skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do not get the concept of a zoo. I have been to a real jungle safari recently and it struck me how obviously different animals are in their own vast natural habitat than in a zoo. A Zoo may serve some educational purposes maybe but it is cruel to just artificially cage animals cause you are too lazy to make a massive effort to go see wild animals in their natural habitat. One is not supposed to encounter wild animals according to convenience. Everytime I have been to a zoo I have seen the saddest animals around. One can argue about the merits of commercial safari but if it's part of a national park system with carefully controlled traffic, it's actually far enlightening than a visit to a zoo.

A jungle safari is not something the majority of people can afford, while most can afford a trip the zoo. I don't disagree with some of your points, but lines like "you are too lazy to make a massive effort to go see wild animals in their natural habitat" will probably fall on deaf ears. If you plan on ever convincing anyone, I'd recommending sticking to your line that "one is not supposed to encounter wild animals according to convenience".
Sorry, but to avoid problem for now, we prefer to keep the provider anonymous, however we can assure you that it is not metanet.ch.
Update:
August 2001.

The follow-on article [0] references this article as appearing in "issue 5" of Pixelate, so it seems you found the original source. Issue 4 [1] covered June 2001, probably published in July, and so it seems that issue 5 was probably published in August 2001.

0: http://www.helixsoft.nl/articles/sphere/sphere.html

1: https://wiki.allegro.cc/index.php?title=Pixelate:Issue_4/Bit...

Original reply:
And from the presence (even in that 2002 version) of the 'allegro.cc' domain, we can narrow the range of dates from the other end, too: The .cc domain was introduced in October 1997, and Allegro.cc claims visitors since January 1999.
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The average brazilian does not spend 50 BRL on a meal. Why should a public servant be able to? These guys are living like kings when they are mostly blowhards with very few skills other than being able to manipulate poor people into voting for them.
Some categories are just completely impractical, for example the category of "all objects except for my dog and its kibble, and excluding those that came in to existence on an even-numbered Gregorian year." Language is an application of signaling theory and there are lots of statements we can make about it. (For example it would be a bad idea to re-define the word "good" to mean that one above.)
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I'm an ergonomics geek. I had bad sitting posture for years, then struggled with severe shoulder and back pain for years after that. It got so bad that I could not sit and type for more than 15 minutes without collapsing at my desk. It became a career threatening emergency for me. I sought the support of specialists, doctors, orthopedists, physical therapists, physical trainers, etc. I did posture exercises, stretches, dry needling, replaced most of my office equipment, and so on. Now I can (finally!) work at a computer comfortably for 8 hours a day.

The #1 thing that helped me was sitting forward, on the edge of the chair, with legs tucked in, and removing the arm rests so my arms hang down naturally. A lot of people say it's unnatural, therefore, unhealthy, for humans to sit for 8 hours a day, but that's not entirely true. Humans have been riding horses and camels since practically the dawn of history, sometimes for >8 hours a day, weeks at a time, however these animals do not have arm rests or back rests.

The #2 thing was getting ergonomic equipment. Most office equipment is not designed for ergonomics, but economics. For a keyboard, I highly recommend the Kinesis Advantage2. The scooped design conforms naturally to the curves of the human hand. Though you have to relearn typing to an extent, it's totally worth it. You will also need an adjustable height external monitor. If you don't want to pay, don't be shy to ask your employer. It's an investment that pays off big in your efficiency.

The #3 thing was doing wall slides. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOtlRQxwt3g This doesn't help with the pain, but it is the only exercise I've ever tried that corrects kyphotic posture. Immediately after I started doing them, friends and family were asking me if I've gotten taller. It activates muscles in the upper back that I didn't even know existed.
> cause you are too lazy to make a massive effort to go see wild animals in their natural habitat.

It’s mostly for kids, it will be quite dangerous to go see most of the jungle animals with toddlers. No?
Except it's not the first:
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My friend got an echo recently, it was almost funny how many songs it would say "playing a sample of X song" when we were throwing songs at it last Friday.

That is after we'd repeated the song title/artist to it over and over and it eventually understood us.
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it's a museum/prison for live animals
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Well, they tried to do their own thing outside of the app store. You'll need someone working on reachability, deployments, performance, security, monitoring, etc.

