skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’d have to make the inverse of that transaction illegal as well. If you banned me from exchanging BTC for USD that wouldn’t stop he from buying more BTC nor using it to purchase things.
Do you mean Microsoft or something else I might be missing? In Microsoft's case, they were punished for their OS monopoly being used to create a browser monopoly by making a default choice for the user, not for abusing its browser monopoly.

Blocking Brave for violating their usage agreements seems very much in another league, even though it might sound like they are building a browser monopoly via their video streaming monopoly. They are not in a position where they take the choice of defaults away from the user, and as long as Firefox, Safari and Edge have some market share, the user still has a choice of compliant browsers. Blocking Brave might be more akin to enforcing their ToS for Youtube via their Play store by blocking 3rd party apps with download function (which is prohibited in Youtube ToS).
Can confirm this. It drains the battery.
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Very true for certain genres. If you want schlocky horror movies, for example, RT isn't going to do you any good because reviewers hate all the things that make those films good.
Hurricane-battered Arecibo telescope will keep studying the skies
> that's obviously the correct move if Brave's goal is to transform the way ads and monetization work on the internet

Why? This doesn't seem obvious to me at all.

In fact, I'd argue the opposite. Depending on users installing and using an entirely different browser just so they can get one feature that could easily be implemented as a browser extension is likely to be a serious obstacle to that goal.
Reinforcing their role as revenue generators instead of peace officers.
Hey, good job.

I tend to look up aspect ratios frequently.

You went full on with a nice web page and domain name hack.

Add more devices (e.g. ipads etc.), video res (vga,etc.) and more mathematical constants like golden ratio, silver ratio , etc. and add an easy landscape/portrait toggle switch.
Because "growth" is now looking into our belly button and picking around for a little bit of fuzz we haven't seen before.

Economics isn't about enabling the creation of new ideas. It's about controlling the movement of capital for the benefit of capitalists. All the inputs lead to the financial system. All the outputs lead to their account numbers.

Fortunately for them, the rubes are convinced that is how things get made.

Not, you know, with their own two hands and minds, as is the reality.

But I'm curious why we need to prop up such things forever anyway. Corporations used to have an expiration date. Term limits for private power.

Do we need factories churning out plastic crap for decades, to make kids giggle, only for us to tell them "Grow up and get a job?"

The epitome of disposable nonsense. Humanity must record and elate itself at each and every one of its own farts for the rest of time.
> and then depositing those donations in your bank account until the charity you supposedly collected for comes and asks for them.

and then not depositing those donations in your bank account until the charity you supposedly collected for comes and asks for them.

Probably a typo :)
In net/http, if a handler panics you don't want it to bring down your entire application. For more info, see https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Handler

The encoding/json package is interesting because it uses both panic() and recover() internally in a way more reminiscent to how exceptions are used in other languages (that is, for control flow).

For example, https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2596a0c075aeddec571cd658f7... panics, and https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2596a0c075aeddec571cd658f7... recovers it.

Both uses are quite uncommon, though.
This is not about "a grain of salt". Imagine you're a ten year old kid and you're looking for answers on some subject, say the Holocaust. What if all the "answers" you're getting are from far-right hate groups? How do you think that will affect that person?

Likewise, if you're looking for medical advice and you're getting nothing but anti-science woo, can we really be surprised that anti-vaxxers are becoming more numerous? These outbreaks of deadly, yet preventable diseases have serious fatal consequences for many.

"Grain of salt" means fuck all when people are dying from bad answers. You can't learn from your mistakes when you're dead.

At least Google could frame these with the idea of keeping a skeptical mind, but they should probably stop surfacing things as "the answer" and instead as "top search result".
I was also thinking about the marks and it doesn’t stack up - the circumferential one in particular though. Why would a baker tie a string around their loaf randomly - bread made up a far greater part of everyone’s diet until quite recently (basically until the modern Chorleywood process fully industrialised it, making it far less appealing). Making the job harder isn’t in anyone’s interest. That Pompeii loaf recreation looks more like 2 on top of each other when compared to frescos or the preserved one.
Old style flour had next to no gluten so you wouldn’t expect much rise. It seems more likely that bread was risen in a basket or in a cloth of some sort that had a string around it.
It could have been made upside down too, and so the pattern was on the plate/tray it was risen in and then turned over when put into oven. This is a standard way of patterning bread - bannatons are the current name.
Both the fresco version and the recreation look delicious.
Like I said, we can argue over "covert." But once you allow a contact to drop in on you, they can do it at any time, with no prior warning, and you won't know it until they're already listening to you.
Sexually explicit information of children.

We generally believe that sexual exploitation of children is worse than of an adult. We don’t allow for consensual sexual relations, creation or mere posesion of explicit material with a child.

