skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one quite enjoyed reading, and learned from, that book.

Could you please suggest good books about economic history. I'm looking to expand my knowledge in that domain.
It's doubtful Congo was responsible for the wealth of Belgium.

- What is now Belgium was one of the wealthiest parts of Europe in the Middle Ages, long before any colonization.

- Belgium was the second European country to industrialize. This caused the economy to boom and Belgium had the 4th highest GDP in 1900. Congo was only a colony since 1908.

- In 1918 the whole economy was destroyed because of the war. The Germans had plundered the country. Whole factories were dismantled and shipped to Germany.

- In 1945 the economy was once again destroyed because of the Germans.

- In 1956, at the heigh of colonial exploitation, Congo was 3,3 % of Belgian GDP and 75000 direct and indirect jobs. Not nothing but hardly the base of all wealth. It was much lower in the preceding decades.

- Congo became independent in 1960. Annual GDP growth rates were much higher during the 60's than during the whole colonial period.

I would say Belgium is currently wealthy because of the Marshall plan.

source: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/twent...
Where does Pilot Wave theory fall?
This looks like a very good start. What's your plan for monetization and also mobile apps?
You can go to a community college for much less money and all kids aren't required to go to College to earn a good living.

This is just silly.
I hope you enjoy paying your lawyers tens of millions to litigate the definition of a “social media site”.
This is the first time I've seen this debunking. And my head isn't in the sand, and I am definitely interested in understanding the reality of the situation.

So, it's not a waste of breath at all.
Chrome doesn’t run on iOS. They’re doing this because they want to, not because it would somehow make Chrome more secure.
Well of course they are. So what?

Hopefully Apple does the same thing and obliges Google to operate with a whole lot more security. (Not that anyone should use Google in any case because of the industry leading flagrance of their privacy issues. But I digress.)
Beyond Meat Comes Back for Seconds
Screen size is a hugely personal preference. I prefer having a screen as big as possible, and used a 7" fonepad in the past (that bezel though!). Now the 6.67" Oneplus 7 Pro is more than enough, and fits in more pockets.

I respect people that want a smaller computing device, and I'm sad the market barely has options for you. Nowadays a 5.6" Pixel 3a is considered "small".

One could ask if the market really big enough ? I haven't heard the 3.3" 2018 Palm Phone being a huge success, despite being virtually alone on this market.
He's been doing a lot of these recently. Always an entertaining read.
It doesn't matter what a single company does, the whole industry needs to improve in regards to quality of deliverables.
If you're not planning to engage in nuclear war with modern national superpowers, maybe you don't need a board of the top physicists on call for information about weapons research.
I honestly think the first one mentioned will become a "primary" reason as soon as the first largish "came from the direction of the sun" doomsday asteroid slams into us, and makes us rethink some of our priorities.

Assuming we survive the event - and assuming it isn't "The Killer Event".

You know - something largish that takes out 3-4 major cities, and we didn't see until much too late (like the near-space flyby we just had - though it was smaller).

Then again - we are talking human society here - so even that probably wouldn't cause us to sit up and think "you know, we're kinda sitting ducks here" and do something about it collectively.

I mean, look at the number of natural disasters that happen all over the world virtually every year in the same spots, yet do people really do anything to improve their chances next time, or do they say "it won't happen again next year" - and it doesn't, until a few years later when it does.

We're such a short sighted species for these kinds of things, and the dumb thing is, we know for absolute certainty that these events will happen, but because we don't know when, for some reason we decide to put off what we should be doing NOW, because when it happens, we'll either not survive the event (and everything we have ever done was all for naught - a footnote at best), or what remains won't have the means, perhaps ever, to rise to a similar level of technology to prevent it happening again.
Just as you can on Safari!

Web applications can't do peer to peer networking, period. Nor can they interact with arbitrary hardware devices you decide to connect.
India crowns its newest billionaire, a 37-year-old former teacher
>Good way to disqualify any counter-examples to your theory. If they're more equal in status (i.e. have more equal economies), then they don't count.

Brahmins in India had high social status but less money/assets in past. So I am not talking about economic status.
Read the article. Its a scam-tactic.
> You don't have to learn a new language ... javascript ecosystem ... Vue.js ...

You seem to be assuming that everyone is a javascript developer and wants to work in it.
Versioning files is still a need too.
The sliders you generally see in the US tend to be just setting a field to true or 1.

The sliders in China are doing more than the same amount of fingerprinting if not more than recaptcha, port scan your local device from your browser, and other fun things. Alibaba's sets a dozen cookies prefixed with big_brother, which I find amusing.

They will let you slide once or twice, then challenge you with an actual captcha if you fail heuristics. Blocking fingerprinting scripts will result in outright failure to sign in, or being challenged with a full captcha every attempt. They also generally do not give a crap about accessibility.
> The thing about superdeterminism is that it's only interesting if you want to argue philosophy.

