skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (b) Japan lacks natural resources (mineral, oil/gas etc.) and is hugely reliant on exports to keep the domestic economy running.

Natural resources aren't a good predictor of economic success. In fact, most resource rich countries seem to suffer from the "resource curse".

> but the innovation in technology and in process improvement that once enabled the amazing growth that Japan saw seems to have given way to a rigid way of thinking and a culture of just following the once innovative processes instead of continually improving them.

To be frank, I think they were just as rigid back then - if not more so. The only real difference was demographics and an asset bubble. As their population ages, they stop spending. Lower spending means lower income for companies who then slash R&D and new product development. It's visible in other sectors too like entertainment, not just technology. Jpop today is a shadow of its former self.

> China, they're innovating in ways Japan can only dream of without the fanfare or buzzwords.

The same thing that happened to Japan is happening to China now - end of demographic dividend, popping of asset bubble, ... China is likely to stagnate the next few decades. The only difference is Japan got rich before things went south while China is still climbing that ladder.

> Re: The US etc., everywhere has issues but Europe/The US does not have the observable stagnation that can be witnessed in Japan.

Again, it probably comes down to demographics. The West is willing to import people to keep their population rising - possibly at the expense of social stability. The Japanese decided to "go down with the ship" and just deal with the fallout as it comes. China ... doesn't really have much a choice but to go down with the ship. Who the heck is going to immigrate there?
> Sounds kind of gross.

To me this is the proof in the pudding!

It indicates a distinctive difference that one group of people enjoys and another group finds repulsive. But with these types of things, if we share food culture, then many people can open doors and find that what they imagined as repulsive can actually be quite delicious. :)
Would you tell me what I should use instead of std::clog and std::endl?
(Is it a deleted comment? I'm not used to HN because this is the first time for me.)
The point about playing god isn't about it being unnatural, but that you're touching against some fundamental things about being human and our limited understanding of the limits of things something of a similar intelligence level should be subjected to.

Responsibility was just one example of the ethical quandries that arise with cloning thrown into the mix, why should we create cloned children when the state already can't do good by orphaned children? How do inheritance rights play out? What do we make of things like DNA tests as meaningful evidence in criminal cases? Who gets to have themselves cloned, and how do you prevent misuse of the technology? Is it misuse to say, store the DNA of the best soldiers, best athletes etc so as to create clones to meet demand in those areas? And if that isn't the intention for cloning, why do cloning at all instead of something like artificial wombs?

Is it worth the suffering of all the imperfect clones (and the surrogate mothers within whom they'd be grown) that will inevitably be produced during the development of the technology? How do we deal with reproductive rights of clones and their impact on genetic diversity?

Children who are raised in the foster system will typically have a harder time than those who have families which can provide financial backing, so unless the clone is raised by a family as their own child, we'd effectively be creating a subservient class by cloning, since while with normal children, losing their family is not necessarily known ahead of time, with a clone that isn't the case.

As it stands, we aren't even mature enough to have a proper conversation about the much less dangerous ethics of creating rudimentary "intelligences" in the form of current generation AI. How are we, as a society, supposed to then have a proper conversation about the ethics of creating full human intelligences? With normal children we can at least point to a biological imperative.
apparently tons of videos on youtube.
I can’t defend American supermarket bread, but do you… not know that Nutella has palm oil in it?
Pickles almost always never look appetizing when photographed.

But they taste great when eaten with food. For most pickles the taste is not hard to appreciate. I would say pickles are not necessarily an acquired taste because they can be quite approachable !

The extremely high salt, vinegar, lemon, oil, chilly, sugar content or other preservatives allow them to be consumed much after their initial production. Most pickles tend to be consumed within a few months. Some afficianados like really really old pickles (like vintage wine) but they don't constitute the bulk of production/consumption.
If the posited database exists, then a citation ought to be straightforward.

