skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people use a legacy ISP or mac.com email addresses and just auto-forward to gmail, so a Gmail only filter wouldn't have worked comprehensively, so I guess they had to go scorched earth.
I find the ”competition” argument quite interesting.

From what I have experienced so far through life it looks like this supposedly healthy competition leads to variants of VW & co behaviour down the line.

I see very few exceptions from my northern europe socialist bubble.

When it comes to:

- School
- Health
- Police
- fire & rescue services
- etc, whatever you would consider part of welfare

I want the best, not a choice.

”Sir, you’re having a heart attack. Would you like the best treatment, or can we offer you this more competetive offering at a discount?”.

It’s just, to me, a really odd way of viewing a society.
is it possible to define "underfunded" in an objective way? people inevitably die, and an individual's life can usually be extended at least a little by a marginal increase in spending. what would it take for you to not consider the system "underfunded"?
I spent some time recently cleaning up my Putty sessions. My goal was to control all colors in the Putty settings and have everything look good with tmux, bash, and emacs out of the box. The result was basically what the OP arrived at. It works well as long as the Putty and tmux terminal types match (e.g. putty-256color and tmux-256color, respectively) with the exception of emacs isearch highlighting, which has bad contrasting defaults that also obscure the foreground text of the current match (why do we even bother with cyan and magenta?).

Here's a Ruby script that may be of use to paint over existing sessions using various color schemes gathered from around github and translated to Ruby data. https://gist.github.com/shoover/40a35c07a32de16af9b2f79ca933...
>>This is both horrifying and incredible. They managed to fracture enough rock to generate energy contained in a mag-5.4 earthquake.

It was probably hanging in a balance. Then boom!
I am not a fan of Tesla nor electric cars. The future of transportation is not electric, (please get yourself out of Elon’s reality distortion field) it’s Hydrogen- one of the most abundant elements in the universe. Once the challenges are solved, we will use saltwater as a fuel. (Water aka H2O has 2 hydrogen molecules and 1 oxygen molecule, the salt can be used as a catalyzer in hydrogen extraction.
Same applies to OOP or imperative programming in general.
it’s not about being a charity. that is extreme. it is about not understanding how to grow products. they seem to have no idea how to do this. for example, look at the recent gmail update, which is still objectively worse than it was before. so google releases some product with a big fanfare, doesn’t grow it, and then kills it. since this happens more often than not, so people have become wary of it.
> 1. You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”

This is by far the best rule I have ever attempted. The best way to debate is when both sides reword the other side argument, with corrections until both are satisfied.

It will also reveal the most insightful and depressing hidden realities about human cognition. Significant percentage of people are seemingly incapable of entertaining alternative viewpoints. Everyone suffers from this condition when we are heavily invested int some idea or belief, but most people can suppress the tendency temporarily and see the logic of some other way of thinking.

I wonder if there are psychological tests that can be used to score this ability.
Personally, I like the idea of using immutability. In Swift, I declare as much as possible with let instead of var

let pi = 3.141592
let label = UILabel()
let names = [“Java”, “Perl”, “Swift”]

These won’t accidentally be changed and they’ll never be null.

The editor/tools can now make additional checks before I try to run the code.

A small step towards correctness and readability.
There's some very good example of functional programming in these videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLguYJK7ydFE4aS8fq4D6D...

they are of a person doing the hacker rank questions, but in haskell. The last video (about the magic squares) is probably the most informative for your query.
How do you know where your olive oil really comes from?
Why exactly, though?

If other companies can satisfy the needs of the state, why not prisons? You wouldn't mandate that governments should build their own cars, for example?
Strategic Thinking for Design
Man Lived First on Mars
Because one industry does it, does that mean we just give up and let everyone do it?
Spoken like a local!
George is by far my favorite sitcom character. His schizo-nuances and paranoia and hilarious! I can relate.
It does have paste by right click when you enable the QuickEdit mode in the Windows terminal. Also, then you can mouse-select stuff and hit Enter to copy.

And there is also a CTRL+SHIFT+C/V mode for copy paste in recent Windows versions
Good example of non-gaming uses that seem to have traction! The key is figuring how to enable businesses to make more money by using VR.

In a previous thread about VR, someone was quite negative about the utility of VR, but ended with “talk to me once there’s an Excel of VR.”

There are billion-dollar opportunities here, but only if VR is accessible as a platform in the same way a PC is.

To your point about backpack VR, however, the Quest will undoubtably accelerate these kind of use cases!
> By simple statistics, most people are, on average, about average.

