skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life causes cancer. :) The symptom is cancer, the problem statement is a fix is needed for the human immune system to be more targeted and aggressive in purging cancer from the body, as well as more robust cellular repair mechanisms.

The human body can take enormous amounts of environmental abuse, but there’s clearly room for improvement.
It will be interesting to see a retrospective on the similarities and differences between the hype bubble "deep technologies" of the last decade, ie Blockchain, AI, and quantum computing.

"AI" (as ML) has proven, if unglamorous, business uses, but as a business buzzword spun up a basically parallel and unrelated world of business interest based on what some laypeople ("business translators") imagined it was.

Quantum computing certainly is less mature from an experimental perspective, more mature (than AI) from a pure theory perspective, which makes it interesting because we know what we could do with it if theoretical results were physically realizeable, it's just not clear how close we are to actually getting there. As a long term research bet it seems on the most solid foundation, but the near term business case is less clear.

And blockchain, other than a theoretically interesting underlying concept, has morphed completely into hype/scam territory, and progress in ways of suckering "investors" and avoiding securities laws have completely overshadowed any theoretical advances (zero knowledge proofs as an example, maybe). All the while nobody has actually demonstrated a real thing you would do with a blockchain.
They aren't far off.

At the moment, they have €250M in assets, and a further €100M endowment. Their assets have increased by double-digit millions every year for a decade.

In my opinion, the yearly fundraising campaign is highly disingenuous. Basically, they are begging for money, claiming it is to "keep Wikipedia running". In reality, Wikipedia-the-website is an unlimited cash cow used to fund tangentially related pet projects at the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2008, the expenses were €5.6M. 2021 expenses are up to €112M - and I can guarantee page views did not increase 20-fold!

At the moment, hosting costs are about €3M / year. Let's round that up to €10M for sysadmin and development salaries, and they currently have enough money to keep Wikipedia running for 35 years.

I'd be more than happy to donate to keep Wikipedia itself alive, but at the moment donating money to them is basically the same as throwing money in a bottomless pit.
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Please stop using the medium links for Cory Doctorow articles!

This article (from a month ago) can be seen without medium's tracking and ads on Doctorow's personal blag here:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/05/a-lousy-taxi#a-giant-aste...

On a sub-topic: I wonder how many people commenting on California's Proposition 22 actually live in California. If they did, they would never question the idea that the idiot herd here was influenced by the advertising.
Whether the content was strictly illegal or quickly taken down is irrelevant. It isn’t a good sign that supporters of Kiwi Farms repeatedly conflate the law with ethics.

Regardless of the law, Kiwi Farms is a place where a significant portion of the content, even when not veering into illegality, is based on harassment. There’s a history. Given the history and recent threats on people’s physical well being, Cloudflare decided they had enough. The same concept of freedom of speech that allows Kiwi Farms to exist is also what allows Cloudflare to decide to not do business with them.
> This app has gone over its resource limits.

Hug of death?
1st nuclear power in the world, and you say "why develop their own" as if it was a 3rd world country

They have magnetohydrodynamics weapons

That's what the people call UFOs
Isn't it just Zuck read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and because he's a billionaire he didn't just think "that's cool", but believed he could pivot his company to building it?
Human learning itself is a little like copying the work of hundreds of other artists at once.
It seems possible that articles like this which help quantify the risk might do more to change behavior than the vague understanding that smoking, drinking, and being overweight are "bad for you". Many people will have had family or friends who developed cancer and if lucky, endured harrowing treatment and lived. Or did all that and didn't survive. Connecting those dots is a powerful motivator.
>This is DP pass-through, there's no DisplayLink or similar involved.

How do you know that it is DisplayPort pass-through?

From what I've seen, if it's going through a USB-C hub, there is almost zero chance that it is DisplayPort pass-through, although such a thing is possible to implement, in theory.
The metaverse already exists. It's the many many games people play every day. They are alternate worlds and there's reason for people to spend time in them unlike with metas metaverse, which just wants people in there so they can sell ads. The obvious direction for meta is to either create games or to create an ad network for games.
Workplace exposure to carcinogens is another major factor, as the article notes:

> "In 2019, half of all male deaths from cancer, and more than one-third in women, were due to preventable risk factors including tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diets, unsafe sex and workplace exposure to harmful products, such as asbestos. From 2010 to 2019, global cancer deaths caused by these risk factors increased by about 20%, with excess weight accounting for the largest percentage of increase — particularly in lower-income nations."
I think you misunderstood that sentence.

Of course things wouldn't change over night. But if more people chose not to consume factory farm animal products - the demand would go down over time and we would not breed as many anymore.

It would be a slow phasing out and a transition to more sustainable food sources.

