skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought you were implying companies adding addictive substance to their products in attempt to get people hooked which I thought a regulatory framework would fix. If coke puts cocaine back in their drink, it would require a license to buy so they wouldn't be able to do it without informing people.

Are you actually talking about something more akin to date rape? I'm really not sure if I understand how that might work. You slip someone opioids without them knowing until they're addicted and then you stop but reveal to them they're addicted to opioids hoping they continue that addiction? Or do you stop once they're addicted and just hope they figure it out? Or you just keep feeding their addiction without them knowing until you feed them a dose they OD on?
> Automating things significantly increases the cost of changing them.

I've described this as the difference between traveling by train vs car.

When you're manually driving a car, you can go anywhere your tires are capable of driving. You have full freedom, full optionality, to change direction.

When you're sitting on a train (traveling by automation), there's a set schedule, set stations and pre-built tracks. There's no option to deviate from your itinerary at all. Moving train tracks takes too much time.

By laying the tracks up front, automation reduces control/visibility and ossifies your decisions in a way that limits future options. The tradeoff of is that you can sit back and read a magazine while a machine does the work.

People generally don't like to hear this - they immediately see the benefits but are very likely to ignore or brush off the additional complexities and contraints that automation adds.
2038: Study finds that cars without any humans are safer than those with
Traditionally, lard was used for this purpose, not oils. This remains one of the best choices.

Good alternatives are butter or high-oleic sunflower oil or other high-oleic refined vegetable oils, which also have a low content of PUFA and of substances that are not triglycerides.

This is different from the case when the purpose of an oil is to be eaten without being heated, when cold-pressed non-refined oils are preferable, because they include various beneficial nutrients.

In any case, even if some kind of fat is used for frying, it is good to try to avoid eating most of it.

It is also possible to never use frying. In this case everything that is neither boiled nor steamed can be baked in an oven. This includes all kinds of meat (which must be cut into slices or small pieces before baking).
The first iPhone has no App Store no custom app, no push notifications, no Retina display, no iMessage, horrible camera, incredibly slow cellular.

Basically all the things that make iPhones popular and addictive didn’t exist on the first model.

Nonetheless it was a complete and utter success.
the RC loop pedals changed my life. do you play an instrument with an output? GET A LOOP PEDAL YESTERDAY.

practicing electric guitar without a loop pedal is like building a website without live server.
I would be willing to bet that a lot of the code produced at large companies is not very good either, honestly.

Almost every company I've ever been at, code quality is a far down the list concerns for the business and that winds up infecting the dev team as well who is constantly scrambling to hit deadlines and produce business value.

Some of these companies have been in business making money on these shoddy codebases for decades.
Times change and programming techniques change. These who don't adapt will fall behind at some point.
On the one hand, "no kidding, we knew that. Duh."

On the other hand, doing a study to confirm what we think we know to be true is not always wasted effort. For the simple reason that we are sometimes wrong.

And for the reason that studies can measure magnitude of such an effect. And variation.

And for the reason that for many contexts (e.g. safety legislation or safety standards) a study is proof and a call to act, in ways that "everybody knows that" is not. I don't know if this will result in legislation, but it is a step on that path.
There are certainly people in almost all audiences that are quite unique and exceptional, but the HN audience as a collective doesn't stand out as much as some of us would like to believe.
> But a human-designed synthetic process can always be human-redesigned. It happens constantly in the drug industry - the production of such a common drug as ibuprofen changed completely in the early 1990s, for example (a story for another time). For an illegal drug, that means that law enforcement will always be a step or two behind as new methods come on line. And it means that stopping the supply of such a drug will be difficult-to-impossible as well.

1) I wish he would have provided a link for the ibuprofen story.

2) With regards to the very last bit, You'll never stop the production. Ironically, "the war on drugs" has meant more and higher quality drugs.

What might be possible is mitigating the financial incentives.

It might also be a good time (read: long over due) to ask: why so many people have so much pain (i.e., physical or emotional) that they require a persistent altered state of mind (to defuse the pain)?

I'm not talking about prevention. I'm talking about a society / culture that is as good at generating customers for these substances as the producer are good at meeting those needs.
(author) I use 2.7.1 specifically because that's what was used in the original port and there are so many hacks it would not be a trivial undertaking to find all the changes to drag them forward, assuming a later Lynx even builds and runs on classic Mac OS. Current Lynx is more advanced.
People desire the Shaqs too - apparently 100M+ have been sold. At 5k to 20k units each time, hyped release Nikes will never ever add up to that type of volume and can never contribute meaningfully to a $200B company's bottom line. They have to be viewed as an advertisement that somehow adds prestige to the shoes they actually make and sell at high volumes. It's probably a much less important advertisement than the big name athletes they sponsor too - I bet they could discontinue the hype releases and not lose much market share.
Boy I have learned this stuff in the school of hard knocks. I remember reading about stuff like

https://techtinkering.com/articles/sweet-16-the-6502-dream-m...

and

https://mud.co.uk/richard/htflpism.htm

from a very young age.
omg i love this
> less than ideal resume

I don't see how it's "less than ideal" to end a contract job when the contract's up; even if it's contract-to-hire.

