skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the obsessiveness with making ever thinner products?

Comparing a thicker and thinner version of the same product, the thicker ones always seem more old-fashioned. I still own my Titanium PowerBook, and when it was new it was so sleek I couldn’t believe it was real, and now it feels so thick and old I can barely believe how I used to feel about it.
Depends how you pick them.

If you genuinely do

grep "^[a-z]*$" /usr/share/dict/words|shuf -n 4

Then on my computer you're looking at 15638751293495759880 combinations, or about 2^64.

Pick them from your own day to day vocab and you're more likely in the 2^32 range.
Some Android VPNs Use “Dangerous” Permissions (Read_phone_state) etc.
Holy crap, you're the Braid and The Witness guy! Just wanted to say thanks for making some awesome games, and amazing experiences. Also, congratulations for The Witness selection for March PS Plus ^^

I look forward to supporting more of your work in the future, and introducing my SO to your puzzles.
Tile38 is a great product, we've been using it in production to track, and manage geofences for a large amount of asphalt and cement trucks :)
Your comment seems almost tautological, especially the last part.
One of HN design principles is that usability is irrelevant because people come here for the community and minimizing software development effort is a point of pride.

People use the code identuse there is no way to create a blockquote
Violent games attracting more violent types is an easy deduction to make. So the grandparent's comment makes sense.

But why, as you imply, more violent games would attract people "who care more about the games they play" (over other types of games)?

Don't e.g. chess players care as much "about the games the play", perhaps more so than some violent FPS player in times spent? Or RPG players?
Isn't it like working in the supply chain of a questionable business? Ofcourse you are not doing bad things yourself but without you, others might not be able to.
Likewise. At the time my folks could just about stretch to a ZX81 plus 16k RAM Pack[0], but not a wobble stopper[1] - so we fashioned one out of corrugated cardboard and gaffer tape. A few years later I scored an upgrade to the ZX Spectrum+ which was an absolute revelation - what with stuff like colour and sound.

I learnt BASIC through typing out listings from ZX Computing Monthly, Sinclair User, Your Sinclair, and others, borrowed from the local library. I forget the name of the magazines which had multi-platform listings, for the Electron and Vic-20 and MSX and others.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_pack
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110614170203/http://www.sincus...
Hate is probably not the right word - someone (entirely out of your control) is tinkering with your favorite hobby in ways that you feel are bad. The strong reaction probably speaks more to the fan's deep connection vs actual hatred. I imagine if that same fan was taken on a trip to visit the devs/studio, their attitude would be very different.
well because they don't actually hate those games / companies and are just showing their frustration with stuff.
I remember when fortnite was released and updates every week and their pro community stance. everyone was happy on them, now you go to their discord and is mostly negative
I used to do 120G/month when I had a limit that high, in Poland, for around 8$/month (I was able to use 2G and 3G and everything in between, too, but most of the time I was on 4G)
Not to mention that you'll probably end up with death threats or worse if you say something that one gamer group dislikes. The behaviour of gamers on social media has been awful beyond belief these last few years.
There are plenty of interesting things I'd love to share and fun topics I'd love to respond to which have nothing to do with what you're referring to.

I'm talking about a more broad thing where I also find it difficult to join more positively minded discussions.
The infection with the HIV virus leads to the AIDS decease.

It is sad to see that even the NYT can't get things straight when it comes to science.

I am very curious about the paper/data. For now, the typical newspaper headline does not mean a thing to me.
The generous interpretation would be that the people who are there "because of what's in the press" want to fix the problems.
Irrespective of the relation between Japanese and Chinese, the immense contribution of Latin found within modern European languages is a given as anyone armed with a dictionary can deduce for themselves.
I wouldn't say that somebody who plays a violent/competitive game is more of a "hardcore" gamer than others.

If you look at the hours played per user grand strategy games and simulations seem to be on the front row. And grand strategy gamers are probably one of the most balanced individuals I've met.

The only definition that I could come up for in the few minutes I spent thinking about it is that the "usual" flaming, hating and insulting gamers just seem to have an unhealthy emotional balance. Some of these I know in "real life" seem to be very disconnected from emotions "offline". But as soon as they turn on the computer, they release all of these stored emotions.
A lot of devs just want to work on cool stuff, which FB has plenty of, and ignore "politics".
Facebook isn't a problem because of its people's personalities, it is a problem because of its business model.
Fucking black magic obfuscation. Is it possible to learn this power?