I'm pretty sure this isn't true. Averages can be skewed by outliers. It's likely that most people are better/worse than average. Consider how the average life expectancy was horribly skewed by infant mortality.
You just made the exact opposite argument of Paul Graham's "Blub" article:

http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

The "Blub Paradox" argues you should hire developers using the most productive tools, even if those tools are unpopular, because that naturally selects for the best developers.

You are arguing that you should hire the developers using the least productive tools, because if they can get anything working at all with those tools, they must be pretty talented.
Sorry, I didn't mean to make it seem like that, you guys do go through a ton of hard work and effort to earn those credentials. It was perhaps too liberal a hyperbole..
Counterfactual Playground Release
Linux is funded by billion dollar companies (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/), and it is put into phones & cloud servers by billion dollar companies.
What does homogeneous have to do with prison rehabilitation? I'm not attacking you, genuinely curious.
Which is shifting the "I am forced to work for my own" to "someone is forced to work for me".
That's not really what we tend to mean by "paid operatives". Every side's got people clearly being paid to advance some goal, and that's not news, not going away, and not even necessarily a particular problem.

It's the commentary that isn't clear that it's paid, the 300 anonymous comments from different accounts on some news story all expressing some opinion that turn out to be from the same source, that's the real problem.

Whether on average you're dealing with paid operatives is hard to tell. Whether they exist is not; they definitely do. (Honestly, the alternative is just absurd. "There's billions of dollars worth of value sloshing around in Internet forums in setting the opinion and the flow of conversation, but everyone in the world is so very honest that the very idea of forging the signals simply never occurs to anyone, and nobody ever has a reason to try to slant things and is willing and able to pay." Come on. Seriously.) It's the scale that's at issue.
I tried it but it never seems to work all that well for me. It also has terrible UX with confusing options.
OK, be CAREFUL. I checked a couple of this and it seems like it compares only third party websites, so make sure you check the OFFICIAL website for the attraction. An example: the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel, on this website the lowest is 27 euro but from the official website you can get the same fast track ticket for 17(+4) euro.

Maybe you can find something good here, but always do some extra research.
I totally think banishment should be an option for your first order semi-serious offenses. If you disagree with the laws of a place enough to get into that level of trouble, they should give you at the very least the "consent to be governed" somewhere else. That's assuming that you committed a crime which is not universally punishable everywhere.

What's also funny about this is that it used to be that the colleges that cost the most money were the most prestigious. Now an inmate can claim that same level of prestige tongue in cheek.
The original textures were done by Adrian Carmack. I think he's a genius as much as John. He was capable of making a difficult theme really work: a mix between dark future and fantasy. Specially fantasy with guns is terribly difficult and I don't recall having seen a game that succeeded in making that mix as well as the Quake series.
It is fine if entities try to increase profits.

Usually competition is the way to insure fair prices.

The collusion then might be to not allow competition. In the case of pharmacy, for example, I would guess there are many regulations that make it very expensive or infeasible to start a competing firm.
PuTTY definitely works well but calling the GUI "good" might be a stretch. It's pretty unintuitive. As a quick example, I'm always feel like clicking "save" is going to save over the highlighted session settings instead of inserting the new session name I've typed in the box.

Also in general changing settings is clunky enough that this post is about a tool that edits the registry directly so that you don't have to change settings through the GUI.
Cloud Data Warehouse Comparison: Snowflake, Panoply, Repods
>This is a "normal" thing, there was a HN article about it some weeks back: often if someone has their mind made up about something, often no amount of facts, figures, logic and proof will change their minds. They may even see these things as personal attacks. Facts are, sadly, not an effective way to convince people.

Does anyone know which article this is referring to? I'd like to check it out.
Commercial aviation is one of the most regulated industries in America, so you'd expect that if deregulation were the cause something like this would happen somewhere else first...
Hmm, I just checked again and you are right, I was wrong. Perhaps they changed their digital ads strategy, as the last time I visited on a non-adblocked browser, it was showing those low-grade ads that really cheapened the experience of being on the site.
LA County Halts Use of Roundup on County Property
> No idea of the technicals, other than sampling at double the audible frequency does- to this layman - seem logical it would give you a wave more diverged from reality as frequency increases - and at the absurd extreme a 22khz (inaudible to most) square wave if sampling at 44, 4 points to represent 11k etc. I don't see how it can be otherwise, just as interpolating and anti aliasing is often right but cannot always correctly insert missing pixels - see the attempts to use AI to make hires versions of Mario and other 8 bit assets, some work, many don't. It was only an idle conjecture after the main point, which was meant to be about mastering, so I'll expand that a little.

This is not correct. If the input signal is entirely below nyquist, the sampled values (ignoring quantisation of the levels, which is a different thing) exactly capture the signal, should you appropriately reconstruct it. Now, a perfect reconstruction (or antialias) filter does not exist, which is one of the reasons why we use 44kHz or 48kHz instead of the 'ideal' 40kHz, but this recreation is extremely accurate, to the point that modern digital approaches will outright outperform analogue techniques.

