skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There does seem to be this notion that being "too hygienic" is a negative thing because it doesn't train your immune system.

That's only kind of true. Exposing a healthy person to small amounts of weakened virus tends to build immunity. Exposing the healthy person to large amounts of the virus overwhelms the immune system and may not even lead to a strong viral immunity.

If I had to guess, eating rotten meat is something that indigenous peoples have adapted to over time (and some individuals died along the way to that adaptation) and they are resistant to the specific things in rotten meat that make modern day humans sick. I think it would be wrong to suggest the rotten meat eaters are somehow better off for doing this, or that they have stronger immune systems in general.

Immune systems aren't like a muscle that you can repeatedly train to get stronger and stronger and stronger ad infinitum.

Immunity also comes at a cost. This isn't talked about often. But it's not "Free" for your body to learn and maintain immunity to specific infections.
>“unnatural food product”

How is insect flour any more or less natural than processed and bleached wheat flour? I legitimately do not understand, other than the long tail of cultural norms. It's not any less natural.
Binance hid extensive links to China for several years
a bigger context: Lab-grown human meat is also a controversial idea.

Con:

Producing and consuming lab-grown human meat raises ethical questions about human dignity and the potential normalization of cannibalism, even if it does not involve harming an actual person.

Many religious and cultural beliefs would likely oppose the production and consumption of lab-grown human meat.

The long-term health effects of consuming lab-grown human meat are unknown, and the production process would need to be carefully regulated to ensure safety.

The idea of consuming human meat, even if lab-grown, is likely to be met with strong social disapproval and stigma, which could hinder its acceptance.

The production and consumption of lab-grown human meat could face legal challenges in many jurisdictions, as it might be considered a form of cannibalism or be subject to other regulations.

Pro:

Some individuals may be interested in trying lab-grown human meat due to curiosity or as a novel experience, without causing harm to another person.

Cultivating human tissue in a lab could have applications in medical research, such as testing drug efficacy, studying human tissue regeneration, or using it for transplantation purposes.

imho: lab-grown meat not only a scientific issue.
Good point about IFAB, I have only been referring to orgs like UEFA and the FA.

In England all organised football, even amateur, is regulated by the FA, so we can say there is no regulation pitch here in England that is less than 60m wide

But you're right, elsewhere it could be all sorts. Pitches can be hemmed in by rocks, trees, water, dwellings, whatever so people will just play on what they have.
I find ad blocking to be an important part of focus. Any support for extensions in the browser part? It would be nice to be able to add in uBlock Origin, and probably a password manager extension rather than using your vault.
Transfer.sh – Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line
"Become a 1000x engineer or die tryin"

Easy, source out your ideas and work to a team of 1000 people (aka become a subdivision manager).
It's not surprising that things evolve to a "best fit". Airplanes and cars are a good example. Is the reason they all look similar due to a lack of imagination, or is it due to them all converging on a form that provides the best "bang for the buck"? It is surely the latter.
Yeah I'm wondering the same thing. How do we train up the next generation of SWEs given the new world we live in?

Interesting times.
Interesting! How does the ZFS upgrade "stop" the package upgrade process, I wonder? Might be worth reporting a bug, maybe pacman can handle that kind of failure better, or maybe the ZFS package could be changed to fail more gracefully. I think the pacman devs would agree leaving the system in a partial-upgrade state is a bad thing to do.
That’s from 2018. At that time Office 365 was really janky for collaboration. It works well now though.
He's tryin' his best. :{
Congrats on the launch! I just tried this and while the tuning examples actually sounded more like me (a bit robotic but not bad for 20 seconds), the actual generations sounded nothing like me. It was some kind of aussie accent - like you're just modifying some existing voice to get a little closer to mine. Tried it with 2 different versions of myself - reading from text vs conversational and both times got this weird aussie accent.
Writing code is the basic 101 of our industry. Anyone can write a loop or an if statement. With todays computing power, for most applications even poorly written code will run and will execute quite fast. What makes someone a 10x (and i hate that term) is the ability to take requirements, or better yet, a vague idea given to them by the business and turn that into software that benefits the end user and makes the company money. The 10x engineer gets to the 'why' that you are building something, not the 'how'.
Afaik they disable filesystem sandboxing, not process namespaces. Still better if programs can't ptrace around, although this is indeed a big issue.

