skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember paying some ridiculous amount for an intellimouse explorer in 1999 or so, and being so thrilled (and baffled) that Microsoft provided drivers for it.

Fantastic mouse. I still have it, though it started having some issues
A lot of people try to blame obesity and poor health on the lack of active behavior in the USA. "You're a sedentary person therefore you end up fat" is the idea. But more often than not I see active people get fat from the horrible sugar laden food and getting out and moving is painful and horrible for them. It happened to my brothers and my parents, it happened to friends and family and it happened to me.

Lately I've been getting it under control with fasting and home cooked meals. But it's seriously hard in America to avoid the horrible food. It's freaking everywhere.
I don't think I'm going to miss those endangered species if they go extinct. What are they useful for?
> How is the USD worth anything after some many bank robberies?

Well, because in bank robberies, it is the bank losing money, not the customers - this is exactly what bitcoin is missing.
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I'm just noticing that news about current heated debates about China are being posted around 9:00 East Coast time without implying anything
There's a real-time view of what is powering the UK national grid at [1]. Currently gas (~40%), wind (~22%), and nuclear (~18%), plus various interconnectors (who may be using coal?)

[1] https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
It's also a solid perk in the UK. I've not worked at many big companies, but most places I've worked at have had good health insurance plans.
> if you --the person-- are the sum of your life experiences

There's also DNA and early childhood development which is hard to change in adulthood.
Even demand for metals like copper are threatening the environment. For instance people are trying right now to save large amounts of wilderness in northern Minnesota from very dirty copper mining: https://www.savetheboundarywaters.org/the-threat
>People working in the money making disc rental side were shut down completely from the discussions where the company future was planned and made.

This is brilliant. I continued to be surprised at how well Netflix executed everything so well. Are there any counter example they didn't do so well?
I don't understand why anyone would follow someone who promotes themselves as a "social media influencer". What is the purpose? To be influenced? You're willfully following someone who tells you their marketing things to you. I'm willing to accept there's some sort of legitimate reason of which I am as-yet unaware, but as it stands I really am completely baffled.
Neat.
Would have a comment/feature request for the backlog after playing with the demo:
I will be uld have expected autosuggest behavior in both the frontend search as well as in various admin input fields and actually waited for suggestions to appear before realizing this isn't in there yet.
Biggest vidgame company pulls game in China, replaces it with patriotic version
She talks exactly like PR people for fast food, soda, opioids, guns and cigarettes talk. “Let’s be rational”, “only a small number”, “responsibility”. They will never admit that they are engineering their products to be as addictive as possible to make more money.
I wrote a (mostly unbiased) article comparing todo.txt and Org mode a while ago.

https://medium.com/@mgkennard/a-comparison-of-two-plain-text...
Yes, but most of the people buying ads are not technically competent enough to make this happen.

Google's solution ensures that the marketing people get what they want without the technical people standing in the way.
Why would you post this?
You're not sorry - you're rude and have a shitty attitude.
They make it really difficult to use your Gmail account with K9 Mail. You have to jump through a bunch of hoops and "critical security warnings" for attempting to sign in with a non-Google app.
You're right, I should've worded this more carefully.

What I meant is, there's people out there who dismiss this illness and I believe there's sufferers who have to fight to convince people that what they're going through is "real".

So for there to be physical evidence of something going on can only help everyone involved.

I didn't mean to suggest that without a clear physical marker that an illness isn't real, just that there are people who wrongly dismiss an illness without a physical marker.
So Vatican City with its 1000 population is being heavily discriminated against in favor of India because there are basically no H1Bs from there? Stop the press.

Let us restrict work visas to one or less than one per country to make it fair to Vatican City.
I've been using org-mode for years, including w/ Babel and this guy blew me out of the water. Amazing.
> There are tens of thousands (probably even hundreds of thousands) of banks worldwide, each of which hold only a literally trivial fraction of their assets in (robbable) cash.

Binance said that the coins were taken from their hot wallet and not their cold wallets. It could be said that separating these wallets (if done correctly) is removing the vast majority of their assets from the "robbable on site cash".

> Bank of America has $2.34 billion dollars in assets. If they had that in robbable cash, in one place, then it's safe to say bank robberies would matter.

Exchanges (imo) need to adopt the same security measures as retail banks do. Multiple cold wallets (Like how there are multiple cash depots in the banking system) and multiple hot wallets (like how there are multiple branches of a single retail bank).

