skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure they could have found an excuse to avoid arresting her. The US would have been angry, but that would have blown over quickly. Instead, the Canadian government has gotten itself into a situation in which it's facing intense pressure from both China and the US, and will alienate one or the other country, whatever it does. It would have been much smarter to avoid being pulled into the middle of the US-China trade war.
Just set up a carbon tax that is tied to the cost of removing carbon from the atmosphere and everybody can decide for themselves whether they want to pay or not.
lit-html lets you write declarative, reactive templates in plain JS, and is ~3.3k. Check it out here: https://lit-html.polymer-project.org
That’s where the comparison to environmental protection is so powerful. For the longest time, if you would say “We lose something by exploiting natural resources”, people would have just pointed out that there’s a seemingly infinite supply of unexploited nature left.

We’ve always been monitored in some situations, but never before around the clock, in the bedroom and the bathroom, at the doctor, etc. There’s no way to know what we lose, when we don’t even know how the information will be used. It is a passive blackmail situation. These companies have compromising information about all of us, and we really don’t have any idea who can or will be able to see it.
It also helps call out lock manufacturer outrageous claims and deception tricking the consumer into feeling like the lock they're buying will be secure by using it.
You know what else will have a huge impact on the economy? Catastrophic climate change.
No, there are not. This meme that McDonald's is inherently bad is nothing but elitist signaling and needs to die.
I loved the book when I read it as youngster. Now .. it's faded a bit.

A little factoid I found interesting -- Vonnegut was inspired in part to write it by the holocaust denier David Irving's book "The Destruction of Dresden"

http://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2007/04/kurt-vonnegut-and-david...

quote

> "Vonnegut helped perpetuate that myth and spread this form of denial. He probably did so initially unwittingly. But since the publication of that book enough has been written to show this is not true and he could have corrected it has he been so inclined"
I think in images, spacial relationships, shapes. Some people, when I mention this to them, shrug as if I'd said something as obvious as 'the sky is blue'. Others look at me like I'm speaking gibberish, because what I'm saying makes no sense at all. What I find most interesting about all of this is how such little effect this seems to have on how we as a group see the world overall.
I like the idea but I'm not sure I see the correlation between your two examples?

The 'It's OK to be white' thing works because they're taking one side of an issue and devolving it into something so basic that it's impossible to refute. By associating something irrefutable like "It's OK to be white" (which only the most blatant racist would argue against) with all their other more controversial positions, they're basically setting a trap that you have to carefully maneuver around instead of being able to just bluntly refute their point with logic or facts.

The misandry thing seems like something else. Like other extreme positions, it's existence benefits the opposition more than the more mild supporters on their side. It's just a low hanging fruit that the opposition can use to snipe more mild supporters by association. Similar to how the left can take potshots at actual Nazis to discredit conservative positions.
Honest question, how is it that hard? What do they ask?
FWIW, I consider myself to be a visual thinker, and feel the same as you. It's far more work to make the link that it is to just remember the dang thing in the first place, which (as long as the thing to be remembered slots in to some spot in an overall system) is close to effortless.
I don't get the sentiment about JS. Where all the hate is coming from? Maybe it's just confusion. People hate SPAs, but talking about web. IMO web and SPA are two different things. Maybe overuse of JS on web sites is problem, but A in SPA stands for "application". And applications written in JS are perfectly legit to me.
Did you get a Big Mike and Coca Cols at Mcdonals?
All employee badges use challenge-response cards since a couple years ago that shouldn’t be easily clonable. Also even if you had a cloned badge I think you’d struggle to get in, though I I’m not supposed to tell you about all the different security measures. :)
CGX CLI: Markdown Template Generator
I'm working on a dashboard for a personal project. It involves a few dynamically populated dropdowns and a map with custom markers. In the past I might've used jQuery and maybe Backbone in more extreme cases. After looking into the "modern" options available I ended up writing the damn thing in jQuery. I did it in a few hours without having to involve Node, npm (or yarn), hundreds of dependencies (and associated security concerns) or "(com|trans)pilation)" of anything. The whole process reminded me again of why I went from fullstack to working exclusively on backends years ago.
Rushed to check whether my app was affected, it was not because I still use the old AIDL API (IInAppBillingService).

In-app purchases are difficult and a PITA to test. At least the documentation offers a basic abstraction library, I suspect many use it as I did, but who knows if it covers all bases?
The Anti-Mac Interface
The real story here is msn.com is still around? A relic from the 1990s.
You can also do it with iTunes receipts on your Amex card.
Great!

