skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between banning something, which is imposed; and shutting down, which involves no 3rd party.

Boxing: Not banned, but a lot less popular in the USA than it used to be. Maybe this is due to better understanding of the physical toll (brain damage, the occasional death resulting from pummeling in the ring), although there were other factors too. People going in know, or should know, the risks.

Skiing: If you want to risk your knees, go ahead. You know about the risks.

Football: The risks are finally becoming known, but the NFL seems to have known the risks for years, and sought to suppress this information from spreading. The other physical risks are known, and participants make their choices, as in skiing. But the NFL has tried to fool participants about the extremely serious consequences, much like the tobacco companies did with the health risks of cigarettes. Coaches and recruiters -- even in high school -- know the risks and turn a blind eye. How an informed parent can let a child participate in football now is beyond me.
Can you explain that a bit more? I've been building various web UIs for quite a few years, and the jQuery parts are generally just simple calls whenever the DOM needs to be updated, or when an action needs to recollect some UI state to carry out actions. Most state is held in the JS data structures, and the UI simply reflects it through pretty basic transformations.

I don't quite understand the model of writing that would lead to massively tangled jQuery code. Obviously, I'm building internal use and personal projects, but I also design my UI elements based on what HTML/CSS already offers, instead of trying to force foreign designs & models on it.

Of course, JS & front-end development isn't my primary domain. Backend distributed non-web servers, data analysis, and software automation is more my thing. Front ends are just a side requirement of completing the loop sometimes, but software manageability issues at scale aren't unfamiliar to me. I just don't see how people can tangle themselves up as much as they have across the board in the web front end domains.
The average starting NFL lineman was around 325 in 2016[1]. The game does like lighter and faster players, but often that's a tradeoff against durability.

1. http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/the-nfls-starting-offensi...
Baltimore.
OT: What's with sites wanting to show me notifications? Why on earth would I allow this?
I think that's a bit unfair. The LessWrong-o-sphere encourages tithing in the name of effective altruism generally. It's just that MIRI considers itself to be effective for these purposes, and it argues this way (as it is naturally incentivised to do).
Yep. One of the reasons why its getting popularity.
Even if you personally dislike it, I think you can agree that it's one of the UX choices that made it storm over the alternatives at the time.

Not all our individual tastes align with what's most popular, obviously.
Strips in article:

* https://xkcd.com/552/

* https://xkcd.com/1592/

* https://xkcd.com/242/

* https://xkcd.com/1217/

* https://xkcd.com/925/

* https://xkcd.com/323/

* https://xkcd.com/605/

* https://xkcd.com/1170/

* https://xkcd.com/1462/

* https://xkcd.com/882/

Latest strip at time of writing is https://xkcd.com/1772/

Current strip is https://xkcd.com/1868/

Eyeballing it I think its still likely uniform even if there hasn't been one that would have made it into the article in the last 100.
Thanks for the detailed answer. This seems super sketch. :-(
If you can't get in despite your best attempts, then maybe it wasn't meant to be. But let them be the ones to say no. Never disqualify yourself before you've even tried.
Kubernetes was written in Go. Microsoft seems to be actually pretty open about language choices. Some examples: their first version of the Azure CLI used Node, they started using Python in their 2.0 version. The new ACI k8s connector uses TypeScript (VSCode too)!
See also: diablo 3. There are only a handful of combinations of gear that enable actually being able to kill stuff in a reasonable amount of time + survive on the highest torment difficulty. Most of those end-game builds with high enough damage + survivability don't even use the unique play styles of the characters -- necromancer and witch doctor don't use pets.

I guess climbing a top100 ladder (or even top 1000) is, for some, also a game, and maybe just one I don't particularly enjoy. I see this in Overwatch too -- there are particular team compositions which work well in certain scenarios (mostly informed by the pros), and deviating from one of those cookie-cutter strategies will get you a tongue lashing on voice chat. The fixed 6v6 teams and smallish chokepoint-centric maps make it possible for one good player on one team to "carry" that team to victory and subsequently make the game pretty unfun for the other team. If your team comp is poorly-chosen (let's say you're attacking and two players want to play snipers), you likely will not win and your team will be frustrated the whole time. Conversely, the opposing team will have an absolute field day pounding you into a fine mist. The game is way too fun to win lopsided matches in. The teams are too small and inflexible to tolerate average players. The matchmaking, despite having a very large pool of active players, is frequently very wrong at making even matches. There are no mods supported, and a server browser (to browse only official servers, mind) is a recent addition, as others also tired of the small choice of variety in game modes (previously just public "screw around, rage quit, throw a match because someone is revealed to be female" or competitive "ultra salty tryhardathon").