Like the Many Worlds Interpretation!
> That there are light-skinned fair-haired Europeans today is evidence that they didn't vanish completely.

This article suggests otherwise: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22308-europeans-did-n...
They already require periodic resigning of self-signed side-loaded apps on iOS, it doesn't stop even relatively casual users.

(That's actually the funniest part about all this, now that I think about it. While everyone is wailing and gnashing their teeth about some speculative possibility that macOS ends up locked down like iOS, Apple has been making iOS more open.)
Improving the Performance of C++ Standard Library Functions
You spent those 9 months presumably working and taking care of her. That's more than a fair trade.
> We've simply never needed batteries at this scale before EVs started happening.

Is that really true?

There a a LOT of lead acid batteries out there, considering there's been at least one sold alongside nearly every internal combustion engine larger than a handheld tool.
Decoupling Logic from React Components
Depreciation curves aren’t linear. At $20,000 which is the list price of the car (which is almost certainly overstating it) you’re depreciating the car to zero after two years. Even a beat to shit two year old car isn’t worth zero.
Ah you're right that I missed postsecondary. It should be:

>Looking at the text of the fine, you can't charge money to teach adults things in a cirriculum ("offer education" in their parlence) in a physical location without state approval.

It's an important distinction, but I don't think that huge game changer. Still looks clearly unconstitutional.

I could literally rent a storefront and recite audio books and that would be illegal. How is that a constitutional law? Note: educational books often have a curriculum built in. The difference between a book and a class is just the medium it's presented.

Limiting the spread of information is what dictatorships do. There is a reason it's the very first amendment.
Amusingly during the Second Italian-Ethiopian War when fighting fascist Italy, Ethiopia received marginal material support from Nazi Germany in the form of a handful of airplanes, a few thousand rifles, and a few million rounds of ammunition.

(Italy and Germany had a dispute over Austria, which seemingly manifested in this way.)
I don't know, but I will say that it's easy to indignant about these things when they don't happen to you.

When I grew up, we lived in an unincorporated area with minimal noise and other ordinances. A new neighbor moves in next store and basically spends 20-40 hours a week shooting at a bell and fixed targets from 7AM-?. They would use everything from .22s ("ding, ding, ..., ding") to various pistols, AK-47/SKS rifles, to hunting rifles daily. After church on Sunday most summers consisted of watermelon demolition via shotgun. My mom worked nights, and it made her life miserable.

Fast forward to my recent past. I live in a city, in a mixed neighborhood of 1-4 family houses. Some asshole decides to illegally convert his 2-family flat into a 10 unit SRO. So now we're stuck with people who are willing to live in that kind of situation (ie. mostly drug addicts and drunks) hanging around yucking it up all night. We were only able to shut it down when the slumlord guy decided to illegally convert the front porches into two more units, and when cited by the code officer chose to assault him.

I get the pushback to zoning, but it exists because of substantial minority of the population are assholes. My dad ran subsidized housing programs for years and built personal relationships with many of the stakeholders that I got to be a small part of -- the narrative on HN is that poor people are fighting zoning, the reality is that poor people are often the biggest advocates for it, but are denied due process. Nobody wants to live around slumlord apartments, or have industrial activity in their backyard -- but the most vulnerable people have the worst ability to secure representation and demand attention.
Not sure if you're making a joke but I definitely misread def (definitely) as deaf
Who requires an NDA? I don't believe Google does: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
No, that the simplicity of the language forces complexity in the code written in it.
No, the link he provided in the document to the original PING source.
It's supposed to go to http://ftp.arl.army.mil/pub/ping.shar
But ends up at https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm
It does... the graph is price per megabase, not per read.

(or at least, it's supposed to)

But, I don't think the plot is all that accurate anymore though... given the cost/GB and raw capacity of the newer Novaseq's, the cost per individual experiment is just as much a function of how multiplexed the machine can run.
And what if the cache line is full/dirty?
I think if there is any coronal mass ejection it will arrive going past earth on the 31st or the 1st. There are zero sunspots. Could be good for aurora viewing
Threads are C11, not C99.
Nice rec! They're the ones that wrote the tagged [0] repo I use, had no idea they were connected. Very cool.

[0]: https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-tagged
I think one should not underestimate the powers of the not-so-good-team to make anything go sour. Who says the not-so-good-team isn't going to make sure that any change needs to touch at least 3 repos and quite regularly as many as 10?

