skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in your own example, there’s no ambiguity in the fact that glia play a role is not under question. What percentage, IMO, is just a detail. My analogy still stands I think but I suppose that’s open to interpretation.

One question I implore you to ask yourself is how much of this “we don’t fully understand it” attitude comes from indoctrination of that way of thinking that you need to have to write grants and aggrandize your own research topic. As Sydney Brenner said a long time back, (in the context of mol bio) the fundamentals have been discovered, we can let the Americans figure out the details.
This seems pretty damning and I had considered Shopify to start my own online store selling products that I make in the future.

I am curious if anybody has suggestions for good alternatives to Shopify for building an online store?
Nah, the NSA doesn't need to bug your car. All cars after 2016 or so come pre bugged with an OnStar/StarLink/BMW Assist Remote/etc Telemetry System continuously sending data over 3G or LTE. Conveniently, the manufacturers already sell this data in an "anonymised" form. (cough Otonomo cough Wejo).

Private companies are so much scarier than the NSA when it comes to privacy -- you have none -- your life's data is to be mined, brokered, and sold to the highest bidder.

The NSA only cares about you if you are talking to a small number of known hostile foreign people who are already a party to a FISA warrant.
I mean, it’s what I’d do. The cost is quite modest compared to the ability to sway public opinion. I’m seeing aggressive defense of nuclear power too. Either I’m underestimating the number of pro nuclear evangelists or there’s a paid lobby.
Why on earth would asians be uncomfortable with cursive or serif fonts?
The Hajj Trail: historical simulation of the hajj journey
There’s a difference between YOU understanding everything vs. ANYONE understanding everything though.
I'd always understood tilt trains to be a comfort factor rather than safety.

Tilting a carriage isn't going to adjust the CoG by any appreciable amount. It will tend to make the net centripetal moment more virtical from the reference frame of passengers, however.

Wikipedia's article corroborates this:

As a train (or other vehicle) rounds a curve at speed, objects inside the train experience centrifugal force. This can cause packages to slide about or seated passengers to feel squashed by the outboard armrest, and standing passengers to lose their balance. Tilting trains are designed to counteract this by tilting the carriages towards the inside of the curve, thus compensating for the g-force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_train
If I have a project I’m working on, mostly reading GitHub repo’s or documentation on the go
Respectfully, this just sounds like the screed of somebody who doesn’t like Trudeau/liberals for political reasons not like an unbiased, cogent analysis of Canadian policy. Though I guess not always a lot of blue sky between those two. But I have a feeling you didn’t like liberals before Trudeau, and nothing was going to change your mind.
Scaling horizontally or vertically, on-premise or with cloud service provider is always debatable.
IMHO for the scalability topic especially in the internet industry, China or Indian companies may have more say about it thanks to the largest population.

Searching through the mentioned TiDB, it's quite interesting to find through its affiliated site https://ossinsight.io/analyze/pingcap/tidb, that the popularity (stargazer) seems pretty high in China.
The US stars is not bad, comparable to Mongo's.

Honestly I've not heard about it much. How much of the load these databases can support up to, with a single cluster ?
Since when countering half truths is known as an attack?

Since when countering lack of knowledge is known as a fallacy?

I have answered each and every half-truth filled query of yours. You chose to play victim when you found you were left with no answers.

Someone more sensible and mature would have apologized and moved-on for this sheer lack of knowledge about the issue and the country.

Perhaps I should have stopped myself when you used the term "jury" in Indian context.

Keep basking in the glory of your ignorance and keep playing a victim card!
I did mention the Same Moon as well. It’s a dumb idea that makes no sense. It’s only less dumber than battlestar galactica though lol.
His character flaws aside, you don't become worth 275 billion dollars by throwing 45 billion away for the lulz. I think it's a safe bet that a man who has an entire top notch law firm working exclusively for him knows a thing or two more about what he's doing than we do. Even if it is a mistake, even if he's trying to back out of something and being disingenuous, it's still almost certain that our online speculation colored by our character sentiment is not what is actually going on here.
The best way I can put it without going too deep down this rabbit hole is "benign adolescent prurience". She writes a lot of erotic zombie fiction.

