skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it comes down to the fact that it appears in 10,000 - 1,000,000 years (very soon relative to earth's birth) humans will be able to colonize nearly the whole galaxy using von Neumann probes[0] It would not require technology much more advanced that we have now.

If life evolved on a planet a billion years before earth, why haven't they colonized the galaxy?

Kurzgesagt recently published a video covering the idea of the "Great Filter".[1] The idea is that there must be something (some "filter") preventing life from colonizing their galaxy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM
Why Learning Styles Are a Myth
Mobile Haskell (iOS)
An interesting tanget: when reading this Nautil.us article, they have an "Also in the Web" section where they recommend related articles, but they recommended I read the self-same article. Seems like they need to add an extra line of code to prevent this.
Might want to disclose that your company creates this product.
Even worse, if you’re under 13, you can’t have a Reddit account. So it’s impossible for kids to comply.
> There is still just as much hate on the site except now it is just seething under the surface

Yeah but if your vast majority of users doesn't see it or know where to find it, who cares? I've been a reddit user for 2 years and never encountered the subreddits you are talking about nor have I sought them out.

The "solution" you are talking about is heavy-handed speech moderation
cool! I have made something similar http://shi-yan.github.io/AssortedWidgets/
My girlfriend is a recruiter and spends a good amount of time formatting resumes of her clients. When I saw this I figured it would be a dream come true for her and anyone in her industry. Unfortunately resumes she submits have to follow a template created by her company.

Do you have any future plans to allow customizable resume templates?
Pebble went out of business. Fitbit acquired part of it. I don't think "killed" is accurate.

https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...
Coldblooded Does Not Mean Stupid
> grandma-old-style

FWIW I see lots of people in their 20s dressed as grandmas (at least in major US cities).
He's portrayed as an autistic savant, so I don't find it entirely implausible. There are documented cases of autists showing extremely impressive performances in arithemetic and memorisation, so why not subitizing too?
I've got a Pebble Time and love it, most of the feedback I've heard from friends with fitbits is "jesus christ this is the third time I've sent it back because of a band failure."

Now the Fitbit Ionic isn't the same bands as those, but it's not exactly reassuring that they've made another proprietary one instead of accepting standard watch bands like the Pebble Time did. At least the band is independently replaceable instead of molded to the device.
If I alt-tab between apps, or open a new window in an app from a particular space, I'm warped to wherever OSX very wrongly thinks I ought to be.

Motherfucking maddening as hell.
Mathematical universe hypothesis, a.k.a. Ultimate ensemble theory
One really good technique I've learned is to write your worries down on a piece of paper. Once you do that, you realize how ridiculous most of it is.
Something I have never understood. Why dress up / acquire certain things, in order to conform to some random pre-designated style?

Also, in my experience, if someone puts a lot of effort into their superficial image or appearance, they tend to be boring and uninteresting underneath that, which makes sense.
Honest question, what do you expect them to do? It's not like you can tell from the image the age of subject and, if they are of age, whether they consented to having their picture posted. Hell, outside of celebrities you'll be lucky to identify the subject at all.

One thing that's left out is that anyone can report the picture and mods are incentivized to police their posts somewhat.
The main difference between Chrome and Firefox extensions is that Chrome uses a callback-based API while Firefox's is based on promises. Other than that they're functionally the same aside from some differences in the manifest and the namespace (Chrome uses `chrome` while Firefox uses `browser`). I think Firefox has some backwards compatibility with the callback interface for easier porting but I haven't tried.

There's a nice polyfill by Mozilla so you can use their promise interface in Chrome but it was missing some important apis last I checked (sessions and optional permissions). https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill
The brain is binary. Neurons fire or they do not. Holding more complex notions in mind that go beyond a simple binary relationship requires more energy (this is not as direct as my statements make it sound, but it generally captures the situation). Because civilization is profoundly safe, there is no substantial benefit to expending that larger amount of energy. Even the worst mistake generally will not result in serious injury or death, so most people will not bother to exert themselves so.
It doesn't matter if it's unstable - as long as it was not carefully aimed to hit something, "space is big and empty" means that a random unstable orbit is exceedingly likely not to hit anything for a very, very, very long time.

There's no way of knowing this without calculating and modeling the trajectory, but you can still be 99.99% sure that it's not going to hit anything for thousands or even millions of years even without extra information. As the parent poster said, the chance is close to 0.
rsync is much easier than creating an account and gives me more control.

It was one of the first things I thought of, "I hope I can run rsync on this thing to sync notes".
Heavy handed speech moderation is what is starting to happen on reddit.

