skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was clearly a developmental port, not something being distributed to users, and hence the license's restrictions on how you distribute Pale Moon weren't applicable.
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> So when a lawyer says something like, "Ahh, but the law only talks about 'checking accounts' and 'savings accounts' not 'checking & savings accounts'"

I'm not a lawyer, but that line of reasoning sounds like something out of a comedy skit.

"Sure, the law regulates sales of alcohol and sales of firearms, but it doesn't say anything about an Alcohol And Firearms Combo Pack™!"
True.

FWIW, this is really the only strong objection we've heard to the overall direction of this change.
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Except the premise is in accurate. He wasn't left with $1m. He was left with hundreds of millions in cash and cashflowing assets. Had he invested $250mm in the markets back then, he would be much ticket today.
I know this is a bit tangential, but my 2nd grader has had a string of "public speaking" assignments and it struck me as being odd (ie 7yo is kinda young for something like that). But apparently it is a bit of a trend in schools and they very much do it that early on purpose. It builds up confidence slowly before social awareness really kicks in. I thought it was a brilliant idea.
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Unsure if this is the right place to ask, but given this is go example project and as being someone new to Golang - I'm looking for advice in couple of topics:

* database migrations - Does it make sense to have a library take care of this for me? Is there a battle tested library?

* orm? does it really affect performance that much? is there a favorite?
Truth is effected. Not whether a given statement is true or not, but whether it can be discovered (finding truth is NP-hard [0]), verified (finding a proof for a truth is NP-hard), or even hope to be noticed (heuristic of solving the previous two).

[0] Forgive the informal reference to formality. To me, this is intuitively feels like how thinking goes - finding an answer is essentially inductive/indeterministic, while checking that answer is deductive/deterministic.
The 1:130K number is from the already-unlikely starting point of her being 105 to begin with. There's a lot fewer than 6 billion 105yo people around!
Zork machine implemented in hardware
>In the past you had to be Hawkeye to program, now most of us just put on our Ironman suit and get on with it.

This is an amazing metaphor, thank you for sharing!
It is very unlikely that Steve read all of the TAoCP that were published at the time.
Interesting, thanks for sharing your insights. I thought that huge institutions prefer to trade on exchanges directly (for anonymity), but it looks like there are other incentives in play.
That's true. There are many shades of "available".

IIRC, Microsoft shares limited slivers of Windows source under specific programs, which include nondisclosure and other terms. Those programs do not permit publication.

When the folks I talk to say "source-available", they tend to mean "source publicly available". I don't think usage is clear on whether that publicly available source must come with a public license for re-publication and distribution. When code is "source-available" primarily for audit purposes, it often doesn't. Otherwise, it often does.
I never did improv, but in high school, the way that I got over a lot of social anxiety was learning to be funny; making my peers laugh was a good enough way to break the ice and has really helped me in my career. Granted, in high school the only trick to making a joke is to imply something sexual or say a swear word, but the principles still basically holds.

Picking up a few joke books was really helpful to me, so I suspect that taking a class might be even better.
Worked for me and it was my favorite class in middle school.
Well, SoFi Money hasn't launched yet, so the product doesn't exist.

The difference is SoFi Money claims to plan to offer 1% less interest than Robinhood claims to offer, also SoFi Money claims to plan to be FDIC insured.
A non-repetitive alternative to YAML
I guess I don't understand the mindset in which having extra cash is some sort of problem to solve. Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Qualcomm, etc. all have large stockpiles of cash and no one thinks of them as hedge funds, right?
The thought of even trying that is giving me anxiety.
Funds are invested to be able to get that 3% return. It’s like the sweep accounts for your brokerage are put into money markets to get higher interest. Cash isn’t just sitting there.
Seems like a great opportunity for a improv school graduates to start improv schools.

I doubt there is an improv cartel propping up prices.
Aluminum is not ferromagnetic, but if you get it near a 3 Tesla magnet, trust me, you'll know.
strong transit system? no
A Short History of the Crossbow
The material really just need to be conductive to feel the effect of A/C fields due to eddy currents as a Random Purveyor of such a device explains: http://www.walkermagnet.com/separation-eddy-current-separato...
Try the "Sonetts" instead of the plays!
The $4.6b in subsidies also helped make NY more appealing to Amazon.

>“The taxpayer costs of these two deals is high, both in absolute terms and on a per-job basis, contrary to Amazon’s artful spin. Together, we believe they exceed $4.6 billion and the cost per job in New York is at least $112,000, not the $48,000 the company used in a selective and incomplete press release calculation. [1]

[1] https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/news/releases/amazon-hq2-hq3-s...
snookered https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snookered

vs

schnookered https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schnookered

I hope you weren't drunk in high school. Would a drama club allow alochol?
I was trying to think about why your comment irritated me. It's because it sounds like you commented about balance without actually trying to find the center of gravity on either headset. (It's near where your nose would be.)

