skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not always; if you set it to Scotland, the phone just complains that it can't understand you either in angrily incomprehensible brogue.
Growth cannot continue forever. At some stage we will need to stabilise or reduce the population. I'm expecting that I'll be working until close to 70 and I think others should prepare for the same. If you're hoping for 35 years of retirement then you should have a lot of money put aside.

As for women, this is their own choosing. If you want to "have fun"
with the most attractive men (looks, status, wealth) you can from 18 to 28 before you look for a partner then you shouldn't be surprised when the men who will settle down with you don't live up to the standards you're used to. There is only so many of these men and they're happy to oblige fun but commitment isn't so easy. There was a post yesterday showing how many young men are completely missing out on sexual interaction.
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How does inflation factor into calculation of gravitational force or speed of gravity wave propagation? Is it at a scale where it matters?
Agreed, the article was so short it feels incomplete.
wow thanks, this has definitely piqued my interest in GraalVM, I have seen some polyglot examples on the official website, depending on the overhead it is going to enable some very interesting use-cases. Very excited to see where this goes.
So even passengers wouldn't be allowed to use their phones?
There is also the energy of the programmer driving to work. If a code base takes him one week in one language and one month in another it could be a factor if the software use is ultimately limited. Not to mention lunches, keeping the monitor lit etc.
Texting while driving and drunk driving should be treated as the SAME offense.
My minds eye is mostly blind.

I can dream a sphere. (Once had a semi lucid dream, but not really in control of that)

In an extremely relaxed state maybe I can visualise a sphere, like once a year, by accident, for a few seconds.

I feel like after a long time of practice I can sorta flicker a sphere, in order to describe it, but not really.

I cannot recall, visualise and describe a sphere, that's just not possible not a real thing to me. But I can logically tell you what a sphere is, without recalling it visually.

My wife can. She also has an idetic memory. She can picture anything she wants according to her.

Pretty sure I have this, but I've never really considered a struggle. Once read something about it being a potential outcome from a stressful childhood, which I had.

Similarly I have a shocking memory. Literally need to focus to remember more than one item from a store. Can't remember more than one name at a time, also requiring effort to remember just one.

Oh well. As an aside, I'm fairly successful considering background etc. :)
During the T9 days, was texting while driving statistically safer, or merely not a problem due to general low adoption/addiction? It feels like touchscreens in general are horrible input devices, which we compensate for by devoting an awful lot of attention to using them.

I'm not asking because I'm personally interested in "safe" ways to text and drive or whatever, just really to contextualize. It also seems highly relevant to the crop of cars being released with touchscreens and soft controls for what have traditionally been tactile interfaces.
I think current Firefox has audio/video autoplay controls, and in my experience they're wonderful compared to Chrome's. A one-time popup that lets you easily control it per-site. Already enough to make me prefer it.
Jack Dorsey Only Eats One Meal a Day
Tu no eres venezolano pana por eso escribes sin saber. Tipico de este sitio por cierto.
Ripcord was written in C++ with the Qt framework — https://pastebin.com/raw/RLZ4A9fa
Actually getting tenure can be pretty tough and very political. Presumably she estimated that her political circumstances were bad and it that it would be better to start fresh than try turning things around, which is a rational decision that many assistant professors should make but do not.
Tracking is one of Google's services and it's widely used
Audi E-Tron Gets Lower Than Expected 204-Mile EPA Range Rating
We disagree on what basic rights _must_ be offered with any hardware-software combination that is sold to us.

I demand the right to take apart my hardware and software as I see fit.

I do not demand the right to receive active support for doing so from the manufacturer.

If they can lock me out with their technology, that is their right as author of the technology. If I can circumvent their lockout with my technology, that is my right as purchased of the technology.

Apple does this so well that most of us aren’t capable of hacking their technology. Good job.

A certain large American tractor company tries to take away your right to attempt to hack their device, rather than simply making it difficult. I disapprove of this with every fiber of my being. As purchaser of the tractor, I may do whatever I wish with what I chose to purchase.

When I buy an iPhone, I knowingly choose to purchase a device that keeps me out so effectively that there are no known ways to hack into it if it’s up to date. Apple has the right to make it so, and it’s very useful to me that they do. I then continue to update it to maintain that line of defense. Folks who root their phone choose otherwise on both counts. That’s their right, too.

If you wish to remove Apple’s freedom to build devices that defend against non-Apple software intrusion, you’re welcome to campaign for that, but I support their freedom to build security countermeasures to the same degree that I support my freedom to purchase a device with those countermeasures enabled. My freedom need not come at the cost of theirs, as the plethora of Android options clearly evidences.
It's weird how humans don't care about the threat of death. I'm not being sarcastic, we clearly don't.
Advertising helps the advertiser if it results in a sale - it doesn't matter if the sale helps the viewer.

