skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another really shocking thing I recently discovered was the maximum length on a USB cable. USB 2.0 supports a max of 5 meters (~16 feet). Meanwhile a USB 3.0 cable only offers a max length of 3 meters.
Interesting. I’ve never heard of a corporate department that books your travel. Sounds like a hassle. Any company I’ve been at, big or small, just has their policy parameters enforced by third party booking tools.
It's definitely a possibility that the intention is there, but I don't know that it's always intentional. I see it far more used by the type of organization than the specific political leaving of that organization. For example in American politics Mitch McConnell is in charge of a portion of the same party at the President. He often agrees with the President and has defended on numerous occasions. Despite this his office isn't generally described as a regime. He governs by consensus. I think that most western cultures tend to view dictatorial, non consensus governments as bad, which means a word associated with these might get a bad rap. In some quick research it appears that your belief that the connotation had shifted appears to be fairly correct. Usage has become more common for heavy handed governments, the word itself doesn't have that as part of the established long running definition however.
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How can the world be "very similar" if it consists of an entirely different set of people within a relatively short time? Think about it, if not a single one of the politicians, inventors, scientists, or really any plain regular person would have existed. If any tiny change does not stay in complete isolation (which I don't think is physically possible), eventually the world will be entirely different. Even language will completely diverge.
Thanks I'll see what I can do with this information. I'm in Massachusetts so anyone with regional or local information would be greatly appreciated as well.
This also why I like the idea of bottle deposits and would hope they continue into many other containers. The customer pays them up front and gets paid back when it properly enters the waste stream.
"they pointed out that the same number of musicians is needed to play a Beethoven string quartet today as was needed in the 19th century; the productivity of classical music performance has not increased. On the other hand, the real wages of musicians (as in all other professions) have increased greatly since the 19th century"

This seems painfully naive to the point of farce. Do they really believe the value of playing music is derived solely from the effort to produce it and not from how many people consume it and under what circumstances it is consumed?

When I was an econ undergrad and I would hear absurdly naive logic like this I always thought it was a sign that I didn't understand some complicated underlying concept. But it's just nonsense. I still don't understand why people don't call this obvious absurdity out.
I'd take it to mean "not supposed to be there; from outside (the place where the reaction happened)".

Webster's 1913 for "exotic" includes: extraneous. Same source for "extraneous" includes: without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign.
That's a paper about ontology, I'm talking about the actual physical reality of "the multiverse," you know, the one with the meta-landscape of all possible string theories, and all the different spidermans.
You raise a great question. I also wonder if Hacker News as a platform tends towards more senior people, I know that I usually feel like one of the least experienced people in most comment sections.
Right? I think it could be done. I’ve been talking to friends about this for a couple weeks now.

I’m actually kind of interested in the people that have done “3000 applications etc etc.” The 100-300 applications are fairy common, but 3k?

Also, LinkedIn? more like LockedIn. There was a time where I enjoyed the service; I liked connecting with people doing interesting things from cool backgrounds.

But, I wonder if it hurts more than it helps... I feel like a lot of jobs are filled before they’re flown, every other job is meant for people who already have a job.

I like reading the job postings though; a lot of them are like non sequitur slam poetry.

This might be my naïveté (or the ipa), but I feel like it’d be cool to have a reversed scenario where I can get info on the team, the project, etc. before even reaching out (i.e. companies apply to individuals, but I think I may have reinvented recruiting? I know this may be unrealistic...)

Idk sometimes it feels like LinkedIn offers a non-service, talent will always be employed and/or sought; if everyone else is just a company’s 1000th pick aren’t they just wasting their time?
> Looks like this was a known failure mode for titanium https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/613553.pdf

The gist of it, as I could see:

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Several instances have been reported of violent reactions of titanium and liquid oxygen which appeared to be related to impact.
The impact sensitivity of titanium in LOX has been investigated rather extensively. It appears that the ignition of titanium under impact occurs in the following sequence:

(1) The impact exposes fresh metal and results in some gaseous oxygen being formed at the point of impact.

(2) The gaseous oxygen reacts with the fresh metal in an exothermic reaction.

(3) The heat generated raises the metal temperature sufficiently to result in localized dissoluton of any TiO2 film that might form.

(4) Thus a protective oxide film does not build up and the reaction proceeds rapidly between the base metal and oxygen.

Ignition of massive titanium is observed in gaseous oxygen at liquid-oxygen temperatures at pressures of about 100 psi and above.
This critical pressure limit is lowered only slightly as the temperature of the oxygen is raised to ambient temperature.
I feel like Visual Studio Code deserves a spot. Its open source, and free

Free as in beer, though. Not free as in freedom from being watched.