I researched it for a VR application primarily for older people, so the ergonomics mattered, and the ergonomics were a real issue.
There's been fee wars going on with brokerage accounts lately, so fees are down to under $5. Some brokerages offer X amount of free trades if you have $Y in funds deposited too and free trades on certain low cost index ETFs.
Ya but the problem isnt in the bottles. The problem is that there is a perfectly good existing way to deliver water to peoples homes already. Its just not very profitable. The bottle water companies created a market where none was needed. You could punish them via taxing bottles but I dont know that that is where the problem really is...
As a scientist myself, you don’t really want to see how the sausage is made for a lot of science. Which is why I don’t hold it to the almost religious level I see lots of modern people hold it to. Science is still made by humans and humans run a huge spectrum from imbecile to genius. We all work with idiots in our buildings that lie and twist facts or are just generally bad scientists. Your best bet is if the science is replicated in other labs. A great read is Feynman’s Cargo Cult Science essay, to think about how hard it is to design an experiment that answers exactly what you are asking as a scientist.

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Whilst that's one way to phrase it, the underlying differences are deeper and more to do with perception of the span of human nature.

For instance the apparent love of conservatives for 'respect for authority' is not actually respect for authority (why would they be so against big government if that were the case?) nor particular to conservatives, but rather, a preference for systems and formalised power structures over loose, informally specified power structures. One can observe that people with liberal views often have tremendous respect for certain types of unstructured authority, in particular, academics.

The book "A Conflict Of Visions" provides an alternative explanation for this apparent discovery that liberals cannot understand conservatives but not vice-versa. Conservatives see disagreement with their world view as naivety, but liberals see disagreement with their world view as the result of an evil or malign nature. The latter view leads to a belief that attempting to understand such a perspective is itself immoral behaviour, as you might be legitimising it, or alternatively, might be tempted to the dark side by mere exposure to the ideas themselves.

This is why you see so much no-platforming and general censorship coming from people with particular world views: they believe that conservative ideas work like some sort of infectious disease. Conservatives don't think that way about liberal views.
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>With legalization, the drugs would be cleaner and dosing more predictable.

This is a huge problem. People have sold stuff that they claim to be LSD, MDMA etc while using other compounds that can be damaging to outright fatal.

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Then take things like anabolic steroids, especially injectables. If someone wants to use steroids, that should be their business as it doesn't hurt anyone other than potentially themselves HOWEVER purity. When you're buying stuff in a gym from a random guy or ordering from a Eastern European website or the darknet you only have the reputation of the seller to go by and you're injecting something of unknown purity into muscle which can (and occasionally does) result in abscesses/infection which can do considerable damage to your body. The infections are likely often from poorly manufactured 'gear' and not from operator error.

Why not allow people that want to use steroids, for their own athletic performance, go to a qualified medical professional to not only have the drugs prescribed but to have their blood work monitored so that on cycle, and post cycle, therapy can be handled optimally for health. People will use the compounds, so why not allow them to do so as safely (and legally) as possible? I know of at least two of my friends that have served time, one bought steroids in his youth and has lived with the stigma of being a felon for decades now, the other acted as an one of the individuals getting the money from a PO box a decade or so ago and then forwarding the payment on to the actual seller to add a layer of protection for the seller and again in his early 20's landed a felony conviction and did time. Now he's in prison again, after getting the first felony expunged, for selling ancillaries and peptides (peptides aren't even explicitly illegal, they're simply not approved for administration to humans by unqualified medical professionals!).
Hmm my mistake. The match operator in rust is exhaustive though and will raise a compile time error rather than a warning. Elm does this as well. I'm just getting mixed up.
The maintainer(s?) have some peculiar opinions:

"We already have CSS table layouts... Why is this suddenly needed? why would sites switch to it? It makes no sense. It wasn't important enough to implement in any browser for the past 6 years so there's no real reason why websites would suddenly want to swap to it." (on the CSS Grid spec)

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=15196
Dune 2 in JavaScript (2012)
>> Some us websites just plain refuse to serve me content just because I'm in Europe.

This happens to me too. I see this as a major negative thing.

The first it happened to me, I felt it as a type of censorship. In this matter, GDPR raised a big wall between u.s. and europe.
This is what I'm trying to do with wwwee [1], a low-resource web server written in Rust. The request / response buffer is a growing anonymous mmap mapping, but all parsing (http headers, ...) and decoding (base64, JSON) is done borrowing from the buffer. It works especially well in Rust, with it's borrow checker preventing use-after-free.

