skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The math doesn't change just because it's Mars and not some random object in the Kuiper belt.

That depends on what you consider "the math." In principle, it's all F=ma. In practice it's a good deal more complicated than that. There's a reason people make careers out of designing orbital trajectories.

> the only barrier is money

Well, yeah, the only barrier was only ever money. But that's a pretty big barrier right now.

> what we need to focus on with regards to the great Nevada desert is things like terraforming

Yes, terraforming is one way to solve the problem of sustainability. But I don't think we're any closer to being able to have a serious discussion of terraforming than we are about having a self-sustaining settlement without terraforming first.
> In the UK you follow the spirit of the law, not the exact wording.

The problem is that the government is taking this as a licence to make laws overly broad. Their policy seems to be to make everything illegal and hope that the courts sort it out.

EDIT: Also, it allows selective enforcement. I bet "the spirit of the law" turns out to mean that I can view ISIS propaganda but Muslims can't.
Ask HN: How should you tag your phone number to reduce the number of robocalls?
When a business ask you what type of phone number did you just provide them, do you say home phone, cellphone or business phone?
Techstars launches space accelerator
"is what I told my girlfriend"

This is actually insane though. I've ranted about this before, but since when has the UK been using 1984 and similar distopian works as a manual rather as a warning?
> It is in this way that I am arguing that dreaming is the inverse of anxious mind-wandering.

I am still a bit uncertain what you mean with "this way". Are you saying that anxious mind-wandering typically results in a pro-active reaction, whereas in the dream one is passive? That is: an appropriate response and an inappropriate response to the imagined scenarios? (note: this is not the same as whether the imagined scenarios themselves are appropriate)

> It is interesting that those who do a lot of mediation have been seen to be less reactive to norepinephrine (a neurotransmitter associated to stress).

Mediation or meditation?
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Swiss government adopts Threema Work as official messenger
I don't use white emoji because it's a weird irrelevance for a thumbs up, in the same way that a standard smiley emoji is genderless.

I would have thought that would explain it for the most part.
News article (German): https://www.inside-it.ch/articles/53634

Google Translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
The same way you automate any other job: break it up into easily-definable processes and then automate those.
As a software engineer who later learned SQL, I could not disagree more. Within the parameters that it is designed for, SQL is a terrific language that makes exploring and manipulating data much easier than tools like python or Scala. That doesn't mean I have no place for python or Scala, but that I definitely see a class of problems where an SQL interface is far superior.
And yet something as basic as a preview is missing. Reddit's community-driven browser plugin ([0]) at least adds that, HN's counterpart [1] sorely needs it.

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Come to think of it, is there a definitive guide to HN comment formatting? Implementing a preview feature in [1] would be doable if the markup is documented.

[0]: https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
I know HN rules don’t want simple “thank you posts” but I really appreciate your thoughtful response.

In my proposal I did know the real hologram (if it worked) would be “inside out”/“depth reversed” but I left that part out. These are very difficult concepts to try to visualize and when googling them I tend to come up with academic papers (like this very interesting article) or cartoonish representations of the concepts as opposed to say pictures/video of the specific hologram properties.

I did not know setting up the hologram using two lasers to mimic the original reference source (with one from the back of the plates would give both real and virtual from the single plate (though it makes perfect sense). It just creates more fascination and questions. I really need to get my hands on some master plates and start playing to satisfy these curiosities.
TLDR no children so she lives actually all the time same, note just without husband with updated technologies, glad i didn't waste my time with this ballast
Or you could, you know, gasp, have a visual editor usable by 99% of the world's population, on Reddit.

This is a solved problem. Word solved it back in 1990.
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If arbitration were better for customers, it wouldn't have to be forced upon them.
> Inconveniencing people for their stupidity is not a legitimate use of the government's monopoly on violence.

It absolutely and very clearly is, especially when that stupidity ends up costing the taxpayer money. Not wearing a seatbelt is stupidity, and people not wearing it should be inconvenienced.
I would add indexes to that list. Knowing the different types and how they impact performance can be very valuable.
Funny how these laws always get misapplied outside their ostensible "goal".

Some German states just strengthened their laws, ostensibly to fight terror. First application: protesters trying to protect a forest.