Or just use the Appstore.
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forked, thanks !
The prime music selection is actually not bad. I use it with Alexa and many songs are included. Every once in a while it tells me I need Unlimited subscription to play a song, but it's good enough so I don't bother with Spotify or Amazon Unlimited. My use case is different since I don't use my phone to play music.
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Irrespective of whether people agree to the analysis or not, it is interesting that most replies focus on wealth destruction. All the while not checking the actual heading, which is:

"for every $1 of Bitcoin converted into cash, up to $25,000 of paper wealth is destroyed"

So, the blog writer is aware of what wealth is lost and it might not be actual.
That mentality is created by capitalism. Corporations need to push people into software engineering and attract software engineers, which in turn creates an incentive for free and open tooling for developers.
Logarithm too. I had written a fractal program in python, and one optimization for adding up a lot of logarithms was to multiply several values together first, then take the log of the batch. When I converted it to a shadertoy, I found that I could strip out the crufty batching code, converting hundreds of multiplies into logarithms with no noticeable change in performance.
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Turns out it's all the captivity
If you want to just make sure that lots of content are accessible eventually that is neglible (and I am constrained by ISP anyways).
We have a few offices in the USA and the offices are connected to Comcast. I was really surprised how good they were after reading all the blog posts about how bad they were. In both locations they offered us the best service (Sip trunking and internet) at the best price. Not only that, they also had to shell out for a major build to one of our facilities without us flipping any part of the bill. When we've had problems, required changes, they were really fast and competent. I can't speak for their consumer division but I would recommend them based on my experiences.
they need you to capture your attention to display you the ads. how else would they earn money? or do you expect them to work for free? would you work for free? would you pay for this article? i certainly wouldn't even though i was curious about the answer
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Wanting to make sure that lots of rare things stay accessible. ;)
Fewer international grad students are seeking computer science degrees in the US
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I'm guilty of 90% retweets or so, but have a general low output rate including them. So I made a policy of retweet only things, that people who follow me wouldn't see anyway. Like 10+ people overlap. For me it's distinctively different from a like button. The most annoying thing is having other peoples liked pushed into the timeline and the same 3 ads all over again.
For me it just feels so good to do sports regularly, so I do sports 4 times a week for 30 minutes in my living room. I follow the exercises of the following book: "You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises" by Mark Lauren and Joshua Clark. There is an exercise plan so you know what to do and nearly all exercises can be done without special equipment. And the best - most of the 30 minutes you just lay down and recover ;). I can really recommend it.
I don't have an in to Google, but a bit of fairly simple logic would suggest that while YouTube presumably puts the short tail of popular videos on all nodes, the long tail will be much more distributed and less replicated; the costs inevitably force them that way. I can't prove it but as a long-tail consumer myself I believe I've witnessed some videos getting pulled in from some slow long-term storage before, things like conference videos from five years ago in the low hundreds of views.
True. Most of the world cannot afford to pay $80 for a text editor.
> intransparent

They're probably opaque, as well.
Risky if you're planning to use that SIM to prove that you're a legitimate person to a data mining company like Facebook or Google. That SIM gets reported stolen and your account could go up in flames, which is a big problem if you've been spending weeks grooming it to look real.
Got so many people converted to Linux showing off the Compiz effects when I was 12. Some how they ran buttery smooth on shitty Pentium III processors.
Check out the chatty at shacknews.com The immediacy of irc with threading to keep things readable.
I haven't read Ringworld, but are you sure that it is not describing this already existing technology?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjet
Of course not. Trump is Obama II, or perhaps we should say Bush Jr. III. Even the dim hopes some naive souls harbored that somehow he would be less militarist than his predecessors have evaporated by now.

The significance of Trump's election, if any can be said to exist, is that from now on all of our chief executives will be reality TV stars. Is that progress?

You think you're being clever, asking all these questions before making any firm statement. The downvoters seem to have seen through the mask?
You're telling me that you can't envision a situation where Big Company A holds patents worth billions, and Big Company B wouldn't pay money to see those patents invalidated?

You're telling me that you can't envision a situation where Big Company B could spend millions (instead of billions) in an attempt to bring down such patents and, even if it loses, consider it just a risky bet at best?
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I recommend Gokhale method (https://www.amazon.com/Steps-Pain-Free-Back-Solutions-Should...) which helped me fix my back pain and allow to sit for long periods of time without any problem. This book will teach you how to sit correctly and few other things about your back.
Alexander Technique saved me, its a course where trainer makes you aware of your posture, especially about how you hold your head. Check if there is an instructor in your area

more generally:
Have monitors high so you are looking straight ahead.
Feet flat on the floor
a good chair that adjusts to your body.

ie there is no way you can work on a laptop in a cafe 6+ hrs a day without getting chronic back problems.
When it was set up in the 1940s, it was claimed to be impossibly expensive, and would bankrupt the nation.
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Technorati and Twingly used to provide such services but Technorati seems to have been bought and decommissioned and Twingly has pivoted into something else.
Maybe toddlers don't need to see live jungle animals.
cant cite here, but I usually look for twitter people who challenge the current narrative, or even my own understanding. Most often, these are articles and long form blogposts that show up on my time line.

