skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gremlin product here. Super excited to have folks give this a try and let us know what you think!
Shrug, seems like every application that's not designed to live in debian package repositories from the ground up eventually evolves an updater, or even a package manager for plugins. This hubris isn't unique to google, it's everywhere because we fundamentally haven't figured out how to manage updates in a way that meets requirements.
Why do they have code that's trying to remove /var?

Doing something stupid and relying on the safety equipment to save you is a stunt. Doing it with someone else's stuff is being an asshole. This is not the behavior of sober grown-ups.
I try... but living in the valley, and knowing the people at these companies and on these teams... it's just the truth.
"99% of climatologist agree"

That is a false statistic.
I have talked to many people on this. I don't think you can teach the ignorant people facts.

I wonder if you taught them philosophy, if all would fall into place.
What are your primary sources for these statements, or are you just parroting what you've heard? Have you looked at any of the raw data?
Yes. Of course. It's a new battlefield.
Peloton Deepens IPO Slump in 3rd-Worst Unicorn Debut Since '08
I'm old enough to remember a time when both parents didn't work full time and the other parents in the neighborhood helped watch each others children from time to time.

It didn't cost much money, and the part time wages were plenty to cover a lot of expenses. Unfortunately, the value of our money was destroyed by politicians, and wages have been depressed for several decades due to economic policies in place.
Hi everyone.

This is a very concise (11:32) video that goes over some of the culture and thinking around outdoor kindergartens.

I believe that it is quite informative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkiij9dJfcw&feature=youtu.be

I believe that the best part about these schools is that early on they explicitly teach teamwork and understanding limits. It's quite shocking culturally seeing kids whittling with sharp knives and climbing rather precarious trees but it seems to work well.
I'm 5 months in. About to wrap up my 2nd rotation, and move on to my 3rd and final rotation!
I think about this Douglas Adams quote about Dolphins a lot:

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."

You could apply the same idea to octopuses.
The problem is that if the person is looking for some sort of validation, and the responses from people are ho-hum (or, worse, negative) that has a demotivating effect.

"Nobody is excited about my plan now; nobody will care when it gets done; why bother."
>99% of climatologist agree on the science

This is not a compelling argument for a skeptic.

>99% of all numerologists agree on the science

You need to highlight the backing by the rest of the scientific community to give confidence that it’s a real science.
An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities (2006)
The Parker Solar Probe is using seven Venus flybys to fly pretty close to the Sun (but not into it).
Some things that I've setup or use in shortcuts:

- "gas prices" pull up the gasbuddy website, regex the first element and get siri to read it aloud.

- "going home" Uses maps to obtain how long it takes to get home from my current location, sets the volume to 70% to get siri to dictate it, and sends the ETA and a nice message to my +1 that i'll be home soon. Version 2 will be to prompt me when I actually leave the GPS of my office around 5-7pm and send it after verbal confirmation. (Barring if there's a pop up that has been mentioned)

- "Share Location" this is one of the ones available in gallery that let's you send people your current location. I hope they make 'Share ETA' available but I don't see that option in maps yet. That would let people know when i'm arriving at their house.

This is fun enough that I'm hoping to buy some NFC stickers and get some homekit devices to play with.
waldorf does this; my daughter did not love the waldorf summer experience of being outside all day, every day, even for lunch in July ;)
Everything you listed there looks very reasonable to me, but aren't these all details that should be supported through a standardised OS-level update mechanism? The reality that the big desktop OSes do not offer those facilities in 2019 says more about the regrettable state of application management on desktop OSes than it does about Google or Chrome.
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OP here. If anyone wants to see a more detailed user guide to our system, this is it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OY_IoV81zmdNLXJteLIn4MeU...
> Results for content in Hulu aren't always included in Apple TV wide search, while content from other apps is.

I'm unclear if Apple needs to add support or if the third party needs to offer it in a specific format. I do often see Hulu, Netflix, and other third parties show up. Often they pop up before Apple. But other services like Hoopla and Kanopy don't show up. To be fair, searching across services is a mess all around. Third party websites have popped up, but seem to be missing a lot of data or stop working after a few months.