When you must rely on the law being applied benevolently, it is no longer "rule of law".
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Apple’s new deal for journalism should send publishers running
Being transparent comes naturally when there's nothing there.
Not sure why are you being downvoted, I would like to at least hear the counter argument.
I missed the Gates Foundation of its early days. The Grand Challenges were all there was. I do not doubt the Gates aspirational letter, but their foundation Is more like a VC firm, with bad partners and managers who are terrible at doing their due diligence? They found plenty of stuff that have no bearing what so ever to any of the grand challenges. There is no oversight, when it is clear that a technology they invested in is never going to work or never going to serve the purpose they were sold (because people do lie to get money), they should pull out and re-invest somewhere. But no. The culture within the foundation must be pretty bad, and not aspirational at all. So much resources, so much waste... It makes me sad, really.
TSMC to move 7nm EUV process to volume production in March
I wonder if this is getting a balance sheet looking better before a potential sale to Apple?
https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_ronson_what_happens_when_onlin...

I saw this TED talk by Jon Ronson from 2015 titled "When online shaming goes too far", largely a teaser for his book on the topic, but nevertheless rather sobering. Basically how we're all one tweet away from disaster.

NOTE: NSFW due to using quotes of "normal" discourse on Twitter.
Every three years change jobs and take six months off in between to go travelling. On the other hand it is stunning to be alive just on its own.
This could be a relevant take for US: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ca4af3d4-867a...

In your specific example, McDonalds might have both copyright and trademark, or even the publicity claims - design of the restaurant, arches and the recognizable nature of the brand all are very unique. Placing BK logos over them would be valuable because it’s McDonalds.
I hope this is true, it would be awesome. I currently have no idea how to easily pay for quality news from multiple sources.
At the same time, without apps, nobody would buy an iPhone. Apple didn't pull Facebooks app from the store because it would have a huge impact on iPhone sales.
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If there's any relation between dreaming and the gut, it is certainly because something happening in the gut is affecting the brain.
"Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." -- Robert Heinlein, Revolt in 2100
shared_ptr&lt;T&gt;: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer
If only Facebook was not behind GraphQL - this would have faded to oblivion (RIP Parse)

The innumerable patches/packages trying to fix what GraphQL lacks - goes to show it's a good idea at surface level yet poorly thought out from ground up.
It's hard to assume nuance after stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Joke_Trial

As someone on your side of the pound, though a bit closer to the equator, count me as one who wouldn't trust that kind of selective enforcement from the UK justice system.
>*Until there is a universal web currency that is low friction to send like some of the crypto currencies.

I see this idea pop up every day now. It blows my mind that we don't have it yet. It seems so obvious, why hasn't someone written it yet? Can someone just pick a cryptocurrency that doesn't have high transaction fees and make a few browser plugins? Add your payment address to ./well-known or something?
Report says US iPhone users spent an average of $79 on in-app purchases in 2018
Which is strange because I see more targeted rage here on a VC forum.

The Twitter page I've cultivated has low/no rage and even interesting conversations. Sure, if I venture to gender, race, or politics, Ill be greeted by the rage machine. So volitionally choose to stay out of it.

Cultivate who you follow to a narrow tech field, and be very careful that whom you choose doesn't invest in hate and rage mechanics.

Facebook, for me, is the rage machine every few posts interspersed with cat/dog pics.
>People are also dying of war and hunger and lack of clean water and medicine.

No one can fix this with a snap of their fingers. You have to reform (replace?) governments, change cultural standards around sanitation, build tons of infrastructure. No matter how much aid is sent, it will take a long time even in the best case. These problems won't be fixed for good in the near future.

Perhaps malaria can be made a thing of the past before then. If so, don't let hundreds of thousands die because we "should" be fixing poverty instead.
This methodology is what we were taught, in pascal, as our 101 CS course around 1986. The hardest part of teaching it was actually explaining the syntax to first time thinkers. The abstractions were easier.
Where 'radicalised' is an ever-expanding definition of beliefs that the government deems to be unacceptable.
It worked flawlessly for Kara Swisher to berate Jack.
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I wonder why governments never openly address such propaganda, such as debunking claims and whatnot? Are they worried that will legitimize the claims? The alternative does seem to make the government have the weaker argument, just as in a debate the first one to resort to ad hominem or lose their temper seems to have the worse argument.
Close, it's Kevin Kelly
So, it's illegal to do a teardown on propaganda, that sounds like it couldn't possibly go wrong.

Rather than finding (eg in SERPs) counterpoints and dissenters alongside propaganda there will only be supporting voices.

I guess May's moving early on instigating greater totalitarianism in the UK once ECJ is out of the way.
Well we know only certain species carry malaria. Is that what you’re questioning?

Also Seems like you skipped over this part:

> nothing stops us from maintaining a population in some labs somewhere. If it turns out they matter in any significant way, contrary to various impact analysis... we just release them back into the environment.
OTOH, in the context of a distributed system that has to be upgraded live and the deployment of new code has to be carefully staged across hours or days (e.g. a storage cluster with thousands of machines), such mode switches can be absolutely essential. The process can look something like this.