Basically anything that tends to create a false dichotomy, is a red flag. And I'm not a big fan of books necessarily, because there's a financial incentive for the author to pander to certain ideology (irrespective of the ideology being something I believe in or not).
It's up but I think dead. Crossing my fingers.
As a consumer/prosumer/user of some IoT devices, the compute model I prefer is probably most closely aligned with what the author calls the "Fog" model. For devices at my home, I want:

* No data to leave my personal private network, except to third-party APIs for necessary information to fulfill my requests. If I have a smart agent device, for example, and I ask it to tell me the movies playing at my local theater, it is acceptable for an API request to go out to the cloud to fetch showtimes. But precisely that and only that.

* Computation runs on either the edge device itself or my local computing resources. Like many households, I have several "desktop class" PCs which each are more than capable of doing the kind of processing used by today's IoT use-cases. And like many enthusiast households, I have home servers as well, which are even more powerful. Despite several starts and stops in the space, I suspect eventually we will see home servers return as more people demand local processing and data autonomy.

* Data is stored either on the edge device or on my local computing resources (as above).

* Devices are available remotely via my home network's secure tunnel that is available anywhere on the Internet. (No specific requirements for the devices themselves.)
Which safaris? I've been to Sabi Sands and Shamwari in South Africa. Looking for another place in the future.
That plus mobility exercises (DeFranco Agile 8 is a good base, adjust as needed).

https://www.t-nation.com/training/defranco-agile-8
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Zoos play an important role in conservation efforts.
This is great. My new landlord teaches the Alexander Technique, I think I'll hit her up. This thread has been a godsend. Just sitting straight on the edge of my chair like someone else here mentioned helped with my shoulder blades, with no arm rests, feet tucked and on the ground, and looking ahead.
Slight unintended consequence is it creates a significant incentive for politicians to allow their expenses to be picked up by someone else. There are rules in many democracies where "gifts," over small amounts (~$50) must be reported to ethics commissions and scrutinized for opportunity by the opposition, media, and by extension, the public.

In a simple risk game of likelihood vs. consequences, expensing a meal in an upper end restaurant will %90 draw political consequences from an AI, with a high degree of uncertainty in the cost to fight it, vs. accepting the hosts generosity, with a sub-%5 chance of consequences occurring like having to pay your share, or a minor sanction some years into the future.

I'd argue most politicians necessarily make risk and cost/benefit calculations before ethical signalling ones, and the indiscriminate application of rules in this case creates inverted incentives that demoralize the situation, and will cause them to start accepting insignificant bribes.

The economic value of "AI" is mostly to obfuscate and symbolically defray the chain of individual human accountability. While this may be working for the "good guys," in the public interest, it's really about protecting the people who are using what is essentially a Bayesian black box as an ethical proxy for their personal interest. It's fascinating and cool, but it's also a bit disingenuous to accept magical pretexts and other ethical proxies because we perceive them to be "on our side."
Thank you, inetknight, brave Knight of the Internet.
Yes, that helped me to get rid of back pain.
What does it mean "objects" in practice?

JSON is basically objects but serialized. X can also kind of share a window through the network, but as it is designed to do so, it fails on many other levels.
That first thread is a train wreck; here is a guy who has no idea what real accountability looks like. It’s kind of amusing when you consider Reddit’s broader ambitions, because someone like Spez is going to be first on the chopping block. At the very least, they need to hire someone who understands the first thing about PR and customer relations, just to staunch the bleeding.

When you’re confronted with evidence that your site hosts material including animal torture and dead babies, the correct response is to demonstrate your humanity, not your total lack thereof.
Good post, much agreement, thank you, congrats on your health.

I also sit forward. I think of it as active posture. I'm holding myself upright. Versus slouching. When I "lean into" my work, I imagine myself being more attentive, productive. (I wouldn't know how to measure that.)

I'd only add that everyone should get regular physical therapy tune ups. I've always been active (hiking, cycling, gym) so I thought I was doing pretty good. Turns out I had been neglecting my smaller muscles and balance. I was shocked how much functionality I had lost. Like standing on one foot to put on the other sock.

For further motivation, all the balance exercises have helped build my body awareness and therefore my posture.
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mostly for kids

As an adult you are not supposed to enjoy seeing wild animals?
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And what do you call refusing to run special elections illegally and passing anti-speech laws at the state level exactly?

