skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that most instances would block Facebook if they tried to do something like that. They'd have nothing to gain and everything to lose by allowing FB to get away with it.

As for your other point, it's also possible it will go the way of GMail, which is still compatible with other email providers. I think a large part of it depends on how big ActivityPub gets before a GMastodon appears.

Email is pervasive and decently well diversified on the web, with multiple email providers, and many businesses and users not being on GMail, partially due to inertia (they already had an email before GMail became big). Maybe GMail could afford to cut off emails from external providers, but it would be a big risk, and it would definitely break a large part of the web.

If ActivityPub does the same, with websites integrating it into their user experience, and news organizations and businesses self-hosting or joining various instances, I expect it would gain the same kind of resilience as email for when a GMastodon shows up.

So I'm not too pessimistic about this. The more pressing concern is increasing adoption, IMO.
Can you not sue the government in the UK? I am struggling to understand why this was not a massive class action lawsuit. They severely impacted these people's lives and deserve compensation.
Government quotas! That'll solve the problem.
The solution is investment in public transportation and a reduction in consumption.

There's absolutely no reason for most people in industrialized countries to own a car, other than the fact that the public transportation infrastructure sucks. With the shift of gas to electrically powered vehicles, there's even less of a reason for people to own an electric vehicle with a massive battery. We need higher density public transportation. Where the kwh of transporting a person goes down on average, thus reducing the need for more batteries.

As residential density increases, and road infrastructure can't keep up, we'll see a lot more bike paths, light and heavy rail, close proximity grocery stores, etc...

Look at Atlanta right now. Traffic is a clusterfuck, suburbs are also expanding, prompting more people to own a vehicle so they can get to downtown where the jobs are. You sit on the highway, and every single person is in a 5 person vehicle, only for 1 seat to be occupied. What a colossal waste from a utilization perspective.

Atlanta has decided to repurpose an old rail loop around the city and make a paved path around the entire city, which connects to other public infrastructure via auxiliary paths and existing trails. It is called The Beltline. It will take maybe another 10 years to complete the entire loop, but the city will be ready to handle the problems that will ensue decades from now.
An oversupply according to whom, the taxi drivers? Given how much eager so many riders were to pick them over cabs, they were obviously supplying something that was missing.
+++ for PSV. Incredible show. Actor for Gates was really good as well. A little creepy, but very calculated.
More likely, we all got manipulated into thinking it’s better.
you are assuming that people only use these services for vapid interactions. plenty of people that live in censored countries use twitter to find out what is going on around them
Eh, Twitter was always the social media site for old people. Much of their early marketing targeted network TV and nightly news.
To Woah:

You might look here [0]. A great quote about the radiation levels: "Searching for uranium is in some ways easier than for other mineral resources because the radiation signature of uranium's decay products allows deposits to be identified and mapped from the air."

Key phrase:

mapped from the air

That's a pretty high level.

[0] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...
Exactly. And whereas biological human voices deteriorate with time, the proposed replacements for Hawking's voice were supposedly improvements (though not necessarily improvements to him).
As we come to understand how much genetic expression is tied to environmental influences, such as with epigenetics silencing certain genes, all of these genetics/environment dichotomies are going to become less distinct. We need to talk about them as genetic susceptibility plus environmental trigger. For instance, say the environmental trigger is something extremely common, like the common cold. Even in carefully built twin studies there would be a high likelihood of the trigger occurring, which would make it appear heavily genetically caused, but the genes alone would not be sufficient to cause the condition.
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"I refuse to accept that everything must be “disrupted” and turned into a moneymaking machine for tech elites. It’s absurd to suggest that Silicon Valley look to profit from one of the few institutions available across the entire country that doesn’t exist to make money for someone else.

"Libraries are irreplaceable. Either discuss providing more funding for the invaluable work we do, or leave them alone."

The Forbes editorial was spectacularly bizarre. Amazon?

Weird that they're taken it down.
Is the prototype chain an example of an object as well? An object doesn't need to be instantiated as any sort of class, it can be a function?
Thus exercising self restraint. My point was not to throw away the baby with the bathwater.
Complacent attitude, poor communication, chaotic process.

To a much lesser extent, no matter how many times I asked for a new chair I got the same response - "I can ask. But there's nothing I can do about that". I would not have decided to find another job if they made this minimal gesture.

