skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this argument, while true in some cases, is overly dismissive in general. The whole imperative to "stay in your lane" is one of the most destructive developments in modern science. In biology, for example, the field of synthetic biology was initiated by two physicists: Michael Elowitz and James Collins. It has since illuminated foundational biological ideas about the nature and purpose of stochasticity and dynamics of gene expression, perspectives that biolgists wouldn't have captured because they aren't used to thinking about things stochastically or dynamically. I actually think there CAN be cross talk back from biology: physicists, in general, have terrible experimental instincts compared to biologists. There's a huge stagnation in physics because we've chosen maximally difficult experimental means to prove small things over long time scales. Any biologist could tell you that you want to pick simple, cheap experiments that will be resolved over a short time period. Only recently are particle physicists tuning into this perspective, with the recent move to emphasize tabletop experiments.

But no, apparently we should all stay in our lanes and respect experts in different fields to know everything. It's DESTRUCTIVE and DISGUSTING.
It is well known that much of the impact those images make on people is due, in large part, to the time he spent making prints from the negatives. He was a master at that. I like you term, "journalistic", in referring to this work. That is concept I was thinking about but the word didn't come to me at that time.
There are two factors to that. Cross conduction is one, the other is the current pulse needed to charge the capacitance of the switched signal (the trace capacitance but also the gate capacitance of the next stage(s); of course this simple model is only an idealized concept with current process nodes).
Ok, is there a screenshot from the current Haiku build?
25% is a steal. They handle all the financial transactions and host and distribute the game files on the most popular client on the planet. They also handle the security.

Handling your own billing is expensive and time consuming. Setting up your own distribution and hosting is also expensive and time consuming, and then there's the bandwidth cost.

All this adds up rather quickly. Having someone else do the business end of selling games, and only for 25% is a bargain.
> I actually am surprised that services like Steam, the Apple App Store, and Google Play are able to command as high a margin as they do for sales commission. I mean, it's obviously possible because it's reality, but it's nonintuitive.

Why?
> family and long time friends prioritised

this is a good problem to have for ppl being referred to this topic :D
data leak of millions of dna files also imminent, then
Except that Flutter is pretty bad on anything that isn’t Android. The “Cupertino” theme needs significant work; it’s significantly worse than even Ionic is.
You have no idea what you are talking about.

Unless we live in a 100% free market, then what you are saying is totally invalid. We actually ARE forced to use the established banks and payment processors, we have no choice. The government provides all sorts of privileges and protections to them that make it impossible to just build your own.

When the government strips payment processors of all of their privileges, and when the Communications Decency Act no longer protects media companies masquerading as communications platforms (eg Twitter, YouTube and Facebook), then and only then will your assertions begin to make any sense.

Unless you are trying to send money to ISIS, then payment processors should be obligated to support you.

And indeed, payment processors and banks are far more worried about you donating money to people who's politics they disagree with than actual violent terrorists or child pornographers.
That creates an unneeded amount of work come January of re-following everyone and everything I want to follow.

This is a month experiment, not a permanent life change. At least, so far that's all it is.
Your retail store analogy is a red herring. A browser plugin that “maximizes the chances of bypassing paywalls” is attempting not to be party to a transaction, because if it succeeds, the user has expressly not agreed to the seller’s terms.

Instead your position appears analogous to arguing that altering a driver’s license to gain free admission to a cinema by misrepresenting oneself as entitled to senior citizen terms of entry is justifiable despite being prohibited by law in that jurisdiction.

It’s clear from this and other posts that you have articulate, principled view on many issues. So why aren’t you addressing the underlying economic issue? Publishers, like any business, need to earn revenue. If technological barriers to accessing intellectual property — and the legal protection thereof — are not valid (your claim of “frivolous overenforcement”), whose economic rights supersede the content producers? And why?
Loneliness is a problem, it's just that too many people confused being alone with being lonely.

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. (...) We are alone, perhaps in the midst of multitudes, but
we are not lonely. Solitude protects us without isolating us. But life calls us back to its empty
talk and the unavoidable demands of daily routine. It calls us back to its loneliness and the
cover that it, in turn, spreads over our loneliness.

-- Paul Tillich, "The Eternal Now"
I might be totally off base here, but I get the sense that native widgets have become a skeuomorph for following the common UX conventions of the platform you're running on, with the latter being what brings the real value. The equivalent conventions for web apps and their desktop derivatives are much looser and don't yield as much consistency on which to build effective user expectations and habits. People who experienced the shift can tell something is missing, and the most obvious correlate is the disappearance of native widgets.
Bunch of us quit that poison decades ago. and we don't make a ruse about it.
I took a college course about photographic culture in ~2008, wherin we read 150 years of essays complaining about how vain everyone was having their picture taken all the time, how they all took the same uncreative tourist photos, how sitting through people’s slideshows from their trips was a bore, how smiling at cameras is contrived and artificial, how photography wasn’t real art and didn’t require any skill, how the availability of cheap photographs was degrading the concept of a portrait, etc. etc.