1: https://github.com/bwindels/wwwee/
Open source is hard work, regardless of your affiliation.
Erm, they aren’t going to change the nav data.
Why Are We Still So Fat?
Note that this study doesn't differentiate improve from other performance activities like musical performance, drama/theater, or speech and debate.
I lived in Sweden for a while, Swedes are very proficient in English. Yet, they almost always pronounce ch as sh. They even have TV ads that make fun of this.
Url changed from http://www.jennyodell.com/museumofcapitalism_freewatch.pdf to a non-pdf version.
Amazon's already had to go through the growing pains of doing that once (in Seattle) and probably learned that they didn't want to do it again.
There are degrees of huge. A large hedge fund still trades through a prime broker, who has the exchange connection. The PB plays yet another game by aggregating the risk of the funds they are servicing.
Eclipse does make this work for java with ECJ. It gains total and correct knowledge of the code base by instrumenting a compiler designed for incremental compilation. But it's also usable for batch compilation.
Link to what seems to be a version that is still available: https://epicport.com/en/dune2 (the linked play-dune.com is down)
See also this spoof guide from the "watches" subreddit, "How to create a unique/successful minimalist watchbrand":

https://imgur.com/a/6CNO8
Seems to pop up every once in a while.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15154934
Experimental Evidence of Quantum Randomness Incomputability (2010)
Everyone was waitlisted, the product never existed, it was planning to launch next month.
Ask HN: How to safely install Mac dev tools?
Many popular development tools for Mac are distributed in binary form without signatures on the binaries.

- https://brew.sh (Download and run an unsigned script.)

- https://atom.io/download/mac (Binary not signed.)

- https://emacsformacosx.com/builds (Binaries are not signed.)

Is there any way to safely get such tools? At the moment I just need an HTML editor.
From the paper

> In estimating the weighted relative risk curve, we found that consuming zero (95% UI 0·0–0·8) standard drinks daily minimised the overall risk of all health loss (figure 5). The risk rose monotonically with increasing amounts of daily drinking.

Yet as you point out, from figure 5, 1 drink/day has an exceedingly minor increased risk from 0 drinks/day. Statistically, the health risk is increased, but the impact may be low enough that people may find it worthwhile to continue to drink a modest amount due to social, emotional, or other benefits.
Standard library support
I've been asking the same question for about a year now. There are a number of browsers making a point of using pre-Servo forks of Gecko, which seems absolutely asinine. The project has had a tremendous impact on the usability of Firefox.
It's weird, but I can't share the link on Twitter, and goo.gl shortlink doesn't work either.

Does anyone have the same problem?
When one of these projects came out several years ago, what they touted as optimizations were a) releasing an x86-64 build instead of x86 build on Windows (at a time when the x86-64 JIT actually performed worse than x86, and this was known to the Mozilla team), and b) using manual compiler optimization flags a la Gentoo's -funroll-loops options.
Absolutely. Forensics and archaeological DNA recovers DNA from hundreds or hundreds of thousands of years ago easily. The real question is whether the family would cooperate and provide or give permission for samples from themselves and Calment's corpse. It's easy to see why they might decide to ignore this and stonewall.
Wanted to ask the same. It looks like a slower version of Firefox and when the first feature is "Javascript support" I didn't bother reading the rest.
They were clearly being jerks about it, I don't think this is arguable.

While I agree things need to be clear and direct when licensing/legality is involved, jumping in with an air of arrogant authority "you will comply" at the start of an issue seems pretty ridiculous to me. It's also questionable that their licensing/terms are even applicable in this case, something else they refuse to acknowledge.

I guess overall, it doesn't matter all that much for users, but I certainly would not want to work with people that exhibit the kind of behavior they did in the thread.

One of the worst parts is that it never stopped. Not even an iota of self-analysis or introspection occurred in the thread. No apologies for misunderstandings or coming off harsh, just a persistent arrogance.
You raise a great point that I overlooked. There are many reasons why someone would have impaired neck movement or strength, making it hard to use. I apologize.
North has acquired the patents and tech behind Intel’s Vaunt AR glasses
>but criminalizing them creates more violence and crime in order to access them.

And fills prisons, which cost tax-payers a LOT of money, with people that often did nothing to actually harm anyone (I'm specifically speaking of psychadelics, marijuana and steroid convictions).
The world of technology has made me cool with entire industries built around ideas that sound like they're out of a comedy skit.
Good luck replacing Firefox if you're just going to ignore all the developments from the past couple of years that turned it into a good browser.
XUL ist not only used in browser Add-ons. There are special purpose desktop applications written using it.

This is a project my former employer did some 10+ years ago, but I have seen different other such things. For some time I also used XUL as an UI library inside the browser. Quite powerful and relatively close to native UI which is important for some.

https://blog.mayflower.de/64-Is-XUL-the-next-hot-topic-after...
You don't need to affect truth, just to find it. People have discovered all kinds of truths (including scientific and technical discoveries) while on drugs.

