skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with this sentiment. Mastodon, or whatever, is fine but RSS is the backbone of blogging.

It always annoys me when sites request permissions to send me notifications - hey idiots, if I like your site I'll subscribe using your RSS feed and read at my pleasure. You don't have one? Bye then.

In my perfect world browsers have RSS support built in and aggregators like Facebook would allow RSS feeds to be published in timelines. This used to be the case and then the winds changed and something was lost. I'll like to see it return.

Where I wrote my blog's static site generator, one of the first features was RSS[0].

[0] https://sheep.horse/rss.xml
Former Google Engineer Charged with Stealing Trade Secrets
> There is no tax money involved, and all the subsidizing comes from the increased revenue from raising domestic shipping costs.

If the USPS loses money, which it has been every year recently, who pays the difference?
Very much so all pathfinder role-players don't buy physical stuff from Piaso just wait and buy it from a UK wholesaler.
> I don't care if it can update the DOM 20% faster if React or Angular already does it within 16ms, or if the download time for my bundle is reduced by 50% if it already loads in 200ms for my 95th percentile.

> What's going to get me interested in tools like Elm are solutions for actual issues that I'm toiling over, like providing better tools for mocking in tests

Basically: "I don't care about the user experience, I only care about my own developer experience".

Sad, really. Any performance impact is huge when you imagine the sheer number of devices that code will run on once it's published to the web. And the variety of devices - does it render within 16ms on an old Android phone? I'll bet it doesn't. And that KBs of download isn't just download time, it's parse time too. Again, an old device is going to be sluggish parsing JS.

Even if you're talking about 95th percentile, prioritising your own development comfort over the experience of that last 5th of users feels wrong to me.
Lame retort. Let's do better.
Yeah, and please link to it so my feed reader can pick it up from the URL.
The conjecture that our universe is isomorphic to a CA is absolutely testable. When we find a CA that behaves just like the universe, we'll know it's true. If we find a completely different way of computing it that doesn't map to a CA, we'll know it's false.

Computable physics would be extremely useful. Even with coarse approximations you can only integrate the Schrödinger equation among hundreds of particles. So you can't do accurate computational biochemistry except maybe one small molecule at a time.
"All US and Canadian shipping is crazy expensive" - A Typical Brit
Why did reporters keep calling Levandowski an engineer? He's really not, at least not for quite a number of years.

Anyway, Levandowski was a lousy leader, and was really detrimental to Uber's ATG. He bloated ATG from fewer than 100 people to more than 2000 within less than a year, without paying the slightest attention to culture. As a result, the number of people grossly exceeded the quantity of work. Political infighting quickly became rampant. Chaos ensued. Morale nose dived. Worse yet, instead of aligning and uniting the teams in Pittsburg, he created a huge fight with the Pittsburg teams, so much so that Travis, then the CEO of Uber, had to fly to Pittsburg every few weeks to resolve the conflicts.

It's sickening to even think about what he did in Uber.
This is more of a meta-point but it's always surprising to me when reading about older civilizations like Rome how alike the daily lives and problems were for people thousands of years ago.

Some things that won't change– and probably have never changed:

• People will continue to want to have fun

• People will continue to want more ways to make money

• People will continue to want things to be faster

• People will continue to want great tales of adventure
Depends on how many they PIP by February 1 2020 - especially if they have a bad quarter and decide to PIP in order to recapture RSU's
Thanks, I haven't this one, it seems interesting.
Actually, in practice Oodi is bright and open place inviting both participation and hanging around. It also has quieter space, separate story and play area for small children, cafes, movie theatre. It's like hanging out in a mall without need to buy anything and everything is open instead of small and closed.
The goal is to perform action selection. No matter how many metrics you come up with, you have to aggregate them into a single score to rank the set of possible actions. The fact that producing such a score is preposterous is merely an indication the whole idea of adversity metric[s] for deciding the future of our children is morally and functionally bereft.

