skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to default to Firefox for work. Then they killed the old addons, which broke a major part of my workflow (FireFTP's "open a file and as you edit it it automatically re-uploads" feature). So there was a lot less keeping me stuck to it. Recently, and this is past Quantum, performance on some things (Google Apps) became abysmal (now, this could well be Google being half-assed or deliberately malicious about testing) but that was enough that I gave up on Firefox for work.
I'm intrigued because historically currencies tend to get 'rolled up' - euro centralization of european currencies around the (very secretive) ECB is a good example.
I agree with your point about the tech world centralizing and decentralizing in sequence (thin clients/cloud etc) but in the monetary world there seems to be far more momentum to centralize than decentralize.
We even see this in banking - there are 5 big high street banks in the uk and 100s of local banks in Germany, who arguably are the defacto central bank of the european union. Closer to the center equals more options for diversification. This may be a similar scenario with crypto, especially now security tokens are increasingly asset backed.
> You might be interested in this mod for KSP which adds n-body physics

...aaaand there goes all the work I was planning to do on the winter holidays!
When I used Instagram the search tab did a really great job of showing me great architectural and historical photos, but if I looked at the page too often, it just turned into hot women and dumb memes. I'm guessing that if it runs out of interesting content it just shows you popular content.

I am happier now without Facebook and Instagram.
thanks, for the answer.

I personalty don't use web apps for such things, i've made a little app for myself that helps me to write markdown in vim with sideview preview, so i just use vim on laptop/pc and markdown editors on mobiles(can't say which one is better, don't really write in them)
I did not say it would increase freedom of information. I just do not believe copyright is a good fit for the modern world, because it does not really work when copying is not restricted to industrial operations. Today everyone has a copying machine in their pocket or on their desk, and there is no way that applying an industrial regulation to people sitting in their homes using a commonly available tool is going to work.

Keep in mind that copyrights have only existed for about three hundred years. Prior to that there was no notion that authors had a fundamental right to control the distribution of their work, yet people have been writing books (scrolls etc.) for thousands of years. Copyright was a response to what at the time was a relatively new technology, printing. It was not created for the benefit of authors, it was created for the benefit of publishers, who lobbied for the restoration of a monopoly they enjoyed under an earlier censorship law. It is almost a textbook example of regulatory capture.

Instead of allowing new technologies to flourish and new business models for publishers to develop, we are currently trying to emulate the old rules, stifling new ideas (e.g. peer-to-peer systems) and entrenching old business models. It is hard to imagine the sort of technologies we missed out on for the sake of keeping copyrights relevant, or what sort of business models those technologies might have supported. I see a lose-lose in resisting change just because it is inconvenient for some big incumbent industry.
So did many, many, many others, hoping to convince other people to buy and pump the prices. This is done at no cost, because next time around people will still look up to those figures again, and people like you will commend them for their courage to speak confidently about an inherently unpredictable market.

The fact that he ends the post claiming their fund educates the population about decentralization only reassures me that we're unlikely to have such thing anytime soon.
To go into detail why Germany couldn't invade or even annoy the US mainland in WW2, they didn't have a credible navy and never had a strategic bomber fleet.

Hitler started WW2 5 years before the German navy was built-up, and most of their aviation was for close air support.

Even the English Channel ended up being too much.

In summary, both Germany and Japan declared war on a country they couldn't invade, the USA - how futile is that?
Shameless self plug, but relevant: a few years ago I did a test of the association between spatial layout and community cohesion which came back positive for a number of network analysis measures on two different data sets.

https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...

tldr (refined and simplified with a few years hindsight): more walkable neighbourhoods = better
I've talked to people doing this but it's a lot harder than it seems. Accounts need to be totally separate, different company/tax id/ phone/bank/IP address etc, then managing different shipments for each is complicated, etc
>conspiracy theories about the Mueller investigation

Surely you meant the actual conspiracy theory Mueller is investigating?
I'm actually not sure how this is a failure mode of those licenses.

I thought the point of permissive licenses over copyleft licenses is that you're explicitly granting companies the right to make money off your code without giving anything back.
It isn’t by accident that I am in a functional org. I select where I work carefully, and I walk when they aren’t functional. You should too.

Managing your team is table stakes. Managing 360 isn’t a sign of lack of experience.
All the more reason for an AWS managed version of MongoDB and Knative...
I started ignoring the people who talked about quitting FB and Instagram and suddenly my life was a lot better without their constant negative energy.

Turns out they were the problem, not the platforms.