As an observer with no competence in the field itself, I feel fairly confident of the quality of the essay because it appears to be exhaustively detailed and minimalist in the examples it quotes. I can't evaluate (for example) the accusations of license in translation, but Quiao provides enough context to permit the casual bilingual reader to evaluate the claims, and detailed citations to permit the casual scholar to validate the quote.

This rings to me as doing the math and bringing the receipts. :) It could be nonsense and I wouldn't have the competence to falsify it. But it sounds good. I tossed a link to my son, who at least reads some mandarin (is that the right word for the written language?) hoping for an opinion.
It's a southern thing.
So aside from how this affects cloud formation models, could it be used directly to seed clouds if it could be made in large quantities artificially? Probably a dumb question, but I'm not really a meteorologist or atmospheric physicist...
There are spiced pickles available in the western world (spiced olives in oil, as an example) - though it may not be as spicy or oily as Indian pickles. Kimchi is a distant but somewhat similar take. Indian pickles too are allowed to ferment a little at times (not the really old variety shown in the article). India also has its own version of American pickles (veggies deep-preserved in brine) - but they are usually not called pickles outside of supermarkets.
I agree with everything you said.

It's sad. I really wish they'd improve speed, latency, and packet loss. If they did then I would go back in a heartbeat.
Italian, Mexican, Chinese, and regional American restaurants of the fast-food variety? That's four.

Tongue in cheek response aside, four is a tiny amount. It certainly isn't "a lot" of choice.

If you've got that popular selection above, you're still missing Sushi and Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, Belgian, Thai, German, French, Vietnamese, Greek, Indian, Colombian, Argentinian, all Caribbean options, Korean, Russian, Peruvian, Scandinavian, Brazilian, Ethiopian, Irish, Austrian, Dutch, Chilean, Polish, Moroccan, Persian, Lebanese, Pakistani, Malaysian, Filipino, and Indonesian.

And those are the well-known options. After that you're just venturing into cuisine where well-off city dwellers cannot immediately picture a dish.
Salmon Meuniere w/ French butter.
Great observation. If you feed your examples into chatgpt and ask it for more essay topics like those, the result reads like a hilarious sarcastic roast of the US :D
Hands down the worst Australian food is in the USofA.

WTF even is the Outback Steakhouse, some kind of bizzaro seppo joke?
Presumably with European butter, garlic and rosemary - all of which is readily available in all 6 of the grocery stores within walking distance of my apartment in LA.
That sounds like one of the "Playpen" cases, for which the EFF has a writeup on the hacking tool. [0]

Perhaps also relevant would be United States v. Lafon Ellis [1], where the defendant sought access to the source-code of a DNA fuzzy-matching service.

[0] https://www.eff.org/pages/playpen-cases-frequently-asked-que...

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/federal-court-agrees-p...
> I.e. some entity that could force Apple and Google to implement the standard for all their products.

So like the EU?

Didn't the EU literally just force Apple at gun point to implement USB-C on their phones or lose access to the EU?

Aren't they also now trying to force Apple to open up parts of iOS like the browser and store?
> I was ready to go to blows over how my home in Appalachia is home to a true food culture that is unique as far as US contributions go. Then the author mentioned BBQ so I guess they get a pass. People always seem to forget us but we really do have a unique food culture that treasures food and time together.

It would make sense - in general the south has the majority of our home grown American food culture and contriubtions. They essentially consist of:

1. Southern & Soul Food

2. BBQ

3. Cajun & Creole

I can't speak to specfically Appalachia - as unlike the others - it has stayed more fixed to the region and most haven't tried it, but I could see it also being the case.

Following that category, the next largest asset in american food culture is the diversity of foods you can have, all of good quality (from people who know how to cook it). This is enormous, and not something you find it most other places abroad. You will find some varieties, but nothing like what you can see in an equivalently sized large or small city in the US. The only reason it'd rank after is that it's generally not new food contributions / culture - it's more a benefit for the eater to "eat abroad" while at home.
It is not necessarily "rich", but you're on the right track. During the 70s and 80s, US immigration policy basically filtered/let through mostly people who came here for college or higher education. That was the case for India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh at least, I believe. So of course the South Asian population here skews successful and educated.