I'm not trying to defend the security practices of exchanges at all (imo, a lot of them to it in a very poor manner). And not saying bank robberies don't matter (Didn't the price of BTC dip after the mtgox hack?) but that with the right practices in place a robbery shouldn't matter too much. Which if the CEO of this exchange is to be believed the lost coins will be replaced from their "rainy day fund". (Though I'm always skeptical that such funds do infact exist)

My point is, the underlying security of bitcoin isn't what keeps getting hacked. But the security of the exchanges holding said coins.

Note: I'm not a Bitcoin "supporter" (the power usage for transactions alone blow my mind) though I do see the value of a decentralised payment system removing the ability to have your payment platform taken away from you because your thought process doesn't align with the gatekeepers (Example: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mastercard-activist-sharehold... )
This is a vast oversimplification because these companies don’t exist in a vacuum. In my city, bus ridership is being crushed by Uber/Lyft (trains have been hurt less, but still impacted). In response the city has invested less in this infrastructure and lowered service levels. If these companies go belly-up today, they can’t make that change before tomorrow’s commute.
My kid will get nosebleeds if the air is too dry, so I run humidifiers. Ventilating means I lose my hard won humid air. Any solutions?
You might be missing my point a bit.

First of all I’m talking developer exposure.

Many angry devs have sat in their cubicle swearing at MS & others product teams for changes made or products dropped.
These products doesn’t necessarily have the visibility of google services.

What I’m further trying to say is that it’s a culture thing.

Times are changing and with it the business model of selling standardized crap to clueless, ignorant customers.

How quick this change comes for a company is dependent mostly on the inertia of it’s customer base i guess.

Businesses are starting realize that you need to take back control of data and process to increase opportunities for innovation as well as speedy delivery.

This culture has in ways been pioneered by for example google and others selling/providing services rather than software suites.

They have constant change as an inherent property of their organization and this leaks.

This is ofc just my take on it.

(Digression regarding prices: maya and cad are business drivers. You need to compare them to SAP or possibly the bizdev stuff from MS == not cheap)
Venmo isnt peer to peer, its a central service in which two users (clients) talk to a server. Its practically the opposite of p2p.
I especially dislike most of these because they don't actually feel very responsive. The animations are so slow that quickly hovering something looks jarring and waiting for the animation just feels wrong.
Oh. Well still, kudos to you for spelling Wolfram|Alpha correctly with the vertical bar :)
Bidding on your own company name is very cheap because your site has a very high quality score for that keyword (ie. Google's algorithms think the users query will be answered by going to that domain).

A high quality score gives you an effective discount in the ad auction. You might only need to pay $0.01 for that ad, whereas your competitor would need to pay $1
So basically China's stance is, we cannot change our laws so our bad trading practices must remain in place?

While we only get news of trade imbalances between US and China to include all their tariffs and restrictions can someone for the EU or elsewhere chime in with how their nations fare?
Personality is not that stable to begin with.[0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5144810/
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I don't quite understand how the searching works; if I search for "Steve Kemp" I expect to find my own feed, or nothing. Yet instead I get results just including "Steve".

(Wrapping in quotes didn't make a difference, nor did adding AND in the middle.)
They have some rules in place, try bidding on Fortnite.
From seeing scam pranks on youtube. You get a scam call center telling you to install teamviewer or something. They run netstat and open the event viewer, tell you your pc has hundreds of errors and people spying on you. If you're lucky they run syskey [0] as form of ransomware. In the end they ask $200 to fix your pc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syskey
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The thing with this kind of setup is that it almost always works out cheaper to just buy a microcontroller with more pins. For example, you can easily get hold of 48 pin Cortex M0 parts for under $1.
A small number of people control a huge percentage of the market and have a vested interest in prices always going up.
Are there trademark infringement issues here, particular on Google's part? They are getting paid (probably a lot) to display this ad, and are explicitly allowing buyers to lie about their identity.

If I were eBay, I'd be getting my lawyers on this immediately. Every dollar getting paid to Google for this ad is a dollar out of my revenue, and a lost customer, and is illegal.
It's trade offs.

I think tolerance is a weird way to discuss this issue. I don't think it's the right word nor concept. But to continue the theme, there are things I don't tolerate about, say, the banking and credit card system either.

Like how, by default, if I type my credit/debit card number into a <form>, anyone can use that data any time in the future to spend my money, and I have to remain eternally vigilant each time my transaction statement comes. Or how annoying or impossible it is to send/receive money between random people just using our bank accounts, usually having to rope in yet another party/service. Or how hard it is to juggle bank accounts in multiple countries as a traveler.

