skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it that society was convinced? Or was/is it that it is more “out of sight, out of mind”? I think for the layperson, little matters other than how much does it cost? If there is some invisible but safe-for-us chemical that increases yield and decreases cost, all the better for us, right?

I think this is one of the great things to come out of the invention of the web. We are becoming better informed and this kind of information is becoming more prevalent. It’s becoming much harder for these big corporations to hide these negative side effects (insect decline, Round-Up cancers etc) and we as a population are becoming more aware of the negative side effects of our imprint on the world.
Amazon has been great for authors and for readers. I've read several books by authors that started out by self publishing on Amazon. People like Andy Weir, Hugh Howey, Ernest Cline, John Scalzi, and indeed Robert Dugoni. Of course it doesn't work out for everyone but lowering the barrier of entry to the market for authors is a good thing.

Of course for serious authors, marketing and editing are still essential and there seems to be a notion of successful self published authors quickly getting deals from publishers for exactly that reason. But undeniably the middle men industry is being affected. I'm not even sure that's a bad thing. Marketing and PR is a function that you can pay people to do. Dead tree production and associated logistics is a service as well. Same with editing. There's no need to get all of these things under the same roof.
But it can still take a long time for a problem like this to solve itself, especially, in an area dominated by a monopoly. So the need for laws for this is not completely unnecessary.
> This is the sort of problem that solves itself.

Unfortunately it doesn't. If you've ever watched the UK TV series "Watchdog" you'll see time after time people set up businesses, rip people off, go bankrupt, rinse and repeat. Game theory trumps economic models here - and the rules of the game are whatever loopholes these people can find.

To be fair these cinema clowns haven't done anything much worse than a 'fair usage policy' on a mobile phone offering 'unlimited calls' would do. They were sly about it rather than upfront. They could have just introduced new terms as of the next payment. But the general point is about the free market sorting this sort of thing out doesn't work.
> The gun culture is the locus of a lot of important values in the US -- service to the country, acceptance of danger, self control, precise and accountable behaviour

I have a hard time understanding what does acceptance of danger and self-control have to do with assault rifles? Can't those be exerted with a pistol?

Also I fail to understand how people don't see guns as a liability. Just having one in the house would cause me a lot of headache. Guns can be stolen, kids might find it etc..
This page has a lot more photos including manuals:

https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Commodore/CBM900

The part about the OS caught my eye:

>Commodore chose the Mark-Williams "Coherent" clone for the CBM900 which is roughly UNIX System 7, but with a few twists and less features.

>The operating system is delivered on four floopy disks: Low-res and Hi-res boot, and common volume 2 & 3 with more programs. All four floppies contain a filesystem. We have made bit-for-bit images of these floppies, both on the CBM900 harddisk and offline.
I have done this over the last few years and my happiness and content level in life has gone up dramatically. I have more time for my family and to pursue my hobbies. The problem is that it is a maverick move and goes against social expectations - one is seen as unambitious, unmotivated and passionless. Even my dad was like - WTF is wrong with you?
I'm in rural Suffolk, UK (still part of the EU). I think that there were more bees for the first part of the summer this year, our Lime trees were buzzing for a few weeks - something that used to happen 10 years ago, but had stopped happening for a few years - I'd wondered and worried about it. We've had more insects in the garden in general this year too and far more bats, but I lined the pond last autumn and it's been alive with insects all summer so that may be the reason.
Sounds like they save a lot of cost by pointless variation in the process.
Bad wording on my behalf, didn't mean any religious connotations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chome&redirect=no
Started getting fairly severe RSI about a year ago. It's at a manageable level now, but was really scary there for a while. The things that I credit (this is difficult to measure) as most helpful, in descending importance:

