skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious about that too.
As a separate topic, if the operational dbs can be compatible with parquet type storage (backup and restore), the offline analytics and machine learning would be seamlessly integrated together. Offline analytics usually can simplify online analytics. Discovering new dimensions, normalization/denormalization, and optimization of indices and partitions. Operational dbs shouldn't have to stress themselves at the gunpoint.
Part of the problem is that tracking at scale really does add convenience (automatic home to work detection, traffic pattern detection, real-time routing around events.) But then using that information for other purposes (advertising your nearest fast food restaurant) isn't seen by users as compelling compared to the user's purpose of sharing that information. That's one reason why GDPR and its enforcement has been so weighted towards the _purposes_ of data collection and enforcing adherence to stated purposes.

The problem, of course, is that incentives are misaligned and the company's purpose in collection and use is often different from the user's purpose. And the laws are still written to the service provider's purpose not the users' purpose. Its left to the company to align them.

I use Waze, Google Maps, and Apple Maps. Each has a perceptibly different balancing of those purposes.
You must be young. The AOL hacker scene was quite vibrant. Mass mailers, PR room: server, server when server got banned, cerver. Plus the plethora of exploits. Go to archive.org and lookup aol-files.com.

EDIT: lest I forget AIM pr: darkside
Hi, GitLab employee, is there anything else (besides the MR workflow) specifically that you think we should improve? UI-wise or whatever else you've noticed
Typescript is awesome!!!

The creator of it answers “why typescript” in a video[1] with a hilarious answer which includes his observation that large javascript codebases become read only :-D

I’m giving a talk on typescript Friday. Some good stuff to understand is index signatures for object lookups, union types, intersection types, combining index signatures with named properties, and compile time immutability with readonly, Readonly<T>, ReadonlyArray<T>, ReadonlyMap<T>.

The language is so much fun to both write and read. There’s a lot of depth to it as well. Excited to get to use it.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wYgSiFaYSSo
Just a Gedankenexperiment, you know, take an idea to its logical conclusion.
And, under current circumstances, do you see congressional approval to be forthcoming? For myself, I rather doubt it.

[Edit: Why isn't amending the Constitution a hack? Because it's the recognized mechanism for changing the rules.

What makes the compact a hack? I guess it feels like a hack because the expectation is that, if you're going to change the way the president gets elected, you have to change the Constitution - and therefore having to withstand the full level of scrutiny that such a change would involve. Changing it within the parameters allowed - just barely - by the Constitution is not technically a hack, legally. But it's still feels like a hack to make the change without as much scrutiny, and without the need for the massive majority. At least, so it seems to me.]
They've recently implemented pulsing capability into the artificial heart.

If this becomes successful, I can see doctors adjusting to other methods of measuring heart activity, but I don't see how they could be noninvasive.
For the pavement: I recommend the opposite. Running barefoot or in almost barefoot shoes on pavement is the most honest thing you could do while practicing barefoot running. You will receive direct feedback to your motion. Later if you "broke in" your tendons and muscle can handle the pavement easily. Doing this for years regularly now.
Running on dirt or grass could be dangerous to your bare feet because you cannot see if there is something harmful you could probably step on. But if you have some protection on your feet, sandals for example, this is not a problem of course, but still not ideal for practicing.
Now that Apple has a card, people who complain about its inadequacies have to be ignored, because Apple.
I'm not saying that; it's the person I'm replying to who's claiming that non-personalized ads are insufficiently lucrative.
A small example of taste problems: in the top screenshot, everything is unnaturally square. It is completely unnecessary: the tiles have different edge types for transitions (e.g. "vertical edge with dark dirt in the low and middle portion and light dirt in the top portion"), there is (presumably) a tileset with all supported edge type combinations and it wouldn't cost more to use nicer shapes. This art has simply been approved as-is, without technical or budget constraints apart from bothering to try more variations.
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One option to explore is CloudReady by Neverware [1], a third party supported Chrome variant. Their Home version is free and includes automatic security and feature updates. Disclaimer: I have no affiliation, and have not installed it yet.

1. https://cloudreadykb.neverware.com/s/article/Installing-Clou...
I don't know JV's numbers, but I know mine and a high-quality visual artist who speaks fluent/first-language English and has the sort of willingness to play nice with others' art can be $50/hour. And for a game like these, you're talking quite a few hours, you know?

You can go offshore for cheaper, but then you introduce risk, and if nothing else, JV's model is to minimize risk as much as is possible.
I agree. Usually from 9 - 12:30 is my most productive time. Once lunch hits and I start socializing I am just not nearly as productive. I may get an hour or two or productivity in between 1 and 6pm but it's not nearly enough as in the morning. The worst is the last hour or two of the day. I've checked out and there's usually not much work so I end up just sitting idly browsing the internet.
Those side effects are hideous. Slavery, etc.