> I’d rather have a harsh life than no life

Please watch Earthlings[0] - the documentary about the factory farm industry and how animals live. Tell me you would want to live under those conditions. And no - those are not isolated, it's the reality for factory farm animals.

Those cows, chickens and pigs in factory farms are not wild species anymore. We bred them to the point where we maximized their meat or egg production at the expense of their health, e.g. chickens grow so large they can't stand on their own legs anymore.

And we have many sanctuaries now - where farm animals are being rescued and they can live to their natural end, so they would continue to exist.

So if you had the choice - what would you choose for yourself:

1) Not be born

2) Be born into a system where you will suffer and lead a horrible life and at the end you will be slaughtered just because someone wants a burger.

[0] https://www.nationearth.com/
> Chinese brands (Huawei, Xiaomi, Motorola, etc.) don't inspire confidence for me either.

Have you considered OnePlus? Their cameras aren't the best, but they're usually as good as the other top brands in everything else.
Lynch mobs would kill people you know. They’d hang them from a tree or worse. This isn’t equivalent to that at all.
I might be totally wrong, but i think that People with social skills will not find it worthy and somehow bizarre. But those with some sort of autism can enjoy the experience. Or even people addicted to drugs or psychedelics.
It can be a game changer for some professionals and really a good tool. But impact in kids can be dangerous as they will be confused to what is reality
The repeated negligence around the handling of Android bugs related to emergency calls should result in criminal prosecution. It's unlikely that actual people weren't hurt because of these bugs. They have known about these issues for years, and they continue to give them the importance of an unresponsive button in Gmail settings.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29492884

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/rfld6m/pixel_p...
For the most part, Fab engineering is beyond boring and exploitative. I quit my PhD because it was excruciatingly boring, all you do is click ON/OFF on a big machine that deposits metal, and I realized, that this was what I'd be doing for 100K a year. On paper it sounds like you're doing some genius work manipulating atoms, but really it's actually quite mindless and boring, which is part of the reason the physics departments don't do this work anymore, only EE, since physics does the actual cool stuff. I think it's somewhat related to the fact that these degrees have almost no americans, and are full of foreigners that really need a visa. As an american, it made no sense to do this work, given that there are much more interesting and lucrative options.

But going back to your point, there are certain areas within semiconductor manufacturing that are software engineering jobs. They tend to be closely related to what's called physical design in the design part of making a chip. Or EDA coders. It's a cool area. But the bigger part of semiconductor manufacturing is working in a fab, which is atrocious grueling work, which is quite boring and dangerous.
Same got scammed by all the reviews saying best Pixel yet and a good price for flagship. Terrible software issues, I was unable to make calls without 10s of a high pitch beep interrupting within the first 5s, I'm glad I don't rely on my phone for work calls but some people do. I had to enroll in to the Beta early release to resolve it. Bluetooth dropping for seconds in the car. Random extreme battery drain even now. Fingerprint works about 50% of the time which is a pain because I have an 8 digit pin enforced by MS Teams for work.

Never again
Great article. As another 40 year programmer I strongly agree with the “software is young” sentiment. Coding is fun but the way we tend to go about it is insanely boneheaded! I was in the Computer History museum in Santa Clara the other day (awesome place) which maybe provided some perspective. We haven’t really come all that far from the punch cards era, we’ve certainly added a lot of talent and people, but the punch cards are still essentially unchanged. Consider:

- the interface for telling a computer what to do is still a “text editor”, barely changed since 1980. Basically, a bigger punchcard. We’re still arguing about whether 120 columns is better than 80. Scratch’s blocks are a hint of fresh air but only the kids use this

- code execution is still totally decoupled from code creation. We use insanely rich compilers to “talk” to our machines, but pretty much nothing to “listen” to them. We “log” things then ignore the logs. There’s no way to tell how often a line of code has been run, or what the universe of values has been for a given variable, short of digging into an awkward field called “tracing”. Borland Turbo Pascal offered live code tracing 40 years ago (Ctrl-N to execute to the next line) but nobody has meaningfully improved upon it.

I don’t mean to gripe — we’ve accomplished so much with these and the other simple metaphors —- but they do reinforce the idea that the software field is still very young.
Are the majority of these risk factors not predictable epigenetically or genetically?
What a relief! I thought this was going to be one of the trendy "urban neighborhoods are now radioactive free fire zones full of zombies and death" articles. Instead, it's about a real, yet very tiny, problem.
The solution to obesity is simple.
People want tasty food .
It is possible to make it with healthy ingredients.
But market is flooded with white flour,sugar,wheat and milk products.
It takes effort to prepare it yourself.
Looks nice. I don't know much about modern UI development and often I want to just quickly add a nice looking UI to some of my throwaway/pet projects without having to learn all the modern concepts of React & Co. If this library allows me to declare the components I want with a few event handlers (with as little JS as possible) and it does the rest (I'm OK with the default UI if it looks nice enough), I'm certainly going to give it a try. And I also wonder, what's the opinion of professional frontend developers on frameworks like this, and why they're not more popular?
Right, we aren't there yet, but that doesn't mean we can't get there.