I'm currently working on a homebrew Z80 computer on breadboards and wirewrapped boards, and building all the (simple) hardware and software from scratch, using vintage chips (strictly no post-1989 chips) and Steve Ciarcia's Build Your Own Z80 Computer as a reference, but with a much higher spec (32K or better).

My original plan is porting Li-Chen Wang's Tiny BASIC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC) to my homebrew computer, and describing its operation at my local hackerspace. Basically, after Bill Gates' has written his letter, there was a revolt in the microcomputer scene and many hobbyists sought alternative implementations. Around the same time, Li-Chen Wang released his hobby project - Tiny BASIC, with full source in public domain. In retrospect, it can be seen as a free software project before the free software movement. Although its functionality was extremely limited Proof-of-Concept and never widely used, but I believe it's a piece of important legacy of the FLOSS community worth mentioning.

But now, since BBC Basic is now free, I'm looking forward to port BBC Basic to my system as well!
Python got adopted, IMHO, because of the hype around deep learning.
Does the size of an app affects something besides the initial download?

Maybe it also lengthens the app loading but everybody here doesn't talk about it because it's well known of android developers, which I'm not?
The future is private. Don't let Facebook own it
This concept is called coverture. By law, upon marriage, a woman's identity merged with the husband's into a single legal entity. But in practice, all of the rights and responsibility fell to the man. Indeed the husband was also legally responsible for the misdeeds of the wife. This is because the wife was assumed to be acting under the orders of the husband, even if that were not the case.

It was really messed up.
I think there are Nobel prizes for more work here. We know so little about how bacteria affects our bodies and the true roles that they place, despite there being billions and billions of them.
> It's as if someone, somewhere, is trying to spread emotionally charged, outrage inducing, anti-intellectual ideas designed to short circuit discourse.

Scott covered that also:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

The way people are starting to behave, that story actually doesn't seem all that hard to believe anymore.
I believe that sometimes there are regulatory requirements to print receipts (as a transaction without a receipt is more likely to be cash-in-pocket tax avoidance).

My parents lived in Greece during the financial crisis, and at the time the tax agency would randomly audit people and require them to present 25% of their yearly income in the form of receipts. This was introduced as a way to get consumers to ask vendors for receipts (as a way to force them to input sales into their cash registers and book them as income)
RE: Indie Devs shouldn't short on QA
I am one such "auditory thinker". Despite learning to read music from a young age and a lot of practice, I have never been able to sight-read music. I do however have a good auditory memory and I have always been good at playing music from memory, even compared to other musicians.

Perhaps counter-intuitively most classical musicians are "visual thinkers" and are very good at sight-reading and less good at playing by ear.
I, too, grew up on the first-ever Zoombinis game. I actually recently played through it again almost 15+ years later. Everything from the sound effects to the visuals is seared somewhere deep in my neural wetware like a permanent ROM chip. Funnily enough, some of the puzzles still confused me! I guess my colorblindness certainly hasn't been magically cured over time...

Thanks so much to OP for linking this article.
The 2nd is not just nationalism. It's also racist. In right-wing Israeli politics, there is obviously a lot of overlap between nationalism and racism.

Nevertheless, I would oppose the idea of de-platforming Ben Shapiro. I don't trust the people making the decisions, and I don't want them to become the arbiters of what is and is not acceptable speech in our society. Sure, today they may de-platform someone I dislike, such as Ben Shapiro, but tomorrow, they may de-platform someone I like.
Amazon's next big thing may redefine big
Greenland lost 2B tons of ice yesterday, which is unusual
here it is verbatim:

"Dear Developer,
We have reviewed your item, "gif.com.ai," with ID: dfdojjbjcmnilhaenpijacjdgmilecpg and it does not comply with our program policies. Please review this section of our policy:

Developers must not obfuscate code or conceal functionality of their extension. This also applies to any external code or resource fetched by the extension package. One such instance was found in inspector.js

Your item was found to have one or more files that does not comply with this policy."

---

This reply is clearly template based but unlike some of the other replies it wasn't automated. There was clearly a human behind the email addressing my concern.