But I said "extinction". Meaning everyone - you, me, my kid, etc. dying, maybe horribly.
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Fun fact: the current South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, participated in Operation Paul Bunyan
You are completely missing the point of the protests. The HK bar association was one of the first to take to the streets back in May. The protests are about keeping the judicial system free from outside influences. HK is one of the last great neutral territories left in the world thats outside of American influence. Might I remind you almost no western country has extradition treaties with Mainland China. Even Taiwan has said back in May to cancel the Bill as it does not need the extradition of the murder suspect that started the whole bill. This is about keeping HK neutral so more Snowdens and political refugees can have a place to go. But you think this is just about $$$ truly sad.
> Yes, but you aren't going to get enough people to change their decisions to have an impact without changing their incentives.

It is not my purpose to change anyone's decision but mine. That alone is enough impact for me.

> I would be significantly worse off if I refused to use any Google services. I literally wouldn't be able to do my current job.

You have a tough choice indeed (I am in the same situation). But the choice is yours. And yours alone.
That's a really good point that I think a lot of folks are overlooking. Spiderweb games has been around for a long time and has a dedicated following. I actually felt pretty alienated when things like Geneforge came out -- It seemed like a huge step away from the simple sprite-based graphics I loved in his earlier games. (Not that Geneforge was bad, mind you! Just a big change.) Spiderweb has always had a very distinct brand of artwork. Call it crappy if you want, but I've always quite liked it.

Don't underestimate the risk of changing your style, particularly when it's a defining part of the experience. You will lose at least some customers. It may be worth it, but it's a significant risk.
Provide reliable, independent costings and benefits for the project. That's how you make a case.

If you can't make a case then it's time to start up the PR bullshit, which uses nice words and breathless aspirations. It tends to sound like this: "Yet the story doesn’t seem to be getting through. As engineers, it is not just our duty to create new infrastructure, it is also our duty to communicate its purpose. Helping the British public to get behind High Speed 2 must be a priority for our industry if we are to truly make this megaproject a success"

Let's go through that:

"Yet the story doesn’t seem to be getting through"

why not?

"it is not just our duty to create new infrastructure, it is also our duty to communicate its purpose"

It's purpose is clear. It's a railway. So something else is going wrong with your story that you don't want to talk about.

The last sentence is content free. It says zilch.
I do this for ctrl-C copying, because for a short while, years ago I had a keyboard where the C-key would occasionally fail. I have long since replaced this keyboard, but the habit of just hitting ctrl-C more than once is not entirely gone.
Thank you - I'm really interested as anomaly detection is such a pain!
Indeed, like how the best CPU reviews don't just report the power consumption but also the energy consumed to do a given benchmark (power integrated in time for a fixed amount of work).
Thanks, and I do, but I want to do more. Already got a remote job and moved to a field to reforest, etc. But real change means more than personal choices.
Great guy. Here's an anecdote from that time. He spent a few months on sabbatical at our lab ( https://ai.vub.ac.be/ ) in those days. We were preparing robots for a NATO Advanced Study Institute ( https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642796319 ), and I was struggling writing the serial driver for a custom embedded computer for this as the system kept crashing (due to a bug in the dram controller). Anyways, Rod Brooks, offered to help me with the coding. It wasn't needed as the code was not the problem, but I don't know many professors that could and would be prepared to dive in that deep.
Right, you can even think of static types as the base of a solid testing story. Totally agree. Kent Dodds has some great writing and courses which refer to this.
Yet these days there is no way to work to get ahead for most people. You are always falling behind even as your pay rises because of rampant inflation that is understated by official reports. The entire system is designed to rip people off, then as now.
Ugh. I have to go through this all the time. Boss asks for estimates for things I haven't looked into. I tell him I don't know. He pesters me for a guess, which I refuse. Round and round we go...
For the genre, I find the art style to generally be fitting. It's not a distraction.

I do wonder if a more stylized approach would help sooth some of the complaints. The author obviously talks about why that doesn't work when you're using freelancers, but I wonder if the style could happen not in the art directly, but in a shader or similar. This would also help the art feel more consistent.

I do wonder if the author could retain freelancers better, whether that's by a contract that gives them a minimum promised hours or a better rate, etc.

