skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sound design in this is superb. Great job.

Who did the sound design? Just curious. The person listed for that in the description seems to be another pixel artist, and the Twitter also seems wrong.
I personally call this "lifestyle upgrades". If I see something I can improve that will save me repeated future hassles, I will take the time and expense to change it. It's like I fight all those future battles at one time in the now.
I clicked on the "web" link under the title and opened it in a private tab, which loaded Google search results, then I clicked on the NYT link and it worked.

Edit: the site reloaded to cut the article then say I'm in Private mode and to log in. I just went back, opened the NYT result again, and stoped loading the page once the text appeared.
Percentages don't work that way. Don't blame the stats for your own misunderstanding.
I don't own an iPhone and the watch was 2x more expensive than the iPod.
Some of the companies presenting are hard tech companies like you mentioned. For example, Athelas (blood diagnostics), Inokyo / Standard Cognition (stores with cashierless checkout), volans-i (delivery service via drones). Those companies are all hiring for software engineering roles and also other kinds of engineering roles as well.
A Summer from Hell Is Coming to U.S. Airports
> Google is an excellent example of a company that does this.

Which part of Google would that be? My impression is the complete opposite, dependencies are not only locked down and sometimes even maintained internally.
Given the vaugeness involved with advertising and attribuitation being something humans aren't too good at I wonder hypothetically how long it would take companies to realize that consumer advertisement effectiveness dropped to zero vs other economic causes.
The US has no food culture, come on they sell cheese in spray cans.¹

Generally food in the US is sold for size, not flavour or nutritional content.

For example US roaster chickens are huge but basically live short sick lives and taste bland.²

Chickens sold in France are smaller but have more flavour.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Cheese

2: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1541-4337.1...
No. It should hopefully be well known by now that Amazon "commingles" all inventory of a given item. You can never be sure if you'll get a well-made counterfeit on the "marketplace". Even if you PICK WHICH SELLER you get whatever's in the bin that the overworked amazon warehouse sub-sub-sub-contracted employee quickly plucks.
> The light side is of so little value that I think we should just throw it out with the bathwater and kill this modern experiment in advertising.

I don't think that's true at all. Where else would you learn about new services or products?

Here are some examples from a 2010 model railroader. https://photos.app.goo.gl/RvRzECgs7MaTo7tP8

Some, especially the Kato model Amtrak one, have some aspects of an aspirational ad, but I don't know if I'd condem them as such. They usually, as the Kato one has, information about the specific items that are now available and often some "ambiance" information that many hobbiests, especially people new to the hobby like to look at.

I don't mind ads like these as they're not designed to make you feel as though you need to purchase something to be better and they're not in a public space. They're they're to matter-of-factly says a service or product is available.

I could also show you the local pennysaver or Craigslist. All of those are also add, but they're not the "aspirational" kind. They're more matter-of-factly that someone is selling so (used) item, or provides some kind of service, or that there is a garage or estate sale at such-and-such address. How else would this information be made redily and easily available?
I was hoping for a more substantial reply than "America sucks; it won't work".
>Yet we continue to ignore this because it runs counter to one of the founding myths of this nation: that anyone who is smart and hardworking can get ahead. Our lack of hereditary titles has made it easy for people to dismiss the importance of family wealth and claim that everyone who is successful has earned it.

Who your parents are has always mattered. Parents being able to give their children an advantage in the world is, in general, a good thing. Even the preamble to the Constitution of the United States talks about securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

It is human nature to want to work hard to better your offspring. It is one of the main motivating factors for many people. Any attempt to remove this advantage is bound to fail.

We need to stop looking at individual opportunity as much as look at the bigger generational picture. As many have pointed out rags to riches in a single generation is very rare. However, rags to riches in 2 or 3 generations is not uncommon (see especially the experience with Asian immigrants). We need it so that anyone who is smart and hard working can end up better off than their parents, and ensure a better starting position for their own kids who if they are also smart and hard working end up even better.

Any Procrustean policy of trying to make it irrelevant who your parents are is always going to end in frustration.
It looks like you are coupling your unit tests with your integration tests. At integration level, we test if the integration paths work under various conditions, that is, only the code that deals whether our unit has been called correctly, with the right parameters, etc. At unit level, we mock all of the dependencies and test the branches of the effective code under various conditions. And at the acceptance level we should be testing our business logic requirements, to make sure all of our features are working the way they should, especially during refactoring (where integration and unit tests are subject to change).
That is exactly an example of fear-mongering. "We haven't fully tested nearly 40,000 'chemicals,' so we should assume the worst!"