Good riddance.
Seen differently, you may also notice that liberal discourse can only thrive under censorship.
Based on inflation calculations, $0.10 in 1943 would be equivalent to $1.45 today. You can still buy a hot dog with soda at Costco for $1.50 (although it may be a loss leader).
Suck how? Is the valuation different from that of most people?

I value the life of most people I don’t know at a few cents, looking at my past behaviour (buy the simplest of unnecessary things instead of donating to African child vaccination).
> If they aren’t open sourcing the innovations they make on top of open source software

I'm not sure I'm reading your statement correctly, but it sounds like you're saying that anything not developed under a copyleft license is proprietary.

If it was important for authors to receive contributions from derivative works, why would they have selected a license that doesn't require that?
"Average real labor earnings for male household heads working full time were 18% and 27% higher for Gen Xers and baby boomers when they were young compared with millennials, the study found. For young women, the difference was smaller — 12% for Gen Xers and 24% for boomers"

12-27% seems like a huge number and I wish the article went into detail about it. Are they simply in school instead of working? Are salaries lower? Are they simply not getting jobs?
I don't know if anyone's noticed the unprecedented price-slashing that's been happening in AAA games this year but I think we may be in for another AAA game crash. For indies I don't think it's much better unless you're one of the Big Names in that space.

(Incidentally, getting into making games professionally through any means other than self-funding seems basically impossible at the moment.)

Any other perspectives on this?
I just hosted a small house concert last night for about 20 people; the age range was 18-50, I reckon. I put out a sheet of paper with spaces for names & contact info, for folks who wanted to be notified for future shows, and intentionally left the contact method open -- I figured if they wanted a group text, or a FB msg, I could do that.

I was surprised to find that every person who signed up wrote their email address.

So you may just might be right.

Granted, this is a rural area (West Virginia, US) and there's far less incessant use of smartphones and the like. So my experience might not apply to more urban places.
By itself, that isn't particularly impressive - all that requires is a decent LO + mixer. Make sure you aren't confusing frequency range with instantaneous bandwidth.
Yeah I’m going to go with “read the article” before using that copypasta

The Goldman Sachs analyst was really not that cold blooded
The screenshots are scaled a bit. They look better full-size: https://osvoyager.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/dano-people-in...
The US doesn't really have a pro-deisel lobby, so they were able to impose punishments without internal political pushback.
I mean it would be cool if they did, but the secret sauce behind DynamoDb is really the scale, without it it probably wouldn't have the performance characteristics end users are looking for. Nor do I think AWS ever wants to be in the business of supporting a non-managed piece of software.
Okay, I have hosted adult Dungeons and Dragons games for many years, a pursuit that's as close to individuals common together again loneliness as one gets. Trying to find areas for small groups to use for this and other things peaked my interest in the organization of cities to encourage or discourage individuals coming together.

Effectively, I think the structure of American cities have always been designed fundamentally to decrease togetherness outside of churches and hence today increase loneliness. The basic principle since the puritan arrived has been that an idle people gathered together were a danger. Hence laws against vagrancy and idleness, the non-existence of anything like the promenades of European cities, the prohibition of alcohol and later marijuana and so-forth. The Occupy movement of several years ago, for a further example, was ended merely by enforcing all of the existing against camping, loitering, disorderly conduct and so-forth [1].

Today, rent is so high and homelessness so prevalent that any location that allows people to mill about freely is going entice homeless to sleep and hence will attract repression.

There are locations calling themselves "community centers". They only rent their common rooms for $25/hour or more, an amount that makes it impossible for most informal, average individual to afford.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorderly_conduct
The Over-Celebration of Life Events
Rosemary for Cognitive health [video]
Yeah, that would be pretty helpful.

It would be nice to hear a few bars at the beginning to show how it all comes together and then let the me go at it from there.

I also think, this would be a great bar game that could be played on the now ubiquitous smart-tv's as a counterpoint to karaoke.
> There's still a (naive?) liberal side to me that thinks free expression, even of profoundly stupid ideas, might be a net good for society,

Perhaps because the videos that get censored are only shitty to people who aren't you?
I don't think the existing permissive to copyleft spectrum is what matters here. MongoDB, for example, was previously licensed under the AGPL, which is the most aggressive OSI-approved copyleft license I can think of, but they still felt the need to adopt a controversial new license targeted at cloud providers. For another example, Redis Labs didn't decide to adopt a stronger copyleft license for their extensions, they decided to make them proprietary.
When I tried Citus, their documentation has everything except what I needed to do to get their product to work. My guess is they want to sell you engineering support. The docs might have been updated, but I do agree with the docs.