I want to see someone try to rewrite C++'s entire syntax in the form of another language (I just have to assume it has already been done.)
I would agree that some IP regulations go too far nowadays. Software patents are a mistake and copyright terms too long, but the basic idea of protecting and encouraging creators and innovators is a good one. Society benefits when creation and innovation is protected and supported.

Anyway, beyond software patents and copyright terms do you content that IP protections in general are a mistake? How do you see an alternative system working?
S'not me. It's the article, and the comments... and everyone.

I think you hit these sorts of problems regardless though. You could say empire, civilization, polity, society, culture... They're all fuzzy classifications.

They aren't discreet terms. A civilization doesn't begin or end at a certain date.. unless you agree to some specific formulation. But, that will not be an exact fit when you try to apply it elsewhere.

Taken totally literally, civilization just means urbanism. But obviously, that's not what we're talking about here.
It's one thing to work on the roads and sewers, and psychology distance yourself from the military drone program. It's another when the core business model and the CEO's own stated goals are hostile to humanity.
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Maybe they feel they're building products that are actually adding value to people's lives? A decade ago, we hardly kept in touch or were aware of lives of people beyond the immediate circle but now we do? Maybe their products gave self expression to millions of teens and twenties who found a way they could share their opinions and shape conversations without political or high society connections FOR FREE? Maybe they feel they've rescued people from watching unskippable ads on TV and replaced with far less intrusive ads on the feed?

While I neither work for nor really use Facebook products beyond WhatsApp, I do think they have added tremendous value to the world and would encourage you to also explore viewpoints different from the standard narratives.
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We could use markets to shape humanity based on our collective values but instead we let the markets shape us. Perhaps it’s a failure to coalesce around shared values; too much tribalism. Clearly some political regimes are better able to harness the power of the state to guide the invisible hand to do its work where it’s most needed. By delegating the “guiding” role to market participants themselves, those who control markets by lobbying and legislating, we forfeit our control.
I actually have easy deployment with monoliths with Jenkins in dot net. Deploying, creating nugets, ..

And conditional deploying ( eg. Update external libraries only.

I'm production, it's not continuous, but in beta and alpha it is.
How does Amazon Music compare?
> you absolutely can browse with a keyboard in vimperator/pentadactyl/tridactyl

> Vimperator and its descendants work everywhere

Vimperator at least has been dead for years, ever since Firefox Quantum. The switch to WebExtensions was too much, and not everything could be converted anyway. Don't know about the others you've listed.

Vim Vixen is the closest I've found for the majority of my uses.
Coal, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_power_during_the_Industr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Savery#Application_of_t...

Coal mining was a thosand times greater than metal mining by the late 18th / early 19th century:

Coal was so abundant in Britain that the supply could be stepped up to meet the rapidly rising demand. About 1770-1780 the annual output of coal was some 6.25 million long tons.

Versus:

Despite the collapse of the copper mining industry in 1866, the tin industry was still riding high producing 10,000 tons of tin a year - about half the world's production.

http://www.miningartifacts.org/English-Mines.html

Coal production 1700 - 1900:

1700 : 2.7 million tonnes

1750 : 4.7 million tonnes

1800 : 10 million tonnes

1850 : 50 million tonnes

1900 : 250 million tonnes

http://historylearning.com/great-britain-1700-to-1900/indrev...

More on copper:

During the middle of the 18th Century the quantity of British copper sold was over 700,000 tons.

https://www.copper.org/education/history/60centuries/raw_mat...
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"being considerate of users in developing countries and being frugal with their data",

This is probably applicable to other developing countries, definitely not to India. Man, data is so cheap, 4G is widespread even in tier 2 cities. Am not sure about tier 3 towns and villages but so far, I am hard pressed to find large tracts of dead zones.
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Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian are all directly derived from Vulgar Latin. Japanese is a linguistic isolate, perhaps distantly related to Korean (which is also a linguistic isolate). Japanese borrowed the Chinese writing system, and a little bit of vocabulary; calling Japanese a variation of Chinese is akin to saying English and German are a variation of Latin.
You can't fix things when all the politically important decisions are made in the C suite. Even the Chief Security Officer quit and said Facebook is hopeless.
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Suffering is largely a constant. The difference between "war" and "peace" is only in who is suffering, and how much everyone else does or doesn't care.
Not to forget that the current Chinese government is trying to work hard to erase the diversity of the entirety of China, trying to get everyone to use the same spoken and written language - iirc they already use the same written language, it's just that people will speak the same characters differently depending on region.
1. GDP is not a great measure. If a rich person consumes capital by buying a yacht and then burning it, the world is now poorer - resources (human and material) went into building the yacht, and now they are gone. Wealth has been consumed, yet GDP showed an increase.