This is not even close to a new phenomenon or a new complaint. The main difference is that almost everyone carries a camera all the time now, the marginal cost of taking additional photos is basically 0, and sharing pictures is easier than ever.
I recently heard a friend say that Windows 8 was her favorite version because it was so simple. I thought that was really interesting.

I never really got to experience it the way it was intended, because upon first booting it I became horrified that everything had changed, and installed a bunch of tweaks to make it behave like Windows 7.
Introduction to Kaggle Competitions with Digit Recognition (0.995)
A couple of questions I had that I didn’t seem answered in the README:

* How is view positioning handled? Does Boden only allow for “list” layouts?

* Can I use my own native components?

* Can I call platform APIs?
What does this mean? It's much more of a "real OS" than DOS at least, no? And it's certainly a platform that can be used to get computer things done, in a much more resource-efficient manner than modern systems.
> I think vaccinations are a good thing.

I also think vaccinations are a good thing, but your original comment didn't come across that way.. In fact, it came across as being completely off topic.
These are not merely service providers. They are de-facto utilities. Just because Verizon does not like your politics, does not mean they can cut you off from their services. Same with Wells Fargo denying you a checking account (although they certainly did try in the past, if they thought you were a labor organizer).

Patreon, and other payment processors (like Stripe.com) are having their arms twisted from the highest levels by Visa and Mastercard.

Think for a moment if it would be ok with you if Visa and Mastercard were doing this because they wanted to silence people who advocated for women's rights. Would you still be so libertarian about it?
Well, considering the hardware sandboxing is also imperfect (Spectre, meltdown, rowhammer), you don't really have a choice but to use at least some software sandboxing. If you can use only software sandboxing, then there are potentially big wins. Seems like worth trying.
Weird, I like the ribbon a lot
I’m not disagreeing with you. But you would be surprised at how many people in the HN SV bubble think that all developers living anywhere in the country who are only making $100-$150K are living in trailers scraping by.
> I think Linux is quite a bit different. Firefox shares its space with applications that have the same privilege, making sideloading into Firefox much easier, especially on Windows.

All the more reason to have a supported way to do it. If they require the malware to replace the Firefox binary with a different one, what happens when it does? The user ends up with twelve pieces of malware instead of one because the original malware author didn't bother to support browser updates properly and the user ends up with a browser full of publicly known security vulnerabilities.

> And then Linux is also niche enough as a consumer OS that it's just not as attractive for malware in the first place.

People have been claiming that as the reason there was so much more malware on Windows for decades. Then Windows adopted some of the same types of measures as Linux and the amount of Windows malware fell off considerably.
Genetically Modified People Are Walking Among Us
vim is a grammar, a true grammar, once you learn that, it all makes sense.

http://rc3.org/2012/05/12/the-grammar-of-vim/
I bit the bullet and deactivated my Facebook a few weeks ago. The first few days I found myself going to website a lot, but seeing the login screen was always enough to make me exit out of it. Now, I rarely even start to type Facebook.com in, and only end up there if following a link from elsewhere.
The anti-vax movement as well as some of the things going on around genetically modified good or even just plain old organic foods frequently remind me of the anti-vax technology couple that Pirsig starts his motorcycle trip with in "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance". There are so many things all around us that most people don't understand and people are overwhelmed and tired from it resulting in this somewhat delusional pushback against modernity. We are building nostalgia and longing for a past that never existed because we don't want to have modernity which also isn't as esthetically pleasing as the made up, idyllically past.
I'm not sure I see anything in DDLs that denies parameterization of user input, except that support might be currently non-existent; but if the support is missing, it doesn't make sanitization a correct solution... it makes it a necessary hack to work around a lacking communication protocol

Ofc if the user is putting in full custom queries, parameterization doesn't help anything, but I'm not sure what you're even sanitizing at that point (semantics? Afaik sanitization refers to syntax cleanup; It'd be even dumber to avoid people dropping your important tables by parsing a SQL string, instead of making use of the much more reliable DB permission systems...)

It's absurd: A constant source of vulnerability in websites across the world is a syntax error.

It's the definition of accidental complexity -- A program with a valid semantic understanding of what it has is somehow totally incapable of passing on that wisdom except by code generation; and this is when it is free of the burden of any real constraints beyond correctness -- its certainly not a fast method of serializing/deserializing, it certainly doesn't minimize network-size, it certainly isn't a safe or composable API... it's just a dumb, horrible thing and we pretend its all ok because you just need to sanitize your input.