It works on HN
Absolutely every single part of it? Have you stepped outside, or spoken to anyone in the country that isn't a part of the coastal bourgeoisie?
I could if more people did it instead of loading branches and logs onto trucks and going into the waste stream they can be used on the same property, sunk into the ground and left for 20-30 years. It requires changing how people deal with outputs.
> features are retrieved by using the cpuid instruction. *Unfortunately this instruction is privileged for some architectures, in which case we fall back to Linux.

What's the rationale for making this instruction privileged for the other procs? I can kinda understand making system registers privileged reads but if you have your own encoding there's "no reason" not to give this to everyone, right?
> While that might be statistically significant, it's practically useless. How on earth can anyone even perceive this day to day?

An always-on, always-on-hand AI assistant might do it fairly easily.
Very interesting. I wish there was more background on absolutist thinking and mental health. Specifically, is the relationship between absolutist thinking and, say, depression, Whorfian, in the sense that the language used day-to-day impacts their mental health? Or is it symptomatic? My gut says a combination of both.
It's a too good story not to be told...
It always does.
Wow. There's a great portrait here, not just of the subjects but of the artist themself. The mixed-subculture couple, the way these groups are run reminds me a lot of my adventures in the nerd convention scene. There's a lot of people looking for meaning there, for something to be good at even if it's just being themselves.

I think the modern world is dehumanizing and alienating to a lot of people, and they're just struggling to try to find themselves - these subcultures, perfecting "the look" - are a way of feeling unique and special. They're a thing to have pride in. They're tribal in a way that's self-determined, making them both more welcoming and less prone to the kinds of charismatic capture that bring an end to "tribes". On the other hand, that makes them more ephemeral than blood-tribes - there's no permanent tie.

There's an interesting contrast with those blood-tribes, though. What happens when you leave? Leaving groups is common - questioning your very identity is something everyone should do, frequently. But it's also hard and painful. I think there's a lot in common with the people in this recent article about leaving cults: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16198465

Ultimately, I believe associating too strongly with an identity is really harmful, that you're vulnerable to both being manipulated and to losing your faith, in yourself and humanity. It's hard to prove, though; there's only anecdata, and much of that is dirtied by people trying desperately to convince themselves that they're okay and that if only everyone tried it they could see how great their cult is.
From your source:

- The DNC was not paying Correct The Record. Like all super PACs, Correct The Record made independent expenditures on behalf of supportive donors around the country, and you can find their names here:
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2016&cmt...

- Correct The Record had about a dozen full-time content producers writing favorable posts about the Democratic candidate online.

I'm not seeing any references to improper payments made by the DNC, nor do I see the Reddit connection. While we're on the topic of independent expenditures, would you like to talk about the 328 million Russian Twitter accounts that were used in the general election to produce paid pro-Trump content?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebo...
If anything, there are a lot of people in fairly low-paid customer-facing jobs who are still some of the ones dressing up most consistently.
I guess you assume that because it's an African country that they don't have computer crime laws ?

http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2017/Com...
Not a coincidence either. Depending on how they are delivered, these words can either be empowering or disempowering with respect to how the speaker is using them.
They already had a cpu features library on the Android NDK.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ndk.git/+/master/s...
> if your vast majority of users doesn't see it or know where to find it, who cares?

If those channels become extremist echo chambers, then the government could care when terrorists start being made on the site, affecting Reddit's PR in the long run. I know of several subs that are full of such extremist vitriol. Since they're a global website, they've got to consider things like long-term social impacts of their content.
Ha, yeah was a quick comment. To be clearer - Why do I need a temperature interface hanging on my wall? Why not split the device into two; a measurement device (small, portable) and a controller (remote control, app, voice controls).
If this interests you, you'll probably enjoy reading Google's paper on Spanner. Cockroachdb was heavily influenced by it.

https://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
1.0 was 14 years ago and the latest release was 3 months ago. Any particular reason this was posted now? Great new feature / etc?
TLDR: mainstream news media says to read more mainstream news media and pay for it.
That sounds to me like a risk! I like commenting here.
Isn't the simplest explanation that clothing simply costs less than it did before?
The liability insurance won't apply since it's breaking the speed limit - the launch video alone showed speed in excess of 10000 km/h.
What was GNOME 3's metaphor?

(I've been so GNOME-averse I appear to have entirely missed that.)
I was a bit taken aback by that one -- I've dealt with a lot of foreign spammers in a past career and did not realize how much of it was coming from here/US.
Agreed. NTFS is one of the few things I missed.

I’m still annoyed that APFS doesn’t have file level checksums.
Unfortunately, he was this way with even his trusted inner circle of developers and engineers on the Macintosh project, NeXT, etc. He was well known for this binary trait; he could shower with praise, or explode in intense criticism without regard to feelings (ticking quite a few DSM-IV boxes in the process, no doubt!)
CPI does not include wages.
I really wish Google/Nest would end their corporate beef with Apple and integrate with HomeKit. What happened with the openness of Google?