In fact drawings of said material can get you in a lot of trouble in many, liberal, countries.

That being said, I hate what the internet has become.
And Facebook added a lot to Mercurial so that it would scale to their stupidly enormous code base.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
Trust = money.

Do you think banks exist for free? What are the costs of maintaining a system of banks capable of acting as a trusted custodian in such a transaction, covering every jurisdiction the globe over? Have you amortized the cost of aircraft carriers, diplomats, social and class mobility, the set of externalities that ultimately end up reconciled through war and collapse?

We're trying to build a more stable system here. Cryptocurrencies are way cheaper in the long run. Some people have learned this the easy way, most will learn it the hard way.
The MBP at least has the camera light. Not proactive, but if you see the light come one at least you can kill the power
We're moving this into a whole new realm of problem then. Ethereum smart contracts have been shown as at the very least possible to get wrong by coding incorrectly, at this point multiple times.

I'm not sure taking a straightforward and easily reasoned about process that the courts could easily handle and moving it to something enforced by a programming language subject to bugs that are largely unable to be handled by courts is necessarily a step in the right direction. At least not until there's a lot more vetting of Ethereum and a much better and more secure ecosystem to call upon.
Greg Mark of Markforged: putting metal into the microwave (3D printing)
>We are all born with the same brain

That's not what he says at all.

>https://singjupost.com/daniel-amen-on-the-most-important-les...

The "most important lesson" is about the importance of diagnosing brain injuries and pursuing neuro-rehabilitation.
Kdb+ and Python: EmbedPy and PyQ
They are lovely for calls. The Airpods have made calling people something I even look forward to.

People have no idea I'm using hands free. If anything, I sound better since I can prop the iPhone against the window or somewhere I know the signal is good.
Might be nifty to just match the list of devices in Chrome Inspector ..?
Looks interesting. Could you share what do use git notes for? Comments about the review? (seems like a lightweight alternative to git appraise [0]).

[0]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise
I guess we all have different experiences
It's like Intel's floating point math used to be about 97% correct. Good enough, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
This. I work in media. Just passed this along to a few designer friends, and even non-designers who work with magazine design teams and regularly have to translate images and resize/crop them for mobile and web.

edit: They're already happy to have it in their back pocket.
TBH, that makes me think that it's even less likely that the OP hired a lawyer.

After all, no-one rushes out to hire four separate lawyers to examine a contract. And if you paid for one lawyer to fully investigate the situation, why would you then seek out three other lawyers afterwards? If you decided that the lawyer you hired was crap and their opinion worthless, you might hire another one. But their opinion was the same as the first lawyer, so by this point you'd be insane to hire any more lawyers.

So it's much more likely that he informally asked some friends and contacts. While these people may well have been lawyers, they probably were just offering a quick, rough opinion on the matter. If a lawyer was actually hired, they would spend some time fully understanding the situation, and the next step to take would then be acting on their advice, not seeking out further legal advice to muddy the waters.
A couple of weeks back there was a headline about a site surreptitiously using visitor's hardware to mine some form of crypto. People were upset, but it made me wonder.. why isn't this a viable business model?

Crypto mining in lieu of advertisers would realign interest between content producer and content consumer - the person who reads your articles begins to be your customer again, instead of the companies advertising to the people reading your content. The only conflict of interest is wanting consumers to spend as much time as possible on your site, but I think that is a big step up compared to the plethora of conflicts imposed by relying on advertising as a business model.

This is of course ignoring the technicalities of working out a crypto where the economics work here. But assuming that would be possible (which is certainly a big assumption), this seems like an interesting concept that could solve the monetization issue facing so many things today in one fell swoop.
And perhaps, manic.
Looks like they just re-published their article from a year ago: http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-je...
Yes, Jim Sterling's videos are deliberately demonetized, his revenue comes via Patreon.
Yep, this is why Tesla's current flagship is the P100D, rather than a P75D. The larger battery gives you better performance, even though it's heavier.
How One Small Town in Puerto Rico Found Food and Community After Maria
> But, from a game theory perspective, I'm employing my best strategy.

Your best strategy would be to be kind by default and then repeat their response. By being a defensive jerk you remove any incentive for people to be kind to you.
From what little research I did, Shoofly Pie is basically Streuselkuchen but with brown sugar/molasses?
As somebody who loves regular Streuselkuchen I can't really imagine having molasses in it, that sounds just too sweet.
Here's what I found from googling:

https://www.forensicsciencedegree.org/wp-content/uploads/201...

I really can't escape the thought that it's just pumping out a generic face of a particular race, though. I'd like to see the faces that it produces for a number of different-looking people of the same race. (The two faces in the linked article certainly look very much like "generic black man" and "generic black woman").
> There is a fixed amount of 'revenue seats'
> Google/fb/etc take a portion of that fixed revenue

If you need citations for these, your burden of proof is a bit too extreme.