> People are begging for a good and easy psql HA cluster setup for ages

I've been using Stolon in production for a bit, and while not a native solution- it works quite well.
Odd choice to feature Project Loon in the banner image. I designed the solar array for Loon, it's built from plain old mono crystalline silicon cells. Sure, they're high efficiency cells, in a lightweight plastic stack up (no glass), but there's no exotic thin film cell technology in there. The options (so far) are either too expensive, or too inefficient.
Freedom of Speech – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
I haven’t deleted my accounts but for whatever reason I haven’t been using it at all.

Now that I think about it, the last time I logged into FB was about a year ago. That too I think I was somehow tricked into doing so with really clickbaity reminder emails.

Instagram, I use the app for sake of the filters but I always save the photo and will remove my post immediately. Maybe there is a better app for me to just take photos with filters.

The only time I look at instagram posts are when it’s embedded in some news website talking about something interesting happening around the world.
Sounds like we are in the same boat, more or less..
It's strange that there is no community or forum of developers that are also Advantage owners. :-)
I trust the capitalist a lot more than the government. Capitalist are motivated with making money the transparent way - people give them money and they give people goods and services.

The government is ruled by cronyism and even worse cow tow to people’s worse instincts, superstitions, and prejudices.
Never heard that perspective before. It resonates powerfully.
Less processed sugar.

I was surprised that so many of you all were grasping at physical activity nuances. A factor but it doesnt exist in a vacuum
Honestly, when I first read about the negative effects of these platforms I came to a realization that I was using them in a negative way. I abandoned the platform and I don't feel any different. I just spend my free time differently now. When I see others addicted to the approval loop, I feel a little bad for them, but there is no reason others cannot enjoy social networks positively.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that there's a inexaustable supply of blatantly evil assholes for oppressive laws to be first aimed at and establish precedent against; by the time they come for you, everyone is too desensitised to care.
IMO it's not the issue of the city. It's the issue of the living space. Humans were originally hunter-gatherers that lived in tight knit tribal communities with intimate shared spaces. Any living style that deviates from this will induce loneliness.

To eliminate loneliness you must form tribes. To form tribes you must produce settings that promote tribal gatherings. In essence this means intimate shared living spaces with medium sized groups of people. The keyword is "medium-sized" humans are not use to living with huge urban shared spaces where the people you see on the street everyday are different.
Schizophrenic number
Sure here it is sadly no videos, just slides https://haystackconf.com/europe2018/
Completely agree. Most of the people on my facebook are just old coworkers. None of these people have reached out to me through messenger so I would say facebook is a waste of time.

Worse yet....facebook is a huge distraction and will prevent you from actually reaching your goals.

I've deleted my old facebook but I created a new one. I don't use the news feed anymore and instead visit a select few groups that actually benefit my life but those groups are mainly focused on making side income and the such.

Also worse yet is the amount of data that facebook is pulling in from all over the internet. Facebook has effectively created the largest non-governmental surveillance system on the web. That's a huge threat to your personal privacy. They've gone too far and need to be stopped.
Clojure/Conj 2018 Videos
Yeah, I've interacted with a lot of people that didn't appreciate the problems of ridiculously high (2+ GHz) instaneous bandwidth. It sounds great and is easy to sell, but the fact that a single high power signal can wreck everything else is pretty problematic. At that point your options are: 1. Let the high power signal drive the receiver rail to rail, and which point your signals of interest are lost, 2. Set gain to avoid the highest power signal causing clipping, at which point your signals of interest are again lost, this time below the noise floor, or 3. Like you say, add a bunch of filters for the high power undesirable signals, at which point massive bandwidth starts to look less appealing.
Then you have the privilege of having not been in independent game development before Steam then! Steam takes about 30% and that comes with little to no stipulations. You can go put your product on other platforms, you can generate steam keys and then sell those keys off platform (and take 100% of the revenue), and from the very first sale you get ~70% of the revenue.

In the age before Steam you had to approach a publisher to get your product out there. And in those days getting a 70% deal would have been amazing. Except back then 70% meant something rather different. The publisher was getting 70% and you received 30% in "royalties" (and generally substantially less than 30%). Oh and you received $0 in "royalties" until the publisher cleared 100% of their costs. And finally of course you had to relinquish nearly every right to your IP as well.

I wouldn't underestimate the value that Steam adds. They take care of all financial related issues including trust, facilitate 'advertising', provide a captive audience upwards of 125 million, take care of data hosting (which can be a very significant issue in large-size products), and more. I'm sure they could get by with a smaller margin, but at the same time I think 30% is a pretty reasonable rate for the value they add.
I no longer use fb, instagram and twitter. Was not a premeditated decision though. Just lost interest on them. I found traditional forums like hn more enjoyable.
Despite how the industry likes to try to pitch it games aren't as disposable as developers want you to think they are.