Growing up we had an Adam computer in the 80's but we got rid of it and didn't have anything until years later when we purchased an Apple LC II. That's what we need–an Apple computer for 3D printing/CNC/Laser. The Shaper Origin is a great step forward, but it still requires specific skills, but I do think we will get there.
When you're the only person to answer to for your physical health, it can be very easy to let yourself go. Having external accountability is a fantastic driver for improving physical health.
This company is running on fumes. It's hard to see any way to save the company. Maybe, if they burned everything to the ground and became opposite of what they are now, they might have a chance.

They had a good run as a business, but fundamentally they never had a good product.
There are all kinds of carcinogenic compounds we know are avoidable but people are exposed to nonetheless. The article points out several examples.

Some cancers are more likely to occur based on gender and more predictable gene expressions, but these aren’t mutually exclusive. You can be more likely to get cancer without doing anything special while still vulnerable to an increased risk of cancer through exposure to carcinogens (like alcohol, smoke, processed meats, etc).
Imagine a future where everybody in the world can have a house as big as they like, with literally no limits. You never need to do any maintenance. You can have whatever furniture you want, it's delivered instantly, and you never have to pay.

Space is infinite. Resources are infinite.

You just need an absolute bare minimum of subsistence to keep your physical body alive, keep your electricity on, and connect you up to the Internet.

We just need people to stop caring about the physical realm and only care about the virtual realm.

That is how we achieve practical post-scarcity. That is what the metaverse should be.

OK, right now it's not there, but it'll never get there if we never start.
It has nothing to do with being unattractive. It has to do with launching anything that anyone cares about. Elon can get away with being a jerk because of what he's done with Spacex and Tesla. Sergey and Larry built a search engine that people love not to mention Gmail, Maps, Android. Does anyone really love FB? What major feature has FB launched besides buying Whatsapp and Instagram?

Bill Gates isn't attractive and people give him respect. People camped out for WindowsXP. People love Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD. Tim Cook is on the same level of Zuck. He releases stuff that people care about.

Zuck needs to launch something that matters and get respect back. If he can't do that, he needs to step down from Meta.
Such a scattershot way to present the data, nearly impenetrable to a layperson. Also, the narrator’s sardonic tone doesn’t lend itself to credibility.
A more aggressive immune system can cause cancers, such a myeloma or lymphoma. Gotta watch what you wish for
If this sounds appealing, but you want a nice UI to go along with it, check out https://www.beeminder.com/home. Not affiliated with them, just a happy customer for several years.
Is unsafe sex an oblique reference to cervical cancer, or is there some other known connection I’m not aware of?
ahem metabolism by animals in of itself does not cause cancer. Biology wise cancer is the miss fire of a nature aging process.
Peter Eckersley, co-creator of Let’s Encrypt, dies at just 43
On one side, you have people doing what they're paid to do. On the other you have people creatively firing them, an illegal practice in some countries.

I really don't get why quiet quitting is even a term. It's just people not exceeding expectations as a default.
> And even then you’re comparing an empire that was quite openly exploiting who they viewed as lesser people, versus governments who devastated their own populations through good intentions.

Funny. That's exactly how most people who keep talking about the Holodomor say the Soviet Union viewed the Kulaks.

> I also find it funny to see the top response criticizing the obviously Indian author for failing to talk about something other than war and famine.

He's not talking about "something other than war and famine", he's romanticizing a company that literally killed and oppressed millions of people in the history of his own country. He can simply not do that, without having to only talk about victimhood. Black Americans can talk about other things than how cotton plantations were a great business model actually without talking about how slavery was bad. It's just very odd to focus so much on the supposed positives of an overall extremely bad thing. This is very much a "I just want the trains to run on time" kind of situation.
I'm a heavy use of C, and most of what I got wrong were around integer promotion.

I'm glad I run clang with -Weverything and use ASan and UBSan.
Ha, I have a running bet with a friend that it is inevitable that there is going to be model soon that is trained to do the inverse, predict the prompt from an image.

There’s a very rich labelled dataset out there now.
Thanks for the links! The Canadian one is great!
Blow what? Don't do foam. It'll massacre the timber.
If you want something else, look at hempcrete, wool, foam glass aggregate.
Thank you for pointing this out. It is apparently difficult to understand for some people. Let me spell it out in more detail:

* There is a community ("HN") with many individuals. The individuals are independent of each other. Each can form and express their own opinion on each subject. There is no reason to expect that any two individuals should agree or be consistent on anything. They may agree on some things, or not.

