skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That, I am not disputing. It doesn't change the fact that people probably aren't finding many bargains at such places. Dollar stores basically make being poor viable, but there's little if any dollar-stretching going on. Having been poor myself at times, I do understand that smaller quantities are often the better choice, but they should not be mistaken as bargains.

Having known other poor people, a lot of them(as in not all) indeed think that they are finding bargains at dollar stores. Nobody wants to hear this, but a significant portion of the lower-income segment are in their situation because of their mindset.
What I mean is snapchat was having issues with using the camera API in android across the variety of devices when they first ported the app to Android (2012 iirc) so they took "the easy route" and captured the still from the live preview instead. The API would work for some devices but not others (I remember other camera app's having similar issues around the same time, mainly not being able to tweak the camera settings within 3rd part camera apps) so basically they said "fuck it" and took the easy path and it just stuck around.

I believe since Lollipop they have been using the new camera API for Android.
I've read in other sources that the force of the main eruption in 1883 was equivalent to around 100 megatons of TNT. The dust that it ejected into the atmosphere was not only the cause of the bright sunsets that inspired artists in Europe over the next few years, but also caused a global cooling by something like 1 degree (Celsius) for the next two years.
The issue I see with decentralization is that the practical surfaces (websites, devices, etc) are so difficult for the vast majority of the population to use. Simply the mental overhead of deciding whether to use Voat, reddit, Discord, or whatnot will stop a large number of people from ever participating online.

Decentralization is great for those of us who don't have the cognitive overhead, but adds a lot of complexity that this tribe underestimates. My mom, for example, hasn't been able to understand the difference between a text message and an email, and she's been actively online for about 5 years now. To her, it's all a way to communicate, but when I try to explain that email has a subject line, and text messages don't.... it's beyond her grasp.

Decentralizing will help with some of the issues that are currently front and center to technologists, but it will exclude a huge number of people.
Can't this be done using NLP, or even just pulling term frequency within content? I imagine FB (& whoever else has access to the data) has to be doing this on the backend somewhere for their own research.

We essentially need a Google (the framework which they use to algorithmically understand web content) for social networks with a front-end UI for topical mapping.

--

Also to add to your idea, I'd be very interested in a social network that can do that, but also requires real ID's and has some sort of public display of the topics that any user talks about and engages with often.

That way if I'm talking to someone I can gauge if they're really someone I want to be talking to about a particular topic. (can also be used to better map taste to reviews of products/services/companies/etc)
Might be in Google's best interests to keep Snapchat running, for the simple fact that Snapchat is Google's largest customer (>50% of App Engine annual revenue) of App Engine.
And those calculations are done assuming the PV modules are made in the same place they are installed, like, say, Germany. But there are places in the world where the solar resource is 2x better. In those places, the EROI would be even better.

This does lead to an interesting observation: in a solar-powered world, heavy industry is going to move away from places with less sunlight. Good for the low latitude countries, not so good for Europe.
Blowing off real problems with breezy, unsupported denial is not helping your credibility. If your goal is effective advocacy you should be acting like a nuclear engineer, acknowledging the problems, and talking in detail about how they’re being addressed in-depth. I generally agree that we need nuclear power but that’s because I’ve read those articles rather than what you’re posting in this thread.
They still need to pay the Gaye estate though
Clojure's stdlib is unintuitive, and `into` is the poster child.

It's easy to find what's available in Ruby: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.3/Enumerable.html

Good luck with Clojure: https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html
Can you recommend a post/article explaining some of what makes Ruby's collections especially pleasant? Studying Ruby's stdlib design has been on my 'someday' list, but there's so much else there...
And this right here is the problem.

I want a system that JUST WORKS. I don't have enough time in my day, with all of my other responsibilities, to figure out why something is slightly broken.

Corporate VPN's are the other one.

That's why I really don't mind running MacOS at work - it works well, and the defaults are sane.
In Blender versioning if they are talking about single digit minor release numbers you always have to add an imaginary x at the end

2.4x branch, 2.5x branch, 2.6xbranch, ...

Every time they move the first digit after the comma something major changes.
Can we all admit this is on hot just because of the version number?
Ai generated Xmas tunes
An RTC chip without temperature compensation in an extremely variable temperature environment.
On the verge of choosing Unity for a project with middling performance requirements. Can you tell me which platform you'd choose if you had the luxury?
Don't trust, verify: A Bitcoin Private case study
Looks like few phone calls and twitter posts shut down an airport about as well as a drone. And the former strategy gets free amplification in the form of people misidentifying birds as drones
linus is stability
I don't know if you know about his famous thought experiments imagining chasing light beams, but it was this intuitive insight that led him to discover relativity. He would have never gotten there through a formal process. Sure the math had to validate his hypothesis, but through hypothesis itself, the insight itself is the most important thing, because it was such an original idea.
If you advertised a name that was both desirable to the customer and legally available – but you did not yet reserve it, you'd have the risk of the customer or competitors grabbing the name first.