And I don't see how a 3-month lacuna in your resume makes it "less than ideal". I took four years out when my kids were small. Oh, I worked - I learned new languages, burnished my skills, and made a little money selling some software I had written; but on my resume, it looked like I'd taken a 4-year holiday, which I'd dressed-up badly as some kind of freelance work.

FWIW, I'm not a good programmer either, despite having spent most of my career programming. I'm fine with a block of code, or a module; but beyond a certain level of complexity, I don't seem to be able to produce clear designs.

Didn't stop me getting jobs.
> The solution, in my opinion, is not about the controls in the vehicle. Rather, it’s about removing the distracted driver from the equation altogether and finally mastering the immense challenge of truly autonomous vehicles.

So we can remove the physical buttons when we remove the steering wheel, but not before then.
What do those two interview questions reveal to you about a candidate?
Good. A company shouldn't have the right to tell me I can or cannot work elsewhere based on their own arbitrary definition of competition that I'm forced to agree to in order to possess a livelihood.
Libertarians tend to take potential solutions to the extreme, but seldom is anything so ideologically pure. Still, the idea that government can protect people from themselves is a noxious one. Drug legalization is an attractive one for that reason alone, but there are limits. Drug addicts are by definition not rational actors.
Maybe we can bring back local manufacturing… ?
YouTube's profanity demonization policy explained [video]
Those are included on Airplanes because you need those to make a safe stop (aka Landing)

you DO NOT need a speedometer or any dash display at all to safely pull a car to the side of the road and stop. Therefore they should not be mandated under safety regulation, if you have a car with a digital display and it fails you pull your car to the side of the road, put on your hazards and call for a tow to the mechanic

Just like in a airplane if it has a problem you find the closest safe landing spot, put the plan down, and call for a mechanic.
As I said elsewhere, I actually hat to look up what the creator economy is supposed to be exactly. I understand it as producing online content for a living and therefore I would argue that this content should be the primary source of your income in order to make you a proper creator. Does someone in the Microsoft PR department become a creator because they are filming stuff on the campus and put it onto their YouTube channel? There is however probably a grey zone somewhere, where the content that you are producing and other stuff or services you are selling become so intermixed that it is hard to separate them.
If I pulled all the weeds out of my yard all I would have is dirt.
Similar to theories on why Judaism forbids eating shellfish and pork, potentially pointing to a history of death from spoiled shellfish and pork, thus leading to a religious doctrine to avoid them.
Humanity has a long history of self-medicating distress. At first this was mostly with alcohol. America's prohibition efforts started in the early 1900's: prohibition, Harrison Narcotic Tax Act, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_Scream#Background_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs#20th_century
A couple of reasons:

* Most people will never voluntarily measure things. Instead people form intuitive assumptions and extrapolate performance and potential from that. This happens all the time for almost everybody.

* Business people need corporate promotions and incentive pay. The best way to achieve such is to pitch a popular idea full of shine and glitter. As an example have you ever participated in a "hack day" event? It does not matter what your final product is (or isn't). What matters is the 2 minute pitch at the end.
Yes. That’s why I posted my bafflement on a website dedicated to curiosity in a discussion thread on the topic. Have you got any ideas on the subject?
> So basically you are saying that you have to be a academic philosopher to understand such simple questions?

Well, yeah – or familiar with that kind of thought, at least. Confronted with the question "what is red?", most people just shrug and get on with their lives. Just look at the SEP page on qualia,[0] and that's a summary of part of that question. It simply doesn't matter to most people. I don't have to know what, exactly, a Hindu is, in order to respect Hindus; the question simply doesn't have all that much relevance to my life.

> Why not keep things simple and reserve sex for the biological terms?

I mean, you can. How you use language is up to you. But, rightly or wrongly, "man" and "woman" are very salient social categories in our society, and pressuring people into social boxes without their consent harms them. (It's a form of violence, for some senses of the word "violence".)

If you can use the terminology how you want to, without forcibly social-categorising people, then more power to you! And please teach me your ways, if you have the time.

> But as far as I understood, some think that is already discriminating?

That isn't discriminating. Discriminating is discriminating. Such insistence on such terminology can be part of discrimination, but the essence of the discrimination is not in the words.

> It is confusing and this is what annoys me with the topic.