2. If the world is poorer, it will be able to afford to protect the environment less, not more. The wealthier a nation, or a neighbourhood is, the more it cares about protecting its local environment. For example, as China gets wealthier, it cares more about having cleaner air.

3. Wealth concentration in the right hands is not necessarily a bad thing. Increasing taxation is just concentrating more wealth in the hands of parliaments/governments, which they are unlikely to spend too effectively given that they are spending someone else's money, but yet which still results in some great outcomes (scientific advancements, until recently space flight etc.). Wealth concentration means that great leaps forward can happen in areas that at first are going to be very expensive (medical/longevity research, grand projects like SpaceX, even originally mobile phones etc.)

If you want to tax anything, it is probably better to tax (frivolous) consumption, i.e. wealth destruction, instead of wealth creation.
If you haven't a positive answer for that then it's all to the good that perhaps you don't - have children, that is.
I think the key word when talking about status wrt to research is “prestige”. Just about everyone submitting to Nature I’m sure legitimately wants to share their knowledge and get feedback. But I’m sure they’re also really hoping they get this Nature publication accepted and that it gets cited because that’s a form of social status that is very good for their career (and hey honestly for most people I’m sure it makes them feel important, accomplished, and respected, too, all of which I would argue are at least partially social status).

I do agree with you that not everything is accurately described just by social status, but it does explain a surprising amount human behavior, at least for me.
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Yes. This is correct way to do logging. Pass an object with request, user, logger and other attributes around as you process it. This is basically "session"
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Pretty much done deobfuscating, refactoring and commenting the code now.

I think at this point most of it is pretty understandable.

https://gist.github.com/ctsrc/fef3006e1d728bb7271cff0656eb02...
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slides: https://gitlab.com/frondeus/meetup-2019.02/blob/master/Meetu...
Christianity ended slavery.
This is very interesting. Has anyone used this or something similar, and could provide some more info/context?
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I wasn't clear: I meant in the computer box. Most boxed cables will say "charge cable" if they are USB 2.0-only, including Apple's, but there's nothing when you open your new computer. It could at least have a label on the cord wrap or even underneath it in the box that says "charge cable".
Improving the life of your children, but not - and this is of utmost importance - improving the life of your neighbors children. Because life is a competition.
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My point is formal language doesn’t mean “doesn’t require intuition”. By “intuition” I mean the appeal to something you expect the reader to believe without further proof.

I hadn’t seen the Wikipedia article you point out but Peterson graphs will be in many graph theory textbooks.

Again have a look at the article on constructionist proof for another angle on maths and intuition.
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That shot was epic. Rocket ballet. Seeing those two boosters land together was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. They may have lost the third booster, but as a demonstration of what SpaceX does, it was brilliantly done.
I think a lot of people at the NSA are relieved to not be doing this anymore. These programs were started post-9/11 when we had no idea whether they would be effective but we felt like we needed to try them or at least try something because they might be the silver bullet that prevents another 9/11. People knew they were constitutionally dark gray and fundamentally un-American on day 1 but they went along because it might help. Many of the more senior people in the early 2000s were old enough to recall the Hoover era and everything that came to light after it. Now that we've proven bulk collection doesn't work we can finally put it to rest. With the increasing popularity of encryption it was getting long in the tooth anyway.

I also think that the established political parties are realizing how much power truly does lie in the executive branch and how long four years really is. While the current example being used to teach these lessons may be highly repugnant to the current political elite (on both sides) he is not doing anything that cannot be undone relatively easily.

The bigger the program the shorter the time it will stay secret, a nation scale metadata collection program is necessarily big. Congress will find out about it eventually at which point they will not be happy (Feinstein and a few die hard authoritarians excepted) because said program is all downside and no upside (as proven by PRISM's track record).

Nobody in Washington wants a time bomb like the calendar use case you described sitting around lest some future far left or right president use it in a manner that inadvertently starts a civil war.

