skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but, honestly, the idea of a large social network not reliant on advertising is interesting

Who says this platform wouldn't be reliant on advertising? You need to provide free access to build your social graph, and then you need advertising to monetize it. Paid subscription is more of a supplement at best (think YouTube/YouTube Premium).
Will Covid Boosters Prevent Another Wave? Scientists Aren’t So Sure
"quite large" is very different from "everyone", and that's what has been so great (and terrible) about Twitter: it feels like everyone.
Last time I checked Gab was 10m+ users.

Gettr gets 7m visits per month according to similarweb.

"Very few people" is a bit of an understatement...
> Why is it the employees fault for being disengaged but not Elon's for being an absolute clown and bullying/firing everyone via twitter that calls him on his bullshit. He's the one being toxic, but people responding negatively to toxicity are the "drain".

Who says it's their fault? If you fall out of love with your SO and want a divorce, is it their fault? No. But you still need to get a divorce.

It's a business. You shouldn't take anything personally. And employees were posting shit about Musk on Twitter before he even took over.

> If someone tells him 1200 server side service calls are making the app slow in one country and not another, he deserves to be clowned on. He's the one making the claim he's some sort of Tony Stark, so he can catch flak for being dumber than the average mid-level web developer.

On the same note, the Twitter tech team needs clowned on for telling him that. As well as, the fact they have a GraphQL making 1200 calls.

> Another corporate simp acting in bad faith. Nobody cares more about twitter devs making 300k not getting lunch more than Amazon abusing warehouse workers. Nobody has said that. Nobody has implied it. The same people who are decrying workplace toxicity in elon's takeover of twitter, ime, are in favor of Amazon Unions and better workplace practices.

The same people decrying Twitter and moving to Mastadon and other platforms are the same ones still buying from Amazon.

Amazon go union busting and people did nothing really. Musk fires people for publically disparaging the company and I hear about it non stop for days and days.

> If you give a shit about Amazon and it's mistreatment of employees I have literally no idea why you're doing so much work defending Musky boi.

There is a big difference between almost slave labour and firing people who make a lot of money.

The so-called defence of Musk here is merely pointing out the facts.

Facts:

* Making sweeping changes and have a month or so of chaos is better than months of chaos.

* Getting rid of disengaged employees is good HR.

* 1200 RPCs via GraphQL is still crap.
Yes, it does. There's a comprehensive list here:

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-guidelines-and-fo...

Pork, veal, venison etc. = red meat.
Ads have virtually vanished from my Twitter timeline. There's no living off page views if nobody is paying for those views.
> The takeaway from this figure is exactly what's written in the article: "As shown in Fig. 4 [...]"

That's from the study that I didn't criticize, not the bigthink article that I do criticize. The claims about "shoddy research" and "not a health risk" are from the bigthink article, not the study. If bigthink rewrote the article to focus on the quotation you provided, it would be far more informative.

Edit: And to somewhat address your point about relative risk (RR). If someone told me that an activity had almost no upside health risk, and a wide range of downside health risk, I would not think "no health risk" is an appropriate summary statement. Again, this is a criticism of the bigthink (or really, RealClearScience) article.
No other animal has the mental capacity that we do, the ability to reason, or ethics like us.

We are not like other animals in this regard, we have the option to do better.
Yes it used to be expensive in the 90's but it stayed flat while the rest of the world saw inflation especially in housing.

And yes, if you see it as a touristic destination it's not cheap, just as doing tourism in NYC isn't cheap at all.
For anyone interested in a modern version of this, I strongly recommend Deadball[0] (specifically 2nd edition). It uses RPG dice and a few stats to build a fairly realistic but still breezy game. You can use real player stats to build teams, or roll up your own. I know some fans who run entire leagues for fun.

0: http://wmakers.net/deadball
AMD AOCC 4.0 vs. GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compiler Benchmarks on Zen 4
It's more of a short term solution. We're working closely with the AG Grid team to get these changes merged :)
Not sure if Mastodon supports this, but the account could belong to one instance while being verified by another. This also lets folks be verified by multiple organizations - which also increases trust.
Sure, I'm just curious how we'll deal with interest payments on our debt, especially since our economy has evolved to thrive on low rates. The hikes are necessary, but I think they're going to kill a bunch of BS jobs, meanwhile we'll have to raise taxes to service the debt. Gonna be real interesting.
> The fear seems to be that China could tweak a US citizen's feed, based on their profiling, to inject Chinese propaganda?

Yes, that's the assumption. And just to be clear, not feed you direct Chinese propaganda but drip-feed behaviour-changing content to make you more or less sensitive to some topics, and not necessarily you but maybe a different cohort they identify as being more easily manipulated. For example: teenagers or young adults (which are the majority of users on TikTok) that are still not mature enough to have developed critical thinking about what they are being fed.