I go back to TF2 and have fun for hours not caring about my win:loss ratio. I also previously had tons of fun and a great community in a Quake 3 mod for class-based, red vs blue CTF with large teams (16vs16). I die laughing messing around in Blackwake. I even grind for hours with friends in Diablo. Nothing makes me rage like Overwatch. I usually just get frustrated and stop playing.
My experience has been the opposite. For running a browser, I'll take a faster dual core over a slower quad core. Simultaneous tabs are of little use to me if I can't scroll smoothly through Amazon.com.
Donald trump seems to be having the best time on Twitter. If he stops using the service the stock will plummet 10-20%
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-15.htm...
Well that's the problem with this kind of analysis. While there was officially just one founder, Drew had his friend with him, Jeff Bezos his wife. Not exactly sure if this analysis makes any sense. No one can build something like Amazon by himself, so at one point people are hired and of course they have an influence on decision making, so the solo part vanishes real quick.
which has to be from a trusted source because you can't verify anything with just the UTXO + last few blocks.
Keep in mind that he's an NFL player, so he's in the offseason for most of the year, so he can live pretty much anywhere he wants. During the season a large portion of his costs are paid for by the team (hotels, meals, etc.).

I can definitely believe that as a football player he can get by on less than $25k of his own money.
You're misunderstanding the difference between an implementation of an interface and merely being compatible with an interface.

We each write something that passes as 'English' the language. Yet each of our brains has a different implementation of that interface. We do not copy each other even though we happen to be able to interact.
> Otherwise, I think it is what it is, just like people don't get up in arms about Boxing.

Doctors have warned about the long term health implications of boxing since the 50s, but nobody seems bothered by it. Boxing also isn't as popular as it used to be, so out of sight, out of mind I guess.
How to Hack into Wireless Networks Efficiently: A Guide for Sloppy Hackers
GitHub Pages can do most/all of that
What's wrong with passwordstore.org? It's not a service which I am giving my stuff, but just some handy script sitting on top of well-known distribution and security software. Plus tools and plugins for all the clients. There is no need for anything else than that.
You can have the first if you have a government with sufficient sense and compassion, it's been that way for a long time - and to be fair a lot of issues have been reduced or eliminated over the decades. e.g. Leaded vehicle fuel is a thing of the past.

You can have the second at some time in the future if the research works out and you can afford it.
Running and debugging AWS Lambda functions locally
I have tried using Chrome OS as my main device and I'm basically going to use this post to rant a little. Why does Chrome OS have to use basically a dock like Macs.

I would love and probably use Chrome OS as main device if it looked like this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/9MCqo.png
It's not that hard to believe. Here [1] is a somewhat e-famous example of a three-person family whose annual spending is around ~$25k.

[1]: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/01/16/exposed-the-mmm-fa...
Would you be ok with "nearly as bad"

"Based on the national estimate, the majority of concussions resulted from participation in football (40.5%, n = 55 007), followed by girls' soccer (21.5%, n = 29 167), boys' soccer (15.4%, n = 20 929),..."

So 40.5% of concussions in football and 36.9% in combined boys/girls soccer.

source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2140075/
Yes we hear in log scale, but why would that be intuitive? Ask someone how loud or soft any sound is - a dog bark, a cymbal crash, a whisper - and you won't get a numeric response. We're used to measuring distances, weights, etc but not volume, aside from the volume knob which goes from 0-100%, and the logarithmic scale is already built in
The link is for interactive demos.
He has more papers here: http://math.mit.edu/~urschel/papers.html
I honestly don't understand what the motive for the TSA is. I mean, yes it's security theater and political "we must do something" in action, but it doesn't seem like that's enough to justify the continued stupidly of that organization. The best guess I have at this point is that the combination of a convenient jobs program that isn't republican kryptonite, plus convenient pork projects (hello body scanners), with the added bonus of a perpetual excuse to eliminate personal freedoms and drum up the boogeyman man of terrorism whenever it's convenient is just too tempting to let go.
From https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-15.htm...

To increase the performance of repeated string concatenation, a Java compiler may use the StringBuffer class or a similar technique to reduce the number of intermediate String objects that are created by evaluation of an expression.

The + operator is syntactically left-associative, no matter whether it is determined by type analysis to represent string concatenation or numeric addition. In some cases care is required to get the desired result.
> Ruby, as a language, is completely stuck and stale, and has been for a long time now. There is no real innovation, the single-threadedness and the GIL are just not good enough in 2017. Ruby 3 has been announced for 2020, and if you ask me, what is promised in terms of features is rather too little, too late.

Very rarely does anyone say this. But both Matz and DHH were slow to realise those problems. Cant really blame them since Matz dont even write much Ruby, he write C. And if Rails is all about extracting code from Basecamp. May be Shoptify, GitHub and Cookpad ( All magnitude larger then Basecamp )should step up the game for Rails development.

Outside Rails, Ruby fail to attract any Scientific usage, or even General Programming.