And not all insights have to be truth-related. An interesting way to play music can come as an psychedelic induced insight, or a different way to look at the world, which can still be interesting and important, even if not true.
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That is mostly by convenience than anything else, as many devs don't want to bother with the whole process of bootstrapping a programming language.

Hotspot long term roadmap is to be rewritten in Java for example, aka Project Metropolis. And not all JVMs are implemented in C or C++.
No, it's not like that at all. The outcome was not determined in advance because there were multiple possible outcomes. People could have chosen to take different actions than they actually did. The events of the 1940s were not set in stone in the 1850s.
It's not as though improv teachers are walking around buying luxury vehicles, though. The classes are as expensive as they need to be for the instructors to eat.

There's nothing stopping people from starting up a community improv troupe without formal training from a teacher, just as you don't need someone with an MFA in Performance to start a community theater group. There are enough books out there on the art form that a dedicated group could learn the necessary techniques on their own.

And high-level youth soccer can be way more expensive than even UCB-level improv classes.
Wrote this article because I was inspired by the amount of data the GitHub API gives easy access to and all the sorts of interesting info that can be gleaned from it.

It also raises some interesting questions on how to use this data effectively and responsibly as a tool for reflection on an engineering team's operating methods. I'd love to hear if other engineering teams have gleaned anything interesting about their own methodologies from GH data!
How much more condescending can this get? Comparing a real person to a fictionalized non-human?
Did it break? Or was the cost to announce vs total new accounts worth it?
Well... don't feel alone.
Some mistakes cannot be un-made.
That’s like trying to understand the gravitational effects of dark matter without knowing basic maths.

Rather pointless.
> There is also some additional fun extras in contract law, like the concept of fair terms. This very old idea is that a contract should be a balanced deal. Terms that unfairly give one party undue benefits can then be challenged as invalid.

US and state laws have a concept of "unconscionability" for extreme cases, as well as prohibitions on penalties, as opposed to prior agreements to fix damages based on reasonable estimates, and so on. But "the deal wasn't fair" isn't any general defense against breach of contract claims. Courts generally avoid digging into the business or other advisability of contracts. They err on the side of giving parties the deals they agreed to.

Perhaps you were speaking from the perspective of a different jurisdiction?
Reminds me of https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Bowerick_Wowbagger =)
I feel like I got a lot out of my college LARP group for similar reasons.
>And how do you know that those lines of thought aren't repressed because they're total garbage and make no sense at all?

Because we have carried some of those drug-induced lines of though (and poems, melodies, and insights, etc) out of drug trips for millennia, and people still care for them without drugs.
I like go-migrate [0] with postgres and sqlx [1] for just the right amount of orm.

[0] https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate

[1] http://jmoiron.github.io/sqlx/
> Why embrace the bad parts of startup culture (open plans)

That's really just your opinion, not a fact. I for one love open plans, I find they make working a more social activity, which suits me.
>The latter part was restricting operation of high altitude balloons which is why I believe there is only a restriction on the velocity and not altitude now.

A group of friends and I did a ~90,000' balloon launch on the "cheap". We used a consumer handheld GPS unit that reported it's location every 10 minutes to a server we could keep an eye on. We suffered through the issue of altitude limitations as well, but it was still better than nothing. Learned a lot of stuff from that project. A big take away was using a mobile version of Google Maps when using Lat/Long coordinates is not very accurate, as it seemed to always want to put the location close to a road. When using the same coords in the desktop version of Google Maps satellite view, the Maps' pin dropped to within 3 feet of where the payload had landed. Using the mobile version, we wandered around in the wilderness for an embarrassingly long amount of time before I got fed up with it and though there must be a better way. Using the desktop location, we were able too pretty much walk up directly to the payload.
great, it's going to be interesting to see what they do with those!
In some domains it is, for example you won't create fun arcade game without iterating 1000s of times on the basics (control scheme, physics, etc). Often it isn't.

I learnt programming writing small games, so quick iteration is my first instinct, and I can see myself sometimes jumping to write code too quickly.
Ah, dang. You are totally right. Well at least I welcome the incremental improvement. GPS sometimes really struggles where I work.
> Amazon had the opportunity to attract talent to make a city that is not currently a world-class city into one

Not really. Big cities operate at scales and complexities far above what Amazon can bring. Density begets density. Meanwhile, that cities have largely been built—and remained—in similar places (protected harbours with navigable rivers and ideally shallow bedrock) implies there are deeper reasons for why density exists where it does.
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Nice paper, actually quite interesting references all the way back to the genesis of JIT implementations.
Yes but that increment massively increases the utility on the ground so sometimes baby steps mean huge useability leaps.