It's exactly to avoid this kind of possible operation that the bells are ringing. Not necessarily because they are already exploiting it but because it's definitely a massive risk to allow such data to be vacuumed by an adversarial government.
Only the Inquirer and Washington post pieces said Trump was going to ban TikTok because of racism/xenophobia; and those were both published in the editorial sections. Is that the best you got?
It's a cultural thing. Chinese (and many more Asian nations) work so well in 10,000, and sometimes, it feels more natural to me as well.
That's awesome. I realized this year I too was playing games out of habit and now do kind of a starting check to see if I'm playing for fun or if I'm feeling compelled to do things in a game because of one or many feedback loops that have been engineered to keep me "engaged". Most of my history of playing video games is solo games with campaigns/stories, etc. so the always online multi-player games have these feedback loops with FOMO, stats on weapons/gear, etc. that make it appear to be worth your time to be constantly playing.

It was hard to pull away sometimes but became much easier when you realize the top tier loot you grind for isn't making drastic differences in outcomes of playing for an average player like myself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
There are many, many, more complicated areas of research, including most other areas inside biology. We have millenia of trial-and-error as a starting point for nutrition. The fundamentals haven't changed, although the problems are new and inventive.

Anyways, I'm not complaining about it being hard or complicated, I'm complaining about it being low quality and corrupt. For instance:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
No new two-letter words, which can really substantially change game play. VAX and BAE are at least realistic new words. They added QI and ZA in 2016, and they struck me as pretty dubious additions, chosen more to make the Q and Z relevant than out of a serious consideration for what words are actually in use.
Hope there's similar map of universe of all algebraic structures.
So the people who barely did anything think the platform won't run if people barely do anything?
>The question is, how do you select for those whose research will ever amount to something truly interesting

You can't, as "truly interesting" is context dependent, changes over time and something that everyone deems as futile may become interesting - that's the point of research. You just increase the bar of entry to get people who work very hard and leave it to them to decide.
Lets get things straight, nobody awarded them anything. They outright bought it via bribes, and evidence for it is everywhere. From indirect deals, to outright leaks.

People should boycott fifa if they want to see a change. Otherwise things will not change.
Well, CO2 asphyxiation is so far the most humane approach to butchering.

I remember a YouTube of a journalist looking for the most humane technique to administer capital punishment and it turned out that during co2 asphyxia the victim goes light-headed, even laughingly before passing out and away without even realizing. When told about this, Death Sentence advocates were disappointed that the victims wouldn't suffer while the sentence was carried out. (surprising eh!)
Get your blood work done at regular intervals and confirm that fear. I've seen a lot of people show impressive bloodwork results online. But again, don't believe internet randoms, just talk to a doctor and get your blood drawn. See for yourself.
I'm talking about Datalog, I mentioned Datomic purely in the context of syntax.

And to sum up what I know about Datalog, it's basically just this article (not reference material, but it got me interested in the concept), plus some light wikipedia-ing: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/datalogjs

Edit: I think you added the part with your git repo after I wrote this. Looks cool, could you add a license file to it?
Widow trade is the opposite. OP is saying sell non yen to buy yen.

Widow trade is to short japanese government bonds. That in fact has nothing direct to do with forex. The widow trade is a bet that interest rates will be risen.
Yeah, and there's still a big gap between what data tells us and how to create policy. Sometimes waiting for conclusive evidence isn't possible and when you see warning signs you have to make recommendations. Especially considering the potential downside which in this case is really nothing. Eating meat may not be a terrible menace, but eating less meat is hardly a burden on anyone.

The health risks of eating unprocessed red meat may have been overstated, but there is still some evidence that has to be considered. And the article itself says that while the evidence of danger from meat consumption may be a proxy for correlated lifestyle changes so this narrow finding doesn't actually negate policy. Pushing people to eat whole grains, fruits and vegetables still stands as the best option.
Intro to Radio Astro Interferometry by Thompson and Intro to Radio Astro by Burke and Graham-Smith are strong recommendations. Those were the ones I used in my Radio Astro special topic in Uni.

For some more background info, Essential Radio Astronomy open notes hosted by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory [0] are a great resource as well. This was used as an extra resource in my Radio Astro course.
The ERA notes were also later extended into a textbook [1], which I haven't used but have heard it's well done.