* Therefore, when several individuals from the community express opinions that are inconsistent with each other, this does not constitute hypocrisy.
No, he meant Apple's CSAM controversy. Apple wanted to scan files on your device, while Google scans stuff you upload to their cloud.
These old test are the fundament. Test_application_window_rendering may sound simple and useless now, but if this test fails something is really wrong.
How else would you test something like dependency upgrades?
This is basically https://www.beeminder.com/

(Started by friends)
As an anecdote point, I didn't have any of these issues, I think standby battery drain was a bit high but after a few updates it got better, still not ideal though.
Huh??? The Wikipedia article on declarative programming [1] lists functional programming as a sub-paradigm of declarative programming, and Haskell and Scheme as examples of functional languages. But Haskell and Scheme are obviously Turing-complete.

So I have no idea what you are talking about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming
I think tasty food (regardless of composition) might be the problem. If food was less tasty people might moderate their consumption better.
Is this related to all the Russian CEOs falling out of windows?
A lot of people want to hang out like the influencers they follow.
Looks like :) Just rebooted the app, looking into more long term solutions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158322

1. LGPL doesn't help header code.

2. It not practical to change a license after receiving outside contributions without copyright assignment.

And maybe also 3 they don't have the energy to pursue violators and don't really care.
Improvements should be designed to balance self preservation with self destruction. Immunotherapy, gene therapy, and CRISPR are still in their infancy.
Some English dynasties hiding 35 per cent of inherited wealth: research
> If google has taught me anything, money and influence can still fail. See: google plus, buzz, and wave.

Perseverance matters, Google is notorious for abandoning efforts if they don't quickly dominate the market. That largely pollutes the lesson you've received IMO.
The sad thing is that they could’ve also put Midjourney (and DALL-E) in the title and not lost any votes.
Same for Germany: https://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=37937
Probably hpv. Causes a variety of cancers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus_infection...
In Germany it is: a) 24 days vacation for 6 day working week, and b) 20 days for 5 day working week. That’s a minimum but there are also 11 days statutory national holidays in Germany (some Bundesländern have 12). The end result is a minimum of 31 paid out of work days if your work week is 5 days.
You may like Takedown (2000) and Antitrust (2001) a lot more than Hackers.
Takedown, sometimes referred to as Hackers 2, has nothing to do with the Hackers movie (which in my opinion is pure crap that became popular only thanks to a young Angelina Jolie in it) and tells the dramatized but true story of Kevin Mitnick and how he was captured.
> There is no reason, absolutely no reason at all

There is a reason: cost. A lower-capability cable is cheaper to make, and people don't want to pay more when the lower capability (often just power) is all they need. If every cable had to be made to the absolute highest spec, people would complain about that too. There are also economies of scale etc. from using the same connector.

Yes, the situation is bad. Worse than it needs to be. Better branding and labeling and OS diagnostics would all help. But "absolutely no reason" is still either naive or exaggeration.
Just look at majority of the comments in reddit where people don’t try to be so politically correct. All of them are about his looks.Even his avatar can’t catch a break.
Ok, fair. My understanding of "coding" is much narrower then, I sort those skills more under "sw engineering". But that is really just taste.
What does your use of their products look like? I abandoned ship with the lack of focus on enterprise following Jobs passing, but always curious to see how others juggle having one foot in Apple-land.
https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

This what you're looking for?
any recommendation for an adblocker on ios that can block youtube ads?
Korean consonants have slightly different sounds at the beginning and end of a syllable. ㄹ is pronounced as L at the end of a block, but R at the beginning of one, hence the additional syllable.
Index funds hold underlying assets under management... You are paying for a slice of the underlying assets... All slices of the pie are accounted for and it doesn't create anything new. Not sure how that relates to machines reproducing human creative efforts.
At least 2 months in advance. If it is later, the first or last connection is often times really cheap still, too.
wasn't there a recent initiative to pivot into pharmaceutical research or chemicals or something?
Sounds like a dystopian hellscape if you ask me.
Lustig claims there was a catastrophic shift from fats to sugars due to blaming fats for obesity. Supposedly fructose doesn't trigger the satiation signals that fats do however.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Also a happy Beeminder customer!

Note that Beeminder allows manual entry of data — I use this to track “work out 3x / week” type goals, but also has plenty of integrations (e.g. Apple Health data) for goals like “walk 10k steps / day”

The latter makes it much tougher to cheat yourself
iDevices can already be subverted. Plenty of malware over the years, and that's without even mentioning jailbreaking.