RoR wont die. But it will likely falls into a niche that will gets smaller and smaller. May be yes, it is too little too late.
Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed
Because if you can pay $85 you can for sure be trusted, right?

It may be just me with a European perspective, but from where I am sitting that is completely ridiculous.
I thought your (2) link would point to said used car. Here's a post by John on Twitter with a photo of his old Nissan Versa:

https://twitter.com/JohnCUrschel/status/628306625753911297
I got the same benefit from joining science club!

Minus the brain damage.
Test strategy for CI/CD – a small discussion
Is there a roadmap for Mobiledoc available anywhere? I vaguely recall seeing a 1.0 feature document at some point, but development seems to have slowed from looking at commits.
The "1%" is weird because it simultaneously includes a lot that people didn't want it to and doesn't include a lot that people think it does.

The 1% is roughly half a million in yearly income or ten million in net assets (remember to subtract your mortgage from that!). It is true that this goes beyond the ultra wealthy to largely include "doctors, lawyers, small business owners, and other normal successful people", but that doesn't mean most doctors, etc. are in the 1%.

There's an urban legend that 19% of people think they are in the 1%, but the actual poll was that 19% of people think they would be affected by tax cuts affecting the 1%. I'd like to see a study of what percentage of people think they are in the 1% or soon will be, because I bet it's a lot more than 1%.

So you have a term that was meant to vilify the ultra-rich, but makes the average doctor, etc. worry about being vilified.
Douglas Adams commented something along the lines of you can tell you're watching a dystopian movie if it's a grey day in Los Angeles at some point in the near future, and it's raining.

Nothing against LA, but I think I used to assume that the point of dystopian sci-fi was to try to prevent nasty futures from happening. Then I sort of got the idea that the point was to generally make us more humble so that we'd stop creating new technology and thus risking the environment.

Now I think we absolutely need technology to protect the environment. I also wonder what the effect of film-after-film implying how guilty and wicked we are has on the Western psyche. I only read stories to my kids that have good old-fashioned happy endings. A crisis occurs and the heroes overcome it by finding new knowledge and bravery.
>On the other hand, scaling up is a huge challenge - even if 100% of East Asian parents wanted to do embryo selection and were willing to pay full price up front and plan reproduction around it, it simply wouldn't be possible because there aren't enough fertility clinics or trained doctors

That's what I want to get in on. Whoever can offer genetical engineering to Chinese parents first is going to be the new Google.
But Doom isn't a platformer...
It's sedentary, statistically significant increase in risk of heart, circulatory problems. Interesting comparison.
Doesn't seem to work through the Android Auto app on my phone
What does that mean? I wouldn't say we hear in any scale. Log scale is an academic construction, it makes things easy to think about, it's not a physical property of hearing or seeing.
He's going to get $21,360 yr. forever. There are many places in America, and the world where 20 grand/yr. will do just fine. Not everyone ambition is to pay over 50% of their income working for iwontbehereinayear.com, or thebarriertoentryislowandthisistemporary.com

He will never be homeless. Plus--he's one of the few people who should write a self-help book, or do the seminar thing?

He's got it figured out early on. People want guys like him around them, and on their team.

The amout of nit picking that goes on here is a bit much.
Connecting One Billion Users Every Day
>Wouldn’t a music obsessive like yourself have loved having the same choices that listeners have now?
Again, I’m not saying mine was a better era, but a lot of the music I ended up really loving was because I spent nine bucks on an album and that meant I had to listen to it and figure it out.

This is one of the biggest changes for me. As a kid when I was a kid getting an album was RARE. I inherited a ton of cassettes and 8-tracks from my dad. And I listened and listened and listened until I'd heard and knew every minute detail of every track.

These days it's rare for me to give an album more than a couple listens unless it's something that REALLY stands out.
That might be true, but I'd expect the creator of uBlock Origin to be familiar with a fair amount of ad & wide-spectrum blockers and how they function (to see if there's any methods they can adopt to improve).
The language itself is the problem. JS doesn't even have a standard library. If you look at the documentation you can't even tell what the complexity of the `shift` operation is in an `Array`. Java on the other hand has a very well documented stdlib with all the concurrent and non concurrent data structures and utilities you can think of.

Javascript is a crude tool and the fact that [it was created in 10 days](https://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/A_Short_History_of_J...) does not help it.

This language has a lot of compost as you say but one can't differentiate between refuse and pristine tools (the latter might theoretically exist) just by looking at it and no one has the time to analyze all the tools he might end up using since there are so many. So you take one which has the most stars on github (like I did with [graphlib](https://github.com/cpettitt/graphlib)) then you realize that it is crap and you end up writing one from scratch.
That is the secret to happiness as far as I am concerned; measure your days by how much you've learned not by how much you have earned.

Yet the vast majority of the time, this sentiment comes from people who are well-off, e.g. someone with an MIT PhD and an almost impossible-to-screw-up future.