Also: there are more good episodes of Bob's Burgers than there are of the Simpsons. You're seriously missing out.

Also I feel bad pointing this out but one thing fetuses don't do in the womb is...

She's just so weird! If you like Kate Bush a lot, and I sort of get why her weirdness is endearing, you'll like Tina Belcher. Just a lot of the same energy.
This would be amazing it it were 2x4k rather 2x1440p
Atlanta just ordered some.
I've done 5 years of Java and Kotlin each. I don't see the attachment to Java. It seems like the only argument for learning Java is having to deal with legacy code. But Kotlin proficiency brings some Java literacy.

Under the same logic, you might as well learn JS and C++ because you'll have to eventually deal with that.
All these functions have appeared much later, most of them only in multicellular living beings, billions of years after the appearance of the living cells, and they have just adapted the already existing ionic pumps to other purposes.

In the beginning, ionic pumps had only 2 purposes, both essential for the survival of any cell, the first was expelling the ions that can form precipitates and the intake of the useful ions that are not dangerous, and the second was the energy interconversion between ionic gradients and forms of chemical energy like ATP hydrolysis/condensation.
Cygwin (which is in fact excellent) was only one of numerous Unix-on-Windows toolkits. Others included MKS Toolkit (from Mortice Kerns Systems) and UWin (from AT&T / David Korn, of Korn Shell fame).
Isn’t linux kinda shitty in binary backwards compatibility? Sure, the kernel interface doesn’t break, but it doesn’t mean much in practice. Good luck running a binary that was compiled one Ubuntu LTS version before the current, let alone multiple years.

Windows does actually have superb backwards compatibility.
I think it's closer to:

CIA -> CSIS (intelligence)

FBI -> RCMP (federal police)

HN, please correct me if I'm wrong!
Responses to climate change reveal drivers of species extinction and survival
The majority of Canadian media is right leaning.

And not sure why you seem so set on blaming the liberals and JT because basically nothing changed when JT took power except a different set/type of scandals and legal weed.
You need to give OpenAI your credit card and use their API. GPT-3 is not publicly available, and even if it were the hardware requirements for running it would be far, far beyond a typical desktop/server.
I wonder if there's a degree of FOMO there.

People feel like they must participate in everything, so when there's something new that they didn't discover and research first, they compensate by doing some armchair criticism. If it were their had discovered it they'd say it's the coolest ever.

It's funny, I thought this was an internet phenomena, but I've been seeing this all the time in meetups lately. Someone presents something that clearly works fine for their use case, and someone takes the mic to ask a question but eviscerates it instead.

I also remember this with teenagers and music: the assholes always auto-dislike things others bring, and criticise the stupidest things, but if they rediscover it themselves it's the best band in the world.

Myself, I prefer pretending I already know the stuff being presented. ;)
This is an absurd assertion. Also you’re literally quoting “Thank you for smoking” with your follow up defense.
As I understand it your correct. Parent comment is wrong on a lot of things.
>> when you present an idea it needs to do an exceptional job of demonstrating itself to peers. It's not the job of your peers to unpack your brilliance - that's on you.

For my sins I'm not just a programmer, but I also need to (literally) sell my work to other programmers.

Over many years I've come to appreciate the idea of selling benefits, not features. Yes, utility is important, but ultimately people want benefits, not feature.

"saves time" is the benefit, "integrates with xero" is the feature.

Focusing on the selling _while_I am doing the creating, helps - I'll be writing the docs, and it's just complicated to explain, so I'll go back to the creating to make it easier. I'll be prepping for sales, and I find the rough edges, so it goes back for more polishing.