I wouldn't really care if sanitization was just considered a necessary hack, especially in certain corner-cases; but its not. It's thought of as a good thing to do. In fact, a best practice.
There are lots of tiny shops that offer fairly basic cloud services, usually based on OpenStack. E.g. https://catalystcloud.nz

Kind of like taking your car to a local shop, vs going to the dealership.
It's a bit more than that. The top decision makers at Visa and Mastercard have been threatening anyone who does business with certain people. That's where this is coming from.

And if you aren't terrified of that you damn well should be.

Ironically I think that Trump would LOVE to deploy this against his enemies. Perhaps he will at some point.

That's why we need to strengthen political and financial "common carriage".
This may include the cost of inexpensive hosting.
It's so frustrating, because the only reason I click photos like that is find the menu that lets me click "hide photos like this." Lately, my entire Instagram experience has been look at my feed, see four new photos, look at explore, see mostly soft porn, click hide on few, see that it did nothing, give up, don't look at Instagram again. Facebook has completely ruined Instagram and I've basically written it off at this point.
> Even then they could just get a PO box and have people mail in checks or hell, even cash

Would it be okay for the US postal service to deplatform them as well?

I’m always curious about this argument that “just mail it” because the freedom to send anything though the postal service has not always been some sacrosanct right (e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws ). And in other countries that don’t have such a permissive First Amendment I imagine it may still be okay for the post office to censor mail.
These social media platforms can't win (not that they should...). Either their AI is so tailored to feeding you exactly what you want to see, giving you a myopic view of the world --- or, you get fed the same memes and articles that everyone sees, leading to "mono-culture" and global conformity. Is there a happy middle ground?
The protocol is the transaction demarcation point - anything else is sophistry. Let's try out an analogous argument with physical goods:

Customer goes to Home Depot, buys a bunch of $5 aviators. Sells them on Amazon for $50. The distributor sues the customer-reseller for violating their contract to not commercially resell, which undermines their expensive offerings. Customer points out they never entered into any such contract at Home Depot. The distributor claims Home Depot is a mechanical conduit that only facilitates a larger relationship, and the transaction actually took place between the customer and distributor, with the "standard" terms having been available on request.

The fundamental truth is that the interests of any buyer and seller are only aligned at the exact time of sale - afterwards they diverge. What has happened is that pervasive information technology has got sellers attempting to retain some kind of interest in things after they've sold them, with the "transaction" never really ending (an oxymoron). Copyright is one of the hooks by which they're purporting to do this (which actually at the very least it needs to be reformed so a seller of "digital goods" cannot destroy your access to a copy you've paid for)

As I said before, society cannot function this way - non-pure ownership can work for big tickets (eg real estate), but centralization and every item having a history simply doesn't scale. And as I also said, there is a very simple remedy for publishers - stop sending the article to people they do not want to view it!

(Your argument also implies that it is illegal to suggest someone visit a URL with lynx to avoid a javascript popup)
@twtw was not arguing that one can induce a current in the vacuum. However, I did say that a surface can arc in vacuum. This is because a surface can emit charges either thermally or in presence of a large electric field. This is correct and didstinct from current induction in media. Please note this phenomenon should not be confused with arc discharge in gas.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_arc
It's still falling even after the Quantum push. It's dipped under 5% total market share and under 9% on desktop. Losing a percentage point every several months.
Also companies get stuck in their stack and then demand features that don't really make sense for the core AWS product. Like "I wish my Lambda container would live forever"
In brief, the authors show that ECC is also affected, not just non-ECC RAM.
It's deep connection people crave, and a D&D adventure just isn't going to satisfy that need.

Hmm,

May offer that just about every "deep connection" also involves a certain mediation, a certain amount of day-to-day -ness.

Putting aside the merits or flaws of D&D, I'd offer that rituals of dating are intended to slowly build up to moments of intimacy rather than immediately dive in. And that's necessary because talking about "deepest dreams" without concrete connections between people tends to just be platitudes and empty abstractions. Deep connections between people imo also require multifaceted connections.

Further, a satisfying life involves both a small number of friends who can achieve those deep connections but with that circle surrounded by a larger circle of friends with strong but perhaps ties and so-forth. That's the texture of community. Only a few very good friends is rather fragile situation, just for example (what happens if that circle breaks up and you're left with no one?).