Me too. The world is large, and confusing. Especially with social topics, people are inclined to yell at you as soon as you "step out of line", because if they make space for those who genuinely aren't informed, they open themselves up to sealions.[1][2]

Fortunately, you usually have opportunities to learn about these things other than in the spaces that get trolled often.

> My initial reaction to the top post and transphobic, was that the maintainer is a sadistic asshole who attacks trans people, but so far I only have seen, that he has a different opinion on the topic and the tendency to push his opinion on other people in a not ideal way,

It can be both. (Though I wouldn't call him sadistic. Some people around him are quite sadistic, sure, but I don't think he wants to hurt people because he likes their pain.)

> but maybe it is still possible to not exclude him from participation in society?

I'm happy to play catch with him again, if he stops lobbing bricks at my head and claiming it's dodge-ball (and if I can trust that he isn't likely to start again once my guard comes down).

He's not excluded from participation in society; just some parts of it he used to be included in. He's got plenty of new friends to enjoy spending time with, if he can. Just because he's sad about the relationships he's thrown away, that doesn't mean he's entitled to other people's friendliness.

[0]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/

[1]: http://wondermark.com/1k62/

[2]: https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/01/sealioning/
I’ve been veg’an for decades. I really enjoy “meat” substitutes for their texture and flavour absorption ability. For me it is no way an effort or experience of meat substitution. In short, meat eaters don’t have some copyright over “meatiness” and it is perfectly fine for non meat eaters to enjoy or seek out a gamut of food textures.

Typically, I eat the traditional foods of tofu, tempeh, and seitan/gluten and they are a “major part of my diet”.

Over the past decade, “food science experiments” have given us mycoprotein products (Quorn), textured vegetable proteins (TVPs) made from pea etc, and more recent eattempts like Beyond. Frankly, I prefer the “traditional” forms but the new types are improving and I eat them for some variety. My only “beef” is that they tend to push traditional veg’an proteins out of precious supermarket space.

I make sure I understand the protein, sugar, carbs, aminos, vitamins (especially B) I eat, as should everyone, and am perfectly healthy.
> Can anyone recommend better alternatives to lobby my company to try?

A stapler, a letter, a pen, an envelope and a secretary.

That is how I always done it were I worked and it worked flawlessly each time.

During Covid WFH I had to send email and take photos of the recipes so it was abit more cumbersome but I managed to cope.
Exactly: the author is confident that this is just "random trivia" that is beneath them, but the explanation they give shows that they're clueless.
They need therapy, because they need to stop unnecessarily blaming themselves for things they have little control over (e.g broken hiring practices). They need to divide their ego from what externally happens to them, and instead build it upon what they stand for (something which can't be defined/destroyed by the external). They need to stop focusing solely at their failures and misfortunes, and acknowledge that other people often face the very same or similar problems, and even had successes were others have failed.
If my data is being accessed I have the right to know. There are no secret warrents in Switzerland.

This is the whole contention with Microsoft Office 365 being hosted in the EU and the CLOUD act.
If people are drinking then the breweries are making money… If people didn't buy the beer, the breweries wouldn't exist.
Ask HN: What is your experience with dual licensing?
I’m curious to hear your thoughts from both a dev and a user point of view.

My thinking is, rather than trying to build and scale a managed saas, build the product under some permissive open source license for non-commercial and indie use, capped by some annual revenue number. Then, private enterprise license for those who make the big bucks.

Is something like this doable or too naive? I don’t necessarily think the “someone takes your code and runs” thing is a real problem, but I also don’t see this type of licensing often.
I don't think any of this analysis is correct. Google already has open APIs for partners to use in other areas, like health tracking. They could do the same with item tracking.

It's more likely that Google is astonishingly bad at product development and doesn't need new OS features for Android to compete for marketshare. People don't buy iPhones for AirTag features.
Discovered the concept of "developer roadmaps" on Github. Two good resources are the frontend roadmap(https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap) and this react roadmap(https://github.com/adam-golab/react-developer-roadmap).
Mazda has something similar. I realized that "do __ without taking your eyes off the road" isn't really true, for the same reason that it's hard to read your phone and listen to someone at the same time. Most of the time you can strike a balance, but every once and a while your mind will completely blank and take a few moments to realize you stopped processing what you were hearing. Not a risk worth taking while driving.

I try to avoid using the knob while in motion as well.
Good god, if you’re feeling slow or dumb DO NOT SMOKE WEED. From personal experience and that of my friends, weed severely affects attention span and mental focus.

I experimented with it as an alcohol replacement. I had to stop because I’d forget the point of my sentence before I got to the end.