At least for me, I'm spending more time playing titles I've owned for years today than on new releases. And every year adds more games to that backlog / history of games to get around to. And some games never get old - I still revisit probably twice a year Quake and Doom (the original) to play all the new community map packs and mods for a week.

There really needs to be some sea change in the industry away from disposable properties and towards ongoing refinement and iteration on proven titles. I'm sure publishers would love it - there is a lot less investment risk if you can establish regular revenue from game updates like how MMOs work - but the consumers have for the longest time seen value in gambling how good a new title in a series will be over seeing the last one just made better over time.
Hi Paul!

Many thanks for your feedback! Implementing an integrator with an adaptive time step is on my bucket list of features that I intend to implement, as tweaking the time step manually, especially with the freaking slider, is somewhat of a pain in the neck. Another reason for why I want to implement an adaptive time step is that collisions don't really work with a fixed one as sometimes a mass will travel farther in one time step than the radius (I use a simple radius check for collisions since it doesn't require that much computing power) of the body it is smacking into, and as such the hit won't get registered, which looks kind of shoddy (implemented collisions but removed them for this reason).I've had an eye on the RK45 method, but I'm definitely going to give implementing the Bulirsch-Stoer Integrator a go as I want the user to be able to select the integrator they want to run a scenario with (right now I've just implemented Euler and RK4). As for using spherical or cylindrical coordinates, the thing is that the intention is for the user to be able to, for instance, add another sun to our solar system to marvel at all the cosmic shenanigans that would take place, so while a lot of the scenarios start out with a single large mass, that might not be the case for long if the user has a penchant for destruction.
Different time horizons, but it actually happens there too, only it looks like the disintegration of nation states into smaller states and then centralization again.

Interestingly there haven't been as many of these monetary cycles in history since the emergence of major centralized banks, which is a good thing. So there is a (strong) argument that currency centralization is a driving force in stability and peace.
why do we still use facebook stuff if they steal our data?
I've had a similar experience after leaving. My in-person social life is much better too. I read more books.

If you want more motivation to quit, track the amount of time you spend on social media sites. After you're done scrolling through the algorithmic feeds, write down what you've learned and compare it to what you would have learned if you read a high quality book on the same subject or learned/improved a skill.

More inspiration:

https://medium.com/s/story/the-simple-truth-behind-reading-2...
> climate change gets all the attention

It's in the article.

"The biggest reasons are habitat loss and pesticides across the butterflies’ breeding and migratory range. This year’s steep drop is probably due to extreme weather, at least partly resulting from climate change. Late rainstorms in March, as well as an intense, extended wildfire season across California, have battered the species. The state’s forests have yet to recover from the record-breaking drought stretching from 2011 to 2017."

Climate change is claimed to be a significant factor, and deserves the attention it gets.
Considering how choice of hat signaled class I think you would find that most men did not wear top hats when these pictures were taken. If you look at the pictures in the article, few people are wearing hats and no one is wearing a top hat. I think top hats were also going out of fashion before and during the war.
Agree with all of that, but he didn’t release most of them. Forbes published a few then the rest languished in his archives. Also everyone has to work for a paycheck from time to time.
Has it occurred to you that walled gardens are not a problem, but a solution, for most people?

If the garden fulfills your needs, the walls are not a problem.

You're not unlike the folks who propose society stinks and we're going to organize and have our own group with rules that don't wall us in. Those groups have never lasted long and fall apart due to people being people. It's not the rules, it's people being people, that make things good, or sucky.

Changing people is a fool's errand - start with yourself to realize the futility of the task if so inclined :)
I really like how this article was written. This is often hyped as the $100 genome sequence, but as the article frames it, its more of a genetic map for $100.

Very promising tech, but we still have a ways to go before the $100 full-genome sequence. Until then, genome-wide mapping for $100 will lead us to further breakthroughs.
That’s a rather extraordinary claim. Can you cite evidence to support it?
How to Manage Morale When a Well-Liked Employee Leaves
Okay thanks. I was unaware that that was happening. Sounds like a frustrating experience.
Trademark regulations are fine. It's just patents and copyrights.
It's ironic that you are alluding to the quote by pastor Martin Niemöller that was making a point completely opposite to yours. Free speech is not about protecting popular opinions. I cannot believe how many comments hostile to free speech are on this thread. It's almost like people are begging for oppression.
The article notes that he wasn’t very impressed with them and that he felt he hadn’t ever gotten the right weather for photographs. The main problem was likely that he didn’t have enough time to get the photos he wanted.