As for the philosophical issue that yosefk raises, I generally advocate solutions that work for the case that the team is good. I tend to think that if the team is not good you would be cooked anyway. Also, if you raise the stakes people might actually start learning a bit.
Typescript removes some of the nastiest Javascript features. Of course that's not it's raison d'être and it includes a bunch of stuff you may not care for. However it is what is currently occupying the niche you're asking for. And it has all the advantages parent mentions.
Fun fact: Dogs developed whole extra sets of facial muscles during their domestication: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/domestic...

This happened in a remarkably short period of time, and the running theory is that early dogs with more expressiveness were better cared for and received by human societies than similar dogs that were less expressive.
Super Mario 64 Decompiled
I have no concerns about having a build pipeline per se. My concern is that it's still way too complex and difficult. I think it could be made to be much simpler for 90 percent of cases, while still maintaining optional complexity for the remaining 10 percent of cases that need it.
UX is everything, people!
I think outside of all the political talk about fiat currencies, gold, and other commodities are valued as diversification instruments just because they tend to move separately from stocks and bonds. There are environments when stocks and bonds both behave poorly.
One thing I always loved about Blender is the installer size. It blows my mind that a 3D modeling software is under 100 MB.
The point is not that it's "reasonable", is that it's just what it is. It doesn't resolve the problem, it makes it meaningless.
Seems to me you should get paid to contribute to improving models rather than having to pay for the privilege. Although validating data is necessary, paying to provide data for a model that may be deemed inaccurate doesn't incentivize usage.
One thing I'm not a fan of is that some of them only provide slides. You can obviously get great summaries on slides, but they're not the greatest for someone who just started learning.
No. You're both being downvoted because it didn't really add anything to the conversation. It was just filler.
It’s certainly not the case that telling your doctor about your insurance only changes who pays. It radically changes the price, and not always downward.
2 hours earlier: https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1156220122933207041

"We'll be carefully rolling this out starting shortly" .. oopsie, debug mode in production commence.
Putting the Trump name on this probably got them more eyeballs, but it seems a bit of a pity. The story is genuinely interesting without branding another article with the president's label. It seems unlikely he is especially involved in this. Mentioning him unnecessarily politicises the story; the man stirs up strong feelings.
> Imaginary friends are a common—and normal—manifestation for many kids

I never had any imaginary friends. Even when other kids had fantastic expectations in the world, like asking a teacher to build a swimming pool, I was very sceptical on how will get permission and a budget for that. For me, toy cars were toys. I liked to make then run down a slope, but never tough they were real.

> what is less understood is what prompts children to create these personas or why some kids invent them and others don’t

I struggle to understand other behaviours too. When all the children were screaming in the theatre to the good guy "the bad guy is at your back!", I could not understand why the other children were screaming at the actor. He is an actor in the play, of course, he knows where the bad guy is and what is going to happen next. I felt slightly second-hand embarrassment.

> One suggested that relationships with invisible beings fulfill a child’s need for friendship and are more common among firstborn or only children.

I saw all these "imaginary friends" in movies as an American thing. Like Big Foot, I saw imaginary friends as a storytelling device, not as something real. I was surprised when I read that is a real thing, not just part of movies. But, when I grew up, most families were at least two children. So, maybe there was not much space for imaginary friends.

> it can be hard to fathom a day when the imaginary characters who’ve been populating their lives for so long simply cease to exist.

And this is for me the final irony, I continue having fun when I go to work. I will go with some weird clothing or I will draw characters from books with interesting quotes in meeting rooms. For me, there is not that strong separation between being a child and being an adult. I was responsible as a child, taking care of myself and the people around me. And, I am playful and have fun as an adult, and - inside the limits of what makes sense - I try to engage my colleagues and I make new friends all the time that I have been lucky enough to keep after moving jobs and countries.
I wonder what the global GDP impact is of StackOverflow being down.
Does it? Maybe if it was used to blackmail everybody, but as long as people are given a chance to feel superior, no matter how hypocritical the opportunity, they will take it. Thus as long as the blackmail is only selectively applied to a few targets it will remain extremely effective.

Also, there is the possibility of creating false data that is worse than the average blackmail material. For example, say you are a political dissident starting a new party that appears to be an actual threat to the incumbents. Oops, we leaked the data showing you had an uncanny knack for finding and repeatedly viewing the most illegal of material before our moderators manage to take it down.

No matter how well you can defend against such a claim, your political future is now over.
For the radio & antenna you'll probably have on a small CubeSat, expect slow and unreliable, but it depends on if you're running your own ground station, in which case you may only be able to communicate for minutes a day or less, or are using a large ground station network or satellite constellation like Iridium, which will still be slow, but will offer much more frequent communication opportunities.
Deepstream 4.0 Released
auth is easy
Now I want to build a CubeSat that will point a laser pointer at different population centers as it passes around the earth. E.g. this pass of North America you choose LA, then NYC, then Houston, then Chicago... so you can see it streak by in the sky.