I am not sure what immigration policy was like for Arabs.
> git doesn't really scale well with that since it stores diffs.

This is precisely what git does NOT do.
Is Obscura operating out of India?

If not, what's your point?
Have you left the US and ate well? For what ever reason the food immigrants brought often isn't that great compared to what you get in the original country. Or there might be one spot that does it legit. But this food often made to cater to american tastes.

Thai food in the US is nothing like what you will get in Thailand. Average ramen in japan is better then US. Same for sushi. Mexican food drops off quickly the further you get away from san diego/tijuana. We just don't have the freshest ingredients for some of dished from places far away.
No offense to Phoenix, but the difference between NYC and Phoenix is "radical" in every sense of the world.

Often times, Random neighborhoods in NYC have better food scenes than most major cities in the US. (including Phoenix).
Not everyone agrees that touching is an option.

Be it legal, moral, or religious reasons it isn't uncommon for touching to be considered off limits but anything before that is a grey area.
Foodie cities have amazing options, but they're different from the ubiquitous excellent food the French have.

Foodie cities have great farmers markets, but in much of France that's just ordinary in any town. Foodie cities have a wider diversity of ethnic restaurants than French towns, but in the towns every restaurant is always solidly great. There's just no room for Olive Garden.

I don't mean to get all utopian. I've had some so so food in France. But you can get great wines in every convenience store, for shockingly little money. The French really do care about food way more than Americans do. Those Americans who try are seen as being kind of weird.
in the past the world did not have fridges and freezers. So anything that would spoil was made into pickles/aachar it had less to do with being poor and more with being able to preserve food for longer. Farms in the west make jams marmalade of fruits not because they are poor but so they they can use their crops in the future.
I don’t know enough to judge any part of the monograph or review. I certainly have no idea whether this database exists or not. My only point was that clearly the review’s author thinks that the whole book is BS and worthy of a 20 page takedown.
Gumroad v1 was just a main.py
I believe Microsoft had a hand in killing off many great technologies by a variety of means — Nokia, webOS, Firefox OS, WordPerfect, maybe even Amiga. One ironic exception is Apple, which it bailed out (to thwart government intervention).

Thankfully the Gnu’s open source philosophy allowed Linux to survive and thrive. Otherwise we’d be living in a even narrower dystopia of computing choices. (Not even Google would exist.)
The point about making modest games as a educational experience/alternative to paid classes is pretty good.

What some successful devs seems to do is make a "mid game" Early Access prototype, learn as they go, and if it seems to work, grow it into a bigger game.

I really like this approach, as its like having your cake and eating it. The dev gets an "excuse" for barebones features in a release and free alpha testing. Escape bridges are not burnt. The game builds up a following and a small revenue stream. And then it gets a free 2nd launch, with all the algo/pr benefits of a full launch, at any arbitrary date, which is impossible for non-EA games.
What’s your second favourite dish then that isn’t a single regional ingredient?
> Wonder why they never looked at WiFi/BT...

They have

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/142553-apple-acquires-...
> Do you have evidence? At least I read a study (that I'm not citing, admittedly).

Sure, but it’s cited in a Dutch newspaper article. You can copy and paste in Google Translate: https://archive.ph/HvG8u
Apple encourages it, however, it's not required.

Meta requires you to link your personal meta account with your work identity.
I did. Where do you think I got the 5 billion euro figure?

Yes, McDonald's France has some local items, as they do everywhere*, but they also have Le Big Mac and Le Royal Cheese (because of the metric system, as all Pulp Fiction fans know).