* Roll out the code with support for a new feature

* Flip the mode switch on a few nodes to use the new feature

* Wait a while, watch for anomalies

* Enable the new feature on more nodes, until it's on all

* Disable support for the old feature (another mode switch)

* Eventually, roll out new code with the old feature entirely removed

It's not quite a whole-system mode switch as in SoaNM, but that's kind of the point. In a distributed system actions do not affect the whole system all at once, so different rules apply.
Are you kidding me, or just kidding yourself here?

Orders of magnitude more people care about weed and porn than care about bitcoin. Your comparisons are all ridiculous. Bitcoin is like curing a rare illness? This is why nobody takes breathless crypto-boosters seriously.

Bitcoin is MLM for tech boys.
Can I load a banner ad from McDonalds on a webpage from my phone if I'm in BK? I don't think legislation that might prevent that would be reasonable. Just because this is projected onto the real world doesn't make it different. They're both layers in digital space.

The only entity that has jurisdiction over that particular digital space is the app itself, so they get to make the rules.
Judges in the UK don't always follow the letter of the law, it's at their discretion. Precedent and the spirit of the law is pretty important. If someone avoids tax by exploiting a loophole due to a badly worded phrase, then no, they are not complying with the spirit of the law. That works both ways.

It's also completely at the juries discretion to override any order given by a judge, and they apply common sense to the whole situation. If you can't convince 10 out of 12 people that this person should be arrested for clicking a link, then no, they won't be. No matter what the judge says.
Because that made it unlikely to collide with existing / claimable uses. Consider https://github.com/well-known or https://instagram.com/well-known .
This is just one example of what the UK police seem to have time for lately: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6687123/Mother-arre... There's been a torrent of this sort of thing lately coming out of the UK; this is not a one-off sort of thing.

I know how HN feels about the Daily Mail, so I tried to find this story on the BBC. Couldn't. If someone's google-fu is better than mine, I'd be much obliged for a link. If nobody else finds it either, well, I leave the implications up to the reader.

I have no confidence in the police's discretion right now.
True, but I'd also posit that such research would be kept out of public view for exactly the reasons you stated. That means all we'd be seeing is the half-baked approaches by people who don't quite get it and can't seem to get high quality, useful, and reproducible results.
I suspect ou are thinking of the ECJ - which is the supreme court of the EU. The ECHR isn't related to the EU (although I suspect a lot of people don't realise that):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...
Dang, and there was me hoping for a write-up of the Fear Factory album.
The whole reason Jack and Ev feuded was over what they thought Twitter should be. Jack thought it was a better version of status messages on AIM. Ev wanted it to be a blog platform like blogger.
> The gaming industry really hits issues when trying to attract non-engine devs, infrastructure and server specifically. Due to the portability of these skills to... much better industry sub-segments a lot of talent here just jumps ship and leaves.

Back when I was actually interested in entering the industry none of the companies I found would even talk to devs without games industry experience, generally major shipped titles, too. That could be part of their problem.
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Most software companies end up doing this in the long run... Even Firefox is not immune. My guess as to why this happens is that all those engineers need something to do/something to show for (AKA fix what's not broken)... and I can't really blame them... I just wish that it would be possible to keep 2 branches of any given software; one with only security patches, and one with feature and security patches.
CB radio: for when you need to road rage to an audience.
this is garbage because on Windows using the IE WebView gives you total CRAP Rendering.
It's not the worse thing to monetize. They started releasing skins, announcers, etc for players to purchase.
In the UK you can get arrested for tweeting in opposition to the groupthink, not a smack in the face as such, ...
So, there are a few different forms of propaganda ISIS created, for different purposes. But I imagine their propaganda was what primarily lead to this law.

- Films designed to show... I suppose an 'exciting' life for those that joined. They were around thirty minutes to an hour long if I remember right, but fairly well structured. Some cheesy editing here and there. But definitely a more subtle form of recruiting. Usually around 80 percent of the video was combat footage.

- Their magazine which was more targeted for internal consumption. But it was a proper magazine. They were printing and distributing it, although most copies only reach the territory they held. They were mostly filled with insane religious takes, and I suppose propagating their expected norms and behaviors.

- Execution videos. Those seemed to have been inspired by South American cartel execution videos, although recorded in HD, as opposed to with outdated camcorders. Their propaganda videos were more like military recruitment ads, while I think the purpose of the execution videos was more to scare the viewers, rather than incite people to join.
I think we continue to see a broad, general interest in modding using traditional tools.

