skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make twitter yours

Does that mean when I click "See less of this" because Twitter thinks I give a rats ass about tweets made 18 hours from people I don't even follow because the people I do follow "liked" said tweets

...that I'll actually see less of "this"? I have lists to cut down on that crap but I'd like to not have to feel like I'm fooling the platform just to curate my own experience using it--if I'm going to continue using it at all (because I LOVE Sports twitter, I hate everything else twitter, if someone made a hyper focused fork of twitter for sports personalities, videos and gifs of sports highlights I'd be there faster than John Smoltz fastball).

Does anyone else feel similar (minus the sports bit)?
It sounds like you do not believe you can stop it.

Given that, try to limit the damage.

Allow them to do 1 day a week on shiny but must do the rest on mainline.
> Annual donations to charity per year in the US are in excess of 400 Billion

Yes, but how much of that is "social support" versus, say, wealthy people structuring expenditures they were going to make anyway to be more tax efficient.
I've always found it really "interesting" how much resistance the industry shows to hiring part time and/or remote, the two changes in hiring which would really ease their supposed labor issue. I refuse to believe the dogma about labor shortages until I see companies actually going out and hiring all the available qualified employees. All the nitpicking over what constitutes "qualified" which isn't about being able to do the work is just an excuse to exert butts-in-seats dominion over workers.
> Ball bearings

Couldn't you just use anything sufficiently round and uniform and Mohs-hard, given a lubricant oil to protect it from wear? Glass marbles? Pearls? Rocks after a ridiculous amount of tumbling?
Please don't do nationalistic flamewar on HN, regardless of how provocative some other comments are. Everyone needs to make an effort here to prevent discussion from degrading into battle.

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As ever title trimmed to fit:

"A layer of ‘aerogel’ could make Mars habitable and even enable life to develop there – but here’s why we should wait"
Infosec. your skills are in great demand and it pays well.
I've seen people with no compsci/IT background jump from mathematics to infosec and become rockstars.

At your age,hopefully you know if this or other fields are for you or not.

Outside of professional pursuit, I would recommend investing your time developing a healthy social and personal life as well as taking care of your body. Else, burn-outs and regrets lie ahead.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please review the site guidelines and don't post like this to HN.

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Has anyone done a breakdown of Apple's profit from hardware vs (in-)app purchases? Feels like this is a situation where they're not selling the devices as loss leaders, and could easily improve people's experiences and perceptions by cracking down a bit, without it really costing them much. Feels along the same lines as the privacy push - they _could_ make lots of money selling your data, but they're selling the peace of mind as a feature.
It's more or less an feat in problem solving. Given a specific set of limitations in simulation, can you recreate and solve this computation problem?

For some games, like Minecraft (redstone) and Factorio (logic gates) it's easy, but for others it's difficult enough that you get to see some creativity. This is one of those latter instances.
Strong reverberations of this in Western history as well, and it's quite possibly the strongest argument against monopoly:

Bernhard J. Stern, "Resistances to the adoption of Technological Innovations" (1937)

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...
New encodings to improve ClickHouse efficiency
The latter.

If tax evasion were not incredibly common among the wealthy, and if fewer of our tax dollars were used to create war, subsidize big business, etc., I'd be less inclined to feel this way.
That's one part of it.

Another part is hiring a breed of test engineers who like breaking stuff and have a knack for it.
When Ancient DNA Gets Politicized
While you may be able to open up some switches, I don't think you can build a reasonable user experience on something like that, since anything that allows you significant control over how the results are chosen (beyond the simple control you've mentioned, like prefer certain types of results) will be both too complex for anything other than like distributed common sets of options (like a plugin that comes with presets) and/or have so many knobs as to make tuning for good results infeasible.

I would argue Google already supports some of what you want, like allowing you to search just for news, although additional filters based on something like the niche you're looking for or the type of content don't hurt.
> The alternatives are not good. Cast iron? Too heavy and too brittle. Wrought iron? Maybe, but not that great. Lead? Too soft. Brass? Could work, but expensive. A king's kid might have had a brass bicycle.

Haven't they made working bicycles with wooden frames?
The problem here is capitalism though. It has already distorted the market by extracting as much rent as possible from what ever inefficiency and externality it can find to make whatever equilibrium found far below anything a
truly efficient market would determine.