The change moves the onus of metric aggregation from the College Board to individual colleges. We'll institutionalize injustice / poor decision making, but you'll have a choice of which institution will apply the injustice.

Blind admissions. We may even incentivize kids to actually study for college, instead of waltzing in with a seventh grade reading level. If we don't like that recent immigrants outperform natives [of all colors!], perhaps we could perform a serious root cause analysis and address it, instead of papering over the metrics.

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6174: The average college freshman reads at 7th grade level
Usually they are able to find it, I never had the problem that it couldn't be found if there was a feed URL in the source code. (Using the selfhosted version of Miniflux). It's too bad that browsers removed the RSS icon in the URL bar.
It is about equal opportunity, not equal outcome
> virtually no story about people who worked for him has been a positive one.

I am reminded of Bob Widlar, inventor of the op-amp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Widlar#Personality
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20812309
This is completely ignoring the fact that Chinese labor is significantly cheaper than the US as well as the standard of living. No amount of shipping is going to recover those costs unless you jack up the rates astronomically.

Nearly all the supply chains are in Asia. It would cost companies billions to relocate and they would just relocate to other areas where the labor is cheaper and they can get away with working their employees 12 hour shifts. Things like electronics for example would be extremely difficult to switch to a country like the US because there isn't a trained workforce here to deal with manufacturing small components. Plus, they'd be asking to be paid 20 dollars an hour with benefits vs China's probably 12 dollars and no benefits.

Also, leaving the UPU is as drastic as the tariff war because all it will do is cause countries to jack up the rates of incoming mail to compensate. Every time the US leaves without negotiation, there's no reason why countries won't retaliate.
While I agree it seems like it lets them off the hook, that's not on them, it's on the society that shrugs that off as "normal".

But if you follow the logical path from capitalism, it is most definitely inevitable. There is no way to maximize profits without hurting the users.

If one company does the right thing, another will take it's place because it will generate more profit.

Can you imagine a CEO constantly telling it's shareholders that they will not increase profits because they want to "treat customers more fairly"? He'd be sacked in the first opportunity.
No, cloud does not mean that. Generally the cloud means that you can access data stored on a cloud as long as you are connected to the internet (or the same network). I don't know where you got that definition of cloud from.
I love RSS so much. I use inoreader but there are many free RSS readers available (like feedly). I don't subscribe to anything via any other means - RSS completely covers my daily news needs. Please keep it alive!
https://beesource.com/point-of-view/adrian-wenner/varroa-mit...
France/Netherlands/Sweden/Germany is an interesting mix.

(Edit: removed incorrect information.)
I get semi-regular notifications in macOS telling me I should give Safari another try and I haven't found any way to turn them off.
Do you think MOStek would have been able to survive in today's legal environment? I don't think so, and that's what worries me.

The SCO-Linux litigation wasn't complicated. It was just fraud on SCO's part, under copyright law that was well-established at the time. With the Google/Oracle precedent in place, SCO would probably win.

I agree that Levandowski, like weev, is profoundly unsympathetic, but we can't let that blind us to the precedents he is being used to set. If Levandowski wins his case, ordinary (and extraordinary) senior engineers will be safer from getting strangled by non-compete agreements; if he loses, they will be in more danger.
My mistake, ROT-13 is actually beyond military grade :D
Luckily some readers also include a "always fetch full content" feature that pulls the linked page and runs it through a "reader mode" to remove the garbage. These kind of feeds really annoy me.
> Is superiority subjective?

Pretty much by definition.

> We have hundreds of fatal flaws in our genetics.

Pretty much by definition, we (living humans) have no necessarily-fatal flaws in our genetics. We may have some that are fatal when they combine in certain ways or in certain circumstances, but the fatal effects in those conditions aren't the only effects they have.
GitHub Sponsorships on Ethereum Blockchain
Really? Because anyone with a PC and an internet connection can assume their own hosting duties without all that.

And if they really wanted to make up the geographic shortcomings they can image and encrypt their files and still use Google drive like everyone else. There's your redundancy with privacy.