I suppose you're asking why someone would use bitcoin despite news like this? Sure, I like using bitcoin for online payments and money transfers.

If you're asking why anyone should tolerate the risk of keeping your bitcoin in somebody else's pocket, like Binance's pocket, then I agree. They shouldn't, but they don't necessarily understand that.
Yes very beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
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Is this economies of scale in the right place though?

I'm doubtful we'll ever get to the point where you can just plop a reactor down and go. You're still going to have the years of political wrangling, all the bulky containment and supporting infrastructure.
Google blocks the advertiser, but they just open a new account with a new address and credit card number
> I bought two Nest thermostats this winter because they worked with only R-W wires.

FWIW, I've got a gas fireplace with no C wire that I added a 120V->24V AC adapter and a Fast-STAT common maker to for <$100 to wire my Ecobee thermostat without needing to alter any in-wall wiring.
I don't understand the hate Trump gets for doing what needs to be done. All these issues esp. theft of intellectual property, IP transfer, currency manipulation are much more important in the long term than some tarrifs.

One shitpost tweet crashed SZSC by 7%, most of China couldn't even read it. Trump is in a position of power at least with this negotiation.

China deserves the pain train for backpedalling.
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This is true, and I agree. I think I may have missed this in your original comment:

> The standardization process takes a lot of time and just because something is a standard doesn't mean major players will implement it. Implementations always trump.

Yes, absolutely. Standards are driven by successful implementations. My point was that more, better implementations (leading to new and improved standards) are not a bad thing. The web stagnated during IE's dominance, and it may develop the same sort of stagnation under the dominance of Blink. Some degree of competition is good to keep things moving forward in ways that users want.
On the Pitfalls of Measuring Emergent Communication
When I was in elementary school, one of my classmates ended up missing school for a while because of a bad heater and carbon monoxide poisoning. That freaked me out. But everything I read was that this was a relatively new problem because newer houses were less drafty than old houses. It wasn’t clear to me (at the time) whether old houses were draftier when built, although I have to assume they were (otherwise carbon monoxide poisoning would have been just as common when those houses were new).

I even remember wearing sweaters indoors when I was young. I assumed that was an effort to save money during the so-called Energy Crisis (better described as a shortage of cheap oil), but it may have just been the natural reaction to inefficient heaters and the building standards at the time.
Does this cause you any problems when it seeps down into R'lyeh?
I personally find the Oura ring to be great at tracking sleep stages and various biometrics during sleep like HRV and body temp change.
Thanks. That article refers to paper doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.04.044

https://elib.dlr.de/68051/1/fugl-2010-4648.pdf

which says

> At pressures greater than 500 hPa (i.e. below roughly 6 km), the forcing [of water vapor] is assumed to be negligible

So flying below 6km would help a lot for impact of water vapor. However, given this was not yet acted upon, IPCC is probably right that

> the effect of water vapour emissions is likely to be
a significant, or even the dominant, contributor to their climate forcing.

This is even worse given the projections of aviation expansion. Right now the water does not seem to be a big problem and it could stay that way - water lifetimes even in stratosphere is counted in years, as opposed to centuries for CO2 - but if aviation expands, then it becomes more serious than CO2.
To me is simple, to never ORM, it saves lots of wasted hours in the future.
Batch size is only limited by memory. For comparison Nvidia DGX-2 has 512GB.
And eBay will be made responsible for damages. "I click on that ebay ad and then my computer was locked down and a hacker said I need to pay him to get my files back".
My schools were all like that. "Kids aren't paying attention to our standardized-test preparation studies! Perhaps we should make schools more like bleak prisons, and force people to spend the bulk of their formative years there! That will certainly result in a more capable general populace."
Thanks. I follow your reasoning. The "if" is key: will humanity just add, or actually substitute, this source of energy?
In an accident scenario, the heat that is problematic is not from the fissile material (i.e. U235, Pu239) but from the fission products' decay heat - the isotope soup remaining after the fissile atoms split. It is much less intense than the heat/energy produced during normal operation and drops off significantly after a couple days. So the pool's purpose in terms of accident mitigation is to keep things cool enough during the period of time after reactor shutdown and before radioactive isotopes left over from split atoms decay/cool-down enough.
>Well, he's basically considered as one of their own in France

He's just as French as Chopin :)

>What I'm trying to say it's that I find very interesting this distinction between mainland Europe vs UK + USA when it comes to books and the so-called "high culture". You'd think that 70+ years of mass consumption and Western mono-culture would have totally erased any differences by now but there are still some hold-outs.