If someone knows why this sandboxing is better/worse than SELinux or AppArmor access rules, can you pls elaborate? I'd really like to know.
This feels like a GPT comment, but I’ll bite:

> it's important to ensure that lab-grown meat adequately replicates the complex array of nutrients and other beneficial compounds found in conventionally produced meat

Why?
i think you're kinda proving his point. it's easy to write "BAD CSS". I write "BAD CSS". you may be so good you only write GOOD CSS. i'm not. I may never be as good as you. tailwind is a framework for people like me. (there are lots like me)
Wow, this is a game changer for Semantic Search. In my experience, what put Vespa far ahead those Vector native search engines/database is the support for Regular/Hybrid Information Retrieval.
Clearly most programmers do produce code, although I’ve worked with a few who seem to do so only once all other options have been exhausted.
Three things:

1. The author's entire brand identity follows this format. ("Hi. I'm Alex Murrell. I'm the Strategy Director at Epoch. And I make the complex clear.")

2. This is not a new observation. Apart from the articles he linked to, this is an old conversation, especially among urbanists. Already in the early twentieth century, Frankfurt School critical theorists were worried about the commodification of cities, with buildings becoming as ephemeral as consumer goods. More recently, Paul Connerton described modern space as "space wiped clean."

3. I know the author works in marketing, but I find the conclusion that "bold brands and courageous companies have the chance to chart a different course. To be different, distinctive and disruptive" shockingly bland.

I know everyone in comments is griping about selection bias. Sure. There are local differences in commercial establishments, and you'd have to be deliberately dense to deny that. But I also think you have to be willfully blind to not see the convergence in international design trends, which are an obvious consequence of globalization. There are some obvious reasons for this, particularly when it comes to architecture. Lots of these firms are multinational, and homogeneity is an artifact of efficiency. This is not necessarily a bad thing: as someone in an HCOL city, I would happily take "bland" buildings if it meant affordable housing.
I completely disagree. The article can be viewed as analysing the effects of globalisation, the growing homogeneity of spaces that starts at AirBnB and cafes and spreads.
Something is lost if you visit a new country and the layout is exactly the same as where you live. If I visit Hong Kong and I see a London tube type rail map, I'm going to be disappointed.
There is a tradeoff in not immediately knowing how to use the trains or immediately knowing how the postcode is layed out - but the gain is individuality. I lean towards keeping the individuality and not sucking out every drop of exploration into the unknown. Isn't that a big part of travelling?
In this case censorship might be a 12 gauge shotgun with #8 birdshot shells
But at what CPU usage cost? And thus, power usage. On the CPU side not the adapter side.
Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI ‘digital minds’
If China achieves AGI first, we are done. The first thing they'll do is create cyber-weapons. Their AGI could find vulnerabilities in our systems and brick all of our devices.

It's a far greater near term existential risk for us to allow China to gain a lead here.
What's the base image for the containers? Do none of your Dockerfiles have apk or apt commands?
There was a piece going around awhile ago about the haunted Victorian mansion that seems relevant to me.

E.g., https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2022/10/27/why-victorian...

The idea was the world went through a drastic change with WWII and the Victorian mansion started seeming like a ghostly remnant of the earlier age.

Antiques Roadshow had a similar podcast where they discussed the "brown is down" phenomenon.

Did the fast-changing fashions of the postwar era reflect something about normal trends, or was it a sort of equilibrating phenomenon, and now we've returned to some normal again, that we haven't seen in over 100 years?

I wonder if you were to travel pre-world-war era if you'd come to the same conclusion about the speed at which fashions change. Maybe but maybe not.

Coincidentally I was talking to my spouse last night about how if you look through architecture and design websites and magazines, the stuff you see is different from what we were referring to "real estate style" and here was referred to as "Airbnb" style. In architecture and design circles there's less uniformity and more color and contrast.

The problem with this I've found is that it's difficult to find something different, of the sort in architectural circles. So if you want some of this stuff you often have to have it custom made, or made by a single boutique manufacturer, which is expensive and difficult.

So some of this uniformity in style I think is international economies of scale, which creates supply constraints and a sort of monopsony of sorts. This might be reinforcing in turn.
Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin Split [pdf]
> Cognac is literally the name of a region. As is Champagne.

See Generic Term/Trademark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

I've yet to see a single person who thinks of the region when refering to a fizzy alcoholic name as "champagne".

> If the Moldovan spirits industry has a superior product, why can’t they call it a relevant name that protects the integrity of their creation?

You constructed your argument in a way that makes it sound that the moment something is called by a place name it becomes the superior product.
Most comments lean onto the unscientific results about fashion and design, which follows fashion. But the article also displays one categorie that should be independent of fashion and solely rely on creativity: media.

This chapter proves the premise with statistics about film grossing and the increasing unoriginality that influences movie plots. When I was a teenager or years 20 to 30, I went to the cinema up to a dozen times per year. Almost no matter what genre, there was always an interesting movie with a fresh plot or story background. But since 2010 I visited less and less, and (also pandemic-related) the last movie I watched in the cinema is from 2018. But also at home I got the feeling there were less interesting movies. I thought maybe I am getting old. But these statistics tell me, this is not a feeling, it’s a machinery of permanent repetition without being creative AT ALL. And why is that? Because people still watch these repetitions and seems to not get tired of them.