* Here it's the "Denali Mac" which is a Big Mac made with Quarter Pounder patties.
If you've ever had edamame, I would almost rank them as cousins. I personally find Cajun boiled peanuts to be way better but they scratch the same itch
The reason to dismiss this as impossible is that it hasn't happened in 70 years, and it's not like we haven't tried a lot of approaches. At one point we need to accept something doesn't work.
It's quite funny to read this as a British citizen. Just ask any European about popular views of British cuisine.

(Which are outdated, and often wrong)

America has some fantastic food culture and like everywhere else it has comfort food and frankly bizarre food. Everywhere does.

The complaints about portion sizes and fast food are about one segment of food culture overall.
GP asked whether we are calling what Roger Penrose is doing pseudoscience, and I responded that we do.

Now, why is it pseudoscience?

Because the parts of the theory due to Penrose are essentially philosophical, he doesn't really make any firm claims beyond "quantum effects - particularly superposition - are involved in human decision-making". The parts that Hameroff brings to the table are specific, but fanciful. The whole "microtubules observe quantum effects" is about as plausible as cold fusion - it is motivated thinking that contradicts some basic limits that we have observed, and relies on some gaps in our physical knowledge to not quite be provably wrong.

Overall they are combining musings about the universe with bits of biology and QM that are not yet fully understood into a theory that uses the trappings of science, but relies on motivated thinking to have any plausibility. It's most similar to the homeopathic quacks' claims about the memory of water: not fully proven to be impossible, but moatly on account of the vagueness of the claims. So, what they are doing fits the definition of pseudoscience.
This reads like the author barely knows the US. The US is 50 countries pretending to be one.

Even that chart about the US spending 1.5h on cooking is silly when you consider bbq culture in texas for example.

One of my first impressions of California in LA when I moved from a different state was how tasteless and bland every food I could get was. LA had a "foodie" reputation so I was shocked. Food trucks had "ok" fish tacos but even in regular tacos in mexican neighborhoods I tried were not spicy enough or even when spicy very tasty enough. I went to different neighborhoods to places with "5 star reviews" and ordered a lot using Doordash. I even took others to show them how great Thai food is and they commented (correctly) how that food they had wasn't particularly tasty. I don't know to put it, like the food was afraid to offend my taste buds maybe.

In NYC the pizza, italian food, Deli food, Shawarma trucks were all amazing to me. Miami, had a lot of tasty Cuban food (best ceviche I ever had).

I also had good french food in the US. You can have better tasting food in the US than anywhere in Europe, but the author is right that most people in the US don't go out of their way for that experience. The local cuisine in any part of the US reflects what the locals prefer. Any asian restaurant in the south will serve you iced tea for example and it all tastes the same.

Ultimately the author and the snobbish french are criticizing the tastes of the majority of americans not what type of cooking is available. They do not believe in democracy when it comes to culinary taste, they are culinary chauvinists who believe their measurements of taste and how their food makes them feel is superior to all else. Never mind the subjectivity of culinary taste.

The author is also clueless about how much food means to americans. In most of the US outside major cities, there is little to do outside of work other than eat. Just drive a lot to places and eat. Home cooking and soulfood mean a lot in the south.

The author and others just refuse to open their minds up to the possibility that other people can taste the same food (like me and LA area food) and have that mean something wildly different to them. How the food makes us feel is what we like ultimately and that is shaped by our life experience.
Can't tell if you're serious or not but Outback is not Australian.
I have some bad news,the US, China, and India are not going to turn on a dime like the more optimistic green energy revolution people hope. We have time to plant plenty of trees before we turn the corner. It's just the way of things.
Individualism is great. There's no point following books or customs from centuries ago when the world has long moved on. A farmer 200 years ago didn't really need to learn to read and write. Just pay off his patron landowner that was exploiting him and use whatever scraps that were left to try and survive.