Selling ideas is the same. These days I can do what I like - the track record helps - but in the beginning I had to do a lot of work preparing the idea "for sale" to my bosses. If I can't sell it to them, how can I sell it to someone else. Equally, I had a bunch of bad ideas - most I filtered out myself, others were filtered for me.

I still tend to have a "big picture" in my head, of how things will plug together, but I seldom sell the big picture - I find utility for each part, make them successful, and at the end pull the threads together to show what I had in my head all along.
A rejection of postmodernism sounds like reactionary conservatism.
Imagine thinking you are superior to Carl Sagan because you made a beige box.
> It has commands for drawing shapes!

Thanks for reminding me why I lusted after getting a Plus/4. Really wanted to do graphics but I was too young to figure out assembly on my C64.
Absolutely. In my interpretation Contact is as unscientific as it gets. In the end it’s another dumb equivocation to the need of religion and faith.

The advanced species went through all this bs just to explicitly make their story as unbelievable as possible? They couldn’t allow any proof to be taken back? What was the point exactly then? They were so advanced but couldn’t see human fallibility?
WordPress / Magento / OpenCart + Stripe / Authorize.net / BrainTree / Paypal. Why use Shopify and depend on it? Host your own stuff for nearly free ($2-5) and pay very little for the payment gateways.

Shopify charges additional 1% per transaction for 3rd party payment integrations. Weird.
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Tsunoda Cable Tie Pliers (2018) [video]
That's a good word, but if I were to be honest, I think a better word might be "cartel" ....I looked up oligopoly and it seems like it implies no collusion..... However, when I think about the large telecoms, I feel like they are colluding with (each other, surely, but also) the government.
I'd still like to be able to write static HTML pages from markdown. I realize there's a lot of solutions for this but it seems to be quite rigid.

The reason is I love working on CSS stuff, but writing the HTML part is too tedious for the amount of pages I want to write.
I'm tired of people parroting this line. It is factually incorrect. This line has been started by the author of the article we are discussing, and picked up by people who like the way it sounds, but if you'd read the article the author also clearly states (significantly less dramatically) that he has an out if Twitter lied because that would be breach of contract. He goes on to say there's no evidence that Twitter lied, which may be true, but it's a fact. If twitter lied about their numbers it is a breach of contract, MAE be damned.
This is the most accurate answer in this thread. Toyota dealers in Northern California did this to me twice on new cars. (A third party autosound guy removed it and fixed the harness for me)

Even though we always pay in full for cars, the dealer has you talk to the finance guy who will try to sell you useless addons like undercoating and an “alarm system” which has already been butchered into the car by the dealer. (If you buy it they would stick a key module with a blinking red light under the dash somewhere, but most of the circuit is already there.)
Agreed, it’s not perfect. I might still run ocrmypdf on all my pdfs at some point.
I think the author are making a good description of what we all can observe in our times. It's the inclination people have to prefer, or even want, simple answers to anything. Just look at how media is handling the complexity of things. They always look for experts who are willing to give short and simple answers. "complicated ideas take more energy to transmit than simple ones" he writes, and therein lies the problem.

The article is itself is a simple explanation to a complex mechanism in human society where people establish truths that are tangible but not (necessarily) true. This is what fuels opinions and even cause actions. The simpler the explanation the faster it spreads. And it spreads among those of us who are too lazy to get acquainted with a complex issue on topics we do not know much or even are ignorant about. I say “us” because even though I feel I am quite well informed and have a high endurance when it comes to acquire information, I know I am still totally ignorant on many topics that are outside my interest and competence, or doesn’t show up in my daily information flow. I think we all are, and that we therefore carry a lot of “stupid cousins” in our mind that we even might be spreading around without thinking about it.