I'm thinking about the products that rarely get distributed - the MOBA map my friends and I made for WC3 where each one of us got characters. I think a lot of people who might have gotten into the SC2 map editor are now building 4-bit adders in Minecraft.
The main problem I have with Twitter is that when you reply to your own tweets, the reply will appear as a new tweet on your timeline.

This way your timeline becomes total chaos. Unless you only tweet a single 280 chars text and never add anything to it.

Otherwise, I would use it to post topics I am interested in. Reply to those topics to add more text or when new information becomes available. And have a discussion with people interested in those topics. I wish there was such a platform. It would be like everybody can run their own mini HN.
Materialized views for sure add some complexity and overhead, but I think that's true of any caching mechanism. They should probably be one of the last tools you reach for when trying to optimize queries, but in certain critical situations they can be super effective.
"...Next Big Ad Platform"

What could possibly go wrong?
There's no guarantee the multiplier has to be positive, either. And that's before you consider opportunity cost.
Protestors trying to protect a forest, and in trying to achieve that goal, committing clear-cut crimes. Why shouldn't that be out of the question a priori?

It's very much debatable whether the application of these laws is proportionate, but it's not against people peacefully assembling with banners and chanting slogans.
I’m surprised you made it that far! I stopped reading after (I think it was) book 4 when I realized it could be summarized as “the company travels a few miles down a river for 800 pages”.
The same types of individuals seem to rise to the top of both (that is, folks who are primarily interested in being at the top of things).
Well, and no harm done then. We shouldn't be taking historical content offline just because people have become too inattentive to analyze things top to bottom. The code might even just work still.
From my understanding, most probiotics are transient and pass through the system quickly. The microbiome optimizing community are now focused on prebiotics fibres like inulin and other resistant starches which feed your beneficial bacteria. And then there's always the nuclear option: FMT from a super donor.
Be careful though else 'just being stupid' becomes a legitimate defence for all manner of misdemeanours?
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I sure hope Twitter pays whoever curates Moments and writes trend descriptions.
Adium for the Mac folks! The website is still there (https://adium.im/) but the version history page is an error and the product blurb talks about AIM support, so I'm guessing it's dead.
A 23 year old EE student with no criminal record (not that it should matter) was jailed for 6 months for stealing a £3.5 bottle of water.. (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8695988/London...)
For what it's worth, it's not the case anymore. You can /connect directly to a network domain and it'll just create it as a temporary session that doesn't need to be saved to the config.
Where things get complicated is, the drive to reach the higher tier over a length of time drives us to be better ourselves - learn more, improve soft skills, build networks of people who we otherwise would lose touch with, and much more.

Sure, fight for better conditions. But you need to keep that drive, too, somehow.

Not talking about the gaming industry specifically here, but IT more broadly. Only datacenter employees and government workers have unions, where I live. It's not pretty to work with them.

Edit: this is a response primarily to the below comments about top and low salary tier distribution and equalization of pay for the bottom half (or whatever large distribution) via union negotiations for everyone.
> Can you give me a contact for your admin/security guy?

That's what spammers,scammers and sales-people do. Just describe how to repeat the issue. Most of the time they will forward to the right person. Don't expect to hear anything from them.

Knowing that someone have been into your house (server) and sneaked around is very uncomfortably, so don't expect even a thank you.
How has kids changed this for you?
What about the situation where I don't like my neighbor and I put an ugly virtual sculpture on their property? Nothing insulting or offensive, just something ugly.

Should the neighbor have any rights over their virtual AR property?
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The increasing censorship is genuinely making living in the UK less appealing.
Relying on a jury nullifying is not something I'd like to depend on. It's little known, and discouraged (for obvious reasons). It is, of course, entertaining when it happens and gets some publicity. Occasionally it can make plain when the law is an ass.

Most famous example is probably the Official Secrets Act prosecution of Clive Ponting after the Falklands war. No defence was valid, jury acquitted anyway, govt of the day was not happy.
> But then why even try to have this conversation on Twitter?

Delusion/hope/marketing?
That's like foreplay in those situations, the verbal abuse is as much about working the offender up - and sizing up their opposition - as it is about actually abusing anyone.
DMs are chats. It's a totally different medium than tweets. Separate UI and everything. I can understand how you would not know this, since you don't use the product (neither do I, any more), so this is just an FYI.
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> Not sure he’s a great writer, but there was a lot to be learned there.

Would you broadcast here some of the main points he made? Like what's the roots of the all that were.