The total thread is 9 emails back and forth.
So using fixed point. You could do that, but you can't make every single time-using variable fixed point without a lot of unnecessary work. Without sufficient care you end up with less precision than floating point. If you don't want to spend a ton of upfront time on carefully optimizing every variable just to avoid wasting 10 exponent bits, default to double.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30011/how-big-of...
Google doesn't send user's Android crash report feedback to its developers
Since we live in the future, they could just e-mail the receipt directly to the guy who checks their tax returns.
How to Work with HTTP JSON APIs in Scala
If I am not missing libraries, I’m faster in Rust. I spend way less time debugging and writing tests. YMMV.

The borrow checker doesn’t cause thinking, it removes it. I just write code, the compiler checks my work and tells me how to fix things when it messes up.
Hong Kong backs down on extradition Bill after protests
I’m pretty sure if we aren’t careful the same replication crisis that happened in social science will happen here, the interaction of the gut bacteria is so complex it will be very difficult to get consistent results.
By the way. The extension was never re-instated even after I futilely tried to get them to see the light that my code was minified and not obfuscated. :/

This happened after I changed the version number in the package. So unless you need to update your package, don't! Usually changing the description in the dashboard is fine but if you start messing with some of the options it will invite review and a possible lockout.
Out of curiosity - did you chose jQuery because it's so ubiquitous or was it the better choice? There are frameworks like vue.js where you don't have to deal with node, yarn, explicit dependencies and transpilation, that offer virtual DOM and have very little overhead.
If that's the problem, then gibrown's solution

>Just start banning certain creators from showing up in recommendations if their content crosses the line.

also won't help, because it's not the creators that have content crossing the line, it's the commenters.
I'm not sure I understand your point, can you explain it?
One complaint is developers defaulting to using SPAs for building traditional websites which aren't apps, recreating the functionality that modern browsers are already good at, and there's plenty of good backend frameworks that have been around for while, where content can be loaded quickly, so a full page load isn't a big deal as long as it doesn't have a bunch of JS it has to wait on.
In the UK it's common for high street shops to ask to email receipts instead of printing. Unfortunately this means giving out personal data. For those using gmail google can track all your highstreet purchase history.
I don't know, on the one hand, JavaScript is without doubt neccessary for a lot of useful things on the web. OTOH, I always thought of JavaScript as a way to get a better declarative web long term, by experimenting with UI paradigms and trying things that eventually can become part of new declarative HTML UIs. But that feedback into HTML never happened, and it seems we're stuck with an incredibly poor language we're enslaving the next generation of both users and developers in. The worst part is IMHO where we attempt to shoehorn JavaScript into a "serious" language with ES6+ classes, modules, new syntaxes, type decorators and what not; all we've achieved with these inessential extensions is to make future browser implementer's life difficult.

I haven't listened to the audio, but all it takes to get rid of JavaScript-heavy pages (that only exist because young webdevs are being taught and drool about mostly JavaScript, React, and other overkill rather than web basics), we just need to step up the game and demand power-efficient webapps, or no webapps at all.
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That takes me back! I received a vectrex as a small child, as a discarded toy from my (richer) cousins.

The graphics were pretty different to anything I'd seen before, being vector based, but it was a nice device because it meant I didn't need to hog the family TV.

Their approach for improving the graphics, by providing colour via a transparent overlay was inspired, and lots of fun. My overriding memories of the device are the long-thin controller, which used to be clipped beneath the screen when not in use, tethered by a curly-cable, and the overlay system.
Actually of all the restaurants in your vicinity, the McDonalds probably has the highest food safety.
I wonder how far away we are from simulating the human gut, so we can introduce a variable, hit 'run', and take a snapshot every x hours.

I'm guessing we're 0.0000001% of the way there, given how complex all the interactions must be.
Completely disagree. Airtravel has been consistently growing at 6% for a while now, there's still billions of people waiting in line to get easy access to it.

As your graphic alludes to short distance regional flights can be replaced with a greener alternative, but the vast majority of flights cannot.

Air travel is growing exponentially and we have no way to stop those emissions. Virtually everything else has alternatives, there simply isn't the energy/kg to move airplanes with anything other than petroluem products. Biofuels would be an even worse disaster.
I agree there were many other factors, but do you think anger at the other side's actions didn't also play a major role?
Given how much advertising companies would pay for item level data I’m sure someone and the credit card companies is trying to make this a reality.
> Google controls Chromium because they do the heavy lifting

Google already controls the web standardization process with its manpower. So standardizing on chromium would not change that issue, it would just move it to another level.

