skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally, "Oh, we're sorry. We thought it was obvious we were spying on you by now". Guess their conditioning program isn't yet complete...
I think the library system does have good reasons to exist and whether to use it depends totally on your needs.

Essentially, the library system and the traditional filesystem are the same, to the extent that they both filter and group files by a select group of criteria. In the case of the filesystem, the criteria are file path, sizes, date added, etc. In the case of a library system, the criteria are specific types metadata that are meaningful for the type of media it manages (genres and artists for music, publishers and categories for books, etc.). Their features do intersect, and you can have both worlds in one system with some hacks, but the convenience and design also matter.

For me, I read ebooks but don’t hoard them, so I don’t need Calibre to manage my petite amount of epubs -- folders and filenames are enough. But I do listen to a lot of music, so I can’t manage efficiently without a music library software like iTunes. A person who is a voracious reader but rare listener, however, may have a choice just opposite to mine, which is also completely reasonable.
"Vette ... instructed the Cessna to point directly at the setting sun. He did the same, and noted the difference in heading between the aircraft as four degrees. After making an allowance for the differing altitudes of the aircraft, the difference in sunset times between the aircraft and Norfolk Island was also noted. This data allowed the crew to calculate that the Cessna must be southwest of the DC-10 by about 400 nautical miles."

A story for your kids when they think they'll never have to understand this math stuff, since computers do it for them.
Bi-weekly, or every 2 weeks, is norm in US as far as I know. It's easier for everyone in my opinion, except maybe employers that want to take advantage of their employees.
Or 2-3 developers in southern EU.
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> To date nobody has ever lived forever.

Wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavatar_Babaji
What worked and didn't work with Microsoft's attempts to do this with Universal Windows Platform?

Was it just lack of active phone / tablet marketshare, or was there a fundamental technical reason it didn't take off?
Touch and Desktop mouse/keyboard are different enough to each have their own UI...im guessing this just is another universal binary project...
> Keep in mind this is essentially the same concept as the big scary AI from OpenAI that is making the news recently. They use neural nets, not markov chains, but the idea is similar: given a word, predict the next word.

Isn't this kind of like saying that a plane is essentially the same concept as a car because they both transport people from A to B? "given a word, predict the next word" is the problem statement (i.e. what the problem is) but that's not very interesting, what's interesting is the solution (i.e. how you solve the problem). Markov Chains and the kind of Neural Nets used in the text generator that made the news are very different, even if they're attempting to solve the same problem.
Most of the world doesnt care and doesn't act like this

People are very collaborative and would more likely find you interesting
I can remember that. A group of us who go to whoever's house had just gotten a new game, piece of hardware, etc

When we left we'd always say "see you on the roadhouse!", which was a multi-line board that we'd all dial into when we got home
I suspect that the requirement of stoicism stoic in the face of cancer is more about third parties feeling bad otherwise. Stoic people makes us feel good, because it allows us to pretend to ourselves that the disease is less painful and unpleasant then we would like it to be. It allows us to not feel pain through empathy etc.

When someone is stoic because he or she wants to, that is fine. Requiring that sick people hide their pain and fear is cruel in its own way, imo.
Potentially of interest: A free celestial navigation course:

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/astronav/
The https://scaphold.io/ URL is down.
America is guilty of this and I'm pretty sure China has similar incentives for moving to areas like Tibet. "Free" land, indeed.
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Sometimes real life stories beat movie stories:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/the-tech-whiz-behind-vi...
More likely to have apps ported from iOS to macOS than the reverse IMHO
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Running extensive checks before each donation would dramatically increase the cost, I would think.
"Vette wanted all the passengers to be involved, so he asked them to look out of the windows and invited small groups to come to the cockpit."

Can't imagine this happening in this century, given 9/11. Mind you, regardless of airplane security being more or less secure nowadays, and regardless of the chance of such a near accident/rescue happening plus the chance of having a terrorist on-board; rather because of the strict rules and the fear associated post 9/11.
Assuming of of the reasons for this is to make Mac apps work on ARM.
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I didn't downvote, but I was surprised to read in that link that "DU used in US munitions has 60% of the radioactivity of natural uranium". I knew already that the US fired a lot of it at Iraqis not long ago and it's still killing them. That wiki page links to this 2013 story:

"Official Iraqi government statistics show that, prior to the outbreak of the First Gulf War in 1991, the rate of cancer cases in Iraq was 40 out of 100,000 people. By 1995, it had increased to 800 out of 100,000 people, and, by 2005, it had doubled to at least 1,600 out of 100,000 people. ..."My colleagues and I have all noticed an increase in Fallujah of congenital malformations, sterility, and infertility," he said. ... the Fallujah health crisis represented "the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied". ... Doctors in Fallujah are continuing to witness the aforementioned steep rise in severe congenital birth defects, including children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumours, disfiguring facial and body deformities, and complex nervous system problems. Today in Fallujah,...many families are too scared to have children..."