The same is true for images, incidentally, but most media does not exceed the limits of human vision yet (nor do most display mediums make for very good reconstruction filters).

I highly recommend watching the video, it demonstrates this very well.
Wow, a lot of these are ridiculous or silly. I welcome corrections to my list. If you object and think it should be listed as Dead, that's fine, that's your opinion, and I respect it. To me, some of these are absurd to list as Dead. Here's my list:

Tez was rebranded, it didn't die.

Encrypted Search basically replaced unencrypted search.

Chromebook Pixel, yeah, now it's a Pixelbook.

Google Showtimes, yeah, now it's built in to search.

Google Nexus, yeah, now it's Pixel phones.

Nexus Player, yeah, now it's Chromecast / Android TV / Aria.

Google X, it was re-orged, and not consumer-facing anyway.

Picasa is kind of odd to complain about, because Google Photos is better in almost every way.

Google Play edition of Android phone, yeah, phone models go away all the time.

Google TV is kind of odd to complain about, because now there's Chromecast / Android TV, and Youtube TV.

Google Chrome Frame, we should celebrate IE dying.

Nexus Q, yeah, it's now Chromecast / Android TV.

Google Chart API is still running, unless I'm mistaken.

Google Video... Yeah, now it's YouTube. Why are we complaining about this?

Google Sky Map was donated and made open source, is now "Sky Map". This is a victory.

Noop Programming Language. Come on. It was literally two engineers. I'm all for holding Google accountable for killing things we love (Google Reader, chief among them), but this is ridiculous. It's also open source.

Google Dictionary, it's not folded in to Search.

Google Real-Time Search is basically folded in to Search, right?

Google Hotspot is now folded in to Maps, right?

Google Ride Finder is now folded in to Maps, right? At least Uber and Lyft are, right?

Grand Central is basically rebranded as Voice, right?

Google Page Creator is basically Google Sites, right?

Writely became Google Docs, right?
Distributed Key/Value Store with a Redis Compatible API
Fetching Private Dependencies with Go Modules
Foveated rendering doesn't solve vergence accommodation. Your eye will still be focused at infinity regardless of where you are looking, you'll just have the illusion that the foreground or background are out of focus. Eye tracking plus dynamic lenses (perhaps liquid lenses) or real light fields are necessary.
You could not possibly have any proof to back up this racist statement.
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Scientists Have Unearthed an Incredibly Rare Haul of Precious Fossils in China
If you don't like the laws, change them. It's really pretty straightforward. We live in a democratic republic where these processes are well defined and understood broadly.

When the people our society has charged to enforce our laws enforce the law, that's a good outcome; if they didn't, that'd be literally unjust.

I don't know this woman, but it seems pretty stupid of her to leave the country which she is illegally inhabiting and then be surprised when she's not allowed to re-enter. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
We find 1k leaks/day on GitHub
I'm aware of it, but I haven't looked much at it. I'm a little confused about its scope--is it for building out protobuf specs and Kubernetes config files? Or does it somehow use protobuf specs to build out Kubernetes config files?
Microsoft? Major ISPs and wireless carriers? Basically any company that has a real product that people need can succeed without advertising.

Maybe the real answer is that Shitbook is just not worth paying for?
Krueger, Summers have very publicly vouched against it.

Im surprised MMT is a thing at all.
“Consciousness and the Social Brain,” by Graziano is a great place to start.
So, again this is just for myself as a consumer, it's all about approach.

Ideally when I visit a site I'd like to see minimal tracking by default with an opt-in model. If a site tracks the bare minimum by default and unobtrusively asks me if I'd be okay with sharing a little bit more (or participating in certain testing, etc.) I will generally say yes. Showing me you care enough to let me opt-in vastly increases my trust in you as a provider. Opt-in is best, opt-out is not ideal but acceptible if clear and easy, no option = no whitelist.

Also, I think if you are asking as a privacy conscious startup, you should consider taking a step back and really asking yourself how much you really need to track. What is essential vs. what is nice to have? Anything that you implement that is non-essential is another step away from being privacy conscious, in my books at least.