I make no judgement on whether the numbers are correct, nor on whether any of the substances in question are dangerous or benign. I state only that describing a lack of information as a problem is fear-mongering.
It is bloody obvious that when people spin something up on their local machines the do not intend to make those pages available to every website they visit. This by itself suggests that there should be a dedicated security context for such applications and that the restriction on information exchange should be based on that context. Not on some random thing the application does (like authentication, CSRF or sending CORS headers).

Scenarios like that should be the foundation of a sensible security model, not an afterthought achieved by applying layers and layers of security ducktape in every single instance.
Shipping stuff across the world isn't as bad as you think it is. The per-ton fuel efficiency of a modern cargo ship is astoundingly high; far, far better than a tractor-trailer or even a train. Concentrating manufacturing of a particular thing in one place is more efficient; we've been doing this for millennia now (stuff was being traded between Asia and Europe even in Roman times).
Some of it, because they are required to, by law. Some of it, because they are allowed to, by law.

Usually, whenever you see sugar added where it is not necessary, it's because fat or salt was removed from the recipe, to "improve" the numbers on the nutrition panel. And then you have to add the fat and salt back in yourself later, with butter or mayo or something.

You can't reliably and conveniently get "good" bread in the US unless you own a bread machine, and even then you have to pick out your flour carefully. I knew someone that had a grain mill attachment for their electric mixer, so they could make their own whole-grain flours, and be able to trust that they were what they appeared to be. Eventually, that became too inconvenient, and they just stopped eating bread altogether.
It is only ironic on a macro level. And, I think you extrapolated my thought out too far; I wasn't suggesting to never spend money. My concern is teaching two children how to manage their own consumption and to not spend money frivolously. We aren't at the point of asking 7 year olds to start businesses.
Hey Derrick! I don't have much to say, except that I really enjoyed your site's design. Good luck!

EDIT: Now that I've read through your article: I'm the founder behind browserless.io. Your outline is great, and is the same rough rubric I've used before. If you ever want to chat about anything, let me know! You're totally right: this thing is hard, and having more successes/failures doesn't make it any easier sadly. Lot's of dice rolling and trying.
I remember that. Google ads were actively helpful! I clicked them because they were cool.

Today, I run an ad blocker because most ads are manipulative again, I recognize I can be manipulated, and I have to do what I can to avoid it. I wonder if there is some way to configure uBlock Origin to allow informative ads while blocking manipulative ads.
How far would this amount help to switch over to renewable energy?
I know it’s been stable but recently there have been signs we’re on the verge of some exponential growth.
Note the VERY small type disclosure at the end: "Disclosure - Oracle and Salesforce are premier partners at time of writing".
OH, that's what that is, thanks!
Not to mention the water is optional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Vitrificatio...
Huh? The WHATWG steering committee is Apple, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft. WHATWG's legitimacy (such as it is) doesn't come from being non-corporate, it comes from being entirely controlled by the top corporate browser vendors and thus reflecting the de facto state of affairs regarding how and when and why features are defined and implemented. If the WHATWG disappeared nothing would change because the top vendors are going to pick & choose W3C standards, anyhow.
> The closest thing we have is deprecation log messages and blog posts with migration guides.

Rust has crater, which can at least build/test/notify over a large chunk of the rust FOSS ecosystem. It won't pick up every project, granted, and I haven't heard of anyone really using it outside of compiler/stdlib development itself, but it's an example of something a bit closer to what google has.
I just presume these guys have amazon employees on their own payroll. Like governement corruption, but libertarian where's there's even less recourse and no courts.
Sure, but what you are describing is much different than "pointing out the hypocrisy"
I feel like the data might not be a slam dunk for your case at all. Bernays started his "Torches of Freedom" PR campaign in 1929. The rate of women smoking actually dropped dramatically soon after thanks to the Great Depression.

Once the Depression was over, the trend line does not appear to be unaffected, though the reasons it trended as it did aren't simple to attribute. Cigarette companies were already advertising to women before Bernays' PR campaign, but they increased their advertising afterwards as a response to it.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4843a2.htm#fig1
The article is incorrect. Most of the satellites will be in very low orbits (340km) such that past astronautical twilight, you won't be able to see them except near the horizon (and even then only if you're near astronautical twilight) as they won't be sun lit. And even in astronautical twilight, you'll only be able to see about a dozen or so under good conditions. The higher orbit satellites will be less bright.

On a really dark sky near astronautical twilight, you can already usually see a few satellites in orbit, and some are far brighter.

We're becoming a spacefaring species. That's exciting, and part of it means we'll be able to see more satellites.