Unless advertisers have an infinite amount of money, there will be a finite amount of ad revenue. At some point, there's a floor to how much ad revenue you can capture while still having enough money to maintain a journalistic organization, creating a fixed number of 'revenue seats'.

A portion of that money will by default go to the largest players in the market, Google and Facebook.
10-8 on weekdays with no weekends is only 50 hours a week assuming you are working the entire time. Not ideal but it isn't an absurd amount of time either. Sure 8pm is late but they are also getting to work at 10am. People wouldn't be nearly as upset by someone saying they are at work from 8-6

I think it varies greatly depending on what team you're on but I work ~40 hours a week most weeks
https://www.sharktrust.org/en/tonic_immobility

According to this site, this has been observed previously:

"There is evidence that suggests orcas may use tonic immobility to prey on sharks.

In 1997, in the waters around the Farallon Islands, a female Orca was observed holding a White Shark upside down for 15 minutes, causing it to suffocate. Whether intentional or not, the Orca likely caused the shark to enter tonic immobility."
In a similar rhetorical style:

If SVN is a terrible application with no merits to large developers like MS, why did it exist in the first place?

If the features SVN brings over git are not considered detrimental by Torvalds, why did he create his own VCS with them removed, and why hasn't he added them back in?
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http://www.cornell.edu/video/people/richard-feynman
30 Rare Color Photos of the Russian Empire from 100+ Years Ago
> Add more devices (e.g. ipads etc.), video res (vga,etc.) and more mathematical constants like golden ratio, silver ratio , etc. and add an easy landscape/portrait toggle switch.

I'd like to add: a specs dialog, maybe? Add DPI/HDPI info, recommended DPI for images, etc. Would make this a for-sure go-to.

Nice work!
The question is: who are the ones abusing their power? The alleged perps, or those who are claiming to be victims?
Interesting tidbit: Sweethearts also seem clueless to the presence of jerks, offering concessions to, and excuses for jerk behavior.

Question: what's with jerks teaming up? How does jerk signaling work, such that it attracts jerks-of-a-feather, when jerks in the wild are found joining forces?
If they were from Brave, then maybe so.

But yeah, I find it pretty hilarious how much like a scam those emails are going to sound, despite being legit.
> Sure, and then you have no idea what was executed and what failed. Did you run 9 functions or 1? What do you need to roll back? How do you handle the error?

> […]

> With go's error handling it forces you to think about "what happens if the code fails here".

Did it run 9 functions or just 1? What do you need to roll back? How do you handle the error?

The inner code could have just bubbled an error by hand from a deeper call (or the library could even have used panic/recover internally to do so, the stdlib used to do that). You have no more idea than in the exceptions-based code unless you have the source available right there, which you'd then also have in an exceptions-based language.

> To get that behavior in exception oriented languages, you'd have to wrap every call in try/catch, which ends up just as verbose as go, if not worse.

So your argument in support of Go's error handling is that the very worst case of exceptions-based error handling you can imagine is about as bad as the baseline case of Go's?
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I used them for a few years without issue. They were always quick to respond to my e-mails.

Let's Encrypt and AWS cover my cert needs now.
Literally anywhere.
Retreads don't fail appreciably more often than new tires. Being in the boring part of the bathtub curve makes up for their age.

DOT HS 811 060 is the study you should Google.
> And because most of all this new construction is for luxury apartments, there’s very little that’s affordable to middle- and low-income workers.

I always hear this argument. Have there ever been many private-sector apartment complexes built specifically for low-income families? I'm under the impression "projects" were built by governments specifically because there was no private sector desire to build them. They would be low-profit, they tend to have higher defaults/eviction issues, and low income neighborhoods (especially with common areas) tend to fall into disrepair more than higher income areas. Low income renters tend to have to find older apartment complexes that have lost their luster.

The fallacy here is omitting the fact that as new high-end high-density housing is built, the pressure on older/existing housing goes down for those who can't afford to live in a new place.

Adding more housing supply in many different neighborhoods will help the nearby low-income neighborhoods by reducing the cost of rents.
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Thanks for the link. That was an eye-opening read.
All of the electrical systems waste more energy if you drain them faster. To drain them faster you need higher currents which lead to higher waste power. Waste power goes up with the square of the current (P=I^2*R). This is most apparent in batteries heating up due to their internal resistance. Here's [1] an 18650 lithium cells discharge graph at different currents.

