the periodic table. I learned that Shakespeare existed and that sentences in English usually have an object and a subject. I learned that a blood cell contains a lot of little things that I can't do shit about.

I was top 1% of my class.
More sales for Zortech C++!
> You can have a similarly bad experience with Linux on a laptop

Yes, but not with a laptop mentioned in an article called "I Finally Found a Solid Debian Laptop".

This is not a solid debian tablet, it's a shitty unsupported tablet. Thinkpads (t series) are solid linux laptops, with occasional mini quirks, this tablet is far from anything "solid".
Modern eye surgery exists because a few adventurous soldiers who had glass shards in their eyes let doctors experiment on them, same for gender affirming surgery. Originally it was done to reconstruct war wounds. We’ve always had science that existed on the bleeding edge and at the time only benefited a few people, but it’s our own ingenuity that brings these advances to a broader market and to benefit more people. There will always be a small amount of people willing to pay or be lab rats to squeeze an ounce of life or happiness out of their existence, socialized health care or not, and there will be those who recognize a way to expand that experiment into something safe and broadly acceptable.
There are lists for the US that have Seattle and San Francisco in the top 10, but if you talk to people who have moved out of those cities, they talk about how much less livable they've gotten.

And while it's always possible that the hedonic treadmill is skewing their sense of perspective, I also suspect that these measures are somehow lagging behind reality, and that a list of top 10 is in fact the list of the best places to live 5 years ago, and the best to have moved to 8+ years ago, rather than somewhere you should be making a 2 year plan to move there.

If you are young or adventurous, you might be better off looking at a list of 10 up and coming cities instead. Though you might be slightly worse off there in the case of a recession hitting before you are fully established.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Rust works great on Windows, unlike Go.
I'm pretty sure quoting somebody who is calling somebody a hater is not proof they are a hater. Even if Thomas is a hater calling him out is just leading to more polarization.
Not really; there's also the complication that you don't actually feed your chickens straight corn. Because chickens need protein in their meal, it's more like, 2 acres of corn and 1 acre of soybeans, for 36 million calories from 3 acres to get 12 million calories of chicken for a chicken-per-acre calories of 4 million. You also get your chicken manure as a fertilizer out at the end, but then, if you were already collecting your humanure it's probably not a net gain.

From a pure land usage standpoint, you're still better off if we're getting most of our calories from corn, potatoes and rice directly. Once you start adding in necessary protein, you can either subsist on soy, or feed that soy with corn to chickens and pigs (which have a worse feed ratio compared to chickens, but can supplement on food waste to reclaim calories that would otherwise go to waste) for roughly similar food-per-acre footprints.
Took me a really long time to learn this lesson. IMO this is a variation of the primitive obsession code smell, although I'd say it's way more harmful. I was really reluctant to add data classes to my code when the good old PHP array could get the job done without holding me up with a bunch of beaurocracy. Of course they give no guarantees and enforce no structure, so inevitably you get slight variations depending on what you need, or maybe you happen to have a dict that's a superset of what you're feeding in, and it just becomes really hard to reason about things. And of course since it's not a named type, tracing things back becomes really hard.
WooHoo! HitlerCities: The 'Fascist'-Growing Community on the Web (2000)
His GeoGuesser videos are great not just for the guesses, but also for the witty commentary and random chit-chat.

But his other contents are even better. Great writing and narrative style.

The 5-video series "How not to Travel Europe" [1] is the best content that I've ever seen on YouTube. Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNE2y1gOVvE
LinkedIn is a global lying competition, with positively Shakespearean levels of bullshit and insincere toadying, and none of the irony. Close up, I’ve watched the most toxic developers pen lengthy passive aggressive blog posts to attack people without naming names, seen people post the most ridiculously positive comments about others only ten minutes after I’ve heard them mouth the exact opposite. Like Facebook, it’s an awful amplication of the most hideous parts of humanity. People will literally say anything to get attention and further their careers. Awful.
This site is an admittedly over the top reaction to the 1999 purchase of GeoCities by Yahoo!, whose first order of business was a Terms of Service change giving Yahoo! copyright over everyones' GeoCities sites:

http://cexx.org/hc/woohoo.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20090725074140/http://emoglen.la...

https://web.archive.org/web/20021108152223/http://news.com.c...

Many GeoCities users were already upset by the mid-1998 introduction of a mandatory GeoCities watermark/banner atop their pages: https://web.archive.org/web/20090805102516/http://news.cnet....

The funny part is how this site has outlived the actual GeoCities now twice over :)
Hi, here's my life story.

[14 paragraphs of crap]

Ingredients list.

Recipe.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
> keeping gays from marrying would seem to be contradicted by their behavior over the last two decades.