Couple this with the misguided proposition that cost (market determined price) reflects value, and thus that fellow citizens right to food, shelter and safety should reflect their market determined labor price and you get this result.

Capitalism is a failed idea in it’s current incarnation, and does not deliver on the promise even of efficient markets.

Attacking Amazon to fix this, or enforcing minimum wages, isn’t more rational than taking pain killers to improve on the situation of hitting your head against a wall repeatedly. If we have nothing better to offer, by all means, but we should feel really ashamed that this is the best we have to offer.

We need something new, not that I know what, but it should be pretty obvious that what we have now fails to deliver.

I find the ideas of geo-liberalism somewhat inspiring, and I do think some synthesis is in order where market economies are leveraged for the beautiful resource allocators they are.
I did think about it. Before I posted I spent more than just a small bit of effort. I still don't see what the difference actually is though. Yes I know what "but" means. I know all those words... but...

I do not see any actual difference. Anything you apply those two descriptions to are both "off-topic" as well as "interesting", according to those descriptions. The "but" does not make any difference at all as far as I can see. The other replies say there is a preference implied (I already knew that that was the intention), but as I just wrote, however you parse it, you end up with both attributes and I don't see any preference actually being applied. I see the attempt, yes, but I don't see that there is any effect.
That would be okay so long as any solution is temporary with clear criteria for sunsetting the government's involvement. Last thing we need is yet another agency that succumbs to the Shirky Principle and citizens become dependent on the government instead of taking up one of the new jobs that appear in the next few decades.

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/
I don't browse r/all, I use the front page with a curated selection of subreddits (programmer humor, aviation, android, various other interests)
You have to be 21 to play the slots in Vegas. It's recognized as not a good idea to allow casinos and gaming rooms to extend access to addictive gambling games to children.

Gambling is also banned for everyone in many states, not just children, as the damage to society of allowing enterprises to prey on addictive personality types and create misery is recognized.

These laws need to be applied to online games as well.
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I think its totally possible, two examples already:

Google Ads (used to?) lets you target by "bahaviour" vs "in-market". They can tell the difference between someone who is passionate about beds, maybe involved in the bed business (behavior) and the people who are making the once-in-a-decade purchase of a bed (in-market).

Google can tell devices apart on the same google account and keep together search threads. I might be programming on my desktop making engineering searches but at the same time I'm googling memes on my phone; both logged into the same account.
Leather "chains" were used on bicycles for a while, made from several small pieces of leather riveted together, in order to form ridges that gears could grab onto.
"Remember, search touches (nearly) every indexed document on every query" - wait, why does that happen?

Doesn't it only touch ones with at least one of the search terms in, or stemmed/varied words relating to some of the terms? And does that via an index?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...

It is a type of silicosis, and has been around since 1935.
I think Redstone's inspiration was people building computers in Dwarf Fortress with floodgates and pressure plates, rather than Minecraft specifically.
Flight Assist Off Part 2 – Build Angular Without the CLI
The problem I think is the all-or-nothing aspect. So you trade off convenience for safety and it mostly works out but the worst case is worse than many people think it could be.

Why, for example, can you as a parent not set an (even global) spending limit on in app purchases?

Why can't you disable in-app purchases per app?

I think the answer to those sorts of questions is pretty easy to come up with. Lot's of things could technically be done that would make it easier for parents to manage this stuff, but it's not going to happen without a push from somewhere because every barrier you put in place will reduce revenue somewhere.
Not OP, but before 2.8 and the depsgraph refactor the viewport was really slow on not so complex scenes. The NLA system (Non Linear Animation) needed some love, since it wasn't so smooth to mix animations (can't recall the details at the moment). The animation library/database, like all of Blender's object system, was a little confusing and was easy to lose your work (e.g. if an animation/datablock was not assign to an object, you would lose it when you restart Blender. The refactor in Collections was a great start in the right direction.
If you're still feeling froggy with your data, I'd love a follow up with some NLP term frequency used in the posts.