Instead of buying Nest's entire line to outfit the house I'm building, I'm avoiding them completely even though I think their products are at the top of their class.

Nest isn't unique anymore... neither are their cameras... and they are late to the party with the doorbell. Do I think they are great products? Absolutely!! But they aren't in a position of leverage, the market is becoming commoditized, and forcing consumers to use only your app is a poor strategy. Especially considering it wasn't until a few weeks ago did Nest's app support iPhone X's new format, MONTHs after it was available to the public.
You posted a link to Connecticut laws/regulations in your original post. I don't think that is applicable to Kenya.
And Win95b with opengl, proper win32 support, and a tcp-ip stack was much better compared to the addon for win31.

I remember when unified USB support came out in Win95 2.5, it was big damn news at the time.
> You can only use it on Linux at the moment, but that will change this year.

What's the ETA on a Windows build? I'd love to try it!
PornHub, Twitter Ban 'Deepfake' AI-Modified Porn
"All the freaky people are the beauty of the world"

Spearhead
With a Nest right now, you can do that with Google Home. But it does it by talking to the Nest.

As for having a thermostat, there needs to be something that actually has a thermometer in the house.
You give your dog electric shocks??
Product Management Ethics in A.I. By Former Yammer Dir. Of Product
I don't understand your use-case. Is Steam banned in certain countries?

Also isn't the added lag of a VPN not ideal for playing games?
> pay higher for slow drivers but only gender specific

... that's wage discrimination and is illegal.
Take a photo of it on the phone and it does those.
Firefox now also forces .dev TLD to HTTPS
Negative reinforcement can be very effective at curtailing any bad habits you might have. Put a rubber band on your wrist. Then, any time you find yourself needlessly worrying, just pull on the rubber band, and let it snap hard enough to sting. If, shortly thereafter, you start worrying again, pull that rubber band a little further so it stings even more. Repeat as needed.

A less painful technique for addressing this is to click on the following link, have a laugh, and then vow to stop being "that guy"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdk-rHAndNc
Sometimes I say something like "I'm not sure if I made myself clear [which is true], could you tell me what you think I said?" That is a lot better than saying something that implies that you are afraid they didn't understand because you think they are a poor listener.
That's why I mentioned idols. Japanese girl bands especially, but there are also "models" who are real woman with entirely constructed personas. It's superficially similar to the regular "casting" celebrities in places like the US (e.g. the obsession about Britney Spears being a virgin when she was dating Justin Timberlake in real life) but it seems like the Western version is more built around a real person and their life to some degree whereas in the Japanese version the person is almost entirely reduced to an actress playing a role in an entirely fictional life.

I'm guessing Poppy is an art project as she doesn't really seem to be selling anything (except maybe her songs?) but I too find it hard to discern any statement in her performance. But maybe that's the point.
I would 100% buy this. I make lots of business trips that are 36 hours long. I have to take my laptop because some emails and documents just aren't conducive to handling on my phone. But a lightwieght and thin laptop style device with crazy good battery? And all it does is email, documents, and text browsing? Definitely would buy that and stuff it in my bag for these trips.
None of those things require NN.
> in my experience, if someone puts a lot of effort into their superficial image or appearance, they tend to be boring and uninteresting underneath that

Some of the most interesting artists and musicians I know also put a lot of effort into their personal appearance. I don't think attention to appearance is correlated with depth of personality in any real way.
Twitter does have a way to see chronological tweets: by using Tweetdeck
> I really don't know why Germans do this to themselves.

It's not Germans that do this to themselves, it's people working in financial institutions. I work for a non-financial software company in Germany and nobody wears suits here unless you have an important client visit.
If you read the message, you agreed to the terms. If you didn't read it, then how can you comment on what it says? :)
implementing a web server from scratch out of tcp socket got me better at understanding http protocols and multi-threaded programming.
They are super fun to drive, and never having to go to the gas station is nice.
This is going to make it hard for direct product competitors to do business with Google now IMO. Before it was made very clear that the two groups were VERY separate within Alphabet.

So as a competitor (say a camera maker) you could feel somewhat OK partnering with Google Home integrations because there were legal protections that data, roadmaps, confidential info wouldn't be shared.

Now they're literally the same person, according to this. Ouch.
Not every story needs to be animated. Find a medium that lets you tell your story.
Already in 1979 it was clear that C developers needed help to write proper code.

> To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions.