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/03/201331517...
Funnily though, after Latin, German became the lingua franca (or should I say deutsche Zunge?) of natural sciences for a while, before English dethroned it in the second half of the 20th century.
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The alternative to this is probably weka https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weka_(machine_learning)

FWIW weka is a well-designed system works great for many tasks. Especially if the user cannot code.
> But why not? It seems that blood donation is a well-established medical practice, so presumably safe.

It's safer than bleeding out and dying. That doesn't necessarily mean it's 100% risk free.
Speaking for myself (as a huge fan of C# and WPF), I didn't feel like there was enough of a phone/tablet/Store/Xbox market for UWP apps that made it worth restricting myself to UWP. I feel like it was a case of trying to make one tool useful for all jobs instead of choosing the right tool for each job.
In a code review? No. Not in all my years as a professional developer.

As a kid? I'm sure I did. I probably even did it about code on the internet. But I wasn't a professional then and wasn't employed as a developer.
That's just an assertion without data backing it up.

The above experiment with neutral names would give some insight if "gamers" do indeed "default to male", as you express it, or not.
No (edit: quantitative, you'd think that stipulation would be obvious because we're on HN) mention of increase in popularity of cycling for one's commute (seems to be up year over year in my unscientific observation)? I even skimmed the linked articles and they also seem to only be counting deaths, not deaths per anything. That doesn't tell us anything useful. This entire article is hand-wavy.

I'm sure if everyone who currently rides a bicycle to work went out and started commuting via skateboard tomorrow we'd have a heck of a lot more skateboard fatalities.

Also worth mentioning that this is an op-ed so it is not subject to normal journalistic standards (however low they may sometimes be).
Comparing dynamic instructions between a SIMD architecture with a 32 byte vector width versus a vector architecture with 8*64=512 byte vectors is laughably misleading. Of course you can use fewer instructions if you're willing to throw hugely more transistors at the problem and carry around so much more architectural state.

There are reasons to prefer SIMD or vectors machines or, put another way, packed or unpacked vectors. But this is a very one-sided presentation. Also, some SIMD ISAs like Arm's SVE can handle different widths pretty nicely.
> oppositional defiant disorder

Tangent: I have a lot of skepticism about that one being a proper disorder on its own, in the same sense that I wouldn't consider "fever" an illness in and of its own, but a symptom of other illnesses.
I used to drink a lot of cool-aid from erlang. It is true, that they have got concurrency model right. They embraced actor model, messages between processies are copied over for a good reason, etc. However, I don't think it is enough to call it a day.
Comparing to modern languages, erlang lacks a lot. Elixir is trying to fill those gaps, but how many layers of abstraction can you add to an ecosystem before it is unusable? With go and rust available, erlang/elixir looks like a very good tool but for a very limited pool of use cases - routing/filtering/messaging.
There are strong doubts about that story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/13/flight-attenda...
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It's the right-to-left alignment of English text.
I have been using an iPad exlusively for 3 years and this makes sense to me.

Once they add this (and a mouse to iPad); then we can have the best of both worlds
Lots of technology now incorporates the idea that people are better not given too many choices. DRM/trusted computing, root-locked phones, software and operating systems that decide what information they send where, without any explicit consent or choice to disable.
I had this discussion with someone yesterday, who was attempting to recreate a final cut pro news editing workflow, but do it on an iphone.

I still have no idea why. Just because you can bang a nail in with a screwdriver, it doesn't mean you should when you've got a perfectly good hammer.
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> * Share reusable stateful and effectful logic between components. Like mixins but without name clashes or the diamond problem. Hooks can be applied more than once, and are instantiated per call.

In the mixins are considered harmful blog the point is made that sharing logic between components is a mistake and you should be using composition to achieve the desired outcome. Why do I need hooks? Is composition considered harmful now?