The world and our society is complicated and it is very easy to simplify to try to understand why things are as they are. Within this simplification process we obscure the reality more than we enlighten it, and even establish totally wrong ideas of the state of things. When someone who really knows the complexity of the horse tries to explain to us that we haven’t got the whole picture and therefore have gotten it wrong, we do not listen. We all know how “the horse” looks like, why listen to experts who have actually knowledge about horses?
This unwillingness to listen to experts is best seen in politics, and best in highly polarized societies. But it’s really everywhere.
Your wife loves you very much and/or your nasty food poisoning had very nasty external effects.
Of the news sources I frequent, HN is the only one where I bother with the comments. In fact, I often find myself reading the discussion here _before_ the article.

It’s not perfect (we are people, in the end) but this community is refreshingly mature, insightful, and respectful. Thanks, all.
I've been playing with the meta of writing things that write stories. As well as different forms of prose.
Isn't an expanding regulatory state an inevitability as population growth explodes and companies gain ever-greater power?

More people and more powerful companies means more abuses of power, which we solve (or try to solve) with regulations. And deregulation is often a simple power grab by unscrupulous companies with the help of crony politicians.

These aren't universal truths, but I think it does start to explain why regulations expand more than they contract.
Now if only all these Electron apps would use the X11 clipboard properly!
In my case, medicine and diet had little effect. And I was in pretty bad shape, i got to the emergency room several times a week with awful abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation. A different doctor adviced me to eat anything I want, but for at least half a year to eat kefir with every meal. That worked. Whenever I feel like my digestive tract is getting funny, i add a few bottles of kefir for a few days.
It is confusing to me: a brand at its very core is ego and legacy. That ego and legacy happen to be shared among a whole company, but it’s 100% a “we vs the others”, and the history behind the identity.

What you seem to be looking for is not a brand but a label or a certification perhaps ?
I'm still not following. How do you think this has helped the situation? What do you expect to happen differently in the future that will be to our benefit?

Maybe I've missed out on some life experiences, but I've never seen petty theft help defuse a tense situation. It is not going to be beneficial to achieving a sane outcome.

> In reality the majority of them will see this as a great reason to bear a grudge against Putin.

This is wishful thinking. All of the thievery was done by NATO - there is a very high chance that they will identify NATO as the threat to them.

And if they do blame Putin (which I think is unlikely, groups tend to close ranks when threatened) how is that supposed to help? What are the billionaires supposed to do that the Ukraine military or US State Department can't do? Billionaires aren't that big compared to a government military.
Boy, the Monsanto shills are out tonight.
The world needs a non-profit search engine
You can sell a call and/or sell a put with the expiration and strike prices you think are appropriate. Maybe you'd buy covering calls/puts as well, forming a pair of vertical spreads (an iron condor or iron butterfly). There are different names for different basic combinations of options contracts: https://www.optionsplaybook.com/option-strategies/

I've been keeping a close eye on this market (TWTR options) and in my opinion, there were no great bargains. Especially with longer term contracts, you'd need to chip into wide bid-ask spreads, and the prices didn't offer stunning deals on either side of the trade, unless you held an extreme opinion.
Because more and more things are being built as SPAs on frontend with JavaScript, because hammer nail dynamics just makes it easier to do that, and the back button is useful in a world where each page is a discrete HTTP request but now each page is the result of a dynamic JavaScript interpretation of state, and often people have not made any solution for showing the state represented by you hitting the back button which might be really difficult to do and also not help with any of the metrics business has assigned to show the site is functioning as it is supposed to.

In the case of Reddit, probably when you click interesting thing your current url is saved to history and then you go forward, you go back the url is used to construct page again, but that url probably represents a concept like "Currently most popular posts under subject X" not what lifeplusplus was just looking at with particular offset etc.
Are you sure that TSLA is overvalued? Right now they are performing pretty well, for their niche.

I mean it will be overvalued if Toyota gets its act together - if the competition can produce reliable electric cars for the mass market. I suspect that this is not quite happening due to some real technical problems. A mass market electric car would need to handle some real problems with battery depreciation/range loss. I am not sure if that is happening, right now.