[1] https://www.powerstream.com/z/US18650VCT4-discharge.png
"A gentleman is never unintentionally rude"?
down vote without a strong opinion why it would be in the source code? weak
A couple of points:

1. A drag car does not start at zero RPM. The engine is probably over 4000 RPM and under load before the race even begins. In fact, many cars have to dial their launch RPM down because it ends up making enough power to lose traction from a dead stop. Look up "trans brake launch" to see what I'm talking about.

2. Your comment actually further confirms my skepticism of the Tesla not being able to maintain traction. If an unresponsive internal combustion engine powered car has trouble, imagine a car capable of shocking the tires even harder.
As a digitization professional, here's the part I'm most interested in hearing more about:

> The complete collection is set to be released this month via a new website.

They're currently running Omeka for this collection, which I'm a fan of.
A quick Google indicates that the inside dimensions of a standard truck trailer is 28 x 8, or 224 ft^2.

> cruising the freeways endlessly

How about "cruising on sunlight."
Jerks of a feather stalk together.
In a certain sense, if one has the talent, luck or planning to position one's self to make it in programming after 40, one may well survive to well over 40. One's position shifts from worker to expert.

But if the fact is that a large percentage of folks doing programming a 29 won't be doing it at 45 and aren't going to have a good exit plan (if they made a high salary in that time), then in a sense what's being said is:

"Programming is a dead-end job for those under forty" and about forty is the end-point for them.
Depends on how much you listen to as whether you're contributing more or less. I listen to spotify all day while I work, cycling through songs that I like often once every day or two. An artist that I like enough to have purchased a cd in the past will get multiple plays a day. That means less than a year to generate one cd's worth of revenue from me, and it's going to keep paying out after that because I'll keep listening to it years down the road if I really like it.

Also worth noting that 238 streams is ~20 playthroughs of your average 12 song album, for those who frequently listen to entire albums.

Add to that the fact that streaming services have made discovery a much bigger thing. The less mainstream artists are now getting the benefit of appearing on streaming radio and such, making their growth that much easier (after they've passed a certain threshold of course).
0-60 in 2 seconds. Slalom time... 4 minutes at a top speed of 36mph.
If you're coming up on 40 you should know a lot of people. You should have a work history so ridiculously long you need to omit 75% of it to fit it on a two page resume. You should know the business, which companies are succeeding, which are failing, and what problems are most interesting to you.

This is a huge advantage compared to some recent graduate that has no idea, knows nobody, and is still learning the geography of the industry.

Don't stop learning. Don't stop making contacts, friends, and other connections. At some point you won't need a resume to get a job, you'll just need to know who to call.
Probably some sort of gene expression
That's their purpose. Simulators are like dynamic datasets.
This happens quite a bit even now. Many corporate Microsoft technology developers have a myopic view of the software world. This is on a downward trend, but still exists.
> GitHub doesn't develop git

I'd be surprised if none of their employees have contributed to Git. I didn't interpret anything in the article as saying that GitHub develops Git, in its entirety (or even largely).

> GFVS is a GitHub project

GFVS is a Microsoft project and GitHub seems to be contributing. And the GFVS developers have been submitting, successfully, their changes to Git itself upstream to the actual Git project. So it is becoming a part of Git.
I had a similar experience with their EarPods. I'm pretty sure it got ear wax and all out too :)

It does feel like AirPods should be officially water proof though. (Especially since the iPhone and Watch models that launched with it were waterproof.)
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Yes the MSDN subscription which seemed like kind of a racket at several hundred dollars ( it was up to $1000+ by 2001 depending upon support level/media ). Also they would frequently have documentation about something in one year, then drop it from the CD's/DVD's and if you got lucky you had those or someone was really nice and posted it on the internet. I remember having to figure out the IME's for Far East/etc input circa 2000 from a usenet post then handing that information down to a someone else on usenet so they could implement it as well.
Your core skills have been off-shored and automated. I used to have a similar career and the majority of the clients that used to hire me are now serviced by design templates and WYSIWYG editors like squarespace. Every time a new technology platform hits the mainstream it starts the race to the bottom. You have to stay ahead of it; for me the solution was specializing in React and doubling down on product management. I was in a similar position to you a few years ago but I'm back in the low six figures again and not having trouble finding work. I don't have a family though, so I appreciate how that can work against you.

Edit: I wouldn't spend too much time on Angular; I think maybe 1 out of the last 20 recruiter pitches I've had was Angular; the rest were React.
Yes it’s not their fault - just saying it’s not in their interest to improve things, and they didn’t. But you think government has no influence over house prices? How about help to buy schemes and similar? London bubble is pretty extreme even compared to most other places, and the median price has doubled in the last decade under the tories.
Read what I wrote above about reinforcement learning (exploration phase) and then get back to me with "my juvenile" ideas.
Good point. All that spying crap should be illegal. Including governments' spying crap. But good luck on that :(