My rough estimation is you could create a spot 2 miles across with a standard laser pointer at 400 miles high. Maybe you could use a different kind that would have a little more spread. And you'd have even more if you weren't beaming directly downwards -- maybe you could point it at 45 degrees or more with a powerful laser and get nice coverage.
One of the major sources of headaches for designing satellites is thermal management.

In fact, during some weeks of the year the Space Shuttle could not visit the International Space Station because at the ISS inclination, the Shuttle would have spent too much time in the sun. The ISS, Space Shuttle, and other satellites have large radiators to cool them down.
Between Stormy Daniels, "grab 'em by the p", and Epstein's community service for pedophilia, perhaps we are living in a post-blackmail era?

NXVIM, pizzagate, Weinstein, Epstein, the Catholic Church--all I see now are echoes of Elizabeth Bathory and feudalism.
Easy to enable, but in practice not much help yet: For me, at least, I enabled resistFingerprinting and tested on https://panopticlick.eff.org. A unique fingerprint was still present. Test it yourself.
Offer more money.
I love julia, I really do. It has a great syntax and is extremely fast compared to other languages with such a high level syntax.

But the main complaint I see and completely agree is that it feels very slow. You want to import the plotting library? Write 'using Plots' and wait 3 minutes. You want to use a function just once? Too bad, you wait 10 times the amount of time you would wait if you ran that in python (If you run the function again, it is almost instant since it is now compiled).

I get this is what allows Julia to be such an effective language but there still is a lot of room for improvement.
But for those of you that are interested in it, give it a try and you will enjoy how powerful the language is. For example you can have hundreds of lines of complex algebra functions and by just adding a line to the top like 'input = gpuarray(input)' and now all your code is 100 times faster because it magically runs on your gpu. Another favorite feature for me is function broadcasting. Simple example 'lowercase(x)' gives lowercase version of string x. You have a matrix of strings that you want to lowercase? Simply write 'lowercase.(s_matrix)' These features and excellent packages that provide parallelization makes an excellent language. I mostly use Julia for computation heavy tasks, if the compilation times were reduced it would be my go to language for all kinds of tasks.
/incident "mic check mic check 1.. 2.. 1.. 2.."
Speaking as an American who has lived in other countries, the idea of "American Exceptionalism" is rampant in the USA and you will not undo it with any appeal or facts. It's built into the identity of so many people here. Seeing that as a group Americans are a majority on most English speaking websites, criticism, however correct, is always met with egoistic backlash. I hope you haven't taken it personally, nor believe that it's ALL of us. Nationalism is a disease, but one not likely to be cured.
It is not leftover, it applies to applications as well as music and videos. Apps can price themselves per region, or even not be available outside of set regions. There can be multiple reasons for this including third party content licensing or support reasons.
It seems much fairer to universally fund zero or low cost tuition for public university (or trade school, etc) irrespective of wealth and people wanting the prestige or networking or whatever of private university institutions can then pay for that perceived added value.

Instead, we have squabbles over the scraps of funding over current access and the enforcement costs of trying to keep one group from "getting ahead" of another while wealth is being drained from most labor classes - even the upper middle classes where current college aids generally falls away completely.
You might be able to download it through steam.

I grabbed most of the downloads from the website and have them in a resilio share here BBFPBUQ2TM7EKQIH3MVFPQWIRBLWVQEOO too if that helps.
I replaced Google with Microsoft, Oracle and SCO, and the feeling is the same.
Project Zero was not the group that discovered the G+ vulnerability, though. Project Zero's terms do not bind other teams within the company who have not agreed to them.
I suspect there's also an inverse relationship at the high end, because of people like me who'll subscribe for a month, watch all the new content, then cancel.
>>>* They don't like to have to clone lots of other repos, and to then worry about their versions (in part because the tooling support for this might be less than great).*

I think this is the argument around which the whole post is made. Everyone does want to work in a small space where they control everything. I want to see git log with just my code commits - so I'll make a microservice out of it.

All other arguments are just there to wrap this one. I think it's wrong.

At an organisational level, a monorepo is more good than bad because it simplifies dependency management and makes for a low-ego team.
Part 3: Incremental App Migration from VMs to Kubernetes – Ambassador and Consul
In the article, the board of top phycisists are also queried about waves and the safe storage of nuclear material. They also were the guys who state that the 'sonic attacks' in cuba were crickets.
You can install and run Blender through Steam. There's even a beta channel for the release candidates. That might get around the slow download issue.
Good. Because the competitors aren’t.
Has anyone here used the Blender video editor? How well does it work?

I've been looking to get back into video-production in my free time, but on Linux the number decent video-editing solutions is limited. I'm looking into Lightworks, but I'd prefer something FOSS if at all possible.