I found quite a range of opinions on battery depreciation, not quite sure who is right (never owned one):

https://www.carwow.co.uk/blog/do-electric-cars-depreciate#gr...

https://www.cars.com/articles/your-guide-to-ev-batteries-pre...

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-long-will-an-ev-battery-las...
“Studies are false.” has got to be the absolute most low effort, I’m-not-even-going-to-try response in HN history.

“[I] go back their frequently” is another absolute classic.

I’ve had more rigorous and intellectual debates with my 9 year old (and he goes to Canadian elementary school).

Thanks for the laugh.
Quantum scientists deliver world’s first integrated circuit at the atomic scale
The fascinating biology, that is happening right here and now, is to witness COVID evolving to evade the effects of our manufactured vaccines. As quickly as we prime our immune systems with RNA vaccines, coronaviruses, duplicating within human cells, produce a variant in some human, somewhere, that can evade our newly generated antibodies. It's evolution at a bewildering pace.

Is this evolution happening because we have devised means of travelling so quickly? Travellers taking the virus to new populations. The more people infected, the more variants arise? Or is it because vaccinations mean we cull the less-virulent variants of the virus? If we had had no vaccinations, what variants would have evolved, and at what pace?

Why can we eradicate some viruses like polio or smallpox, but, seemingly, not this one? One would have to guess that it's because its means of transmission - through aerosol droplets from sneezes and coughs - is so effective.

Will COVID become as common as the common cold, but forever more deadly?
You do realize the author and submitter are not necessarily the same person right?
Because it's normal for humans as I see it to be selfish, and we've built systems that force selfish desires to clash repeatedly.

Selfishness has a bad reputation, but in fact it's how you end up not starving and broke in the street and able to keep a safe life. Pure altruism taken to a logical extreme would be dangerous, so there's always a balance of self-preservation based on your own wants and needs.

When you go to any public forum, nothing is really different; you do the things you desire and that protect yourself, you talk about the things you're comfortable about, you can most effectively comment about your experience and how items relate to you.

Where the problem with the above comes out is when this aspect gets out of alignment as well, as pure selfishness is just as disastrous. At a certain point to obtain your desires, you need _something_ from someone else, and likely that gets forgotten on social media that without the someone else, there is no social media. All other things in life require the contribution of human labor somewhere, even with more reliance on automation (someone's gotta maintain those machines and the code, even Star Trek still had an Engineering staff running around fixing replicators that made bad coffee/tea). By forgetting this, people feel entitled to having it exactly as they want, and why not? It's their leisure time, shouldn't it be exactly what they want to relax?

I absolutely understand the author's point, but in a sense, they're doing the exact same thing, and trying to define a requirement for social media that not necessarily everyone subscribes to. I happen to think this requirement is a good one, but not the point I suppose. Once you allow public access, you have to accept also the bad, and maybe even revel in it a bit.

And let's not forget how algorithms exacerbate this issue.

Older "anything-goes" simple forums appeal to me mostly because you get exposure to things you normally wouldn't and there's no feed that gets polluted with bad data if you just check it out and there's no rewards system to push the content up; you just have some entries in your browser history. The users that do try to make the forums "their own" get the option to do so without having a feed/rewards system push this data heavily, and users have an easier time avoiding such content. There's a safety valve for their desire without some system forcing their desire on others.

Feeds/rewards systems really muck up the situation because exploring a topic you aren't interested in or even dislike comes back to bite you in the ass because feeds aren't very good at getting when you're just checking something out versus when you're interested; any interaction is a change to induce further engagement so the feed tries. Rewards systems that promote content do much the same, but the system is powered by humans (and bots) instead.
Seeing all those OS logos in the corner of each VM makes me think this is enormously inefficient to run on a desktop/laptop

Like... Fedora and Debian? Why?
portableapps is extremely useful, it still boggles my mind when some people working in computer labs don't know about it.
Unfortunately it's been an increasing issue.