There's a version called VS Codium that removes all of the Microsoft nastiness. I use it for a couple of my projects and it's really nice.
There's an interesting duality in that. Companies are choosing to maximise profits by tapping into addiction and gambling, and consumers are choosing to accept and reward that.

I don't agree though that there's only up-front payment or freemium options on the table, nor do I agree that consumers wouldn't accept up-front payment if that was really on the table.

Consumers paid up front for games on the Gameboy and other handheld devices, and they paid enough to keep that industry alive right up until mobile games took over.

Any expectations consumers have right now that mobile games should be free is on the publishers, not the consumers - and while consumers are enabling and supporting the freemium casino model, I don't think that us humans in aggregate have as much freedom of choice as we like to believe.

Regulation is the only way out of this bind, but with the continued rise of neoliberalism that's just not going to happen.
Perhaps games with in-app purchases should be required to be rated 18+ (thus inaccessible to children's accounts). The developer can make a two versions if they think the game could do with a lower rating.
If you put something on a public site it can be harvested, and there's really no stopping that. It's like video DRM: you can spend billions on the tech, but ultimately, if nothing else, anyone can still aim any camera at the screen and make a copy.

There's only two reasons I can think of that companies would bother with this:

1) they are ignorant or delusional about it and think they can beat the crawler (which could be a third party making money by convincing them they can do it)

2) It forces the crawler to spend more money chasing their blocking

I'm not sure what the benefit of 2 would be, though, unless you could make them spend so much money that their entire operation is unprofitable.

Aside, as a developer, it might actually be entertaining for a while to work on (2) - constantly changing strategy to defeat scrapers - but I can also see getting burned out pretty quickly.
That analysis is wrong because it ignores two facts (1) Retail is a highly competitive, low margin business; and (2) Economic systems are dynamic, not static. Amazon’s profit margins are in low single digit percent. If Amazon pays above market wages and keeps prices the same, that creates an opportunity for Wal-Mart to come in and lower prices by using lower cost labor. Customers will go to Wal-Mart instead, because the Internet and things like Google Shopping make it trivial for consumers to chase marginal savings. As a result, Amazon’s workers are out of a job.

Note, by the way, that the minimum wage in our competitor countries (France, Germany, UK) is about $11.50 per hour adjusted for cost of living. That’s much lower than what Amazon is laying.
A couple of months were missing for each data set, if you page through the "whoishiring" user submissions you'll notice them missing.
Most javascript apps are indeed eval’ing user input: they just happen to be users of npm instead of users of the app being run.

Same problem, though.
as much as i dislike amazons practices, i have to cheer them on for doing this. apples fees are atrocious, and amazon is helping people to get used to alternate ways of spending. if more people do this eventually apples control of transactions can be broken.
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Currently I'm using a modified version of the after-dark[0] theme for Zola.

[0] https://www.getzola.org/themes/after-dark/
A man who was fired by a machine
Look at all these names:

>Mehmet Kanik and Sirma Örgüç

>Georgios Varnavides... Jinwoo Kim... Thomas Benavides, Dani Gonzalez, and Timothy Akintlio

What a beautiful place this is that brings people together here to push our entire society forward. It is worth it to fight against the endemic xenophobic resurgence at the highest levels of government[1]. Please reach out to your Congress people, implore them to oppose hateful border policies that separate families and traumatize children.

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

― Stephen Jay Gould

1. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/11503813950780006...
as long as there is a positive pressure differential between the helium lines and the tank, all is well. Also, there's no valve for the water hammer effect to destroy now :)
I wonder if people who retire at a more usual age struggle with similar issues? It seems like there ought to be lots of other people writing about this?
No one of these links (at least in abstracts/conclusions) makes distinction between real suicide, and parasuicide e.g. a suicide attempt having being stopped/saved, or infliction of non-deadly self-harm as the main goal. One can't make a parasuicide attempt sending a bullet to one's head (although some people imitate jamming, or expect gun to be taken from their hands - but such incidents rarely registered in statistics), so gun is naturally an unusual choice for a parasuicidal person which easily explains e.g. that 7% difference in the last link. People serious about ending their lives with hanging take precautions against possibility of being discovered at the moment of the action, and suffocation is deadly (need a link to prove this?) There are cases when hanged can recover after significant time, but they are notably rare. And people serious about ending their lives usually follow culturally "normal", or easiest ways to commit suicide [1]. Which brings us to the beginning of the discussion: removing a tool of suicide doesn't affect number of deaths which is proved by absence of correlation between availability of guns, and suicide rates.