And back to D&D, I would say that table top RPGs are, or can be, fundamentally different from video games. Specifically, each person's imagination is engaged in person. Table top RPGs are often something other than an objective exercise. Each player can portray their character in the process of role playing rather than the situation being purely rule-based.
Agree very much especially in cloud and iot. Later you have much less protection already and physical (in some case) easy to get to.
Not OP, but the problems I remember are:
Inconsistent use of query parameters. Retrieving metrics for managed Elasticsearch requires more parameters than almost anything else.
Inability to get arbitrary percentiles in the same query as “standard” percentiles.
Documentation is awful. I found it was mostly good enough to get you to raw JSON output, and then it was on you to figure out how things worked.
The delay is a killer. I understand eventual consistency is a thing, but that’s not really useful for metrics. Please, for the love of $DIETY, record them in a fast store and long term store and don’t make me wait 10-15 minutes for ELB metrics.
There are many products that they sell as PaaS that are much more beginner friendly. Elastic Beanstalk seems like a good starting point for people looking for "basics"
Last Week in Pony – December 2, 2018
So, slightly unrelated, but how does one go about finding a D&D group in a new city?
I put the macOS Dock on the side, but I still keep the Windows taskbar at the bottom; I just prefer how that looks, aesthetically. That said, I change its size to small, I don't need huge icons.
Something about "lasting" and "maintenance woes" doesn't quite belong.

Op did acknowledge the artistic value, so not sure why your response is simply an appeal to artistic value.
That’s difficult to discuss without knowing the details, but it’s hard to believe that there isn’t anything that is of use to someone outside of amazon, even other cloud providers. There must be some efficiency gains somewhere that would benefit the original software.
And ReactNative and Cordova which are probably the leading contemporary approaches for cross platform mobile.
Collapsing the Ribbon is lipstick on a pig. In the end, using the basic functions of the software becomes a game of "is my mouse pointer in the right place to trigger the Ribbon to temporarily show without getting fed up and just making it stay shown all the time?".

Ever seen a non-technical user move the mouse with the same dexterity as you or I? I haven't. The mouse always roams around for a month of Sundays before it eventually arrives in the right place.

This is not a stable interface; it is an ugly hack to make up for wasteful the Ribbon was designed to be

At best, it could be a sort of distraction-free writing mode except that you can still see the rest of the interface, some parts equally as eye-catching as parts of the Ribbon.
I agree. I think lowering the cost of inpatient care will lead to more liberal drug policies in hospital and managing recovery until ibuprofen is sufficient for after hospital care.
There is a threshold beyond which you have to know your neighbors in order to survive. Some of my earliest memories are riding my neighbor's snowmobile down the side of a mountain with my parents to buy groceries.

Obviously this is not a situation which most rural dwellers will find themselves in.
The situation in the council is peculiar. The major's party is a far left coalition with the support of PSOE, the party of prime minister Sánchez. While PSOE is a mature party, Ahora Madrid is a melting pot of radical people with some interesting ideas and no experience. They've shown very little management ability and an "us vs. them" mindset.

It was surprising that PSOE refused the offer from former major's party (PP) to govern without conditions and instead voted for AM without even entering the council gov. team. That would have brought some experienced people and softened the politics.

Oh and BTW, a few hours ago PSOE has sunk and lost government in Andalusia, their main vote silo. It seems that their erratic pacts politics (they're governing Spain with the votes of anti-Spain separatist parties) is harming them.
I'm really impressed with the level of quality of some of the educational videos on youtube. The author here clearly spent hours preparing each of these diagrams and animations, and he's not unique among the popular youtube educators for doing so. I'm envious of the resources today's youth have in the classroom.
> I'm running three apps right now: VSCode, Slack, and a web browser. Given that VSCode and Slack are basically other browsers, how much does OS responsiveness matter? Has the responsiveness battle just moved to the browser?

How many threads are they running?
Twitter enshrines the most vile antisemitism out there[1]. Right after the Pittsburgh shooting, Twitter reviewed Farrakhan's comments where he called Jews "termites", and gave him the all clear.

What makes Twitter far worse than Gab is that Twitter actually took the time to have a human review it, and gave it the green light. Gab at least is not attempting to police its content. That makes Twitter much worse.

This is all hypocrisy. The "outrage" of Gab is completely fake. There is no legitimate argument against Gab that does not include Twitter.

[1]: https://www.ajc.com/news/national/twitter-won-suspend-louis-...
Haven't watched yet but an obvious lower bound is 2 times it's shadow (one for each side) - in fact a coin achieves this.
The Errors of TeX (1978-2014) [pdf]
What are your thoughts on cities which outlaw cars entirely?
Hundreds of Birds Dead During 5G Experiment in the Hague, Netherlands
It's possible that the dielectric is indeed necessary to isolate the gate from the source/drain, but I can't say for sure.