Perhaps changing the name is trivial – for an expert in the jurisdiction's procedures. But a little bothersome for typical out-of-jurisdiction customers.

You might thus try a new name so you could advertise it safely, and give customers the one-stop, one-step shipping experience they want.

Further, as companies are sold, you might churn names. For example, if a customer bites on a certain name, if they don't want it on exactly the legal-form/age company where it is currently parked, you might transfer it to another company that matches their other needs. If you realize that the style of name they chose is rising in popularity, you might generate a new name of that kind, but then place it on an older company with a name that's been long-passed over.

I would expect a deeper analysis of whether any of the short-lived names then moved to other entities (where they perhaps were used for longer periods) to be able to confirm or disprove this speculation.
Photography and Linux
To code features, you only need to understand technology. To create UIs, you need to understand people, which is much harder. To make matters worse, I suspect many Gimp or Blender devs don't eat their own dogfood, and insofar as they do, they're accustomed to the weird taste of said dogfood.
Yep, just waiting for the day I can no longer opt out. Feels like it’s coming soon.

Boy those ad designs on the new layout sure are starting to look like regular posts. I’m sure it won’t get any worse, right?
Well it's also that many business travelers are required by policy to book the cheapest flights
Whether you chose to be pessimistic or optimistic during that time was up to you and your social circle. For those that were optimistic, there was a lot of technological advances to be optimistic about.

Moon landings became boring during that timeframe!
The point of the comment isn't that said offense should be banned. It's pointing out the irony in that the above commenter's pride in offending those he or she doesn't want to see in society is the same motivation as many people said commenter probably despises.
Interesting. What’s your opinions on Crystal right now as a substitute for Ruby? Is there a good stack like Rails for Crystal?
IMO that description is absolutely perfect, and that's not a knock on blender, if anything I think that's probably a superlative of the application.

When blender was in it's earliest forms, I was into 3D modeling as a hobby (a tv show called Eye Drops had me hooked) and recall quite well people who used blender and used it well being looked up with awe as if they were Moses coming down from the mountain, lol.

I stuck around with it long enough and now I make fun little gifs https://66.media.tumblr.com/6257d4052e4212e770fd5eb819c7688c...
Although the government will still have the right to expropriate the property of foreign investors under special circumstances, the new draft law requires that the process must be done through legal procedures and include “fair and reasonable” compensation.

Reading between the lines: no guarantee of any legal or financial protections. Your case can be deemed a special case, or go through the same "due process" that foreign firms have been subjected to for decades that typically end up benefiting the joint venture partner or domestic industry. And, even if you win, good luck getting paid.

Business as usual in the PRC.

See also:

https://www.industryweek.com/intellectual-property/what-coul...

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-11-28/paid-in-china-bill-c...
I've been using Blender for a while now, and I actually miss its UI features in other apps now. I would agree that it's very unconventional and immediately baffling to new users, but not that it's "objectively god awful".
The vast majority of registered lobbyists in the USA are paid professionals, usually from the legal field. Several major law companies run large lobbyist for hire departments.

Now Michael Shellenberger may be one of the pro-bono lobbyists (admittedly I haven't yet found out either way), but this would put him in the minority of registered lobbyists in the USA.

I will note that he was at one point a paid lobbyist for Hugo Chavez. Was he presenting his own opinion then?
It makes perfect sense when you realise that the UK protests are, like the rest of Brexit, pure astroturf.
>Also pgadmin is so bad, wow
Pgadmin 4 is HORRIBLE. I just use pgadmin 3 when I need it.
Comcast aims to bolster data sharing in advanced TV with Blockgraph
Perhaps not, but it does give you exposure to a wealth of first-hand information. I don't think the mother-of-two-children's opinion is worthless relative to a child psychologist, either; both have insights that are valuable in different ways.
Facebook can't do what history (and its participants to date) to date has not been able to do? While my love for FB is closer to an on-again off-again teen crush, I do not recall at any point FB promising to be the magic bullet that'll save the world from itself.

That said, as we all know, the internet is a magnifier, and effects of a network (as opposed to unconnected node) even more so. Again, not FB's fault. But it does need to embrace it's place and potential in history's ecosystem.
even wired was brought (and bought) into fixing the "strategic narrative" ?
Usually it means that the plant relies on natural processes like gravity or convection to cool down the reactor after it has been shutdown, rather than needing "active" measures like emergency generators providing electricity to run the water pumps etc.