[1] Source: I was trained when volunteered in suicide prevention program.
That throws the baby out with the bathwater due to its coarse grained nature.

I'm fine with having a free game using an IAP to unlock full functionality, or to have a small! series of IAPs for it.

I think there's also a viable model for subscription gaming, mobile MMOs are plausible.

Requiring that all apps indicate their (enforced) maximum monthly and lifetime spend limits would work very well for me. An app with a $20 lifetime limit is a try-before-you-buy app, and one with a $20 monthly limit is a subscription app. One with "Unlimited" for monthly is a freemium casino, and is much more easily avoided.
Unreal is source available, but not FOSS. There are a lot of restrictions in the license, sharing engine source without a (free) Epic login is against TOS for example, although you can fork the engine on GitHub and give other users that are part of the Epic organization access. I'm thinking a MIT (or some other permissive license) licensed UE.
While they have a project, or even two or more, most programmers are always working, all the 24 hours of the day. And even while they are asleep.

Many times I have been stuck with a specific programming problem till late at night. The next morning, the code or the algorithm was in my head, all ready to be written down.
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I've never heard of shorthand before, but it seems fine to me, what's your issue with it? It works fine, and performantly, in desktop Firefox with a moderate amount of adblock/privacy extensions active. It's mostly just text that you can scroll through like any other article. It just has some semi-sticky images and a timeline widget which, to me, only add to the presentation. It's not like they're hijacking the scroll action to ruin normal browser behavior.

If it sucks on mobile, so what? Everything sucks on mobile.
This is very exciting. Hope there's a means to get one of the bills when it's circulated in 2021.

The US could take a lesson about whom they put on bills.
There really are still games out there that aren't built on the freemium model, yes.

There really should be freemium games that advertise a monthly ceiling on possible spend as a feature to attract customers who are wary of pay-to-win gaming or exploitative models.
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> I've never really understood the common concern that arises when some established character's race/gender/other-intrinsic-trait is changed

for me it's just about the fact that.... well, I want to be like him :). I want to identify with Bond a little, or Bourne, or Ethan Hunt. I want to see him coming up with cool, smart, unexpected solutions to difficult situations, kicking ass, overcoming physical challenges, while being absolutely cool/awesome/good looking.
No problem with him being black, or Asian... It's just if he is a woman he is no longer ...

> Bond, James Bond (cue the music)

powerful weapon on her majesty's secret service
> using that money to buy things I consider luxury goods

It always pains me to see people convey that attitude. We spend on luxury items because they make us feel good, they give us a little endorphine hit when we buy / use / consume them.

I grew up in a poor family of four, like my first real job out of high school in the mid-90s at $20K was more than my step-father ever brought home. Having that "luxury" chocolate bar, or being able to save enough for a brand-new bicycle or Nintendo... that was a huge deal. Saying that poor people shouldn't have access to "luxuries" is saying that they shouldn't be allowed to spend money to feel good.
Of the three dozen or so apps on my work Mac, Mircosoft Office and Adobe are is the only ones that don't adhere to the Mac UI.

Off the top of my head:

Drag a file thumbnail from Finder onto the program icon to open the file? Nope.

Click on the name of the file in the title bar to rename or move it? Nope.

I understand that MS wants to make the interface familiar for people who use Windows, but it really is a PITA, and I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to.
How exactly does your external airbag work, then?
A college should care about personality and passion because the college's prerogative, if it's so inclined, is to cultivate culture. Consider a student body where no one has any passions or personality. Seems pretty grim to me.

That said, I don't think it's reasonable for colleges to insist that every entering student already be well-formed. After all, acculturation is one of the things that happens (or is supposed to happen) in college.
Thanks for waiting, the FireFox version is here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/oh-really/
The fact that you really don't seem to understand the moral issue at all is really disheartening.
Competitors do take advantage of this! There is vicious price competition for most of the kinds of goods that amazon ships from its warehouses. This competition has pushed profit margins into the single digits (probably low single digits). There's really not any room for prices to fall further with given technology.

Retail is BRUTALLY competitive.
I'd say the libertarian's response would be that organizations like UL (which already does work for OSHA) would get hired by the company to certify their workplace, which would then serve as enticement for job candidates.

This would essentially make job safety another "perk", like flex time and friday pizza - available to some, based on the scarcity of their skills.
> Querying an index isn't a solved problem, building it is...