I definitely think that the insults the author has endured are inappropriate, most certainly the threats are. We as gamers benefit from Indies, and we need to treat them well even if sometimes we don't care for their games. There are plenty of indie games that aren't my preference, but I'm glad to have them in the community and want to support them as artists and developers.
On the website, the first option in the dropdown when you click your profile is "Your Channel" which has all of your videos?
Dude...have you ever tried to use OpenGameArt or asset packs in anger? The quality is at best "uneven", you'll still have the exact same "but they're inconsistent" complaints, and then on top of that you get people whining that you used off-the-shelf art. (Rather like "oh it's an RPG Maker" game, which is something that Zeboyd Games, another low-budget indie developer, gets all the time; they don't use RPG Maker, but that's another story).

You can't make everybody happy. JV is going to more reliably make money by making his audience, like me, happy. Why should he change it?
>But any of those are hopelessly out of reach for any Indie developer even with today's tools.

This just isn't true. It only a question of money and/or time.
I started putting together a list here: https://www.sourcesort.com/zombies. Only a few projects on there at the moment though. I found projects which had 10 or more unresponded issues created since the project was last updated.
I believe it is 切腹, but ok.
He rejoined the pulse-bearing mass of humanity when he received a heart transplant in 2012.
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I was thinking of something that wouldn't be affected by the git history. There's no point in having branches for issue comments.

Something like:

$ git issue add "foo doesn't work"
Created issue ece5591: foo doesn't work
$ git issue comment ece5591 "the problem might be with bar"
Created comment 0191fa1 on issue #10.
$ git issue comment --reply 0191fa1 "or with baz"
Created comment f98e783 on issue #10.
$ git issue show ece5591
foo doesn't work -- ece5591 Your Name <your@email>
the problem might be with bar -- 0191fa1 Your Name <your@email>
or with baz -- f98e783 Your Name <your@email>
$ git issue push
Pushed issues ece5591.
$ git issue pull
Pulled issues 3ebdc7e, 24cdb90.

EDIT: I just gave myself a clue:

https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue
If we don't fix this those grades won't matter.
I recommend the DMZ tour as one of the touristy things to do in SK. Depending on your guide, you’ll hear about all the ridiculous times NK has broken the armistice agreement. Also blasting KPop lol
This can happen if handling data from a remote client. Type checking does not happen at runtime so you still need to do your own schema validation even with TypeScript. So IMO it adds almost no value.
Most of that isn't true. When I lived in California, you simply asserted that your name was X, where X is someone on the list, and you got X's ballot. No need to know their address.

If they already voted? "Oops, I forgot."

If they haven't voted and come in later, so what? You're long gone.
14.4 Kbps modem...sneak downstairs after bed, hold pillows over computer to muffle the modem's screeching, set one (1!) picture to download over night, set alarm to wake up before everyone else, find connection died and only downloaded top third of the picture.

Rinse and repeat until I finally had something worth, uh, saving on a floppy disk.
I'm not even sure you need the door closed or a large house. Particularly when sleep-deprived, I think you'll start sleeping right through it, as soon as you adjust to the fact that someone is closer to the problem, and managing it to the best of their ability. Your brain is great at figuring out what needs to wake you and what you can sleep through.

I sleep right through my wife's alarms going off, and her phone is merely on the other side of the bed.

She, in turn, sleeps through my phone's alarm and my annoying klaxon on the dresser. Obviously this doesn't happen on the first night or five, but you get used to it.
I read that a single cargo ship pollutes more than the entire car park of many countries(!), and so I figured, it's just common sense to support autonomous sail ships. I don't know how much pollution we could save, but I'm guessing between thousands to millions of tons each year. I think this will work, because not all cargo is time-intensive as long as there's good logistics behind it. And I think autonomous sail ships could really make a difference here.
I really want to get into this. Can someone help me? :)
Physics takes what we know and extrapolates to what we don't. Logical conclusions based upon what we know, and what we assume must be the case.

The best philosophy seeks to do the same thing, and present logical arguments proving or disproving something. Each argument is ideally falsifiable, and like physics, any unknown knowledge is recognized.

And much of physics which though must have been the case has been proved wrong too. I'm looking at you, "Luminiferous Ether".

Particularly fascinating to me was the arguments of AI, and whether consciousness can really be achieved by a computer.
I would start with Searle's Chinese Room: https://www.iep.utm.edu/chineser/
Down-time isn't down-time. Anyone who does any kind of mental work will continue thinking about the work even when they're away from their desk.

They will think about it on the way to work. They will think about it during breaks. They will think about it while appearing to wander aimlessly around the building.

They will think about it on the way home. They will think about it while they're at home, they will think about it in the shower, they will think about while eating or doing something else, and they will think about while they're asleep.

It will take them at least two weeks of actual undistracted full-time down-time to stop thinking about it.

But you can also make them stop thinking about it by piling on distractions - hiring sessions, meetings of all kinds, absolutely critical company events that aren't, and so on.