The GOP does that as well and pretending its only one side is absurd on many levels.
Yes, this argument certainly doesn't absolve OpenTable of any wrongdoing. Especially in sales it should be fairly obvious what the outcome of these ridiculous targets will be.

But sometimes it can be more subtle. For example, a delivery driver may be targetted to make 10 deliveries an hour. However what happens when they are short of their target. They cheat. Suddenly people aren't home. They hit their target, but now the company has to reattempt delivery which increases their overall costs. But many companies, instead of looking at what they are really trying to achieve, will just add more rules (only successful deliveries count) which will just lead to more sophisticated cheating.
The Polish people I've worked with (in the US, but recently moved from Poland) speak passable English. Their grammar hasn't been very good, but they are able to understand everything as far as I could tell. Definitely not as fluent as Germans or Scandinavians though.
Formal fallacy.

That biology can be called 'the study of complex things' does not imply that all complex things fall under biology. It's silly to even have to point this out.
> You have to "train" management to accept email confirmation on good days.

This is a crucial thing for recent college grads to understand. Learn it the easy way before you learn it the hard way.
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One weird trick: sit at the very front of your chair with your thighs pitched down, weight resting on your butt. That will angle your pelvis forward, closer to a standing position. You should find it easier to sit upright with your spine straight.
Lots of great tips here regarding taking breaks every 30 mins to stand, walk, stretch, etc. Yoga and other forms of core strengthening exercise will help reinforce better posture.

If you don't do this already then ensure that your knees are lower than your hips by placing a cushion or something underneath you [1]. That seems to help promote the natural curve in the lower back. Doing that while gently lowering shoulders, keeping them back, and raising the chest forward a bit helps a lot. For me it's a dynamic process that requires frequent checking-in to make adjustments and release tension.

[1] https://www.garmaonhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sea...

Linked from this site https://www.garmaonhealth.com/meditation-posture-manifests-g...
That riles me up, it's comparing ~2500usd (adjusted) appliances with ~200usd appliances while glossing over actual cost to consumer or equivalent priced quality.
It added a dependency on the JVM. (I probably have an overly painful past with the JVM in production), suffice to say we had to bump up the RAM on the build machines.

This alone is a reason not to use Bazel. It's designed for the enterprise in mind, where JVMs are common, sharing a common build environment in a team is easy (or at least, the setup time isn't an issue).

For a community project, this type of thing wouldn't fly. There's a reason Meson is winning the latest build-systems war: it only depends on python3 & ninja.
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To anyone coming here wondering WTF is Tile38? First I'll tell you what it's not. It's not a replacement for PostGIS, and it's not built on top of Redis.

In my opinion PostGIS is the Swiss Army Knife of spatial data management. It's awesome! Especially for large datasets and complex queries. I use it all the time.

Tile38 uses the Redis protocol for network transport. There're some commands that loosely resemble Redis like SET and GET, but it's otherwise a completely different project. I originally forked Redis and built the functionality on top of the C codebase. https://github.com/tidwall/redis-gis, but scrapped that project.

What Tile38 is good for is very dynamic datasets where the application needs fast and simple point-in-polygon queries and streaming geofence notifications. Like vehicle pickup services, bus route services, proximity social apps, etc.
I like to think of them more as "ambassadors" - you see how cool a lion/monkey/snake/wolf/whatever is close up, and as a result you are more likely to support efforts to preserve them in the wild.
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What's a top alternative you've found to work aside from triangles?
Yeah, reminds me of this post: https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-brief-glance-at-how-...

There's a simple array of lines, a gap buffer, a BTree... No DOM, though. I wonder why... :)
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Maybe someone should start a website that collects user submitted TL;DRs for URLs and has a chrome extension to inject the tldr on the page.
I remember my amazement watching our CS teacher in highschool expand the sine function into its Taylor series.

I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea that you could simply calculate this using basic arithmetic operations.

One thing I learned from this experience was that these functions are expensive to calculate and it's actually pretty easy to write your own, faster but less precise implementation.
Congrats on getting yourself better. Information helps, but you've got to apply it and not everyone does.

Regarding #1: Interesting observation about the horse and camel riding. However, I think there's more hip extension involved in both of those activities. I imagine there's also more muscle engagement in both too. Still an interesting point though. Makes me wonder if there's middle ground, regarding hip extension, while sitting. People typically talk about sitting vs standing at desks. I wonder if there's a place for chairs that sit higher off the ground to allow for more hip extension and sitting on the edge.

All speculation on my part.