> * Colocate related logic instead of artificially splitting it into lifecycle methods.

Nope, all this did was make a mess. If splitting your logic into lifecycle methods was too disjoint there was way more going on in that component than their should have been. All useEffect and useState does is turn pure functions into mud that reads like a class but drops all the syntactic sugar that makes it readible.

> * Accurately model component as being in multiple states at the same time for concurrency. (Important for future React features.) Closures can do that because they capture specific props and state.

Besides this not making any fucking sense, why don't you call new and leave me out of it?

As a user, Why do I need hooks today?

> Finally there are some difficulties related to optimizing class code at compilation time. Such as inlining and fusing classes together. Functions make this simpler and they also minify better due to safer mangling.

Why do I need hooks?
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No about page, no privacy page, no additional pages...

Yet somehow Google Analytics made its way into the source code...........
I assume its using reddit api to find trending links to git(hub?) repositories.
A script that can autotype a command to get remote access needs to be able to communicate over your network, and it can be detected or blocked by your network security infrastructure.

A device like this packages its own covert communications channel together with the exploit dropper; it provides an entry point to your network (and exfiltration channel) that bypasses all your filtering, logging, scanning, etc.
They've issued a correction clarifying that it is Uranium ore, not straight Uranium.

This paragraph didn't make sense to me:
"Photos provided to the newspaper by Stephenson show technicians arriving in June 2018 to take away the buckets of uranium ore. The technicians reportedly dumped the buckets at an old uranium mine 2 miles away, then for some reason brought the buckets back to the building."

I'm guessing they mean "dumped" the contents of "the buckets"
The article hits on this, but I think it probably makes sense for Apple to do this as they plan to run all their hardware on Apple chips in the near future. That said, I think it will likely result in lazy UX that's "good enough" for multiple device types.
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Pedestrian deaths have increased by a lot more than cyclist deaths, I don't think the number of pedestrians has significantly changed.
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Personally, I would love if my phone apps were dense and feature rich professional applications, too.

A lot of times I want to do something and it feels like the apps are holding me back just for the sake of being excessively simple. I've had this feeling on both Android and iOS
Here’s a link I found googling for the “Marshal Plan for the Middle East”. It’s from April 2018, and it goes in quite a lot of the details of this affair.

https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/seychelles-uae-georg...

And here’s the copy-paste of the section “Rationale”

“The Rationale

The deal had three main rationales motivating the various parties.

The Middle East Marshall Plan would have provided an excuse to remove sanctions against Russia.
US businesses would need to work with sanctioned Russian entities. Striking a deal that the Administration could sell as bringing power and economic development to the Middle East, as well as bolstering the struggling US civilian nuclear industry, might have softened Congressional support for sanctions, particularly among Republicans.
The deal would involve potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in profit.
Why Erik Prince would care: Corporate documents projected the plan would generate “$250 billion in revenue for US companies.” Billions of dollars from a project requiring a lot of private security would pique the interest of Prince, head of a private security company.
Why Tom Barrack would care: Tom Barrack was reportedly looking to invest in the US nuclear industry, which would have received a huge windfall.
Why Russia would care: This deal could also involve massive investment in Russian state-owned companies, which could explain why the CEO of RDIF, Kirill Dmitriev was at the Seychelles meeting. Dmitriev is close to Putin and is charged with shepherding foreign investment into Russia.
There was an economic policy and geopolitical incentive.
Middle Eastern countries are legitimately seeking nuclear power to support their growing populations. The Gulf states’ participation would have supported regional economic development.
More fundamentally, this would also serve a broader geostrategic objective for the Gulf. As part of this deal, Russia would likely need to shift or soften its approach toward Iran and Syria. In exchange, they would not only receive a huge economic windfall, but would become more closely aligned with the US and the wealthy Gulf states.
For the UAE, a deal like this would cement a relationship with the new Trump administration. MbZ’s attendance – even though the other attendees were far lower ranking – could be explained by the huge investment required and the potential geopolitical stakes.
“
Well the body will eventually "loose the battle" for us all. But Consciousness... since quantum information isn't lost, consciousness might be another story and not get lost with the body.
I was a homeschooling parent and had a role in a TAG/parenting/education organization to support that role. My feedback on very difficult kids, some of whom had been failed by multiple experts, was pretty popular, enough so that I de facto got "referrals," though I had no real formal credentials and charged no money. Parents would just talk to friends and say "Go talk to her" basically.