1. See a physical therapist and get a stretching/nerve glide regime from them.

2. Take lots of breaks to do the stretches.

3. Ergonomic keyboard (I'm using a Kinesis Freestyle 2).

4. Use foot pedals for CTRL, shift, and meta. I rigged up a simple 2-pedal Arduino solution for myself. Code here [0]

[0] https://github.com/anderspitman/ergo-pedals
Surely the cost of not using neonicotinoids for a few years, long enough to rule out it having a detrimental effect, is pretty small compared to that of destroying all the pollinating insects that we rely on for food production?
City district. Its mentioned in the article.
There are also ecosystems around old fashioned farming. Let's say cows on pasture, flies, wagtails and swallows. Bird nesting places in willows growing in ditches.
Human - nature interaction can reach a sort of equilibrium.
Probably one could do something similar with modern technology. Talk to biologists.
Sure but then what's the point of the extra encryption hassle
You need to care for them as expensive.

"This shirt's dry clean only, which means it's dirty" -Mitch
How much comes from iPhone sales and how much from iPhone app sales?
This is true also for social changes. Homosexuality, at least in my country, is an example. When I was a kid at school, 20-30 years ago, it was frowned upon and used as an insult. Now it's totally normal and no one except fringe extremists would use it as an insult. And as far as I know, there wasn't any Rosa Parks-like event that triggered the change (factually or symbolically), it just creeped in.
Not a Singaporean. But I have traveled extensively in Malaysia and Singapore and I can attest to the better experience of Grab. The Grab experience (availability, pickup time, price, etc.) was so much better that I never even thought of installing the Uber app in my subsequent visit to these two countries.
Why do you say this? Married couples have much higher net worth than unmarried couples do on average. Married people have a joint interest in increasing their wealth. Each member of an unmarried couple has an incentive to spend the other person's money.
I mean - this is a pretty impressive video. Bullshit, but impressive.

How much does something like this cost to get made? This isn't exactly "I know a guy who has After Effects" level production.
It's like some Hollywood movie intro, really well made.
Not necessarily. From the Article 29 working party guidance linked above.

". If the customer’s refusal to consent to this processing purpose would lead to the denial of banking services, closure of the bank account, or, depending on the case, an increase of the fee, consent cannot be freely given."
> But I think the real problem is this Rambo model of games. In reality, a single assailant against a large number of armed defenders should never be able to attack their way into a base.

On that note, I wish more shooters weren't just Rambo. Some of my favourite battles were ones where it felt like I was part of a larger offensive (I think Call of Duty 1 and 2 did this a lot). Unfortunately, the gaming industry completely ignored that design and went on to make one-man army games instead because of the power fantasy, which I find boring. I want to be part of an army. I want to be part of a war. I want to see dropships fly overhead. Artillery smashing the other side of the ridge. Fellow soldiers being gunned down as we push on an entrenched position.
The UHK firmware is open source. I should also mention that the configurator of the UHK is more advanced and polished than any alternatives.

JWZs review is completely unjust as he hates 60% keyboards. Read my comment in his post.
The problem is not the question of legitimacy for hiding/cover tactics, it's the monotony of them. Lots of players will say they enjoy these tactics and use them continually until they get bored and quit. Then they blame the game designer for making a boring game.

The problem for game designers is that fun is elusive and difficult to produce. It's far easier to make something addictive: use a random reward schedule with levelups, achievements, loot crates, and unlocks. To get the player to have fun requires novelty, learning, and a sense of real accomplishment in the face of danger. Unfortunately, bad level design punishes players for taking small risks and forces them into a monotonous foo (first order optimal [1]) strategies such as corridor camping.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EitZRLt2G3w
Weekly Robotics #51
"The author will show that when applying this simple operation to magical numbers, and to many other groups of numbers, an amazing world of hidden interconnections; repetition cycles; numerical symmetries; and geometrical patterns emerge. Especially when the geometrical (the circle) and the numerical aspects of the digital root world are combined together. It is in this circular/numerical world where numbers, individually and collectively, exist in their most basic, yet perfect and symmetrical states, and where the basic nine numbers are differentiated into three groups of amazing properties, which will be shown to underlie the essence of the whole universe; from the atom and its forces to the solar system and its geometry."