[0]: https://science.nrao.edu/opportunities/courses/era/
[1]: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691137797/es...
I think there are some operations that are trying to do this well. Granted, I'm probably pretty susceptible to their marketing efforts, but I find White Oak Pastures Farm in GA a really exciting example of an establishment that is pushing back against industrial farming practices.
https://whiteoakpastures.com/

The prices reflect this, of course, and I think the economics of more people adjusting their household budgets to eat in an affordable but also environmentally-sustainable way is really pivotal to seeing major change on this front in the future.
They also claim to be carbon negative which is really interesting:
https://blog.whiteoakpastures.com/blog/carbon-negative-grass....
https://blog.whiteoakpastures.com/hubfs/WOP-LCA-Quantis-2019....
No problem there, SI prefixes are case sensitive. But micro, on the other hand...
You already can with bookmarks/favorites. There's also the somewhat murdered RSS protocol.
The Security Design of the AWS Nitro System
Alternatives are typically plastic-based and don't last as long.
It's banned overnight in India along with a lot of other Chinese apps. I don't see why that can't be done in USA under national security policies. It's ridiculous to let an app from foreign adversary which can manipulate citizen behaviour through its algorithms while being able to keep track of what interests whom is allowed to operate freely. Its frankly surprising they are even having this debate. Yes meta, Google and God knows what other companies are also in a position to do this. But then the government can always drag the executives to trial legally. They can't do any of that with a foreign company.
Been shouting into a hurricane about this for two years: intranasal vaccines. Intramuscular vaccines do not prevent spread or replication of Covid in the upper respiratory airways. Intranasal vaccines do. They are slightly more expensive, and slightly more difficult to ship in large quantities, both only slightly.
House Committees Slam ID.me for 'Baseless' Unemployment Fraud Claims
At this point, can he keep it an "anything app"? He seems intent on driving away both users and developers, leaving it a "nothing app".
Loved reading this. I was unaware these boxed editions existed but I do recall using my AD&D dice as a kid to make a "baseball" game. I was obsessed with the probability of singles vs doubles vs triples vs home runs at the time and how to balance that with the poly dice. Anyways, it was probably the late 1970s and I had neither real stats nor the internet and I have no idea what my rationale was but I recall the game design process was far more enjoyable than the game. (Personal note ... boy, was that foreshadowing!)

Anyways, in the article, my eyes were drawn to the roll outcome tables and they all seem to be making triples as likely or more likely than home runs. Yikes. In reality, it's the exact opposite by a large degree. Example ... in the 2018 MLB season (pre-pandemic, full season), 853 triples occurred while 5,656 home runs occurred. And triples are becoming less common over the decades for a variety of reasons. But even in the 1950s, home runs were two to three times more likely than triples per at-bat.

Anyways, none of this matters, just sharing something nerdy. I enjoyed the article, thank you!

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?key=&i=triples+in+mlb+201...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?key=&i=home+runs+in+mlb+2...
The UK has a public register so should be easy if you want to expand.

Sweden too IIRC - and there the population register is public too so you can even confirm with the identity number.
Is this still a work in progress? I'm curious on your thoughts on how someone would find, as an example, resonance.md [0] to be a useful resource.

[0] https://github.com/meltyness/kg-uniphy/blob/main/Theory/reso...
I live over on Vancouver Island and we have a regional library that serves the entire island and the coast.

It is fantastic! Each individual library is kind of small near me, but collectively they have a massive collection. Occasionally you have to wait a few days for a book to come from some remote location, but it is pretty rare for them to just not have something.

Library systems really should be managed at a larger level, they are much more powerful when networked.
I think it is still best to err on the side of caution for a number of reasons. One is that not all red meat is equal in quality. For example, beef from cafo's where they heavily does with antibiotics and mostly feed them corn and soy is not the same as grass fed and finished.

But another reason is simply your individual health profile. Most people know that the Inuit and other northern people's have adaptations to allow them to handle much higher levels of meat and fat. Maybe you can't handle as much as other people can.

I only read the abstract but I saw nothing about the risk of obesity and diabetes there, but clearly in rich countries, we eat too much meat.

Lastly there is the environmental reasons. We can't feed everyone the same amount of meat that we in the rich countries eat. So sooner or later we will have to get used to less.
I don't think it's that strange. Perhaps calling out those two in particular might seem a little vindictive but I'd say modern music in general.

Modern music is watered down and simple. The drums are all 4x4, the chords are all the same, the progressions are predictable, etc. I'm not talking about just a genre using a particular set of chords, I am talking about literally being able to predict the next note using only 10 seconds of audio. Moreover, there is so much tooling around making absolutely talentless hacks sound good (auto-tune, quantization, very clever filtering) it's hard to actually know if someone is even real sometimes.

More than ever I've also noticed modern music videos are simply advertisements for luxury brands. I just think the new generation lacks the sophistication to enjoy good music. Every generation since the invention of arguably the highest most supreme form of musical arrangement, orchestral arrangement, has resulted in slowly stripping away any sort of intellectual endeavor listening music had held. There's a reason classic rock is called classic rock and stuff made in the 90s onward doesn't qualify. It was probably the last period of time where music actually required talent rather than a ghost writer and an advertising deal. This isn't just my age speaking. I suspect in 50 years people will still remember Zeppelin, but no one will remember Jay-Z.
> Because you don't jump off a bridge because Johnny jumped off a bridge.