Sure, but taking a position to prevent something from becoming legally recognized requires far less effort and commitment than taking something presently legal and making it illegal. Abortion was an outlier because there was a tangible victim to rally around in the pro-life activist’s eyes.

There simply isn’t a tangible victim they can point to for gay marriage and contraception. Those issues center around behavior they might regard as sinful, but in their eyes the sinner is the only one to suffer.

People may not approve…but will they care enough to work against them? I don’t think so. I know a lot of folks who are loudly pro-life, but I can only think of perhaps one that might actively work against gay marriage, and none that would have a strong opinion at all regarding contraception
They look perfectly fine for me on Firefox on an iPhone 13.
In India and sub-Saharan Africa. This article is about livable cities, all of which are in countries where heating is not much of an issue. Canada, a country that knows cold and hosts many of the cities on this list, looses maybe a hundred people a year to cold. But BC recently lost nearly 500 to heat in a single heat wave. In the developed world, heat is far more a problem than cold.

"In Canada, more than 80 people die each year from over-exposure to the cold."

https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/public-health-topics/co...
I'm not sure the fact that some people haven't been made wealthy by technology is the most horrific thing we can take away from this situation.
The complexity is inherent to the problem domain. Rust has many string types because the word "string" has been overloaded to mean any of dozens of different internal representations, each of which has different performance or correctness tradeoffs. The programmer's ability to optimize would be sharply limited if they couldn't choose between String, Box<str>, CString, OsString, and so on.

That's why, in my opinion, any attempt to create a "simple" systems language is doomed to failure. You can't have the simplicity of Python and also be able to manually assign values to specific registers. It's better to carve out niches in the design space: low-level (C / C++ / Rust), general-purpose (Java / C# / Go), scripting (Python / Ruby / Lua).
Or they'll tell you the hidden requirements! I remember selling to a school board back in 2008. We wanted to issue them a bill with one line item: "Software, $100,000."

Luckily, we had a champion inside who took us aside and gently proposed that we repackage it into several line items: site-wide licensing, installation support, training support, 1-year of tech support, custom development fee, etc. It tallied to the same amount, but looked a lot more "normal" for procurement purposes.
Or just go Aldi's route and put enormous barcodes covering entire sides of the package. Scan rate goes up _immensely_ when you don't have to give even half a hoot about orientation.

Before we tried to use AI and cameras for this task, bottle-return machines have just used barcode scanners. They're fast, deadly accurate, and take zero intelligence to program. The achilles' heel is certain jerkface brands that use white-ink-on-shiny-aluminum, which violates the contrast requirements of many scanners. For those, image recognition would be a valuable second method.
There is a company selling an installer for a semi-embedded/stripped down version of 98:

https://www.litepc.com/shop/?product=Our_Products&pid=1

They get 98 down to about 80mb.

I am sure they had their reasons, maybe driver related, but I am sure there were better alternatives back in the early 2000s.
Boat and stones analogy for rocket equation
The argument would be that serious science educators would not stay long in a position where the curriculum is censured to that degree. Sure there are probably counter examples. But why risk hamstringing the development of future generations like this? Especially as the world gets more competitive. Other countries who take education seriously will have an advantage
How preserved would its organs be? And would we be able to analyze any gut bacteria that the baby mammoth had at the time of its death?
Seems we need to reduce world population by 1/2 or more. Aren’t we at least contracting in developed countries? Anyway to ask India/China to stop growing so fast?
Climate damage caused by growing space tourism needs urgent mitigation
Replace CoPilot/code with Plagiarism/intellectual property, and DallE with Forgeries and re-read the question.
Anyone using Parallels to virtualize MacOS on M1 Macs?
> They're loved by crop farmers where I live too (I also learnt recently), but they're illegal to cultivate because they're an introduced species.

Unlike the crops?
If the hedge funds lost billions covering their short positions, who were the counter parties that made billions? Someone was selling them stock at the inflated prices.
This looks like a better open-source option:

https://github.com/KhaosT/MacVM
Yes, I am. It's quite smooth. It has its problems, but for the most part its alright. What did you want to explore further about this?

Edit: many people download the default parallels; you need to download the parallels from this page https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-apple-sili... to be able to have access to M1 virtualization.
while I would hope so, this is rarely the case - its trivial to clone a usb key, even if its hardware encryption, and as this person freely copied it, it would appear policy is not in place (like denying usb devices in corporate machines).

most "encryption" is either bitlocker or a numeric pin, which is very easily defeated.

But also claiming no attempt has been made is impossible as they have no way of knowing if it was read, which was my point.