E.g. the Fukushima reactors melted down because the tsunami destroyed the emergency generators (as well as blocking the roads so they couldn't get new generators on site in time). A newer design using, say, convection to get rid of the decay heat wouldn't have this problem.
If I had a nickel for every copy editor/epidemiologist I knew...
No legal aid for libel, so unless they're willing to take out another mortgage they're unlikely to get started there.
If you're building a parser, you may use: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec-3.1.13.0/docs/Text...

Where your downstream parsers match on `Nothing` and assume the stream hasn't been consumed in order to try an alternative parser or provide a default.

If you change an equation to use `option` instead you have a completely different parser with different semantics.

I was thinking of a case where I use your function in a combinator that depends on the Functor and Monoid instances provided by the `Maybe` type. If you change your function to return only the `a` and it doesn't provide those instances then you've changed the contract and have broken my code. And I suspect it should be easy to prove the equations are not equivalent.
It enhances risks if you are doing things that are already risky, like using Ruby's dynamic facilities to either expose the user to things based on names in source (“eval” of user-submitted content, or things dynamically constructed from it, for example.)

But I can't see much else that is a realistic security risk (readability and code clarity risks are another story.)
Unless it's high pH miracle water.
Dupe detector not working as always https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751976

Also you should check out http://flexboxfroggy.com/
Yes that's another similar and related phenomenon. There are similar stories around of parents finding their teenage kids programmed with neo-Nazi or similar ideologies from spending time in video game forums and then following some rabbit hole.

I remember following rabbit holes as a teen but for some reason my natural tendency toward skepticism defended me from the crazier stuff. If anything contact with nutty sorts of conspiracy theories and cult ideologies just made me more of a skeptic. It seems that some people are more prone to getting sucked in.
Researchers use Jell-O to make powerful new hydrogen fuel catalyst
Same. Am always envisioning having to sit down at a default configuration or _somebody else’s_ custom config. Emacs was the one I (ironically) resisted the most.
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I don't think either Gimp or Blender have bad UIs at this point. Historically though, I think they've had opposite problems. Gimp has tended to just do the minimum to make the UI just about work with no regard for efficient/pleasant workflow, whereas Blender has abandoned convention in pursuit of an efficient workflow for experienced users.
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Can you recommend any good online tutorials/courses for learning design and best practices?
>“Facebook’s real names policy doesn’t exactly protect anonymity, and has created issues for people in countries like Vietnam,” said Aggarwal. “If platforms provide leeway, or enough space for anonymous posting, and anonymous interactions, that is really helpful to people on the ground.”

So Facebook should allow anonymous posting but it should also magically block fake bots and Russian troll accounts?
> you’re totally welcome to build your own ISP and not use the root nameservers

That’s a drastic overstatement. I believe what AJ007 is referring to is OpenNIC, which is a DNS service that provides custom and free domain registration using custom TLDs like .geek and .chan. It forwards existing TLDs to the root nameservers so that it’s interoperable with the current DNS system. It has its pros and cons- I used it for a few months without any major issues. It certainly doesn’t require building your own ISP to sidestep the current root nameservers.

OpenNic: https://www.opennic.org/
AMD Vaults onto the NASDAQ 100 Stock Index
It is as good time as to, say, learn Farsi. It's beautiful, it's fun, learning it is a great experience, and, plus, quite a few people already enjoy speaking it. Or, you could learn something else without feeling much of a loss.
Cop cars are lighter than cows.
win with amd chip
Neat! This is indeed a great field. I wish I got to do a lot more national lab related work myself.
Yes, before he sounded like a moody hacker you had to appease to get your code accepted into his pet project, now he comes across as the head of a multinational corporation who just ended your career.
Kotlin is my new love. Best collections library of any language I've used, great type system, coroutines are amazing, and all of it integrates perfectly with 25 years of rock-solid Java libraries.
Why 2018 was a breakout year for open source deals
China is build on this "administrative creativity", 27K km of high speed rail is a prime example. Nobody will seriously work to harm Chinese giants.
Linux containers, what even are they?
Sorry - this is pasted out of the article, and refers to a change in the semantics of the === operator for Ranges.
Your self-delusion would be sad if it weren't so hilarious.

Anyone with the slightest familiarity with current market conditions and costs would know that nuclear is dead technology walking. Attempts to build new reactors in the US and Europe have failed, and failed spectacularly. They are not even close to economically competitive. Even in China, where costs are opaque, there's now a move away from new reactors.

Deluded fools such as yourself confabulate conspiracy theories to explain away this reality -- Greenpeace is a common supervillain invoked here -- but that's flat-earth level nonsense.
> Facebook critics generally want more centralization so that people are exposed to opposing viewpoints and a uniform sensibility on what is and isn't true.