You didn't just hit the nail on the head; you drove it all the way in with a single blow. Bravo.
What's vote fuzzing?
> Knowledge Graph is already public
> https://developers.google.com/freebase/

That dump is outdated, not supported, and very incomplete comparing to what google has now.
Real Engineering made a video on this exact topic, explaining the essence in less than 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXGRPMD-GQ

He went through bit more details said topic in another video "Why Are The Dreamliner's Windows So Big": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-I20Ru9BwM
Presumably you execute it with an instance that does serialization instead of interpretation.
Both the inclusions and glaring exclusions are just odd.

He included Panic's Coda, but not Transmit, or Prompt. I'd be hosed without that trio.

If Panic made a database client, I'd drive to Portland and hand them a fist full of cash. That bunch of weirdos knows what its doing.
You could extend this further: what if we could "rewind" time, then just let things play back again. Would everything be exactly the same as it is now?

Would "random" particle interactions happen in the same way (making them decidedly not random)? Would the same branch fall at the same time, landing in the same place? Would every coin flip be the same? Would every single decision every human makes be the same?
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There's a great book "Merchants of Grain" written in the 70s about the secretive foods megabusinesses. It's arguably gotten worse since then. They make oil companies look like public servants.
Google and Microsoft do expose their indexes as APIs both called Custom Search. There just isn't much demand for a frontend, because in exchange for not having monetization glued on they charge half a cent per query.
point 2 won't work. the whole reason for in-game purchases is that you can spend more than the initial cost of the game which is often free initially. (what's 10% of free?)

i'd go with a monthly limit. one that doesn't break the bank, but one that also isn't to low to make it not worth it for the game developer.

how about $10 per day and $50 per month?

then you can spend your weekends playing away and buying to your hearts content. and if you instead do that every day, well then, you are going to have to ask yourself: home come that at the end of the money, there is so much month left over?

another measure would be the cost of a pack of cigarettes. at what point does smoking affect you financially? i think there may be studies for that. that same number ought to apply to games.

now there is still the problem of multiple games. so maybe another cap for overall spending. but that is trickier. how does that cap distinguish game spending vs using an app to buy groceries online?
If NuScale is the best the US nuclear industry has to offer, it’s a sorry future indeed. It’s basically a scaled down conventional water cooled reactor. This is NOT Get IV nuclear. Where is the fundamentally safer design? Where are the cost savings? Where is the waste solution? The only improvement is the ability to circulate water naturally in case of power outage and without any other problems. Who hoo - it’s a bit safer. But it’s still expensive, barely modular, and essentially conventional technology. Needless to say, it’s a government incubated “startup” to the tune of nearly $1B with expected completion of first prototype when? BTW, started in early 2000s… 15 years in and all they have is a promise for a first power plant in 7 years? I call BS on US nuclear efforts.
Wooden bikes seem like an obvious materials argument. Here's one I saw in a shop recently:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7mzTsrKgUgENoDkQ9

I suspect the answer is complexity. There are a bunch of inventions all together in a bicycle. From the frame to the spokes to the tires and headset, there is a lot of IP there.
What is your definition of functional then?

Obviously, Apple did something (likely marketing, imho, and of course extreme ease of use) right to make the iPhone as popular as it is, but I would need to be convinced that it had something to do with functionality.
Thank you! I have actually spent a good amount of time getting the image layout just right
«I'm not sure how the 5Gbit/s and 10Gbit/s USB-C cables fit into this.»

A USB3 cable has 4 differential pairs. When in alt mode, all 4 pairs transmit in the same direction, so a 5 Gbit/s cable can transmit 20 Gbit/s.
Given the hostile stares of disgust and suspicion that result from trying to pay for anything with a £50 note, the tragic irony that it will now be adorned by the face of a man who suffered homophobic discrimination is not lost on me.
The website seems to be using a template [0], and the CSS is a framework [1].

[0]: https://github.com/getzola/after-dark
[1]: https://github.com/egoist/hack
Fair! I implicitly assumed that physics and mathematics are isomorphic (as speculated by Dirac in the essay). And so from this assumption, and my first sentence, the second follows.
> Why did the author of the list focus around the Apple ecosystem?

I believe it's more strange to not believe it shouldn't be focused on Apple, considering the link title includes 'Mac'?

> How exactly do design tools like acorn/pixelmator promote the open web?

Looks like the author believes that the tools make photo-editing much more beginner-friendly (and that is true), lowering the barrier and allowing more people to participate to the web (hence the open web).
Perhaps that's true recently, when you grew up, but not back then:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Aeclanum...
I guess I have just replaced it then :/