Dennis M. Ritchie, https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
But I was paying homage to the style in which you wrote your original post!
Yup, I remember using them. WindowBlindsX if I recall. It worked alright, but it was never as snappy as shades were.
It's not about filesize - you're not trying to saturate the site's network pipe, you're trying to tie up all of its processes combining arbitrary JS files so it doesn't have time to respond to legitimate requests.
Yes, it does, I had to mention that. However, it's free now. We tried to use some existing tools earlier, but the own one is always better suited for particular team needs. So Riter was developed primarily for personal use, not for sale. Maybe someone will also find it useful.
What is the goal for avoiding absolutist words?

I ask because I would much rather work with someone who is decisive than with someone who avoids judgements and "absolutist words." I see the latter as "wishy-washy." I'm sure that says more about me than them, but I find those who always seek a middle ground to be uninspiring and low-energy.
It's not clear that the branding will change? Companies can use multiple brands and this one is well-established.
Google's "Family Library" applies to their audio books. Is there an Audible equivalent? Edit: It looks like it is called Amazon "Household Sharing" (requiring Amazon Prime).

I'm not familiar with any particular benefit of one group access option vs. any other. I hope all these digital libraries will start dealing with beneficiaries inheriting things as a first-class scenario soon!
CDN: no trade offs. Faster everywhere. More reliable overall

Cockroach DB: trade some performance for geographic redundancy. The trade off may work in your favor - e.g. read heavy workloads (or not).

I plugged in CDB I place of Postgres for some testing this week, was surprised it worked so well.
Aw crap, they couldn’t have put a low power time lapse camera at least? Maybe even solar charging. Whatever, they’ll be other launches I suppose.
Why would the cost decrease?

It'd still be more cost-efficient to e.g. mine for gold under the ocean or in the Antarctic rather than send gear up to space to do that.

If we had a huge solid gold asteroid (how would that occur?) floating in a very close, very convenient orbit then maybe it would be cost-effective to send a ship to connect, re-orbit and land it without vaporizing; but anything realistic simply wouldn't be worth the launch effort&cost.
Debian without systemd:
On an older Pentium4, just for web browsing although I just replaced it with OpenBSD. Its a great distro because of its age, stability and ease of use.

Gentoo OpenRC:
On amd64 laptops for learning how to build software.

I've installed and configured 80% of distros on Distrowatch.com. Its all the same pretty much. Linux from Scratch was a good experience as well. Recommended for anyone interested in the deeper reasons of a distro.
Reddit bans 'deepfakes' AI porn communities
Chiariglione Is Right
HomeKit is not using open standards. Google and Nest are. Your question should be reversed. Why doesn't Apple just use OpenThread or one of the competing open source IoT frameworks?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/11/google_open_sources...
How many cars that are not GM with their on star system & tesla have remote access? That cell phone SIM plan costs some money.
This is a terrible article. It leads with social commentary about supposed healthy amounts of content, and then goes on to describe the shake-up at LA Times because the editor got pulled into the #metoo fiasco.

Harvey Weinstein arguably produced some of the best content in Hollywood during his tenure, and so the two shouldn't be coupled. Yea, fire the dude and move on, but don't make this about cheap content, and don't make this also about the press failing to generate revenue. All very different things and misses the nuance of what is going on.
Try minicron. Also, more alternatives/info here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14065884
Looks interesting, but 10% is really steep to me.

That’s just going to heavily incentivize your most successful users to bail. I run a five figure paid email service and I’m using a membership management service that charges flat fee plus 2%, and it annoys me every month. I’ll be replacing them this year. Membership billing plus a synced email list on Mailchimp is really commodity at this point. Doesn’t make any sense to pay a percentage of revenue.

If it was 10%, I’d replace them this week.

I may get pushback because there’s a contingent of people on here who basically seem to think that ever worrying about price for software and services is the wrong move. I think that’s pretty stupid when you’re a small company. It’s stupidly easy for a lot of small companies who are paying hundreds or thousands per month in recurring subscriptions to shave 20-30% off. If you’re a solo founder, that’s a huge increase in your personal bottom line.

EDIT: I'm probably coming across as too negative here, so let me add a few thoughts:

1. You built something useful, launched it, and have paying customers. That's HUGE and puts you ahead of 99% of "startups" so congrats :)

2. I strongly believe in the power of paid publishing and email marketing (it drives almost 100% of my income these days), and I think more cool tools and platforms in this space is excellent. This is the kind of thing that I would use.

My only real issue is just that I think what you're doing with the pricing model is shooting yourself in the foot (since it incentivizes people to switch away) AND it's unfair to users (since switching away is REALLY hard, and you probably know that and are counting on it to some extent).

Maybe charge flat + fee up to a cap? It'd be really comforting to know that I'd never pay more than $495 / month for this or something, and that would only be once I hit $10k / month in revenue or whatever.