That said, I also fully expect that they've moved on to some equally nefarious shit without telling us because that's what intelligence agencies do.
What is the point of life..?
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Not everybody, just upper management all the way to Zuckenberg including. They set the moral bars in projects they focus on, and most people just follow.

Since name above is quite far from moral person from most news I was able to see related to him/FB, what you state is most probably correct.
He's the same guy that wrote the book Game Programming Patterns.
http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
Hah! A hardware browser accelerator as when you buy a hardware audio dsp. That'd be fun.
That's not intuition, though. That's relying on previously established abstractions and set-theoretic frameworks.
Google’s post on this from yesterday:

https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/...
From a hobbyist perspective, I gladly welcome the onset of cloud-based tooling. Most of these options (OnShape, in particular) have generous free tiers. I used SolidWorks in a previous profession and generally was very happy with it, but in no way could I afford a single seat license for "play."
What do you mean by "wall plug"?

Something like this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/USB-Type-c-Wall-Socket-High-...

Or you mean an adapter like these:

http://www.tnpproducts.com/product/quick-charge-3-0-usb-wall...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Smart-Led-Display-Power-Adap...

but with multiple USB-C ports?
> What is the merit of a rectangular window?

less blind spots! cockpits in fact tend to maximize the window surface area and you'll find square/trapezoid on most of them. (counterpoint: SpaceShip One went for rounded windows because they maximized for strength).
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I've been reading, riding motorcycles and going to the gym. I'm a month in and I'm getting the itch to read code.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19303039 (564 comments)
2USD/ month for 1.5GB per day..
This is why discipline is the one thing that differentiates developers that release something and those that don't.

It's easy to try something new all the time, but it is tough as nails to stay with something even in the many cases where it sucks and gets difficult.
Finishing something is it's own reward though, so even though it's tough it's always worth it.
I think the point is that it usually isn't given formally. In practice it's just too tedious to formally specify proofs using some kind of rigorous set-theoretic language. It's like building a web app with a Turing machine.
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Can and do are two different things. I rarely hear string players talk about more than "sweetening" a note that is an important arrival in a phrase.

I've also never heard about a systematic strategy string players use to a) analyze a tonal piece for pivot points in a modulation, b) temper all the notes going forward from that pivot to fit whatever tuning system they are using.

I've seen various approaches for microtones and idiosyncratic tunings for single pieces of modern music, but those are fairly static things that the players practice and perform. It's not a system they apply dynamically to the standard rep.

Also keep in mind that string players have an added constraint that the keyboard does not-- if you give a cellist a sudden, large leap it can be difficult for them to even find the note at all.
That came up on HN 39 days ago "Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18988774

As an aside I wonder if you could make a digital piano sound better than a real one by correcting for that? And also perhaps auto tuning to the key the music is in, in the manner that a singer will do automatically. So far the digital pianos I've heard don't sound as good as a decent concert grand.
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As GP said:

Just make them cursive with the star characters.

That's a block quote!
Misleading, editorialized title. NPR's title is "Google Pay Study Finds It Underpaid Men For Some Jobs."

From the Google post: "First, the 2018 analysis flagged one particularly large job code (Level 4 Software Engineer) for adjustments. Within this job code, men were flagged for adjustments because they received less discretionary funds than women." That doesn't say anything about whether women were disproportionately put at level 3 or men at level 5. (Mis-leveling on gender is a particularly believable problem.)

Here is some actual journalism on the subject and not a repetition of a Google press release: https://www.wired.com/story/men-google-paid-less-than-women-...
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You could have it check if those directories changed since the last build. Then it only builds what youve recently worked on
Interesting. I've been thinking along similar lines, though not yet incorporating mindset or worldview, instead focusing more on technological mechanisms:

Briefly addressed here: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5rnjg0/state_o...

More:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/klsjjjzzl9plqxz-ms8nww
Just watch 5-6 Youtube videos on a decent phone (1080p or 1440p) and you're done.
2USD for 30x1.5GB, so 2 USD for 45GB.
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Alex Stamos has never said "Facebook is hopeless." He has also never said anything to that effect in not so few words. His take on Facebook was, and continues to be, nuanced - he has said that Facebook has deep seated challenges, but never intimated that he believes they're insurmountable.

In fact, now I'm challenging you to cite this. Why say things like this if they're not true? Any broader point about Facebook doesn't even hinge on the veracity of this claim, I don't get it.
Misleading title is misleading
But I have never heard of OED2 being any time available as a dictionary under any Unix, that is for the general public.