It's worth noting that the original tweets grossly exaggerated this problem. I think it's worth trying to minimize albedo of the satellites, but this was a completely predictable result that was obvious from the first minute anyone discussed a large LEO constellation (seeing as we already have satellites). I don't know why it took so long for the astronomy community to actually bring it up. Perhaps because the initially deployed satellites flared a lot in their pre-operational condition, but I'm a little disappointed in how fast a lot of mistruths of this situation traveled around the internet.
Arthur Miller’s Shame
or drop a PGM on the landing points / supporting infrastructure
Obviously high-bandwidth satellite internet is important. Speaking from a place in the USA where we only have one option for pretty crappy DSL internet (at $60 a month), I would probably even be among the first to try and get it! Before you criticize scientists as having tunnel vision for attempting to stymie global world progress, consider that astronomers are not and have never been in a position to have any regulatory power on this issue. At most they can inform the public of the side effects.

There was a similar situation when a Russian private company sent up a satellite that would deploy reflectors to purposefully make it one of the brightest objects in the night sky[1]. I image some astronomers breathed a sigh of relief when the reflectors didn't properly deploy.

In radio astronomy, there are a few small protected bands to keep some portions of the spectrum quiet for scientific purposes. There is no such "spectrum allocation" for optical astronomy. Like chopping down the rain forest or putting plastic in the ocean, we may improve our quality of life through external costs. Governmental regulation permits us to partially control for these externalities. Perhaps if we find ourselves in a big mess like with CFC's and destroying the ozone layer, we will have a public call-to-action to create regulations.

So, what's the rub? Ground based telescopes are vastly cheaper than space-based alternatives for optical and radio astronomy. The difference in cost is often more than two orders of magnitude. If ground based telescopes become less efficient or less productive, there will simply be fewer scientific discoveries made within a flat budget. If the public is required to increase the budgets of NASA, NSF, ESO, and ESA to maintain their desired level of scientific output, then that in itself is an external cost that SpaceX and other companies are passing on.

[1] http://spaceflight101.com/soyuz-kanopus-v-ik/mayak/
In the US, saccharine is banned, while it is not in the rest of the world. Sugar industry lobby? Everything can be explained by lobby, poorly.
We have a Dockerfile for builds, and a Dockerfile that consumes the built artifacts for deployment.
Please note, IANAL, YMMV, etc, etc.

If you (or your spuose, family member, friend, gym buddy, whatever) work or worked for the competitor, it could be insider knowledge. I think that's not your problem.

If your product could be construed as being an attempt to lower the stock price of your competitor, and not a good faith attempt to compete, then I think you'd be committing fraud.

Consider ... your product launches, your competitor's stock falls, you make money on your short bets, your product then fails.

Can you prove in court that your product's failure wasn't just an attempt to make money off your shorts?

Again, I'm not lawyer: talk to a real one.
Also just to mention https://remotestorage.io/ has the same ideals, but I think it is flawed in terms of adoption because as a user you have to find somewhere to store your data that implements the remotestorage.io API on the server side. And really there is only 5apps doing that. So now you are having to administer your own server, or use 5apps beta product with a 1Gb limit.

This idea allows you to hook up any online storage with any API, and will encourage developers to offer a wide range of options. I want to include remotestorage.io as an option because I like their being a self-hosting option with a well written standard. But on the other hand I want people to use the damn thing so having the major providers is important. And with encryption you could prevent them from spying on your data.
The way things seem to be heading, I'm afraid we're going to have much bigger problems by 2059 to worry about.
If rhetorical flourishes from US government founding documents are significant evidence, I would remind you that all men are created equal.
"The Endocrine Society said in 2015 that the results of ongoing laboratory research gave grounds for concern about the potential hazards of endocrine-disrupting chemicals – including BPA – in the environment, and that on the basis of the precautionary principle these substances should continue to be assessed and tightly regulated.[39] A 2016 review of the literature said that the potential harms caused by BPA were a topic of scientific debate and that further investigation was a priority because of the association between BPA exposure and adverse human health effects including reproductive and developmental effects and metabolic disease.[40]"

"The European Union and Canada have banned BPA use in baby bottles."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A
Not that I know of. But there's a simple policy solution. Producers must take back waste as a condition to sell.

If they're brand new companies, then simply ask for a bond until they've been around a while.

All this is risk free but single use waste cost is priced in for consumers.

Countries that don't adopt this policy will have higher taxes to deal environment costs which is worse than prevention. Companies affected by this can bypass conditions by only using list of approved materials; recycable, biodegradable, etc.
To be fair, on the same page also there is the “taxi slowly if broken tank” failure mode, because it “can be ingested by an inlet”.