Did intern frequency drop or did the sheer increase in posts shrink their overall percentage? The concern I have there is the idea of becoming too "top heavy" where no one is interested in helping interns grow and only want to recruit experienced people.
https://timperrett.com/2012/06/15/unboxed-new-types-within-s... is an old example (I wouldn't use scalaz these days but other libraries do the same thing).
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Why did the author of the list focus around the Apple ecosystem? How exactly do design tools like acorn/pixelmator promote the open web?
if I write a letter by hand or read the URL over the phone
a shortener is invaluable
Stallman also had the advantage of living within the university system for a long time while he built his reputation, so once he was on his own, he could use his reputation to solicit services. The average person has to do more to keep a roof over their head.
Pioneering a Free Market for Alpha
Care to elaborate? Neither you or OP have backed up this rather large claim.
It does seem utterly counterintuitive that a vehicle that cannot balance by itself would be able to balance with the addition of a heavy rider elevating its center of gravity. Usually making an object top-heavy renders it even more unstable, and bicycles are not stable to begin with.

And adding a rider on top of a bicycle does make it more unstable, but the amazing flexibility of the human brain allows us to transform that instability into stability, kind of like how modern fighter jets are intentionally unstable to make them more manoeuvrable.

Bicycles are a marvel of physics and biology working together.
FWIW, Lime appears to be trying to answer my desire for tiny carshares with their 'LimePod' branded fleet of Fiat 500s in the Seattle. I haven't tried one, yet, so I don't know how well it works, or if you can wedge a bike in the back. :)
> Anyone critical of the plan had ample opportunity to post a substantive complaint instead of a handwavy dismissal of the idea of root comment.

And, per my linked article, other experts did.

When an idea that obviously terrible gets promulgated (and, I'm sorry, but being unable to answer the question: "How will you prevent the birds you're trying to protect from also eating the poison?" ipso facto makes a plan "terrible"), it deserves little more than derision in the form of "silly quips."

I have deadlines, which need my attention more than continuing to talk past one another here. Have a nice day.
It's true that canned goods don't have the impact that money does, but it's infinitely better than some things people donate. Glass jars have to be carefully set aside for special handling, if they haven't broken yet. Homemade or unlabeled food is simply thrown away. If you're going to donate food, at least donate cans.
I feel like Visual Studio Code deserves a spot. Its open source, and free. Unlike a lot of the listed editors.
This is the point at which the thread swerves into unsubstantiveness and therefore flamewar. I realize it's not always predictable, but please take threads in the opposite direction.

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"Be kind."

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> As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market.

nope, that's just using the fact that right now capital has more leverage than labour to pay your workers as little as you can get away with.
This results in several net negatives for workers though:

- Housing in exurban areas is not necessarily cheap. And moving has a nonzero cost. People may not be able to move to the exurbs in the first place.

- Downtown is where services are. Generally speaking, suburban support for low-income people is often lacking. And kids have to switch schools, people lose their existing community support networks, etc.

- Because downtown has so much employment, it's relatively easy to switch between jobs. Don't like your retail job? You can switch to another retailer, or a restaurant, or any other type of low income job. In these exurban areas, how much employer diversity is there? Is it easy to get to other employers?

This mostly seems like it would just create company slums.
There are some stats here on where the money goes:

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...

I'm not really sure what "wealthy people structuring expenditures they were going to make anyway" even means.
Okay, here are a few thoughts in no partcular order:

- finding a job is awful. Networking is key -- but read that as 'spending time with other people doing interesting things leads to opportunities'. Consider attending or hosting meetups, or going to/presenting at conferences.

- Programming is a lot more than knowing a particular library or language, and good companies realize this. At its core, it is the problem solving skills and getting things done, and you haven't programmed in that many languages without learning to do that.

- Consider contributing to an open-source project. It may be a great way to 'unrust' your skills.

- Consider taking further education; there are distance universities or online universities (ex. http://www.cvu-uvc.ca/ -- should be something similar where you are from). edX has great courses; there is OpenCourseware, Udemy, etc.

- Two books I'd like to recommend: "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport, and "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" by David Epstein.

Good luck.
As far as I understand, the problem with wine is that the wine sandbox prevents other anticheat mechanism from working.
how do you determine that if not at what the market sets it at?
Unfortunately, using identical connectors for incompatible protocols — often hazardously incompatible (to equipment) protocols — is an equally time-tested industry tradition, and not only in more cost-conscious market segments.

High-voltage differential SCSI comes immediately to mind — one might imagine there'd have been enough margin and price inelasticity in the market for $200 cables used to connect rooms full of $20,000+ storage devices to support the development and manufacture of slightly different connectors to prevent damage by connection to then-ubiquitous single-ended SCSI busses, but I suppose the projections for increased sales or reduced maintenance costs (for the vendors) due to redesigning the connector weren't high enough to justify a decision to standardize on different connectors for single-ended and differential SCSI.