We're living in a time where the default seems to be to track as many data points as possible, then figure out if they are relevent/useful. This is backwards. Implement the absolute minimum and see how it goes. A month down the road you might realize you desperately need to see X metric, so you implement X tracking. However, and more likely in my opinion, is that you realize that X metric adds minimal value to you - yet it tracks significantly more PII from your customers. It's all about balance.
RReduX: The Fabled GMachine
I have seen this happen too - what would have been easier to understand is converted into this complex spaghetti of code, split across multiple files that it becomes difficult to understand, debug the flow.
One example: Scala's implicit def could be misused in so many ways. It is described as "magic" in some tutorials...and that is a bad thing in my opinion.
More Censorship on Reddit
Many MMT proponents argue heavily for raising strong "floors" such as minimum current flows to/through individuals. The general goals are often to eliminate "risky times" as a category altogether as a general safety net for everyone. Then things like retirement and disability and sabbaticals are merely "special cases" of the general goal of eliminating "risky times".

Yes, it's a very different view of economics from a lot of traditional approaches. It's not a fundamental "give up on a lot of civilization", even where it is a general rethink of "what does it mean to be a member of a civilization", including such things as what should be an individual's guaranteed safety floor, it's still mostly just civilization as we know it today swapping what we today think of as edge cases (social security, medicare, et al) for more generalized principles (in theory at least).
If it was Voodoo you'd be using Glide. That was their proprietary API.

But yeah, the biggest improvement was putting it into Glide/OpenGL and watching all the new lights appear.
I think I may have worded that poorly. I'd didn't mean to imply rehabilitation is impossible. I meant that, in broad strokes, taking the last 200 years of experience on earth, successes have been few an far between. On average, prison time may have even increased future criminality.

Even the best examples aren't great. From random study I just googled:

The 2-year re-arrest rates ranged from 26% (Singapore) to 60% (USA), two-year reconviction rates ranged from 20% (Norway) to 63% (Denmark), and two-year reimprisonment rates ranged from 14% (USA – Oregon) to 43% (Canada – Quebec, New Zealand)

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-28/v1

That's recidivism over just 2 years, and I suppose some people commit crimes and don't get caught.

My point is that it seems we should be doing better. Maybe Norway is a model, maybe oregon. Anyone know what Oregon do different?
Nope, they have a plug-in all electric Prius too.
What kind of meat did you use to eat?

Quorn tastes nothing like an actual chicken. On the other hand I have never tasted fast food chicken nor frozen schnitzels.

I am not saying it is bad, but it has a very particular taste that is definitely NOT related to chicken.

I haven't found any "meat-like" product that would taste even remotely like the real thing. ANd I have tried all the ones available in France and Sweden, which is already quite a lot (my girlfriend is vegetarian so we eat mostly vegetarian).

Most "ground beef" vegetarian equivalents are super dry and taste much more soy than meat, which is OK in itself but when you cook meatballs well.... it is really not the same.

IMO we are not at all at stage 1, and I am not sure we will get there anytime soon. It is not so dramatic though as there are still plenty of things to cook without it, but I'm a bit tired of some people insisting about how vegan alternatives are equal or better than non-vegan product.
The boards have a code that is created per message that when used in conjunction with the thread id, can give the IP. HTTPS only prevents your ISP from seeing what you are seeing, but there are very few truly "anon" sites. To be semi-anon, one would have to sit near an open WiFi and use a unique MAC address and a browser that has never logged into Google. Most people won't make this effort.
Rust All Hands 2019: Array Iterators, Rayon, and More
Advertising is like cancer. It starts small but eventually consumes the entire product/company. Seems like there is no "safe" amount of advertising, it becomes bigger and bigger and ends up swaying the entire company into doing unethical and anti-user things (like optimising for "engagement").
I think this accident was expected. All construction works in South Korea are corrupted now.
Why nobody knows?? It is because these kinds of works are under controlled by some companies.
Not only this part but also nuclear power plant part is the same as this catastrophe.
Just check out the Nuclear power plants in UAE. Those NEVER going to generate electricity because those are based on this culture...

https://medium.com/@cyb999999999/nuclear-energy-clean-but-no...
Managing Data Science Workflows the Uber Way
I agree with your overarching point, but why not just kill insurance?

My family in England go into hospital, checkups, RXs, never a cost to them directly. Everything is paid for by dint of taxation, and the taxes are not as high as Americans are lead to believe. My UK family are not wealthy by any standard, yet the do far better than me in America. They get 6 weeks paid holiday, too, something almost unheard of here. Time off leads to less health issues. Everyone needs a good holiday release a few times a year to get away. No email, no calls, nothing work related. This is actually good for people, but Americans in general don't even use up their allotted time off. Sad.
> Recidivism is very low.

Anders Breivik got 21 years for killing 77 people. Are you worried about when he gets out in 2033?
According to https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/b0o6... it's caused by KB4489868.
It is one of quite overlooked papers.. It is also an algorithm used in most UNIX-like (at least) operating systems.

If you are looking for code, here is a C implementation of the hierarchical timing wheel: https://github.com/rmind/ttimer