Really the chair thing! I sat in a 15yo hand-me-down desk chair that the leather was peeling off of. I brought in my $100 back support chair from home cause I started having back pain. They were like "huh, ok". I didn't ask for a $3000 herman miller with all the bells and whistles. I asked for some decent back support while spending 8hrs in a chair. If I were my boss I would have bought an amazon gift card for a few hundred bucks and said "pick whatever you like". I would have been forever indented to that guy and probably wouldn't have asked for anything else.

I still don't understand why people don't pick the low hanging fruit when they can.
That address font size issues, but not relative sizing or spacing issues.
mea culpa. I suppose my enthusiasm got the best of me.
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Isn't that a good thing? Supply goes up due to demand at a specific price point. So either the supply is increasing to meet demand (which is good), or the price is falling so more quantity is demanded (which is also good).
Nuclear weapons won't target cities, there simply aren't enough weapons to hit all of the military targets, so none would be left over for counter value. It makes little sense to target civilians, who can't directly inflict damage on your nation's military or citizens, when you have available military targets that will further the accomplishment of objectives.

So all nuclear warfare in total war is counter force.
Got a better job.
As one of those ex-MAUs: Nowhere. I used to have Twitter and Tumblr on my phone (Tumblr mostly for following a bunch of webcomics). One day, I noticed how much time I spend in those apps, so I deleted both of them and while I was at times tempted to reinstall them, I never gave in.

(I never had a Facebook account to begin with.)
I'd like to think we've built a civilization that's able to pursue more than one goal at a time, but maybe I'm an optimist.
Personally I think that's a great book for anyone who is involved in the process of delivering software, from developers to project managers.
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right, which is why you never short a stock no matter how obviously overpriced it is.
Ahh, the big SV vanity metric comes home to roost.
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As my betters have already responded, the tools are decent in and of themselves, but pale when compared directly to Office.

Just in scientific consulting alone, for example, frequently the codebase is best manipulated in Linux, but documentation (reports, analysis) must be done in Windows, as there's a back and forth with the client who is frequently using Windows. Wine is unreliable, and often the only real options are either dual-boot or VM.
People want a consistent, reasonable commute time.

Los Angeles's utilization rates for public transportation could probably be improved a great deal by giving buses priority over individual car traffic so that bus commute times were relatively short and predictably so.

But what a huge political battle would have to be won to change street and freeway use regulations...
As a kid prior to this Internet thing, I used to spend hours in the microfiche section reading interesting articles. If I had some money, I'd print a couple to take home and let the toxic chemical smell follow me back when I read them later.

Later on my little community library had cassette music to rent, so I enjoyed Paul Simon, the Manhattan Transfer and Alan Parsons.

The magazine racks had all the back issues of computer magazines I could never find.

I learned so much I would walk there on weekends and just spend an afternoon. I went back there a couple years ago and the microfiche area was now a bank of PCs and I didn't see the music section, but even though such things change, I'm glad my community library is still around for this generation to use. There's no means of discovery quite like browsing racks and finding some interesting journal or book you never knew existed.
Clearly we can't handle it.
The previous poster said "women", not "women on average".
I'd love to hear your feedback, so yes please :)

Anything you don't like is an opportunity to make our product better
I quit my job to try my hand at startups in 2007 and of course failed miserably. When 2008 hit, I didn't have a lot of money. I watched with a lot of surprise as stocks hit huge returns out of the ballpark since then. Nowadays, I don't buy a lot of stocks. I just hoard cash waiting until the next crash. Then I'll start hunting for bargains and hopefully ride the next recovery up.

As someone else in this thread has noted, save during boom times, buy during bust times.
Can anyone recommend an alternative that does _not_ rely on Electron?
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Oh cool, let have this discussion all over again! It's been, what, 24 hours?
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right, but if you have good savings you can pick up a bargain in the downturn without a loan.
I think the SRE book and the workflow are good guides for some specific aspects/examples of SRE work. There's also tons of books on industry best practice and standards (none of which I can recommend specifically, maybe someone else here can?) ranging through things like ITIL[1], risk management[2], IT management[3], OAM[4], operations management[5], network and service management[6], etc. These are more abstract than "how do I set up monitoring", but they give you an idea of the breadth of what a large-scale organization needs to run high availability, high performance services at scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITIL [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_risk_management [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology_managem... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations,_administration_and... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_management [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_and_service_management...
It looks like it's 10,000 times more radioactive than a natural mix of potassium isotopes so worrying on the "radon concentration in your basement" level not "radioactive waste" level.
People get strongly attached to speech synthesizers, even (especially?) the old robotic-sounding ones, whether they're using it to speak for them (as with Hawking) or read to them (e.g. blind people). I know a blind guy who was so attached to the ETI-Eloquence synthesizer (developed in the 90s) that, to use it on his Mac, he did a hack involving the WINE Win32 compatibility layer. Some blind people favor the more robotic-sounding synths in general because those tend to be better at high speeds than the more natural-sounding voices based on real recordings.