I am not saying that this is great. I just think the argument is invalid.
Interesting concern - I'm thinking I'd like the various clients to alert me back - as a message sender that the messages were being auto forwarded to a non secure place like gmail - of course I think the option to turn off notifications should be possible on both ends.
Better choice ultimately but I suspect the hype around "modern" everything these days would still lead a lot of people in that direction, even for simpler things like this. I did briefly look into Vue and didn't completely hate it. Although the docs (at least from my cursory glance) were suggesting you would need Node to get up and running with it. Good to know it doesn't need to be that complicated.
The dictionary.com quotation proves my point. TFA is neither spoken nor informal English, it's trying to be broadsheet-quality written journalism. In that sort of context, using dodgy colloquialisms sounds real dumb like.
I thought that was an actual deliberate part of his campaign? Some of the stuff I read around the time (don't have links now, sorry) seemed to indicate there was astroturfing, anyway.
The problem is you cannot figure out just how brain works, because it is not kind of system where you can detach something and make it work in separation. For some limited understanding you can get as far as 'limphatic system' does that, 'digestive system' does other stuff. But in simulating it you have to take into account all chemical and physical interactions.
Prepare for some frustration while you get used to the language. Resources:

Advanced R - http://adv-r.had.co.nz/

R Packages - http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/intro.html

I also write and contribute to R packages at work and these two books have been really useful. That being said, Advanced R isn't the best read because a lot of it is just listing exceptions and strange behaviour of the language but it's useful info, especially the chapters on non-standard evaluation and the OO systems. Similarly, figuring out how the package system works can take a bit of experimenting - just stick with it, try things out and pay attention to how things are done in the existing codebase.

Also, your colleagues are right - tidyverse isn't suitable for heavy use in packages, it's for interactive use and EDA.
The original Sophie Wilson version of BBC BASIC was brilliant. I did not get to play with the Z80 version but if it is a faithful original of the BBC 6502 version then this a valuable contribution to open source software.

The UK owes a lot to the people such as Sophie Wilson (who wasn't Sophie then) that were extremely forward thinking. The BBC Micro was just for kids. Rather than dumb it down the creators went the other way.

Anyone not familiar with the BBC Micro (because they weren't a kid in the UK in the 1980's) can't really appreciate how good it was and for its time. Perhaps an analogy could be found between arcade games machines and home consoles of the era, the arcade machine just worked, the console was just compromised in every way in comparison to what you had in the arcade original.

It was the same with the BBC and home computer rivals. There was just an edge of performance to it that no other home computers had. This was because the hardware had all the add ons, e.g. a decent sound chip, not just one but two competent graphics chips, a socket next to the keyboard to put your home blown EEPROM in and every port you could imagine at the back and under the machine.

The BBC Model B was a true Rolls Royce of a machine and we gave it to kids.

BBC BASIC was equally deluxe. The built in assembler that was embedded in was awesome. Particularly when you only had a 6502 which has all of three registers - X, Y and A. I was doing assembler at school and plenty of other kids were. No extra software was needed, nobody needed to pay for a compiler, it was all in there.

The rest of BBC BASIC was sophisticated compared to all other BASICs of the time. You could and did write procedures at a time when other BASICs would have you doing GOSUB with a line number.

Later when I moved on to the IBM PC with MS-DOS I felt extremely disappointed. It was actually backward! It lacked the sophistication the BBC Micro had. It was MS-DOS that I found particularly dumb, I just felt 'is this all there is?' and could not believe this was the new 'better'.

Exposure to BBC BASIC, UNIX and today's Linux makes me wonder whether Microsoft's products from MS-DOS to Windows have really advanced computing as we know it. I am not knocking Microsoft entirely as I do believe some of their products such as Word 2.0c were fantastic at enabling progress. But with Microsoft came a particular model of personal computing, we stayed on floppy disks far too long and Microsoft BASIC introduced things that are best not taught - i.e. the GOTO statement.

Anyway, the BBC Micro and BBC BASIC were free from this Microsoft way of doing things, the BBC Micro got it right and it was a vision that was gifted to a generation of schoolchildren.
This is either going to shutdown completely because of lack of interes or the founders are going to kill it and it's gonna grow into a huge startup that works as a middleman/marketplace for data.
It's hard to actually understands the current state of our economy and I doubt I do to any significant degree, but from what I gathered from your linked article, they're purely looking at net-worth.

This ignores inflation and rising housing costs etc.
Related trivia: If you're horde and an alliance player says "lol" it comes across as "bur".