And you can also make them stop thinking about it by giving them too much to do. Most people have enough mental space for one, maybe two, problem tracks. Giving them more - especially with limited context switching time - and you'll make it impossible for them to solve any of them.

You're not running a physical production line. The typing and the code changes are the output of a complex and surprisingly fragile mental process. If you don't understand how the process works, you're wasting a lot of its potential value.

Not only will people be unhappy, but the quality of their work will suck too.
Oh, I didn't know that. I assumed it was more about seeing what you can do and showing off, rather than direct competition.
At my last company, there were several employees who spent the vast majority of their time trying to convince people their jobs are important. Whether I thought they were or not is kind of irrelevant, but it seems insane to work a job where the majority of your time spent is convincing people it makes sense for you to have a job.
It looks like that specifically forbids them from enforcing the law, not public works projects. And there seem to be several exemptions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
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> all developed by very small teams.

Key here is "teams". It's really hard for one person to bring all of those skills to the table.
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Never before has education been so cheap or widely available. The whole world’s information is available to anyone with an Internet connection.
If those Democratic systems worked we'd have had Gore in 2000 and a different world.
> Jeff needs a good art director.

The article can be summed into two points:

1) I'm not a good art director
2) Having better art is on my "won't do" list
Didn't Chicken Pot Pie consumers boycott Android Pie?
I think it is Pinole ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinole ). It is a very tasty powder we have here in Mexico that we use to do some type of milkshakes. I loved it as a kid.
It's so funny seeing Zawinski's Law hold up after all this time (replacing "email" with "messaging"), and Google again fighting it.

I wish the culture of SaaS development would move away from this try-to-do-everything mentality that always leads to anciliary features being modified or removed, and instead focus on honing their core offering. No user cheers a feature going away -- either they're ambivalent about it or annoyed for having to switch away.
That's my childhood you're making fun of! ;)

I wish more games look terrible in a 1995 kind of a way. Mostly for the sake of nostalgia, I loved playing crappy shareware games and terrible demos from floppy/CD magazines when I was a kid.
My family comes from poverty and hard work, my grandmother died last November at the age of 96, she worked, mainly as a farmer, her entire life up until 3/4 years ago.

I've never seen her tired, she never looked like she was not gonna finish what she started because it was too much.

Truth is physical work is hard only if you're not used to it.

Your body adapts to the amount of energy you give to it.

The harder the job, the more it takes to adapt, but it happens.

Well, unless we're talking about extreme malnutrition, but I've honestly never seen it in the west, not even in the deep country of central Italy, where my family comes from.

After a while working the fields is a lot less hard than climbing a dozen steps twice a day after you sat all day eating snacks, drinking sodas and basically not exercising at all.

Hard work today, IMHO, is working at Amazon's storage facilities, where stress adds up to what's basically legalized slavery and the workers cannot even work at their own pace because they have to work at the machines speed.
yeah, as a non-parent (ha!), my main exposure to parenting is my friends on social media. I don't talk to my parent friends about kid stuff much, because I don't care, and they don't care to tell yet another person.

I'm sure parent-to-parent IRL, people are a lot more negative (read:realistic) about their experiences.
Both your solution, Bazel, and that of the neighboring comment, Gitlab, involve way too many parts you don't necessarily want or need. I'm not going to rewrite my build process (which is generally a thankless job with very low customer ROI) just to build container images :-)

Same story for Gitlab, nobody's going to migrate from Github or Bitbucket just to get container images builds.
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You can come up with any number of excuses but the bottom line is that TypeScript adds complexity which creates a lot of different problems which plain JavaScript does not have.
I think you're right. I was thinking almost the same when I was reading the post.

Let me add that, in my opinion, there are more chances of a successful game if you're a competent artist with poor coding skills than the opposite. In fact, lots of solo projects succeed because the author is an artist that happens to be a half decent programmer.
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> Needs some '2FA', like actually putting the key in the ignition. :) Or a tiny motion sensor in the key, if it's still then don't authenticate.

Or use infrared to unlock the car, that requires you to stand next to the car and therefore shielding the device from any leakage :]
I can choose not to be a school shooter in an attempt to reduce shootings, too.

Personal choice matters little globally. It's too late for the pebbles to vote, so to speak.
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Oh no, the Brain Eater has come for David Gelernter, and he's apparently swallowed a bunch of creaky old arguments. The arguments are:

1) not enough transitional fossils / http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC200.html

2) the low probability of useful proteins evolving (the article mentions 1077 at one point) / http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB150.html

3) "There are no examples of mutations that are not fatal". / http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB101.html

This is sad.
I think you're right - that would be a miracle. I don't think we have the tech right now to use the sugar in such a way.