In many cases, these were Twice Exceptional kids who had started doing really strange things around the time they were toddlers or preschoolers. The strong negative reactions of adults around them then compounded the problem and made it an intractable issue.

I was often able to help parents back off from this dynamic so the family and child could get unstuck. I wrote an anecdote about that sort of process in January. It can be read here: https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hand-li...

I'm a former military wife and homeschooling parent. People are quick to be dismissive and tell me I don't know anything about x, y or z, etc.

But my experiences suggest to me that a lot of mental health issues are rooted in relatively prosaic cases of "kids do weird and stupid things because they are kids, some kids do very weird and stupid things for various reasons, and parents often don't have effective tools for handling the situation, thereby compounding the problem." My experiences also suggest that a lot of this is fixable, without drugs or therapy, if you can help the family disengage from long-standing patterns of interaction and help the child in question understand where their dysfunctional behaviors came from in a non-blaming manner and give them some better answers and/or just breathing room to change on their own without interference.

I spent about two weeks writing the above piece and it's based on many years of education and experience. It got more than 60k page views and people are republishing it, some with my permission and giving me credit.

I would like to do more of that kind of writing, but it made me zero money. I am routinely told my writing has zero value and I should go get a real job. I'm not good at the self promotion thing etc.

I think I know some useful things that could help parents avoid becoming mired in the kinds of problems this man in the article has. But I have no audience and people who know what I used to do mostly are in my past or simply unwilling to vouch for me, including some prominent people on HN who knew of my work in that area at the time, to some degree or another.

I've largely made my peace with the fact that I can't afford to write for free and lots of people on the internet expect excellent content for free. They don't want ads and they don't want to pay anything for it either. No, they don't want to be a Patreon supporter.

So I content myself as best I can with leaving comments on the internet and generally being percieved as a blowhard and arm chair politician type who has an opinion on everything and zero credibility.

Que sera, sera.
I'm reminded by the fictional movie Cast Away from 2000 starring Tom Hanks [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Away
I understand the desire to push computation to a single device, but I don’t agree with it. It is very rare for a device that does ‘everything’ to do anything ‘well.’

In software, Eclipse is the perfect counter argument. It does nothing well, imho. Sketch is the opposite, singular focus = quality experience.

My phone serves a purpose and I expect apps to be bite sized experiences and quick data points.

My computer serves a completely different purpose. The applications should be equally focused on that purpose
3rd paragraph:

> More people are being killed because cities are encouraging residents to walk and bike, but their roads are still dominated by fast-moving vehicular traffic. As my research has shown, this shifting mix can be deadly.
I am not sure your observation is correct - in industries such as oil and gas the investment community was quick with redistributing wealth to previously underfunded rural areas of Oklahoma, Texas, Alaska, or North Dakota. Another example is Las Vegas, which prior to hospitality industry investments was essentially a piece of desert.

And those are just the big-name examples. Some extended family of mine lives in a rural area of Central Washington, which anecdotally in the past decade has experienced high growth in manufacturing, driven primarily by Japanese money.
> For Stockholm, sure. What about a city like Växjö? Or Motala? There are very decent areas to live in Sweden, close to booming tech start-ups, and aren't suffering the same plights that the capital is seeing.

Yeah... Motala is really relevant in the context of conversation about "Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm" (~3 hours by car).
People love to take an iPad and force it to replace their ipad and be like "See, I can do all my work on my iPad, you just need 23 apps, and a few cheats and dongles to make it work." I don't understand it. I have a macbook pro, I have an iPad. Trying to force one to replace the other just doesn't work.
I need to say I am a bit confused, I maybe replied in the wrong place.

I meant to reply to a comment that only provided as an information that somebody believed to be a token black hire. To this my point was that multiple non trivial interpretation were possible.

Now I realize I commented directly on the article so that I was in practice casting doubt on the content. This was a mistake, to be clear I trust the Edray Goins version of his own story.

A bit late to reply, but I feel it is an important distinction.
A coiuple of my favourites:

- Child is put into perfectly sealed cube. They have a torch, which provides light. Since the light cannot escape the cube, what happens when they turn the torch off? Where does it go?

- If you put a brain in a jar and wired up electrodes which pulsed up every nerve ending etc to simulate reality - would the brain know it was in a jar? How? (The matrix being the modern representation)

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