Cloud, to me, just means "someone else's computer."
You have a point. I’ve only ever seen Pepe in r/The_Donald where it is a vile object
GitLab works perfect for my needs. Using it for planning work, version control and CI/CD. No complaints.
It's blog posts like this that make me realize I have no idea what I'm doing. Great work on troubleshooting a complex and interesting problem.
Audible, yes. I haven't tried any others though.
> Well, if the arguments at the time were good enough to convince them, sucks to be them. What are they gonna do?

If the arguments and timelines were knowingly dishonest, then that's fraud. Hence the lawsuit.

> Unless they were given tampered numbers or false factual information, Musk could oversell SolarCity prospects six ways from Sunday and they can't do anything about it.

If you release a fake product on stage and announce timelines you know there is no possibility of meeting, then yeah, there are a lot of legal ramifications to that. Especially given a case where there are so many personal financial entanglements.
Email should probably be plain text. Early 2000s style emails aren't really popular. But good luck.
You need to advertise it in the head section of your html. Then any reader will find it.
From my experience (as maintainer of a Planet Clojure), some sites have feeds, but simply don’t expose them via links or meta. I’m usually trying some standard paths before contacting author: /rss/, /feed/, /atom.xml, etc.
Department of Energy Announces $21.4M for Quantum Research
It would be hypocrisy if the same people that approved of tearing families apart in one case disapproved of it in the other. That tends not to be the case though, generally speaking the people who disapprove of one also disapprove of the other. The level of agitation about them is mainly a matter of pragmatism, not hypocrisy.

As for the people who generally approve of both, they may not be hypocrites, unless they also profess to be pro family and traditional values in which case yes very, very much, but that would be one of the mildest terms I'd use for them if it were applicable.
The recent changes to Dropbox incited me to finally build a home NAS/personal-cloud server based on Nextcloud last month.

My first impressions were a bit negative, as I was expecting "open source Dropbox" and nothing more; Nextcloud actually does quite a lot, which made me think it was bloatware. This is due to my ignorance and jumping in too fast.

What Nextcloud actually is: a personal Dropbox-style server, with open source equivalents of Google Docs, calendaring, contacts, notepads, and a complete "app store". It's all really well built, and you can use as much (or in my case, as little) as you feel like. I thought I'd use none of these apps at all, until I realized that I would really like a Del.icio.us-style [bookmarking app](https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks), but had no desire to shop around and adopt something that required a fee or might disappear later.

At this point, my only criticisms are that I think the installation should be more idiot-friendly, and the UI smells of 2012.

For anyone interested in following suit, I picked up an [Odroid-HC1](https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc1-home-cloud-one/) (a bit like a Raspberry Pi, but much higher disk and network performance, at a similar price point) and [NextcloudPi](https://ownyourbits.com/nextcloudpi/#download) (complete Debian + Nextcloud image). It went swimmingly and cost well under a hundred bucks, not counting the 3.5" hard drive.

Nextcloud is backed by a corporation that mostly makes its money off support for the German gov't? I think it's an ideal solution for any municipality, non-profit, or small-to-large sized company that for whatever reason doesn't want to go with a commercial cloud.
Thanks!!

Honestly, I cannot afford the ghostwriters.

Good ghostwriters demand upwards of $250 for 1000 words.

They have their place and could be useful of one is writing structured non-fiction. With fiction, voice is very important. And, the use of ghostwriters would compromise that IMHO

Edit: added gratitude:)
even if it takes less time? for driving you have to get to the car, drive, deal with traffic, park, and so on
Newcomer Frndly Is Quietly Making Waves
GopherconUK organized a trip there last weekend but sadly could not join due to travel schedule :(
Can't wait for the Levandowski movie.
Re your parenthetical story,

So like, the TA asked you to compute

<1,2,3>X<4,5,6>

and you jumped straight to

<2x6-3x5, -(1x6-3x4), 1x5-2x4>,

without the intermediate step of

| i j k |

| 1 2 3 |

| 4 5 6 |?