These days we can move beyond survival and into real fulfillment. And we need to, as well. We can't live without knowledge anymore. Critical thought brought us this far. And we're really far from extinction. We could do with a few billion less people if we want to be sustainable. The transition will be tough for those getting old but it'll be worth it.
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I'm saying that those who can even cross the seas are relatively richer than their peers in their home country. It is not just a function of a country opening immigration, the potential immigrant must first be able to afford to do so in the first place.
> Boiled peanuts?? Never heard of that before. Sounds kind of gross. You eat them all soft and mushy? I mean I guess peanut butter is good ...

It's nothing like peanut butter, actually! They're savory, salty, and delicious.

They're boiled in their shells to the point that both the shells and the peanut are soft and mushy. The shells are filled with brine, and they're served hot.

It's quite a lot like edamame, but I'd have to go with boiled peanuts if I had to choose.

If you're driving through southern Georgia, you can get them at almost any gas station popup or farmers market. It's a small cottage industry.

Speaking of savory, you need to try bacon fat soaked collard greens and fried ocra.
I grew up in a small city in upstate NY where a lot of eastern Europeans immigrated in the early 20th century up until the second war. Going to my friends' houses in the 80s - it was normal for the extended family to all live under one roof - there were a few families with grandparents who did not speak any English at all, and only spoke Czech, Hungarian, or Polish. Of course, the people these non-English speakers did business with on a daily basis for most of their lives in the US were speakers of those languages, and they could also rely on their children - my friends' parents - to translate.
Author here. Thanks! I'm pretty sure most of the negative effects of SSRIs were discovered in phase 2 trials, though. Pk trials aren't usually powered to find adverse effects in subpopulations like teenage patients. Same thing with GLP-1 agonists and their effects on addictions (which I think were actually discovered post approval).

That being said, we'd still have to do dose escalation studies for toxicology even if we had great pbpk models. Not denying that.
What I want to do with this library is to make a C++ version of JavaScript's console.log(), PHP's var_dump(), or Python's print(objs...).
In other words, this library aims to print variables of any types easily for debugging.

BTW, actually I made this for competitive programming.
The reason the library has some macros is also the macros are useful for competitive programming.
And I thought it might be useful also for debugging productions, so I created this post.

I am learning a lot from everyone's advice.
New advice is welcome, too.
(I don't want harsh advice, though. :smile:)
Capitalism wants not just consumption but increasing consumption. In that vein, a decreasing or stagnating population is bad for capitalism. Capitalism wants the pie to keep getting bigger.

Look at countries where population growth is negative. The economies have stagnated.

Children are essential to capitalism.
Whenever I visit two things stand out to me:

- the abhorrent sweetness of nearly all things. There's some sort of sugar added to everything that makes it quite gross if your pallet is not accustomed to that.

- in contrast, the absolute blandness of fruit and vegtables. It is almost like they removed all the taste from those and replaced it with water. It does look very good though, spotless and excessively large, almost perfect, but tastes like nothing.

Also portion size, while this already has become oversized in Europe as well over the last two decades (with the exception of high end 7 course meals in expensive restaurants that are more bitesized), the US serves portions that would comfortably feed a family of 4.

One nice thing for the none timezone adjusted when you fly in: hotels serve steak for breakfast. That would be hard to find here.
Other than the explanation in the article (big businesses work with big sums, for one thing) -- game publishers (particularly at the big end of town) are notorious for being dead wrong about what customers want and have consistently demonstrated that they decide what the market wants and then try to make that the case. See: single-player games are dead, the only type of game in the future will be live services, Sonic, etc.
I've never been to France but as a midwesterner, I can confidently say I have easy access to a wide variety of farm fresh fruit, vegetables, and meat. I still often choose to eat fattier, saltier foods with lots of preservatives, but that doesn't mean it's unavailable. Whether that makes my cuisine "worse" depends entirely on the metric you're using.
I observed the same for BIC Camera 5 and now thinking back, 15 years ago, I got already highly disappointed by the Japanese tech.