Why not? Is 'below the bridge' a place we need to get to, and do we have a parachute?
Thank you for a thoughtful response. I do hope I am wrong and we as an industry end up in a better spot overall, though I suspect Rust is not the language that's going to get us there. Most accounts I've read or conversations I've had with people who used Rust in large projects boil down to "it's not worth fighting the language", so my general impression is that Rust is the Perl of this decade, and I'm excited for the next generation of languages after Rust, because they will have to consider the safety aspect.
Frozen vegetables have been a lifesaver for me. I’m not up on the latest research, but I remember reading at one point that frozen veggies actually retained more of their nutrients than fresh because they are often frozen immediately after being harvested.
That's an acceptable cost for not having to submit to anyone's whims about allowed content

Only 100 users and anything goes --- yes, I can see how that might be acceptable. I can also see how most people might have little to no interest in participating.
Save your weekend and deploy Django and Celery with Docker-compose
They didn't figure out that careless methane emissions caused an accelerated warming cycle that caused tundra melts in the arctic to release stored carbon into the atmosphere in 2022 using 1st world science. It already happened and explains the increase in temperatures clearly.

They'll be chasing their tail in that comedy skit for another 27 years due to lack of purpose. They did all of that in crayon.

The data for that cycle has been available since the turn of the century :p

The fake emotions are hilarious and the fake math to solve illiteracy is just a waste of time :)

Willful ignorance is their problem.

They can only spew healff, growff and maff due to their inferior language
Rosetta2 was/is far from perfect. Seemed like a coin flip since most of the things I needed it for were "hard" apps that weren't going to be ported anytime soon, but were "harder" for Rosetta to run properly.

An actual hardware core would have the advantage of better compatibility. And you only spin it up when needed.

But it would probably slow adoption too....
Yeah but then you have to ask the question how many of discoveries drugs prevented, either by derailing life directly or by proxy.

There is also no control, can't exactly tell if that was LSD that made someone discover something or that they just thought that it did. Hell, for all we know drug usage might've delayed the discovery.

Or it might've been as simple as "getting high together brought right people together at right time".
I prefer a functional inside out approach. Getting funding for it and start up soon, but you will own everything.
> Growing a garden on someone else’s land is dumb and I think more people are starting to get it.

Growing a garden on someone else's land means I don't need to worry about the upkeep. To continue your metaphor, leasing farm land is literally a thing people do. I genuinely do not believe the large majority of people want to worry about hosting, community management, etc etc. The people that do are in the extreme minority.

>To top it off, there’s very little upside to you as a user.

You are using Hacker News right now because there is an audience and community. That is the upside to the user.
It's been five years since I quit Twitter, and after using Mastodon for a week I'm of the opinion that, yes, the UI is much superior (Twitter's UI has even somehow gotten worse since then). People don't use Twitter because of its terrible UI, they use it despite it.
Ask HN: What are some good ways to waste time?
Does this assume the/a universe is deterministic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbgZQxd6J4

This one did it for me.

I have no problem with eating meat in principle, but it's hard/expensive to find ethically raised/killed meat
I think all people who try to learn APL for more than about 5 minutes end up realising most of their assumptions were completely wrong. Maybe they don't reach exactly the same conclusions (a lot of people do), but they reach similar ones.

> So things like <APL things> are not real?

They are real, but they are not issues for anyone who has tried APL at all.

Advent of code is starting soon, I'd recommend that you pick an array language and give the first couple of problems a go in it - even if you don't like it, at least it would save you from making yet more uninformed comments next time an array language article is on HN (and save array language programmers worldwide the pain of reading them).
To be fair - OP isn't wrong. There has been a lot of "pearl-clutching" about nothing-burger issues since 2016. This era has throwbacks to the 80s moral-majority/church-lady culture, with a sprinkling of "The Satanic Panic" and "McCarthyism".
Many have been run over with snow plows (it's snow season in Ohio right now).
At least it will be the butt of jokes in engineering meetings then.
That is something the apps and App stores can solve in collaboration. And if they are required to in order to make money, they very likely will.
> Then everything humanity will ever reach or know has Kolmogorov complexity no larger than this X

No. Information complexity does not obey conservation laws. The initial rule for generating the Universe is simple, but as time goes on information complexity only increases exponentially. It's a singularity of information complexity and we are at the center of it.

(This is the real reason, by the way, why aliens don't exist and Fermi's "paradox" isn't really.)
I use a remote Mac and use the built-in screen sharing over VNC to help me set up NoMachine, which offers a much better experience.

I am not affiliated with them but have used them for years and have generally been very happy with it.

Plus you can share drives and USB devices over network.
I guess he only has yes-men around him, as he can’t stand any disagreement over his stupid ideas.