My buddy is a great guy but cannot focus. He’s worse when he’s been smoking. My nephew too. He utterly fails to understand verbal direction after he has been smoking. Also my two friends in jr high went from sharp and smarter than me to barely keeping up.
I know that’s not science, but it’s good enough for me (and there’s no scientific study that disagrees)

I’m not anti weed (it’s legal where I am and I’ve used it and had fun) but if you need to focus, please for the love of god, avoid the stuff.
I've been roasting for about 12 years now. I still use the second roaster that I bought 10 years ago, a Behmor 1600. The unit cost under $400 new, and I get my coffee for about $8/lb max including tax and shipping. I have absolutely saved money, probably thousands of dollars over the course of this hobby. And I've become proficient enough that I can produce coffee that I prefer to anything sold commercially I've been able to find.

That being said, I am considering upgrading my roaster to the Aillio Bullet, which costs around $3k, so that would probably put me back in the red for this specific hobby.
Author may struggle with on-the-spot problem solving bits but could possibly be better at other things.

I find as I age, my ability to solve the on-the-spot things depends on my mood and background energy levels. The 'magic focus of youth' is 8 hours/day, as you are older it's only 4. Some days more, some less. Other thoughts and responsibilities wear you down as well aka kids, family, preparing for Christmas. But you do have the experience of wisdom and perspective and overall I'm a way, way better developer. I've written so many algorithms, dealt with so many platforms, seen so many things fail (and work), most of it is not even intimidating, just work.

There's different ways to be 'good' at something.
I thought about that for few of the personal stuff but in the end I just opted to have a binary that's just http router + abstracted away way to handle requests. So when I need new feature I just add a module and deploy whole (that includes static files) blob. No need to create new service, add it to loadbalancer etc.
Agreed completely - these are clearly anticompetitive in nature, rather than anything to do with protecting company IP.

FTC is probably overdoing this though; I sat out a full year on a compensated noncompete couple years back for a very good reason and the use case is still very much there for industries with sensitive information.

Proscribing noncompetes will make hiring very difficult going forward - one bad hire and your alpha walks out of the door...
hahaha yeah. man, i killed myself trying to switch from logic to ableton. i eventually gave up trying, now i just pump ableton instruments into logic via rewire so i can use the push controller, and it's a redundant workflow but my soul and my sanity thank me.

what software do you use? got any of your tunes online i can hear?
The change may be in areas you don't see. Refactoring is something visible only to developers but it has to be done continuously to be able to pay down tech debt. FYI dbus is also used by KDE, XFCE and MATE. Please avoid making more criticisms like this. Volunteers really aren't going to listen to you if you can't even get the basic facts right.
Objectivity “wars”: A move toward reimagining journalism
I think it would be fair to say meat lacks nutrition if it were advertised as an orange substitute. That’s the “context” you’re talking about. Meat substitutes aren’t true substitutes for meat without bio-available iron.
Because it is a socialist construct, despite what they may tell you. I mean that in the purely theoretical sense: the government “knows better, know everything, and solves better, and everything”, which just means “everything needs to be legislated.
Radar detector that can detect a radar detector detector (see page 2)
> This person needs therapy, not more Leetcode practice.

Well, sounds like they need a job, tbh...
You appear to be using "generic" to mean "C-ish". That is not what the word means, in context, and there is no reason to do any of it anyway. "Proofing the code"? Does that mean anything at all?

For RAII on heap objects, you have std::unique_ptr, and no boilerplate. Anyone failing to lean into RAII to manage resources is just choosing to write unreliable code. Or C, but I repeat myself.
For a large-ish one, /r/Stadia (rip) was run by Googlers that also tagged themselves officially on the subreddit.
Sorry, I’ll send an email next time!
This article from August 2022 had a lot of good detail: "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds" https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperfor...
Because many vegans (including me) like meat taste, but don't want to cause unnecessary suffering and/or kill animals.
In my view, you'd normally still want to use a virtual environment or ignore the system site packages.

The system will have a bunch a bunch of (site) packages already installed, and hence you lose control.
Raising animals takes a huge amount of resources, so in order to sustain the number of people we have in the planet, we need to find other ways to make food that don’t require so many resources. People clearly like to eat meat, so if we can replace a lot of it with something plant based that also satisfies those needs, then why not do it?

Most people will hardly notice the difference now if ground beef in meat sauces, taco meat, etc was replaced, or even only half of it, with plant based meat.
If you're SaaS, enterprise doesn't necessarily care what database you're using -- and some of them may be a polyglot even internally. (My dayjob is a SaaS that's old enough to have started on Oracle in part because we thought it would make us look "serious" to enterprise clients, which include some fairly large financial institutions. We just finally turned off the last Oracle server, after switching to Postgres; no one cared.)
Thank you for your post. I’ve been hoping to find a JustWatch.com for music. Looks like musicbox is that.
> Does someone in the Microsoft PR department become a creator because they are filming stuff on the campus and put it onto their YouTube channel

Yes. Microsoft also has specific "evangelists" that create content. Briefings, presentations, talks, videos, blog posts, etc.