The other obvious point is the Japanese are very deferential people, so it may be worse than admitted.
I don't think it does. If I'm buying AAPL on a 10-year time horizon, and some HFT trader front-runs my trade for some fractions of a penny, that doesn't really harm me as far as I can tell.
> Contributing to open source projects, having side projects, et al are pursuits of leisure.

This is an old anti-pattern: tests that sound like they're about competence, but they're actually about "culture fit."

Example: Speaking at conferences. This sounds like social proof you know something about the industry, and have communication skills to boot. In many cases it actually means you are good at networking, have leisure time available to attend conferences, and get invited back to speak at more conferences because you're likeable and contribute to the conference's social scene.

In my own case, I have spoken and even keynoted multiple conferences. But I don't think speaking at conferences means much when hiring, unless I'm hiring an evangelist or community manager. If I'm hiring a programmer, I want to know whether they can program, nit whether they can talk about programming.

Anyways, I support your thesis that some (or even many) single-metric gatekeeping strategies that don't measure the actual skill required by the job are bad, and I suggest that many of them test for culture, not competence.
They say why in the rest of the comment.
Looks like maybe too many people are loving and connecting with this website. I'm getting a Heroku application error when I try to access it.
> The ability to walk across land without worry of being attacked (by man or beast) is because of England's strong legal and social rules, and that every predator larger than a badger was killed off long ago. At most you could expect an angry farmer, but more likely you would be seen as just another rambler. Try that in 18th century Africa, Asia or even North America and it would not have ended well.

Perhaps not in 18th century Asia, but this was a very commonly noted feature of the Pax Mongolica in 13th- and 14th-century Asia. People remarked at the time that even women traveling alone would remain unmolested.
Haha nah not a bot, not even a properly paid fascist republitard shill, just a regular dummy who doesn't belong on HN because I'm too dumb to do tech so I end up commenting on general purpose threads where I can hopefully inject some humility and realism.

What I meant to say, to be more clear, is that Democrats need to pull back from the messaging about how important it is to be LGBTQIAPP+ and Disproportionately Affected Marginalized Communities of Every Shade of Color Except Pink and get back to the roots of being against corporatism, rather than changing the corporate logo to a fist or rainbow for a month twice a year.

And hey look, if it makes you feel any better, I'm browner than pink and I'm on a lot of spectra. I'm not bitter or scared or hateful (OK well sometimes any combo of those), just shaking my head at it all.
>Some of the things that you need to do in embedded device code, like handling IRQs, don’t seem to really be accounted for in any language I know of (at least not in a simple or elegant way).

That's because there's a lot of details to be managed to set up an interrupt handler, and reprogram the hardware to enable the interrupt to even happen. Interrupt code has to preserve the entire CPU state, and have no unknown side effects, or the machine will become unstable. There's a lot to manage.

Cooperative multitasking has far fewer restrictions, I did it in Turbo Pascal back in the MS-DOS days... it was just a matter of allocating space on the heap, and copying the entire stack... the hardest part was figuring out that it was actually working as designed when fork() returned twice.

The C++ IDE supporting Arduino seems to have a pretty good set of interrupt handling basics, it might be worth implementing something like that for your system.
I think the abbreviated forms of the paradigm are often more "stable" than the full names, because people keep hand-waving the names and thus mixing them up. For me, "DOD" is the thing where you are very performance-oriented and you have flat, cache friendly arrays of data and affinity to ECS (entity-component-system) stuff etc. This is clearly not it, but eyeballing it, the ideas seem somewhat compatible with it. (Except the immutability part.)
I've donated 8k to Ukraine personally and am deeply supportive. I'm all for sending them pretty much whatever they want. I'm supportive of deploying US troops, back in time, to the beginning of the conflict.

And yet, I still think the current HIMAR supplies are a significant contribution. I think Russia will have a very difficult time doing much more. I'm vaguely confident that Lysychansk will be the last significant area where they see any offensive progress, and am not certain they will succeed there either. Not entirely due to the HIMARs of course, but I remain optimistic. Especially if Russia continues to refuse a general mobilization.
The act of getting an abortion was protected federally, as in people (providers and patients) were protected from state governments charging them with crimes.

The circumstances were that it was not a priority. It would have been stupid to waste the political will that was used to pass massive healthcare reform for something (overturning of roe v wade) that may or may not have occurred in the future.

I have no idea why anyone would take issue with actions and priorities taken in 2009 based on information available in 2009.
The call for action at the end is also not great. From what I can tell, these people are your best bet, assuming you want to help local wild bee populations. (If you have other suggestions, please let me know!)

https://xerces.org/
just trying to make the comparison more precise:

using copilot is like subcontracting to a company who you know has no institutional qualms about their employees liberally copy/pasting from a known corpus of github repos. you know these employees don't always literally copy/paste, but all they do every day is read the corpus, so their code is always going to be basically derivative. you can optionally ask that the company avoids matches to existing code, which you know means that before sending you the code, the boss will fuzzy search their code against the corpus, asking their employees to write it again if a match is found.

so given that this is the way the company works, and that you know this is the way they work, your task is to decide what your ethical and legal liabilities are.
> If Microsoft had trained it on its own code, there would be no such problems.