There are at least two possibilities. Either people who aren't well-off are just sour grapes, or they deal with a lot more than a lack of proper mindset.

The secret to happiness is no secret: if you have more money than you know what to do with, you can cover the vast majority of cases that will make you unhappy. If you, your children, or your pets get ill, you can get them proper medical care. For someone who lives on $25k/yr, that will almost always end in disaster.

I think it's not productive to pretend like money doesn't equate to happiness. The lust for money can do a lot of damage, but simply realizing that money is incredibly important to happiness is a realization that most people don't make. They spend extravagantly when Christmas comes around; they eat out because they want to "feel like a normal person," i.e. someone who can afford to eat out; they get expensive birthday gifts for family members. And why? Then when a financial disaster comes around, like someone getting ill with no insurance in the US, there are no resources left to deal with it.

I don't know. It's just far too easy to feel like there's a key to happiness waiting to be discovered. It's a multi-faceted and complex issue.
How could they forget Revelations?
The problem with Twitter is that it has an identity crisis. It wants to be as massive as Facebook but the way it works is only attractive to a minority.

For example the 140 characters limit which was a novelty at the launch is more of a nuisance than anything. It's very common that users are replying to themselves to be able to say more.

The other big problem is noise. For example I recently started following one of the NPM devs and my feed was flooded with LGBT content. This is not Twitter's fault, but the way its users are using Twitter has become part of the culture.

Twitter could probably solve those two problems, but at the same time it would destroy what Twitter is about for its current users.

The only solution for Twitter is to realise it can't really cater to a mainstream audience and to become profitable it needs to lower its costs.
How are you planning to deploy it? Getting the benefits from Elixir/Phoenix seems to require much more old fashioned thinking: long-lived, mutable servers with direct interconnects, so none of that immutable infrastructure, or platform-as-service stuff.
Well, it should have mentioned Perl6 uses rational number math instead of floating point. I think this is a big advantage, since you can do more precise calculations using just the core language.
Right, exactly - I've been coding in some form since I was 5 (in BASIC and PEEK and POKES) but the stuff I did as a teenager was fun exploration play.

It's important to do that! That's great for a programmer and it will likely have some cool ideas... and hell, maybe a product or something will come from it.

But the original post was just naive.
Snappiness. It wasn't close even to Fastmail's web UI and took forever to load when my connection was slow.
Should not be a big surprise, Twitter has an absolutely questionable policy when it comes to content filtering.
To me it seems that Twitter is less of a back-and-forth engagement platform like Facebook, Snapchat, or Instagram, and more of a platform for anointed experts/celebrities to use as a megaphone to anyone who will listen.

Accepting that, I wonder why Twitter doesn't charge people to use the service to either have a verified account or beyond some # of followers after which it's capped? Celebs obviously get a great deal of value from the service and have the means to pay, so why not charge them? I refuse to believe that there would be a noticeable decline in accounts if you had to pay some fee per, say, 30k followers.
Elixir and Phoenix. I've been working in Elixir full-time for about 2-3 months (I rewrote a Rails app at my company), and I feel like I can't go back to Ruby.

I want to experiment with using GraphQL, and mapping the response to props for my React components. It seems like it has the potential to be a lot cleaner than a traditional JSON REST endpoint.

I know some friends who're excited about elm, and that also seems like it would fit nicely with an Elixir backend, so that's on my list of tech to try out.

In my free time, I have some ideas for some more OTP-heavy distributed Elixir OSS.
Not really, I guess many jumped on it, because it was a free email server from Google.

I still manage my own email servers.
Even with the Lite app I would recommend blocking all or most of the app permissions before you run the app the first time. Otherwise Facebook will slurp up your contacts, texts, location, etc. You can block most of it since Android 6.0 by going into System Settings -> Apps -> Lite app -> Permissions -> turn everything off.
NeoBank skeptic
If I were to switch off Ghost, I'd do a static build with Gatsby.

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby
CNC laser cutter*

The glowforge doesn't do additive machining, like a FDM 3d printer, it only cuts.
Physicality is just one aspect of teamwork and camaraderie. Ever played in a (good) band? The levels of shared precision and intimacy required to synchronize on complex pieces of music for hours is difficult to put into words and certainly not to be taken lightly as far as camaraderie goes, you have to rely on the competence of your bandmates on a level that is relatively uncommon compared to most sports.
Not for Saudi Arabia it isn't.

Though that's much of Venezuela's present problem.

Also the U.S. and Canada. Fracking, deep water, tar sands.
I wish at some point they use D.
> skiing, running, or mountain biking, that is fine

Perhaps it's not a red or blue split, but those sports you listed are definitely on one side of a major class divide. Basketball and football are moving towards the other. And while I understand that a competition between some farm hicks and big-city boys can bring two groups together, access to sports like skiing is fairly exclusive.