> offline support (when the watch isn't in bluetooth range of the phone) wasn't available with Spotify.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/09/watchos-6-spotify/

That seems to be up for debate. This article calls out other apps that do this without issue...but it may not be fair to compare it to Overcast, which doesn't have any contractual restrictions on storing it locally in an encrypted format or any other hoops Spotify might need to address.
Exactly. lol
An Experiment with AR Technology That Elevates Hidden Stories
So I can write about it, but I can't help anyone find it to read?

I am not saying I have the right to a personal diary, I am saying I should have the right to tell my story to whoever I want, and to share it however widely I want, and to help other people find what I have to say however I want.
>How a 102-year-old magazine publisher created a frenzy among millennials eager to make its annual list.

Do people under 30 even read Forbes? Or magazines?

The MIT Tech Review seems more focused and also does a "Innovators under 35" list
Reread what you just wrote. Why would a for profit company put time and effort into research for a technology that replaces humans and that not be part of their goal? I'm thoroughly confused...
Offline and Real-Time Speech-to-Text Running on Raspberry Pi Zero
Just getting into the sun isnt enough. The sun's outer layers are not very dense. A blob of uranium might survive long enough to come out the other side, at least on the initial few orbits.
Best of luck in your final rotation - I hope you really enjoy it.
"definitive sink to send all of our nuclear waste" ... where it would slingshot and return back to earth like a nuclear waste comet
If the black hole is rotating isn't the reference frame in motion about the center of the black hole in addition to the orbital velocity about the sun? i.e. frame dragging?
I am also old enough to remember how the Ozone Layer would doom us all and that even if we stopped all CFC emission immediately, it would still take 4 centuries to recover.

Reality: Even with China still misbehaving about CFCs emissions, the Ozone Layer already recovered quite a bit and it's set to be fully healed by 2060.

But well, on the bright side, at least that time, ALL nations comited to stop using CFCs. This time, the idea is: stop all emissions in the western world, and allow Asia to keep increasing theirs.
I think if moderation of the apps you can install on iOS was going to become a legal issue, we would have already been there. The reality is, if Apple wrongs you, you can walk into Best Buy or whatever and buy and Android phone.

The smartphone ecosystem is very healthy, there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to get exactly what they want.
Reddit Is Suffocating “The_Donald.”
No, it's because they believe that, if the changes brought on by some left-wing policies were faster, voters would reject them. E.g. the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was promised to not significantly change US demographics [1], yet that is exactly what happened. If it were presented to them as "become a minority in one lifetime" [2], the frog would jump out of the boiling water, and the act would lose support.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-...
Am gonna have to try it!
When socialism is the solution, seems like it is.
Can we start discussing geo-engineering strategies more seriously? Andrew Yang's mention of space mirrors was derisively put-down, but can someone lay out why it isn't a good idea?

If SpaceX and others continue to make getting things into orbit much cheaper, what's the argument against putting highly reflective barriers in the Lagrange point, which is a point constantly between the Earth and the Sun. If we deflected even 1% of sunlight, wouldn't that be enough to lower temperatures back down towards 0 C, as opposed to +1.1 C where we are now?

And why not focus the sunlight-blocking onto the poles, which we need to maintain our climate and which are experiencing even more rapid change?

Is the argument against these strategies that relying on geoengineering will take focus away from transitioning our energy system? I just think we have no hope of transitioning our energy system in time, emissions are STILL rising year over year...we have to think about how to cool the planet while we decarbonize our energy.
You're not a war criminal unless you lose the war.
Now it doesn’t work if the string you want to replace has any regex special characters. One JS idiom for replace-all is

str.split(before).join(after)
> usually requires an incitement to violence

Realize we are talking about EU here,
but witness recent SF government acts against NRA in the USA for a clear example of an actual slippery slope.
Bingo. Per my comment below...
Having to wait for a security update to make it through the various update pipelines of all the different linux distros isn't a great situation for users either.