Right....
I couldn’t find a recording of the GDC 2019 talk about non linear level design the article mentions. Anyone know why GDC doesn’t post all talks online but rather uploads a subset of talks seemingly at random?
The switchboard room inside that building is also pretty fancy looking:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmänna_Telefonaktiebolagets_...

Even more photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tekniskamuseet-telehistoriska/...
The entire simulation could have started ten minutes ago, with false memories implanted.
What is described here is just an honest list of "things I did" and has nothing to do with bragging.

It seems that the term "brag document" is only used as clickbait.

Edit: yes the article says it, but the title does not
Yeah, but is the dripped weight the one being shown on the price per gram display?
5 most important lines:

import base64
import hmac
import struct
import sys
import time
Reminds of all those times we are told that 'customers demanded X', as if we all stood outside supermarkets with placards saying, "We demand huge strawberries that don't taste of anything". The market does what helps the market, it often isn't good for people or the planet they inhabit - that's the story of our current era and customers need to demand change on that basis.
There are some really interesting ideas floating around in the article and this summary.

But I do wonder if the overall interpretation is a little off - the interesting question to me is 'has anything changed'.

Particularly 3 and 8 - was there ever a time the administrators were not spineless bureaucrats? I'd like to interpret that in light of 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 as the student body is a lot more organised via social media than it used to be, and suddenly students are capable of imprinting an immature, half-formed culture on the university rather than the university imprinting the elite's culture on the students.
Surely the best thing to do with charlatans is put them in the spotlight and expose them. If you refuse to "give them the limelight" then you're just letting them hide their deception long enough to rip [more] people off.
I would disagree with passively 'letting land return to nature'. If you did this in Australia (where I'm from), and likely other places too, you'd end up with a haven for invasive species, which actively damage surrounding ecosystems.

Land needs to be actively managed - if you want it in its natural state, it needs time, money, and effort.

In my (biased) opinion, the best thing we can do for the planet is to spend more on research, so we can understand and counter problems. Spending on agricultural science is falling world-wide, just when it's needed the most. That isn't good.
Thread about Apple and the core behind their vision, by Steven Sinofsky
Compiled here: https://threader.app/thread/1160453536137695232
No as a shareholder in a buy back I don't get the money directly to me (like I would with a special dividend) - I may or may not get a capital increase which is not the same thing.

Your confusing a tender offer at over par with a generic buyback.
Along with micropython-hmac (MicroPython doesn't include hmac), and the touch sensor on an ESP32 I threw together an authenticator with the same inspiration as this project. It seems to work quite well, overall.
Code Is Not Literature (2014)
Ah just seeing C&C getting brought up brings back nostalgic memories. I remember Red Alert 2 being the best game ever.

I revisited this game with a friend of mine during high school years ago, we had to pirate the game and install some 3rd party LAN software to get RA2's online mode working. Once installed, we were surprised to see a good amount of people still playing the game. Good times
“First Flight on Another Planet ” on YouTube [video]
It’s caught by a higher-level catch if there is one.

Try blocks without a catch are a sign of any of these: poor coding, remnants from refactoring, features started and abandoned, possibly result of some build steps combining and optimising code.
> Enforcing current immigration law (...) is now extremism?

Well, of course. Advertising for armed psychopath (ICE/police or fascist militias) to terrorize, deport or kill other people in the name of stupidly enforcing the rules written on papers, that's fucking extremist.

Without Godwin'ing my way around this issue, simply enforcing rules is what every fascist government is about. The Nazis in Germany in the 40's took this to a shocking level, ensuring it was against your material interests at all times not to follow rules, even when they seemed unjust.