Similarly, given that USB-C was essentially a fait accompli on the drawing board, short of material risk of injury or death due to misuse of otherwise compliant cables, I'm not convinced any one player in the industry — or any group of players likely to collaborate on something such as this — has both the means and the motive to seriously suggest something better.

Why build a better mousetrap when the world can't afford to beat a path away from your door?
Maybe not the app devs, but it would be nice if Apple or Google had a counter of how much money you've spent in IAPS on an app on the payment screen.
> That should be obvious unless you like to just throw money at strangers.

Hence just throwing canned food at strangers instead.
I think one of the things that makes USB-C particularly problematic here is that "plug it in and find out" can be harmful to devices since devices can draw 100W of power through the port.
Yeah - https://celilocycles.com/ for instance. But it's not easy and I don't think they can mass produce them.
A Tale of Two Spellcheckers
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It has become beyond ridiculous. We need to standardized around one cable. I get it, we can't have government doing this, but I'm at a complete loss for who else could? IEEE?
This kind of thing isn't totally out of the question. The mandarins famously shut down China's budding sea voyages because they were run by a eunuch, and the mandarins and the eunuchs were opposed factions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He

But there was never a Chinese ideological opposition to peasants becoming rich; the theory advanced by AnimalMuppet makes no sense.
At this point your comments have the effect of trolling others, whether you meant to or not. Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We've had to ask you this before.

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yes, help promote the open web by using proprietary tools on a proprietary platform
Well, I can tell you that it has a mux, anyways — it’s a Pericom PI3USB30532 per iFixit’s teardown. Exactly what for I don’t know.
It definitely doesn't invalidate the problems with the current model, I'm just saying that for all our talk of how bad YouTube is, no one has yet come up with a way to fund an alternative that keeps the good qualities without the bad ones.

So the question really just becomes: is the good of YouTube worth the bad?
Cracking Destruction (2014)
The actual Butterfly Effect sometimes gets me thinking. Unlike what's popular in time travel fiction, it seems to me that even the tiniest change would cause a completely different world, with completely different people inhabiting it, about a generation or so deeper.

As a stupid example, consider the change being a tree branch falling in the Serengeti. A small animal, which would otherwise have just continued eating, scuttles away. It crosses a nearby road, causing a nearly imperceptible slowdown for a woman on here way to the airport. She arrives just a few seconds later, but it's enough for the pattern of people in the hall to change and her to not see a sandwich shop she would have seen at a glance. She arrives meeting her husband, sleeps with him just like in the original timeline--but because she's slightly more hungry, did slightly different things on the plane, and so has slightly different discussions, they sleep with each other a tiny bit earlier or later, in an ever so slightly different position, but completely enough to either not cause conception of the child they would have conceived originally, or the conception of a different child (different sperm, different combination of genetic material, and so on).

And now it's obvious. The child is essentially a completely different person, with completely different thoughts, actions, being not exactly where the original child would habe been throughout its life at practically all moments (even if they go to the same school, they're unlikely to stand in the same spot in the hallway at all times). Blocking other people's view, or slowing them down, or causing them to go somewhere else. Causing many many "tree branches" of its own, many of which result in people meeting or not meeting other people, or having different offspring regardless, and so on.

Now, consider that this was just looking at one consequence of the falling tree branch. There are many more. The point is, it can be the tiniest things that ripple through time to entirely change who is populating earth a few decades later.

In media, even when the change is "prevent World War II", today's world almost always gets portrayed with the same characters and same personalities, that somehow still all met. I don't blame the writers, though, it certainly makes for a more entertaining story.
I think he was suckered by a deliberate propaganda effort to paint PV as dirty. Shellenberger was spreading that BS, and others picked it up without being sufficiently skeptical.
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I believe you may be conflating food banks and food pantries. Food pantries are places that distribute food directly to people. Food banks are centralized places that distribute to soup kitchens and food pantries, not to individuals. They exist to solve exactly the problem you're describing: Allowing a large number of small organizations to achieve economies of scale by pooling their resources.
> I don't have an attribution

This is called "Hanlon's razor" and, by the way, it is probably a silliest, baseless, most overused saying on the Internet...
SpaceX says Crew Dragon capsule exploded due to exotic titanium fire