For those who don’t have the picture in mind, the first DC-3’s fuel valve was next to the air inlet. One day the operator didn’t watch the refill (They didn’t have autostop valves at the time), the fuel overflowed into the inlet, which certainly mixed it studiously with the air and pulverized the whole into the cabin. Man, aviation was wild at its beginnings.
Especially when you live in a small country that has historically been a stalwart ally of the US, and now has to reevaluate in the face of an increasingly purely transactional approach to alliances from the US.
That would be fine if I wasn't using my phone.
Yes, and Britain has the exact same problem with the EU.
The thirty-meter telescope [0] will be ground-based and adjust for atmospheric distortions with adaptive optics.

It will have 144 times the light-collecting area of Hubble. Nice graphic comparing the new generation of extremely large telescopes here: [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Meter_Telescope

[1] https://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/04/comparison-telescope-mir...
Absolute dates are better for printing out on paper too.
I agree in general but in this case, they detailed specific health concerns for two specific chemicals in the next three sentences, so it seems like a fairly minor offense.
Because your browser is preventing the javascript from accessing the response.
That sounds awesome IMO.
in my experience, almost any company that's using Oracle wants to get away as soon as practical
and the corollary to this is that logging can absolutley be done sustainably, providing direct benefit to the environment. But this is a politically offensive fact, so people often find elaborate ways to navigate around it to support their faith.
That's a little aggressive but yes, many of the major networks have a lot of fraudulent traffic that they do know about but yet do not do all they can to prevent.

This is because many of these companies are paid by volume and percentage of media spend so they are incentivized to increase traffic, not limit it.
America doesn't suck, I spent the last 6 months in the EU and I miss what we have here. That said, the issue you are talking about is directly related to large corporate profits.

A hard reset is what it will take to change that.

I do not refer to socialism either. Taking the power back from the govt and the corporations they empower is the key.
Do you live in an off-the-grid nuclear bunker, or a home? Do you wear a bulletproof vest, and a motorcycle helmet when driving a car, or walking on a sidewalk? Do you hoard decades worth of food?

An 'intelligent' person would do all of those things - because, after all, nuclear war can start any moment, our roads and sidewalks are dangerous places, and you never know where your next meal is going to come from.

Worrying about planet-ending disasters, and establishing civilization in space is much like doing any of the things I've listed. It's not intelligent - it's a non-cost-efficient response to incredibly unlikely occurrences. Especially when there are incredibly likely occurrences, that we'd be much better off preparing for, instead.
> but the amount of fallout isn't really correlated with the strength of the explosion.

It absolutely is for a similar burst condition and similar weapon technology, so it's absolutely credible that one would use, say, groundburst yield with a technology then dominant for large weapons as a reference for fallout. (And, IIRC, groundburst yield is both much greater and much less variable by nuclear bomb technology than airburst since most of the fallout is ground material with induced radioactivity while with an airburst most of the fallout is bomb material, so that technology might not even need to be significant variable using groundburst yield as a reference scale.)
I wonder how the pilots managed to consult this manual while wearing big bulky astronaut gloves.

There's so much raw data in the manual, I can't imagine they were expected to memorise it all. Though I'm sure you need to have a very good memory to qualify as an SR-71 pilot.
>. And then you have to add the ... and salt back in yourself later, with butter or mayo or something.

Sounds like you're addicted to salt. Have you tried food without salt? After couple of weeks your taste buds adapt and you can actually taste the food.
> Advertising fundamentally is trying to convince you that you need something.

I think this is how we have an increase in hoarding behavior.
You do not need the axiom of choice to construct the real numbers: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-axiom-of-choice-necessary-to-in...

However, I agree with the general thrust of your argument: it seems weird, in hindsight, to call them the "real" numbers since most of them do not meaningfully correspond to anything in physical reality. Especially since most of them are non-computable; i.e. there does not exist any computer program that outputs their digits in order. It seems difficult to say anything meaningful about those at all!

In case you haven't seen it, the proof of this is simple: there are only countably many computer programs, and uncountably many real numbers. Thus almost all real numbers are non-computable.

In fact I am not convinced that there is anything in physical reality that meaningfully corresponds to an "uncountable set" in mathematics.

The real numbers are useful because their behavior as a set matches our intuition about how numbers should behave, even though most individual members don't. I believe this is what you are alluding to in your last paragraph.

But anyway, they were named "real numbers" in opposition to "imaginary numbers", not rationals or computables or anything like that. Which is even more unfortunate because the construction of complex numbers from real numbers is extremely straightforward and not mysterious at all (just define them as pairs of reals with a particular multiplication operation).
"The Polycarbonate/BPA Global Group represents the leading global manufacturers of bisphenol A (BPA) and polycarbonate plastic"

A thoroughly unbiased group of people, then! :D
I recently finished a beta version of yaddu[0], a new community aggregator platform with built-in VR[1] support.

[0] https://yaddu.pw
[1] https://yaddu.pw/vr/c/yaddu