If the ad results in the viewer getting an eating disorder, for example, that's fine for the advertiser if it also results in a sale.
There's not really a way to detect that someone is cryptomining, they can just do it with regular JS or webgl (which has a compute focused API in the works). I don't think either of those features could ever be opt-in. Detecting mining in WebAssembly would be even harder.
That's purely the personal preference of one curmudgeon from 1770. "The OED shows that less has been used of countables since the time of King Alfred the Great -- he used it that way in one of his own translations from Latin -- more than a thousand years ago (in about 888). So essentially less has been used of countables in English for just about as long as there has been a written English language."

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.h...
> But you get free static sites through GitHub

GitHub doesn't support a build process, right? So you would have to do that yourself and commit that.

> nearly free static sites on Amazon S3

You'll have to manage the build and deploy here yourself then.

Netlify is great because its easy, and free (if you're under their bandwidth cap). They have really cool features like automatically deploying a preview environment for pull requests, or a/b testing different branches.

I run an open source video game companion site DestinySets.com where I have a lot of data in JSON files in my repo. Github + Netlify means I can take PRs for changes to the data, sometimes from non-programmers (or beginners), preview, merge and deploy from my phone, all for free (both money and time) Its pretty easy.
I don't understand why people see the possibility of a drivers license suspension as being worse than the increased risk of vehicular manslaughter.

One is a few months of decreased mobility. The other is an entire life.
How to track and moderate remote employees
Most large (and thus expensive) athletic programs are more than self-funding due to ticket sales and alumni donors.

The real sucking force is all of the administrative positions that now outnumber educators.
Only receiving messages while online is a feature. Want to work async? Email.
The need to prevent that is the same need for any copyrighted work --to protect the economic incentive of the author
Jeweler who made Tesla ring for Elon Musk gets locked inside Model X
Time arbitrage is arbitrage.

If someone was flipping a coin and raising their price when it landed heads and lowering it when tails, arbitraging using reversion to the means would be a perfectly legitimate arb strategy.

Taleb's argument is that Silver's estimates are based on random noise, and are thus vulnerable to this form of arbitrage.
Agreed. While I find minimum price thresholds and sin taxes personally annoying, there's lots of good research associating ease of access and low prices with alcoholism, which has high costs in terms of healthcare and individual suffering.
There's a few working pieces. There's significant jurisprudence starting as early as Roman times on the idea of 'law like' instruments garnering protections by virtue of their role in public regulation. The UK has a number of very plainly stated cases on the matter that are pursuasive in the US as well.

Some attempt to attenuate copyright's ability to exclude in the case of law-like works by using carve-outs in copyright, but this solution isn't scaleable - Fair dealing and Fair use are consistently under siege, attacked in international-level agreements and interpreted fairly inconsistently between jurisdictions.

Instead, my proposal is to treat law-like documents as being in the public domain but only to the extent that they are being used for their law-like purpose.

Accordingly, even if we change the nature of databased works in the future, we 1) assure the access of the public to codes, regulations, registration documents and other key elements of law, 2) ensure that the government's treating of these documents is not hampered by transmission or duplication restrictions arising out of copyright, and 3) protect stakeholder interests by restricting the scope of use to the areas where there is a public purpose to the dissemination of these works.

I can send the case names privately if you'd like.
I feel the same way about people who stop in front of subway staircases and block people behind them while they check something on their phone.

Why is this a thing?
That was the major ugliness of slavery, the double fault - keeping humans in captivity because it was believed the economy would collapse and even the slaves themselves would starve if freed.

Racism is a similar double-fault prejudice: "jobs are limited in number [wrong] so let's reserve them to 'our' kind of people [wrong and immoral]".
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>excludes the poor

This isn’t how it works though. I was in India recently and i found that NYT or WSJ didn’t have the 10 article limit that I’m usually accustomed to seeing.

>the internet was fine before paywalls

That is because people used to pay for quality content and the internet was just a medium to get more exposure. Now since the internet has matured and there is an abundance of information available for free, people have stopped paying for quality content.
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> It's trivial to mandate a phone be designed so that it can't be used in a moving car or for a certain amount of time since it has experienced significant acceleration

No, no it is not. Because a phone is a computer. And a computer should be ultimately under its owners control, running software they choose.