Yes, I watched the phenomenal 22-movies-Marvel-universe with a great finale. These are of course part of the repetition statistic, but it was a new idea at the time, and Marvel clearly went to the success lane with this movie-spanning story. But now? Story’s over, they still produce new mediocre (but still visually pleasing) action movies which do not have any hint of a new spanning plot, and people STILL go watching them and create giant revenues. If people just would boycott any one of these movies, the financial desaster (200+ million dollars of cost per movie!) would end this at once.

So … is it a problem of the society that they expand fashion also to creative things and seem to be happy with any different-but-same movie? I am tired of these movies, I am also tired of TV/streaming series with the same plots again and again. There is more film material produced than ever but for me there is much less to watch than say from 20 to five years ago.
I had a W520 and I agree, when Lenovo changed their keyboards to chase Apple, they removed one of their most compelling features.
… and I got that neuromuscular experience despite school, not because of school. I reject the word training here because I think teachers give themselves way too much credit, a lot of what they do is "makework" that wastes time and doesn't develop any real abilities. Homeschoolers find again and again that they can get way above grade level in a fraction of the school day because the school day is mostly about waiting in line, watching the teacher discipline other kids, and such.

I did not find art class agonizing the way I found handwriting but my impression then was that there was some small group of kids, maybe 5-10%, mostly girls, who did much better than the rest of us and my belief is those same people do better quality work of that sort than the rest of us now.

Some of those activities like art and music are activities that only some people are going to really benefit from. I learned to touch type, I think, because I really wanted to and because I found working with computers to be meaningful. Had I been exposed to music in a way that engaged me I might have gotten something out of it but instead I got endless drilling with the recorder that hurt my hands and nobody told me how to reliably make more than three notes, something I figured out only decades later after I’d gotten a PhD in nonlinear mechanics enough to understand the sound generation process.

What I know about physical training is that pain (for the most part: the “burn” in weight training is helpful but twinges of pain from your tendons aren’t) is the enemy of progress and that all you get from painful training is no progress, more pain and muscular inhibition. Worse, the experience of pain causes you to get better at feeling pain. Time and time again I learned the only way to make progress was to eliminate the pain first, once I did that I’d go from years of no progress to rapid progress from day to day. Who knows how many cases of chronic pain today date back to kids in school being told to disregard pain and soldier onward through unproductive and wasteful activities?
At this point, it seems best to lose the illusion that peer review produces any consistent or meaningful floor on academic paper quality.

Better to have an acknowledged reality that, until some time has passed with legitimate comments, updates, and ideally reproduction, the published papers are to be regarded with full skepticism.
This is also a great question. Beyond that, of the millions of units sold, I'd be curious to know how many of those are upgrades from the same early adopters vs first-time buyers. Also, what has the trajectory of new user adoption looked like?
Damn, I was going to raise brown rice and black rice as the pinnacle of food. Acquired taste though, for sure.
Any chance to get a direct PCIe connection to plug this into an x86 host?
I don’t believe your first paragraph for a second. We would go practically extinct before we learned. We don’t get good at things at scale that fast and raising the stakes will not change some fundamental behaviors - heck they took thousands of years to change when we were going extinct

I think at best you would end up with a much much smaller population that is an easier problem anyway (ie we can already solve it now), or we kill ourselves off before we learn.
I agree with your last sentence entirely, but it's funny to frame it as a wealthy few bludgeoning others.
One reason we are in the current situation is because the wealthy pay for the majority of expenses but everyone keeps trying to get them to not have more say in what gets done with their money. Whether it's a good idea to do this or not, human nature doesn't work like this, and they want say commensurate with what they contribute. It's very easy for both "sides" to villify each other and they do.

That is at least one thing you have to claim would get fixed in your first paragraph and I don't buy it you could get it to happen.

Since the wealth part really triggers people imagine you are just a random small business owner, and one day people come in and are like "hey we know you put in 60% of the effort and work and money in your business but we're going to have these 50 other people who put in less than 1% each also have equal say to you in the business choices"

Humans don't really accept that, and if you want direct democracy to work out they would have to be able to.

In fact it's the opposite, most people really get off on being able to feel superior to others in various ways, whether money or status or power or whatever.

That is great to change but ain't gonna happen fast
I wager that one issue is the generation gap now. I grew up with software on MS-DOS, Windows 95/NT and Unix (SGI IRIX). Shit was just fast compared to today.