The lesson is that software companies shouldn't be quick to kill an old product or let it die just because they have a newer one that they think is better.

Edit: Perhaps the next generation of blind techies will become attached to something open-source, like espeak-ng (which ships with the NVDA screen reader for Windows). Then, if they want it frozen in time at version X, that will be feasible.
When you equate this imaginary feminist position with literally advocating for genocide, you're telling on yourself.
We're on 4.10.1, so I think we have most if not all of what you mentioned. Thanks for the great open source product!

I should be clear, my own UI complaints are minor, but I want to acknowledge that people expecting a 1:1 copy of Slack won't exactly find it. Mattermost works well for us, but I recognize that an enhanced UI with tight media integration must be important to many people, otherwise Slack would not have become as popular as it has.

Threading is really the only gripe I have personally - I don't like how it works, and I don't use it much because of that. But then I also don't have any real observations about how it could be improved either, and not using it (and basically operating as if it's IRC) is a perfectly fine solution!
I'm sick of people going after things they don't use or understand that are valuable to people of lesser means while spewing the efficiencies of the free market.

Amazon only makes as much money as it does because it manages to avoid paying tax while utilizing the infrastructure built and maintained by collecting taxes.
> what's low is the level of rare earth exploration and exploitation not absolute supply

This article is about cobalt and nickel, neither of which are rare-earths.
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Related - The Diagrams Book [1] is really good. It's a collection of 50 types of visual charts you can use to communicate information more effectively.

[1]: http://www.thediagramsbook.com/
If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say companies that are seriously willing to engage in real SRE are probably also open enough to have a "How we did it" chapter written. At least in the Fortune 500 world where I live, companies aren't into pretending they don't suck, generally.

And the companies that are likely to be jerks about it are unlikely to be doing interesting SRE work. I'd like stories of hard-won success (or cautionary tales of failure), not just ranting about how much Company X sucks and how broken they are.
Isn't there an element of survivor balance there though? It worked for amazon but how many dozens of companies raised heavily and still failed to "capture the flag" on the other side?
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"Women don't have the lower body strength to do it."

"The average woman is physically weaker than the average man."

Excellent motte and bailey (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey).
It's a dark pattern indeed. Facebook does the same with their mobile web version. If you try to use messenger from a mobile browser, you are redirected to download the app.

If you switch to "Desktop" mode in a mobile browser. The messenger is so freaking buggy and unusable, it deletes text as you type and try to send a message. It's made to frustrate you so you download the messenger app.
Not sure it qualifies as an introduction to any particular field within tech, but for a general deep dive into the inner workings of computers:

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

I just love this book! It was a joyous adventure of discovery the first time through. Subsequent reads always yield new insights.
^ this rings true for me all right! I suffer from the same concentration / feels-bad-man syndrome if I don't follow my self-imposed restrictions [no chess unless I'm not working and especially no chess after 11pm!].

In fact, I did it to myself Wednesday evening, 'sneaking in' a quick game' while waiting for a long install to finish at about midnight, and WHOOPS blundered my queen. Felt like a moron the rest of the night.
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A single child is a loss to a country, 2.x is minimum every couple should have.
Oh right, that's a thing (that was never available here in Germany).
The city would never buy the medallions back, because the price was based on an assumption of monopoly- they are worth much less now with the ubiquity of Uber and Lyft.

The cabbies have gotten the short end of the stick though.
Even that moves to the cloud though. I have not used the office 365 tools at all but from my understanding they should have feature parity at some point.

But then I suppose that editing a hundred page call to bids document in a browser tab does not really work well.
No, not really. I do have some "favorite colleagues" who I enjoy working with and chatting about this and that over lunch, but they're colleagues, not friends.