The reason why we have a "war on general purpose computing" is because there are many things that would seemingly be fixed if all computers could simply be made to enforce policy, yet actually mandating they be setup to do so requires going down the path of digital totalitarianism.
An interval to estimate a parameter is different from an interval to represent a probability. You can't have a range for a probability, you can have a range for a parameter you're trying to estimate.
It's a kind of ad hoc censitary suffrage. One can only put possessions on the line if they have them, and the greater one's possessions, the greater their perceived "skin".
I agree about Silver, and that was kind of my point! Silver knows his shit and is able to communicate it in such a way that the reader actually learns something. Taleb may or may not know anything, but all he is able to convey to the reader is the impression that they've learned something (however, he is very good at giving the reader an unearned sense of intellectual superiority).
Is that a thing?
I taught web development to multiple people, some of them now working as web developer. I still teach it almost exactly like I have been taught about 15 years ago my self. In my opinion it works great:

1. using a simple text editor learn writing some basic (semantic) HTML and view in in the browser. At this point you do not think to much about all the fancy websites out there but just see it as an geeky alternative to a word processor (headlins, paragraphs, lists, images[and their path resolution]... no input fields yet) and get familiar with the notion that the computer can understand the plain text you write and display it as a formatted document.

2. introduce css as a way of adding visual effects to your elements. Start with font-size, color, backgrounds. Start with simple element selectors, then add class selectors. Contrast selectors vs inline styles. The learning person will have a lot of own creative ideas and will ask "how to do this and that?". Gradually only introduce additional selectors and properties if needed. Once you get into css3 territory tell a bit about the history of web browsers and how difference browsers support different properties.

3. introduce vanilla javascript. After the basic control flow concepts (variable, functions, if/else) are clear start with simple event handlers for button clicks. One step at a time disclose useful DOM apis (el.style, el.classList, el.querySelector)

Notice how up to this point no knowledge of network protocols is needed. Except the interactivity provided javascript everything could as well be done in photoshop/word/illustrator. So learning all this is no different then learning using any other application, just a bit more geeky. The adventage of doing it that way is that you can introduce each new topic with the actually motivation for which the technology had been invented.

4. Once there is a solid understanding of html/css/js I would introduce the concept of a web server (constrasting it with the local file system) by just taking it as given that you can upload files via ftp/ssh into a folder on another computer that is linked to a domain (for now it does not matter how dns,ftp/ssh,apache/nginx... work.

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I spend much time listening to lectures (on youtube and even live in university) about topics I already know about. I enjoy how different people explain things in a different way. And I have much fun explaining things I am interested in to try how fast other people grasp the concepts. On importent impression I got is, that's sooo much easier to understand - as well as to explain - concepts in the order and context in which they were historically developed. This got especially clear to me after taking various courses on set theory, logic, computability and turing machines provided by the philosophy department after I already finished a bachelor in computer science. The philosophers focused on "How did turing come with his ideas in the context of his time" while in the CS courses that question is almost skipped.
It's a conditioned suppression. Otherwise fight or flight would be kicking in every time you crossed the street.
Of course it does it

It's called pages

Gitlab does it as well, and it's even better
It's also limited to straight text. People may say it's frivolous, but sending pictures and other media is expected now.
That's with a 95kwh battery. Turns out building EVs is not so easy.
Check out the term "glass cliff," if you want an explanation of why some folks perceive her as a failure despite her successes.
Marissa is one of the smartest people I have ever been around. Most of my knowledge comes from running in neighboring circles at Stanford. The (then) girl just had an amazing ability to remember things, get things, and analyze them. She also has outstanding social intelligence, and a bit of a reality distortion field.

Of course she chose the rocketship in 1999 while the rest of us fumbled around in the dot com bust. She always had the knack of picking the right place to be at the right time, and the talent (or ability to bs) that she could get noticed when she needed to.

The yahoo thing was the worst misstep I've seen her take, but she got paid $200 million to take the risk, and I'm working for peanuts. So who is the smart one?

Edited to add: There is exactly zero chance she remembers me. But everyone I hung around remembers her. She has a very strange ability to be remembered.
I can visualize well and can’t draw either.
I need to watch that
Writing low-level magic and solving gnarly bugs seems to be linked to making hardware in the first place.

Microsoft MVP is still a very west-centric program. If I had to guess, I'd wager the rising stars of this world are in Asia where the new hardware is being made. Microsoft doesn't really reach out to them, and I guess the feeling of disinterest is mutual.
Their conclusion is that the recovery is "the result of elite networks acting as an invisible safety-net". As a thought experiment, how could this have been avoided? One columnist [1] suggests that the core action is "the children of the rich [forming] strong social bonds with the children of the poor". But this is hard to do if the rich have their own schools and neighborhoods and what not - so using the Fair Housing Act to further integrate neighborhoods is suggested. But who knows their neighbors these days? If you can pay for private schools, you basically never even have to talk to poor people. The costs of this would land squarely on the middle and upper-middle class, while the wealthiest could still buy their separation.