Giving everyone equal rights and opportunities is a supposedly founding principle of your "democracy". Your ancestors were welcomed on this land by its native people, before they turned against their hosts and slaughtered and enslaved them by the millions in the name of God and Capitalism.

You need to realize every person crossing the border is an actual person. Not a robot/soldier sent to harm you, but a human being in search of a better life. Threatening and using force against peaceful people looking for a refuge, that's what psychopaths do. Hope you can take time to reflect on what you said.
Well, keeping it this way encourages lock-in.
> So much stuff on the internet (like stack overflow or github) has gargantuan economic value

I'm not so sure about that. Yes they are conduits to massive value, but that value is coming from us, not them. If they were to close down, equally good replacements would be (are) available immediately.
This is very interesting! I'd be happy to try.

My main pain points with Telegram are:

- No way to structure a group into sub-groups

- No way to comment on a specific post without polluting the whole timeline (the new DiscussionBot is the beginning of a solution to this problem)

- No way to "like" a specific comment without adding another message to the group (some discussions are mostly a stream of yes and +1)

- No way to bookmark/star messages and easily find them later (apart the save mechanism which is a bit different)

It looks like Telefuel aims to solve them?
Looks like regular grid, but they did special irregular 32v cell to cover land part of Norvegia. For me this places the UTM in "not reasonable" land.
Being of a certain age and in the UK, I was disappointed to find this is not an 18 line Top Of The Pops generator... :)
This is my understanding as well, but is there any law to this effect?
I’m mostly referring to the macOS and iOS clients, since I’m not really familiar with the Android version.
in the UK I have seen products in the same category next to each other on the shelves use different units.
Not only incentives but it just makes sense logically as long as we can assume that both partners are financial savvy, have the same objectives and "contribute" to the relationship equally in some fashion (e.g. money, time, chores, etc.).

Two working couples:

- Two incomes

- Shared health plan (more expensive but less than 2x single?)

- Shared apartment (more expensive to support two occupants but less than 2x single?)

- Opportunities to reduce duplicated expenses when possible: e.g. single set of furniture, single car, joint loans (e.g. mortgage + closing costs), repairs, etc.

If one of the partners is not working I believe there are still advantages but they might be harder to quantify. Even if it means cutting out one of the incomes, having a time-available partner can be advantageous in other ways. Time to cook vs. eat out (more cost effective), organize bills, find discounts and deals (e.g. credit card churning for saving ~1k-2k a year on flights), organizing activities to maintain health, arrange doctor visits for preventative care, etc.

Obviously, this equation changes when one is a dependent but if both are independent and work together I feel that the math would favor couples.
She did explain that I think?

What happens at Yale sets an example which influences what happens at other universities not just in the US but around the world because Yale has always been the university which educates much of America's ruling class.
It’s not. They are just not rushing to implement half-baked standards that are being hastily designed and forced down everyone’s throat by a handful of Google engineers.
Quantum Computer [twitter thread]
One of my friends wrote an article about geocoding a few years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/13/google-ma...

In short, addressing and geocoding is a hard problem and there are lots of weird edge cases. The web is full of broken assumptions about addresses, post codes, etc.
Goodbye, Green Recorder
As dsRNA is ubiquitous in nature, I would disagree. There is no equivalence with synthetic pesticides when it comes to the active ingredient. There's no new molecular structure, no genetic modification, no new protein produced. It's chemically identical to what you consume every day. It doesn't hang around in the environment.

The status quo is we keep doing what we are currently doing for decades. The risks of doing that are far greater in my opinion.
I’m not saying it’s good therapy. I’m saying that at a macro level that the disintegration of the family unit is one of the root causes of this particular type of existential depression.
He Built a $2.5B Business at Age 50 That Is Disrupting a 7k Year Old Industry
Assume all drivers (taxi or Uber alike) have the same rights as other employees (min/max working hours, minimum pay, benefits).