My circle of friends is entirely separate from work, there is no overlap, which is just fine by me. I prefer keeping work and my personal life separate.
Or we could just replace him with a donkey.
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Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language. How?
Yes. This is why WWII pilots were chosen and trained like NFL offensive linemen. Monsters, the lot of them.
How compatible are they? If I send you a word document with tables and layouts and strange things, will you be able to open, modify and send it back s.t. I can open it again without everything being one big clusterfuck?
Because many people (programmers seem especially susceptible to this) use "actionable and specific" as an excuse to be jerks.
It's also fundamentally wrong in its headline and lede conclusion. And it even admits as much:

> Recycling cannot replenish supplies. Lithium-ion batteries last for 15–20 years, 3 times longer than the 5–7 years for lead-acid batteries. Refiners might exploit poorer quality ores, especially as prices climb. But greater processing costs would push the prices higher.

So... no. We aren't going to run out. We'll see a continuous bend in the demand curve as new production methods come online.

It's exactly the same logic that led to all the fretting about "peak oil" in the 90's and early 00's. No, all that happened (sadly) was that when gas crossed $3/gallon we suddenly invented fracking and prices stabilized.

Batteries will get more expensive. We'll survive.
I agree most VC money has been misappropriated in the interest of purely making more money.
Not without identifying myself, sorry. I sit in multiple irc channels where this sort of thing regularly happens to members though.

It’s the bizarre inconsistency of it that’s most grating - content can result in bans or not depending on... as far as anyone can tell, a roll of the dice. For any number of instances where a fascist says something awful and gets away with it, you can find much more banal things that get leftists banned.
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You get a single IP, that doesn’t scale well at all.
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When I was a young child, the library was a place for me to go to sit on a beanbag and read childrens books for hours while my mom studied for her masters degree. Now 2/3 of library patrons are homeless or struggling with addiction, and some parents may not wish to leave their children unattended in such an environment. I don't think Amazon has the answers but I see a natural tension between welcoming vagrants and making people with children comfortable.
> In the media, the disease was largely associated with groups such as drug users and gay men, who were routinely stigmatised at the time.

This is still very much the case today, depending on where you live it might even be worse today than it was in the 80s.
In the real world the cost of figuring out who is polluting your property when it comes to acid rain, engine particulates, etc dwarf the cost imposed by this pollution. I'm all for trying to minimize pollution in an economically efficient way but thinking you can do this by suing each of the 10,000 car owners who drove past your house for $.15 each is ridiculous - we really do need government regulation here.
Personally, I cannot fathom finding it preferable, or even acceptable, for Amazon to attempt to displace my local library; Much like bookstores, there's an essential soul to them any corporate invader like Amazon lacks utterly. I have fond memories of summers spent trawling the stacks, afternoons at a table with friends working on homework, DnD sessions in the private meeting rooms, and browsing old stock auctions for the eclectic. Libraries and bookstores are some of the few holdouts of the bibliophile, and remain the best place to get recommendations or spend a quiet evening immersed in a novel - even if Amazon could somehow fulfill each of the numerous services of a modern library, the idea of losing such a wonderful refuge to corporate uniformity is abhorrent.
All of the local libraries near me have a 3D printer. One library close by offers a coworkers space I can borrow a Roku and aLaptop. . Libraries don't need distruption they are already doing it themselves.
The best all around book about the ARPA/Parc research community is Mitchell Waldrop's "The Dream Machine". Covers pretty much everything pretty much outstandingly.
>So all nuclear warfare in total war is counter force.

And yet the only real example of nuclear warfare targeted civilians...
>In this case, the minority is the many millions of people in the Bay Area that don't work in tech...

Unless I'm quite mistaken (the article leads me to think otherwise), it isn't them making this decision.
^ this is what I do in the above scenario. Also, I usually carry a notepad and pen with me, so I'll often make notes about something that's on my mind or that I'm working on. Or, you know, doodle.
REs are an interesting situation but not what's being talked about in this article. China has no production of cobalt and a tiny fraction of nickel.
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Have you tried doom-emacs? https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

It has an insane startup speed! I tried once and it opened within a second. I'm not an evil user myself, so don't know about the vim compatibility.

If you are interested in making the startup faster, check https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/wiki/FAQ#how-is-dooms... from the same author