Ultimately, if something similar happened today (immediate removal of 50% of rich people's so-called property or some other major wealth shock), avoiding a similar recovery couldn't be done without banning private schools and removing all children from their parents for long periods of time, along with forcibly relocating the previous property owners and not letting them network with each other.

[1] https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/redistribution-won-t-end-wealth-...
Ah, one of those USENET posts.

Except for when I write Assembly, the last time I used raw goto on an high level language, my MS-DOS 5.0 box was still relatively new.

System.exit was always a thing to avoid namespace clashes and since Delphi 2009, you could have used System.exit(value) instead. Next time better read the docs.

Regarding strings, you mean like 8 bit, 16 bit, wchar_t, DBCS, GString and many others used across C libraries?

Nominal typing is much safer for large scale engineering than type aliases, which don't provide a mechanism to prevent incorrect usage of types.
Blame the channel creators. I'm surprised Netflix still doesn't have the option to input a code on a website. Amazon, Showtime, and numerous other channels support this feature.
Katasi: Distracted Driving Prevention
Just piling on to confirm that this is also the experience in quite literally every banking branch I've ever walked into in the San Gabriel Valley.
I suppose that you can actually picture things in your head. I (being a software engineer) think of my aphantasia as being like having the hash of an image plus some metadata in my head. I can recognize that I've seen something before once I see it again, I can tell you that I've deliberately memorized some facts about it, but I cannot recall the image itself - there are no pixels.

So I can say that my two daughters have hair the same colour as mine (hopefully never to go bald like me!), and the colour of their eyes, but I simply cannot close my eyes and picture their faces no matter what I do. If you can picture people's faces, picture places you've been or even stare at some object in front of you right now then close your eyes and "see" a picture of it, you probably don't have aphantasia
Basecamp Built a $100B Business by Doing Less on Purpose
She seems to care a lot about what school you went to and what gpa you got and idolize steve jobs at the same time.
Fair enough. If I misunderstand their predictions then they definitely need to do a better job explaining them. :)
Are the ICE numbers due to collisions? I think there is a significant difference between a car catching fire as a result of a collision and during normal operation as `spontaneously` suggests.
Which is odd, considering that they made a big hoopla about buying a bus to get an angle down on cars, to check.

https://www.kut.org/post/battle-texting-and-driving-austin-p...
Will this support Mattermost as well?
We"ew talking about the speeds of light and gravity waves but if they don't take the same paths isn't directly comparable.

A black hole generates gravity waves that distorts space but light can't follow such a path. What path from a black hole do gravity waves take?
Coinín in Irish.
Now that all TVs are "smart" the ones with built-in Roku are just about the only ones I find tolerable. Pretty fast booting, especially from "sleep", compared to the rest, and the interface isn't garbage. The remotes are pleasantly simple and normal. You can use your phone as a remote if you lose it. You can "upgrade" older TVs to have the same interface with one of their cheaper stick products. Pretty nice. Like the poor (frugal) person's Apple TV, and not as big a compromise in experience as one might think. I kinda like them better, in fact.
Compare something like Java Spring dependency injection of “service” classes to code using partial function application and higher order functions.

E.g. - https://ramdajs.com/docs/#partial

Of course, I’m assuming that the JS programmer is exploiting FP and dynamic types, and not just transliterating Java style static OOP code.
Look into beta-blockers - they are safe and not addictive, I take them every time I fly. They will keep you cool and collected without the negatives the come with benzo's.
Strong argument for reparations you just made. They should have given shares in the plantations to the former slaves.
> There is no need to pay $200,000 for a worthless degree

In general, and certainly in my field (mathematics), Ph.D. students don't pay tuition, and they get a modest stipend (around 20K) in exchange for being teaching assistants.
This is extremely bad. In Portugal I don't cross the road if the person is using a phone, unless they fully stop of course. Yet this is a problem so big that even people walking cross roads with their faces glued to their phones.

It happened to me more than once almost getting into an accident, both while walking or driving because the other party is distracted by a smartphone instead of paying attention to driving or walking. People cross road like complete maniacs while using smartphones, luckily I have quick response time to brake the car, but there are other people that might not have such luck. I am afraid that in the future when my response time increases this might become a problem, even if I lower the velocity.

I never use my phone while driving, not even in stop signs or red lights. Yet it is so socially acceptable to do it these days it's disgusting. I hate this so much I make an simple website to try to raise awareness[1]. I haven't dedicated much time promoting it because it was just a small side project to experiment with TailwindCSS, but I might as this problem affects even my family...

[1] https://github.com/mig4ng/2min.pink