If the idea of “independent contractors” is punctured so that Uber has to ensure drivers make minimum wage in 40h after their own operating expenses, then Uber won’t have a huge competitive advantage anymore.
Your examples seem meat-centric. US has Viteramen and mealsquares.
I think dissuading these sorts of people would be a win for everybody, at least it puts the bar a little higher for the next company who is buying themselves a spot.
I'm sorry to hear about the pain many of you suffer from. Please consider reading a book from Dr. Sarno. He will challenge the mechanistic view of the human body many of you erroneously hold. More importantly, he will cure you if you're willing to be cured.
> 1) Figure out how to create a warp bubble

How hard can it be? My guess is "very" :-P . My bet is more along the lines of constant acceleration, which is not "warp drive" per se, but holds a better promise of interstellar and possibly even intergalactic travels.
Haven’t hidden variables pretty much been dismissed by loophole free bell experiments?
To me it seems the "golden age" of gaming for everyone here has actually nothing to do with the games per se. I have nostalgia as well from when i was 12-18 when we did lan parties every weekend. But I actually think my golden age of gaming is still going. I have been gaming consistently through my college education and now when I am working. I have found new games (and old classics that i continue to play from time to time) and never stopped. I suspect it will end only when/if i move in together with my SO and get kids or something.

I feel in general that people are bad at keeping long friendships, and I seem very good at it (I don't know why). I have ~20 close friends that I speak to regularly that I have known for like 10 years. Many of those are people from the "golden days".

Have people that say they miss the "golden days" just not kept in touch with the friends they had at that time?
Or have they just given up on gaming because everyone else they knew stopped playing?
So long as the pay is good enough without answering any overtime calls (ie at least minimum wage plus operating costs for 40h per week) then I don’t see the issue with some limited voluntary overtime.

The q is: can the driver play Xbox with his kid and get him a higher education, with the pager off? Then it’s an ok solution. Otherwise not.
What Snoop Dogg Is Listening To
Pro TBB: C++ Parallel Programming with Threading Building Blocks
I know someone who also had suspected MS, and a clear MRI. Just to be sure, they also did a lumbar puncture. That actually confirmed the MS (presence of inflammation) despite the clear MRI.

Point being that a clear MRI does not totally eliminate MS.
There's thousands of dollars on offer for each large one and a somewhat related millennium prize.

Guess scaling is down the track for this "business"
And you may have several pensions (401k)s running at the same time so you do need to make sure you are happy with the allocations'

I have three pensions plus my SIPP (self invested) running at the moment.
> France 9%

These numbers don't reflect the complex reality in France. Most of the population descends from immigration (although only 9% directly from their parents).

It's very rare especially in big cities to meet people with only "French" origins (except in the bourgeoisie). And even those "French" origins are ethnically/culturally varied (bretagne/ch'nord/occitanie/martinique/corse...) even though many people from these places will tell you they've been colonized by France and they want to get rid of the imperialist invader.

What i just said is probably true of other countries. I just know more about France.
Ask HN: How to get rid of anti-scientific ads / YouTube content
After watching several documentaries about the impact of Man on our environment from reputable sources, e.g BBC, Arte etc. on YT I am now getting bombarded by anti-scientific ads / conspiracy theory nutcase content. This was on newly setup machine on Firefox, no YT / Google account. Why on earth is Google pushing this crap to my recommendations?

So my actual question is, how to get rid of this crap? This is worse than any crap 8chan was disseminating. How to make Google and Co. stop giving those people a platform?
Ask HN: Is Google Project Zero for Freelance Security Researchers?
I see this stories like this all the time now... Someone finds a security vulnerability in a piece of software, tries to do the responsible thing by contacting the company and are ignored. They then use the vulnerability to contact the company and all hell brakes loose.

I would like to know where can a security researcher report these vulnerability so that they get fixed in a timely manner and take themselves out off the equation?

https://www-vice-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/59nzjz/teen-security-researcher-bill-demirkapi-suspended-for-exposing-vulnerabilities