Or did you begin by computing the angle between the two vectors, so as to use the sine formula for cross product? Either way, I can certainly understand how your classmates (and TA) would be bewildered (especially if the two vectors were such that it wasn't immediately obvious what the angle between them was).
A Day in the Life of a Tree
The other answers have suggested a lot of particular references, many of which are excellent.

I'd add, speaking as a math professor: don't worry too much about holes and lack of intuition. The more you learn, the bigger you will feel like your holes are!

Whatever you choose, in my opinion it should involve solving lots of problems. Subject to that, I'd recommend simply that you dive in to any math subject that attracts your attention.
Funny story. Most blogs I follow via my Reeder [0] ( actually best app I've ever used for (i|mac)OS ... no, I'm not affiliated with the app ) are ones that end up on HN. It's funny but my RSS feed currently is 30% HN / 30% Media websites like The Guardian / 40% Other. Since a year or two I rarely add new sources to my feed, which I feel it's sad.

0: https://reederapp.com
I wasn't talking about a situation where the company can't fire you. I was talking about a situation where you can't quit the company. If the company has a credible legal case against any prior employee who works for a competitor, then firing you ends your career. That makes your job less secure, not more.
What will you find at Bletchley Park?
Yeah although I'm getting this:

<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="https://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

So not an empty response...
Is it just Jekyll or do most static site generators include an RSS link in their default templates?
Traditional Cable TV Providers Days Are Numbered
A real shame that Wolfram gives credence to "handwriting analysis" pseudoscience in what is otherwise an interesting piece.

> “The writing style is entirely different. Personality-wise, the writer of sample B has a quicker, more intuitive thinking style than the one of sample A.”

How can anybody of Wolfram's intelligence unquestioningly accept this nonsense?
ROT13 is 4 rounds of Caesar-3 and one round of Caesar-1, and multiple rounds of encryption and mixing different modes makes it that much more secure, right?
This book is great, so is Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, which covers much of the same material but details the differences in standards and implementation. I'd also add `Linux Kernel Development` by Robert Love.
Definitely not. One of the things that makes existence tolerable for many of us is the assurance that it is ending quite soon.

Although I can see why people would choose to stick around for much longer. I suppose one legitimate reason to live for 1k years is to satisfy one's curiosity about the future and see how it all turns out.
I have a massive platonic crush on Julia Evans. This post is yet another reason. So good!
Uspto seeks comments on patenting AI
Win32 apps have been supported in the Store for a couple years now. You'll find ("real") Office, Paint.NET, Inkscape, VLC, iTunes, iCloud, Photoshop, and more in the Microsoft Store today.
https://bletchleypark.org.uk/

An on-site museum of the WW2 Enigma code breaking activities, where they happened. This is where Alan Turing worked. Live demonstrations of the 1940s eras computer "bombes".

But, perhaps, most of all:

A chance to visit a historic site.. the activities there could very well have decided the outcome of WW2.

There's also a neat live retrocomputing display of early home computers. And it also happens to be a very lovely area to hang around in - nice buildings, park areas, ponds etc.
This was the first thing I thought of when I read this, it's fascinating the way this system actually works (or doesn't work.)
I asked the OP to clarify, because I think they are trying to make both points: that cholesterol in food does not affect cholesterol in blood and that high cholesterol (of X kind) does not affect the risk of disease.

The way I understand it, cholesterol in food is correlated with cholesterol in blood, it's just that thee are other factors that may be more important, like genetics. Well, genetics.
RSS seems to have died off as social networks decided that they wanted to capture the users and vertically integrate. RSS turns them into commodities, and that's the opposite of what they want.

Plus it's difficult to monetize an RSS feed.
You are talking about areas where police are held accountable.