Established erudite culture, for lack of a better term, is less permeable to pop-culture. Strong cultural institutions are a good bulwark against acculturation. Churches played that role for a long time.
> closed ecosystems

Closed ecosystems make money very directly by locking in the customer. The vendors will invest heavily in it and it will pay off, hence the "proprietary augmentation of Bluetooth sure makes me forget that the watch is using it". They will not share the tech, by working on an open standards or open tech, because that way the competition profits as well. This is just greed, anti-competitive market abuse, it's not more complicated than that.
Then you sell your parents' house that you inherited & live elsewhere with 50% of its value.

Remember the context this is discussed at, the inheritance tax will not be the only change: the point is to make basics like housing affordable to everyone.

You will still have 0.5 * house-value more than someone who had no inheritance & is supposedly also meant to afford housing.
Because it’s useful for selling drugs, paying ransoms, money laundering and other nefarious purposes.
This is the one thing where I find myself supporting the policies of the Trump administration.
> Games have been addictive since the beginning.

Ignoring your assertions about UX, I strongly disagree with this statement.

Fortnite, like many modern games and some old ones, has design elements that encourage compulsive play. Elements like random loot drops and leveling are often detrimental to the core game mechanics—why would you want to artificially advantage the more experienced player in a competitive multiplayer game, for instance—and yet an increasing number of games include them.

Not all games do this. Super Mario World contains compulsive elements. Nor does Journey, Monument Valley, Wii Sports, Hellblade, Mario Kart, Sim City, Threes, etc etc etc.
There is no ETA, the CentOS team never gives one and they aren’t giving one for C8. This release has a lot of build structure unknowns, like appstreams, so there’s no telling how long it’ll take.
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> it would be the instant death of one personality and their replacement by a different one. And that feels very uncomfortable to people.

That's a salient observation, but it's a definitely a curious aversion and possibly linked to a similar underlying thought pattern that "growth mindset" vs "fixed mindset" tries to capture:

Notions like "I can become more confident in everything I do" and "I can learn to be better with people" terrified a friend as some kind of type of desire to deceive others with some inauthentic persona that was disingenuous because you had changed your personality
Yet, at some point in the past decade an insatiable greed appears to have taken over the industry.

I don't think the industry changed in that regard. Its goal was always to make as much money as possible. What changed is that there are a lot more tools now to make money.

I'm not entirely certain of the correct path to take, but I know that appealing to the lowest common denominator will not allow gaming to become the grand artistic medium for the masses that so many hoped it could be.

There's more to gaming than AAA mainstream titles. Just like film has its summer blockbusters and also art house films and genre pieces, etc. If you're fed up with the current offerings, I'm sure there are a ton of classics you've yet to consume as well.
> closer to $100 or $150 if in a major city

If therapy is just talking, surely there must be options for cheaply video chatting a therapist in a state with lower cost of living?
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So US media censors US content, containing bits about China censors, due to financial and other unknown reasons, but when it comes to US happenings, good and bad, they want and have complete freedom of press and speech.

Oh, the irony.
Fromsoft is a great example of how you don't HAVE to make cheap, lowest common denominator shit and you can still be really successful. But it takes a lot more work and arguably a genius at the helm (Miyazaki) so we're going to keep seeing most companies take the cheap route.
> Don’t think SF city workers get paid 50% more than in Seattle.

While I don’t have time (without getting paid for it) to do a comprehensive like-for-like comparison weighted to account for how much of the work is in each classification, they do very close to that at the bottom end (Seattle’s lowest civil service hourly rate is $10.54, SF’s is $15.) So I wouldn't be surprised if it was also approximately true across the board.
I view this is as a good thing. Corporations love to strip out the ability to get disputes against them settled by a court of law. The arbitration process is secretive and designed for companies to win, eventually.

Let their swords against just and favourable conditions of work be used against them.
I spent probably a few months together trying geany, vim, eclipse, vscode...over my development career, as a matter of fact I spent yet another full working day with vim trying to get call graph and autocomplete working more smoothly, to no avail, I then tried Jetbrains at night(I have been using pycharm but barely used clion and webstorm), I quickly found all those features I need are already in JetBrains, and my one-day cost can buy a few years' license. Time is money.

I have ditched vscode two months ago(the setting-sycn lost all my settings and that's the last straw), now for me, vim will be restricted to server side editing or casual hacking, I will spend more time coding instead of building my IDE, I will just stick with Jetbrains, hope it will stay relevant for the next 10 years.