The sad part of it, to my mind, is those who critisize Facebook for this want to be exposed for opposing viewpoints to be able to fight opposing viewpoints. I do not want my viewpoints were exposed to those who oppose it. Opposition is too way ready to fight, I'm not. I'm happy to discuss them, but not to fight for them. Even your comment hints the same: you want exposure to make some viewpoints impossible, to fight them to death.

These critics are declaring openness and freedom but they are authoritarian by their nature, they want to one (their) viewpoint to win all others. It is irremovable contradiction between declared goals and real ones that cannot be fixed by Facebook.

The story from Bangladesh shows it in some sense. Authoritarian reign wants to be exposed to opposing views to fight them. Students do not want to be exposed to opposed views, they want to expose to their views only those who is ready to accept them.

SJW want to be exposed to opposing views to be able to scream "fire him". They also want to expose others to their views to hurt them.

Trolls of different colors and sizes want their shit to be exposed to a fan of public opinion and to make fun of hurting others.

I do not want my views to be exposed for general public because the goals of that public are under doubt, they do not want to learn my viewpoint to shift their beliefs close to mine, they want to learn my viewpoint to fight my viewpoint.

The trouble is not a degree of exposure, the trouble is people thinking that contradicting viewpoints should fight to death. And too many people looking not for viewpoints but for a fight of viewpoints. Of course it leads viewpoints to guard theirselves in a fragmented echo chambers, to self-reinforcing ideologies.
Okay, so if someone could actually clarify what, exactly, is off-topic or inappropriate about this article, then that would be much appreciated.
I would argue the earlier mindset (i.e. China engagement) was not based solely on pie-in-the-sky optimism, but had a couple of other factors -

1) The belief that China would eventually succeed with or without us, so it is to our benefit for them to succeed with us.

2) The belief that engaging the Soviets hastened the end of the [First?] Cold War, so it might also work on the Chinese.

Because we have no control scenario we can't be sure, but engagement probably worked, if for no other reason than to set up a situation where China appears a bit more transparent today than 30 years ago.
It's referenced in the article, but one of the earlier ntp abuse cases:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/

Makes for interesting reading.
Yes.

Also, I used to work in IoT, and you are fortunate with your outcome. So many OEMs are worse.
> "Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level"

+1 Very interesting. I will make sure to check the `Hypothesis` module.
I heard that said about Community when it was on... i.e. s/IASIP/Community
https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/guide/ebios-2010-expression-des-beso...
> In the same sense that there's a distinction between counting and mathematics, or throwing things and physics, or conversations and psychology, or various other academic disciplines -- that is to say, a very artificial one.

Except there's a very clear delineation in each case: proper knowledge is articulable, communicable and arguably formal, and in every case of proper knowledge, one can ask "why is that true?", and find a justification that is clear and unambiguous. I can communicate to you a formal understanding of a phenomenon that you had never before witnessed, interacted with or understood, and you can thereby gain a fairly deep understanding of it via this model and make predictions of it without ever witnessing, interacting with or experiencing it yourself.

This is simply not the case with implicit, intuitive "knowledge". The very process of elaborating, refining, and formalizing implicit understanding is what creates proper knowledge.

Implicit, intuitive "knowledge" is to proper knowledge, as seeds are to fruits when evaluating the question of what food can keep you alive. Seeds are by and large not digestible, not nutritious and won't sustain you, but a fruit will. Certainly there is a continuum between the seed to the fully formed fruit, but achieving the status of "fruit" that can sustain your life is definitely not arbitrary.
FB is publicly traded though, and it's pretty clear that controversial content keeps people engaged with the platform, and in turn engaging with ads.

FB has a fiduciary responsibility to make their platform show content that it's users with engage with the most, for the longest amount of time. If that happens to be controversial content, it's going to be difficult to convince them to change their algos to inherently downplay controversial content.

Not sure it's possible to make them change like that without government intervention. And even then, what change can one government impose vs a a massive global company like FB? (I actually don't know this, but would be interesting in learning from some examples if anyone has any)
Am I the only one who can't find a single argument for why he isn't biased in the whole article?

He just goes: "Some people say I'm an offensive bad person, which is pushing a political and moral agenda, with my own biases, but I swear, I am pure facts and logic, and my reasoning is always neutral, and so I hope we can all move along and allow me to continue my logical rhetoric."

I was hoping for some facts, counterfacts, examples, logical reasoning, I don't know, some more concrete demonstration of his good faith, neutrality, and display of unbiased methodology. Instead I just got a plea to believe his words.

Did I miss something?
Are Santa’s reindeer used for propulsion or navigation? (2011)
Ask the Indians and Pakistanis, it's not at all cheap. Certainly something that only a state would take on. It's just beyond the capacity of most private investment groups. It would really require government backing to make it happen.
Echos of Vernor Vinge's 2007 novel "Rainbows End" where one character has a system where his companies spawn other companies every few seconds.