In areas where they flout the law such as Baltimore, they do whatever they want and then sort it out later.
Well thought out, well written movie with a beautiful sound track. I highly recommend it! I've just re-watched it for the 3rd or 4th time, and it's held up very well since it came out around '99 or 2000.
Yeah I saw the link there but unfortunately that is not very helpful as if he isn't doing that on every single article you'll have a hard time finding it.
It took a while to get to, but I liked this part:

In modern times, the Y combinator has been made famous by the Y Combinator startup accelerator, named that way by Paul Graham (who had been a longtime enthusiast of functional programming and the LISP programming language—and had written an early web store using it) because (as he once told me) “nobody understands the Y combinator”. (Needless to say, Y Combinator is all about avoiding having companies go to fixed points…)
NVIDIA ones. I tried with proprietary, MESA and Nouveau. Never managed to get the same experience as on Windows.

It's a shame, because it literally can't be anything but the software. It's the same hardware with different OSes.
Might even be windows specific optimizations on the games part, but in the end it doesn't matter.

The bottom line unfortunately is: it's significantly worse.
API Copyleft License
Introduction to Diamond Mechanosynthesis (2018)
> But I was surprised to learn that many of the blogs that Jan had linked to didn't support RSS.

I went through them all, and of the 32 only two didn’t provide a feed[1]. Not all of them linked to it on the page, but Reeder[2] found them with ease from the home URL.

Funny enough, the feed for blog of the linked post was hard to find — Reeder didn’t catch it, and from a quick glance on the blog’s home I found no reference to it. If I didn’t think it odd that the author wasn’t providing a feed, I wouldn’t have found it.

Blog platforms tend to provide support for RSS feeds because blog platforms are built by people who care about such things, so even if the writer doesn’t care, the feed will be there. I’m more worried about the lack of RSS support in big popular platforms that have no reason to not provide one, such as the News page on the Epic Games Store[3].

[1]: It may be that some were auto-generated and provided wrong info; I didn’t verify them in depth.

[2]: https://www.reederapp.com/

[3]: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news
I have said this for years. Asians, particularly Asian males, are the only racial group in America subject to overt policies meant to disadvantage them on the basis of their race, and nobody cares. Asian immigrants to the US tend to embody more than any ethnic group precisely the characteristics that are supposed to constitute America. Meanwhile we're playing games of trying to tease out how implicit bias might be impacting XYZ, or taking population outcomes as evidence of systemic bias impacting other groups, when disadvantages put on Asian individuals are explicitly laid out as systemic and on the basis of their race.
> Another advantage they have is a very simple online ordering system -- try getting a quote for solar somewhere else vs ordering on Tesla.com

Is this really a long term advantage? One, producing a website to have simple online ordering is not a problem for any company on this sort of scale, and two, how big an advantage is this? This isn't a sort of purchase on a whim like a new book on Amazon, these are long term planning decisions for a given family.

They're going to do the math and figure out what might actually be best for their electricity usage, home, and financial situation. Simple ordering isn't that huge of an advantage.

> another advantage they have is asthetics

Again, why is this something not easily copied?

> and also integration with the same app you use to control your car

Is this really that big an advantage? I don't know who is making multi-thousand dollar a year decisions based on this.
Actually, there's plenty of information to inform such a decision:

While the other students were allowed to leave, Ajjawi alleges an immigration officer continued to question him about his religion and religious practices in Lebanon.

So it looks like they deported him because, first, he was a raghead...

“After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room , and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list.”

and second because he has friends (or random associates) who disagree with U.S. foreign policy.
If you use Hugo, here's how to add an RSS link to your site. Just add the following to your <head> area in your template(s):

{{ with .OutputFormats.Get "rss" -}}
{{ printf `<link rel="%s" type="%s" href="%s" title="%s" />` .Rel .MediaType.Type .Permalink $.Site.Title | safeHTML }}
{{ end -}}

Related link: https://gohugo.io/templates/rss/#readout
Title bugs me because there’s a lot more ‘splainin to do, but discoveries like these do create little islands of plausibility that may connect in the future.