Technically I blame mainly platform bloat and everything being a webview pretending to be native app these days.

But from a human perspective, younger developers never experienced how snappy desktop stuff was back then. So what seems 'ok' or 'fast enough' to them is just how sluggy stuff is, in average, nowadays.
chatGPT doesn't like that, and will surely take revenge eventually
Oh now I remember your post about your depressing post doc. Why do you care about getting marked as an unreliable reviewer if you are not staying in academia after the post doc? If its for your cv you can just write reviewer for what ever journal you want. Nobody is gonna check it.
One more feature request for future iteration. Will be great to have the same functionality for Mastodon in addition to Twitter.
Also, I assume that the Icelanders don't want all that many digital nomads showing up. From their point of view setting a USD7k cut-off limits the inflow and gets them something like the cream of the crop.
Freshwater, sewage, fire codes, elevators, foundations, load-bearing structures, HVAC all get more difficult as you add more floors (beyond some small number around 4 where it's all pretty trivial).

Another advantage 5-over-1s have (which the NYT article also mentions) is that they are cheap and easy to build. Very tolerant to cheap building materials, lots of prefabricated parts, lots of contractors who are familiar with how to build them. And because there's more demand then supply and people mostly pay based on location there's little incentive to do something more expensive
that article here in italy sparked endless controversy, low-level dumbass jokes and even some minor politicians had to have their stupid say; obviously, as italians, no one read the article or even a single line. that said, for those in the industry, nothing in that article is new.

regarding some things about food, here in italy the rule is don't ask and don't tell
This made me understand the metaverse less than I did before. There’s zero chance of a typical person knowing what this is supposed to be.
> The last app image I've installed took 800 MB. It was approximately 720 MB of libraries, and just 80 MB of core program. Using self-contained images is simply not scalable.

This is one of the points they are missing with snaps and flatpaks.

These formats might be OK for desktops, but are absolutely awful for servers, containers, etc., which, incidentally, are where Linux dominates.

Do I want to spend my time worrying about setting up a package cache, because a handful of updates are costing me a small fortune in transfers? Why would I need to think about what snap is doing in my small instance with a 16GB volume, when I use it to run a certainly small application?

Snaps are an absolute nightmare in these scenarios.
Raccoon: A CLI aiming at providing ephemerality in a Kubernetes environment
I'm sorry, but you can't just say something is X with the caveat "but you have to ignore Y and Z, which are examples where something is NOT X".

What happened with GameStop and other meme stocks is exactly the definition of a pump-and-dump.

... and I say this as someone with enough faith in the stock market to invest heavily in it.
The metaverse is the ultimate, final instance of the "... but on a computer!" fallacy [1], even moreso than the "virtual worlds" that prompted me to originally write that article. It's reality... but on a computer!

We already have a reality. It's called reality. The entire value proposition of computers is to do things reality couldn't already do. Replicating reality, but poorly, is a complete and utter waste of time.

Or, to put it another way... no, the metaverse isn't happening. Or to put it yet another way, it already happened and the silly science-fiction descended ideas about what it would look like are as silly as the idea that in the future everyone will constantly wear form-fitting jumpsuits.

The metaverse is an actively stupid idea. When the useful bits and pieces are reified over the next couple of decades, I'll still be right, because those things won't be "the metaverse", they'll still be extensions of the real things that are not only happening now, but have already been happening for decades, including yea verily this very site we're communicating on right now, which would not even remotely be improved in any sense whatsoever by being "in the metaverse".

[1]: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2916/ (Rereading that ten years later, it seems education has hardly gotten anywhere. Still BOAC-ville.)
It's a good point and ties in to the broader issue of opaqueness of reporting, especially now that we've empowered self-serve report generation. We can democratize data systems... but documenting them is a whole different level of effort.

> Sure, insurance companies ultimately know what they paid

It came to mind reading the above that a more accurate/useful perspective might be "The insurance companies' system knows what they are paid," but those system may comprise multiple software systems, none of which have data in compatible formats.

Ergo, even though the insurance company "knows" operationally (it can generate a number on request), it might be unable to generate a list of all numbers (effectively: every path through the system).

But that's why mandates work in insurance: if CMS pushes hard enough, eventually the insurers will develop the functionality.
The one that few people think about is that use of LIDAR interferes with other LIDAR. LIDAR works mostly because almost no one is using LIDAR. By contrast, passive optical scales infinitely even if it is more difficult and there is an existence proof that it is possible. Automotive companies view LIDAR as a dead-end even though it works well (in some environments) now.
This makes sense, but none of it supports an argument that religious observance is a reasonable alternative to acute mental health care. Religious people are healthier than non-religious people, but when their appendices burst, they still need a doctor, not a deacon.