I keep seeing this sentiment from the GPL/"laundering" side of the debate.

Believe me, Microsoft wouldn't have released this thing (after what, 6 months of beta testing?) if they thought they had any "problems" at all.

I'm not saying I don't sort of agree with you, but is there no room for what's actually _likely_ to happen in this debate? Because as best as I can tell, they aren't going to see any real legal issues from this.

(There's also an option to remove generations that result in a collision with actual GitHub code, just fyi)

I feel like when the singularity happens HN is going to be flooded with programmers mad that they got automated away despite it very much being one of the primary goals of computer science and software engineering. This stuff is a kind of just a fact of life now.

Salesforce trained models (on GitHub) competitive with copilot without needing to own GitHub. I would spend less time worrying about how to lawyer up and more time figuring out how you're going to adapt to these new tools. That's the gig.
> Every time we revisit HN during the day we see a number of titles that we'd seen before.

That's why I wrote a client that keeps track of titles I've seen and doesn't show them to me again.

https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hn.html?small
Alternative headline: Insufficiently clear IP releases mean AT&T not willing to take risk of distributing copyrighted music just to pad out a CD-ROM.
But everyone will die with happy thoughts of making those few rich.
Support AVIF images for macOS Ventura and iOS 16
Looks like avif support has landed for Safari, and thankfully it did not take as long as webp!
Does Rosetta still work in the virtualized MacOS when using Apple’s virtualization framework?
Surely the methane they produce far outweighs any carbon sink benefits
> Broker-dealers, unlike an investment advisor, are NOT fiduciaries and are not required to act in their customers best interests.

I agree broker-dealers are not fiduciaries, but aren’t zero commission trades for customers better than commissioned trades? And is not about maximizing the payments as the SEC says, it is about the lack of “toxicity” in the orders; the assumption is that trading against retail flow is that it is more valuable to market makers because the trades are less likely to be informed on which direction the market is going to go. This does not mean retail traders are not getting the best price, just that market makers are willing to pay a premium to interact with this flow.

> As I recall, broker-dealers are legally required to get you the best price they can.

With PFOF, broker-dealers are still required to honor the best price posted by the national exchanges as per Reg NMS.

> I'm not convinced retail investors are so dumb that lights and noises make them trade.

Are you sure about that? IMO, It isn’t too dissimilar from making brokerage accounts more like slot machines or candy crush. If you can make something more addictive for your customers to use, it could be a problem. Making it illegal to use push notifications to trigger FOMO seems like an easy move to make on this front.
I have no position about cremation in Ukraine, I was just pointing out your off base assertions about cremation. many if not most crematoriums in the US run temperatures 1400-1600F[1]

https://www.cremationassociation.org/page/CremationProcess
And if they come up with a theory that they can test with another procedure?
Does Rosetta still work in the virtualized MacOS in Parallels?
Sophisticated retail investors? I am skeptical that such a rare animal even exists.
Banning pay for flow is negative to retail investors. Once they get rid of that, it will be the end of Robinhood and the other brokerage firms will return to pay to trade model. Also you get price improvements when trading with the market makers compared to the exchanges. Market Makers want retail trades because they have less exposure to hedge funds that maybe operating with more information on the directionality of the stock than the market makers. Market makers just want to scrape pennies on the bid ask spread.
k-selection doesn't vote, and this entire event is the outcome of judicial review. this is like talking to an animist about the forest, you are mistaking the result for the agent. the direct corollary of your argument is that free will doesn't exist, so i don't know why you even bother with presenting an argument.
In other words, it's something like monads: everyone who learns what they are truly capable of suddenly loses any way to put their knowledge into words as they have tapped into the dark and hidden secrets of the universe. You can only feel what it is but neither hear nor speak it. CMake is the same but more eldritch rather than phenomenal cosmic power.
Getting PPE sounds like good fun; but once you got it what were some cool things you've been able to do without being a type (1) or (2) private airport person?
Since you have an opinion about this, can you explain why one option is better than the other?
This is whataboutism. Just because people die in other unnecessary ways does not justify allowing them to die in a particular unnecessary way.
The wording seemed a little generated to me at first that’s all. I’d largely agree that moving to the left economically is the only real choice. It’s the only way democrats can become competitive again in rural areas
Color filters under Accessability, for those on iOS.