Installing browsers by hand in your homedir specifically so they can update themselves and you don't rely on the system package manager seems like a fairly widespread recommendation, but maybe I'm talking to a biased set of people.
It's in reaction to fascists using violence and intimidation as a political tool.
Easy, you just lie when people ask. Apply for store loyalty cards and similar with fake information to get that associated with your data broker profiles.

You could also open phone lines with fake information, ISP accounts and so on.

A good investigator with expensive access will still be able to track you down, but automatically exploiting your data will be much more difficult if it's a mess.
Read the article, it is 30 from 20 categories, so 600.
Hey! I didn't see your answer. That's very useful, thanks!
That's also problematic. If w includes characters that have special meaning in a regex (e.g. a period), this will cause issues.

You could try to escape those special characters but that is potentially error prone.

For an arbitrary w, one approach is something kind of awful like:

let s2 = s1;
while (s2.includes(w)) {
s2 = s2.replace(w, '')
}

Edit: minitech's solution is better.
Another possibility is that it had a list of all the files and directories it has installed, and removed each one before installing a new version. If the list included also all the parent directories (which is common if you want to avoid leaving empty directories behind), and the list did not specify whether each entry is a file or a directory (that is, it looked at the disk for each entry: if it was a directory, it did a rmdir, otherwise it did an unlink), and it installed anything below /var, all that combined plus the fact that /var was a symlink instead of a directory could lead to it calling unlink on /var, while the developers would be expecting it to do a harmless rmdir (which does nothing unless it's an empty directory).
File Search Utility is a new desktop search tool
> You cannot send a rocket to space without helium.
> You need helium to launch a rocket - like, to push an astronaut into space.

Not quite correct. Helium is usually used for pressurizing tanks of rockets, but it's not a mandatory gas for this. Korolev's first satellite rocket used nitrogen for pressurization of tanks. Saturn-V upper stage used the components itself for pressurization.
> Here is a web developer pretending to understand a multi generational gap of power.

Don't you know that computer science is the only degree program to make you an expert in math, physics, history, economics, and politics?
The irony here is that by taking more intrusive permissions, they can accidentally do more damage and open up more exploit vectors, for which they'd want to ship an emergency patch, as we see here.

They could use feature flags for the majority of slow roll updates. This would also mitigate the absence of a downgrade mechanism because you can just disable the feature flags. To be fair, I would love to see the App Store feature these types of mechanisms, but Google should request from and/or work with Apple here, not hack around them.
> It is entirely possible that the CCP is not keen on democracy exactly because of democracy's weaknesses. Weaknesses that traditionally kept China weak.

It is amusing that you attribute such selflessness to a political faction; the CCP no less
That number looks about right for "because of this, every one of our teabags is recycled instead of thrown out", which is obviously not true. But it could also be a supply-chain stat, where the landfill mass of those strings and staples is measured from cotton and iron, instead of the finished products.
"Before you quickly close..." You're damn right
I was born in 79, I remember the ozone crisis, in Silicon Valley elementary school we were taught about the massive drought and how to conserve water.

But what are you on about with the world freezing. That's new to me.
Reading comprehension.
"Accelerationism" in Lord of Light meant making technology, especially life-extension technology, available to the masses instead of restricting it to the elites (who had used Sufficiently Advanced Technology to gain superpowers and set themselves up as Hindu gods, controlling the masses by restricting reincarnation to those who toed the line). It had little to do with the philosophy of the same name described here.
When 99% of the experts in the field agree, and that's not a compelling argument to a layman with no expertise, "skeptic" is not a word I'd use to describe that layman.
Shouldn't a code review have caught it?

Also seems like you could test against an image. And then do a diff on the entire image to catch unexpected deviations like that.
Notably, Octopii never meet their offsprings.
Sorry, I meant PC OS. Yes, the mobile OSes are based on some separation of applications.
I really hate this article. Pretty much everything I've ever accomplished in my life is because I speak it into existence and hold myself accountable. But then again, if you're the type of person who makes things happen, you don't rely on crappy psychology studies to tell you how to live your life.
I like to think of this kind of game like dark matter. In some theories of dark matter, there are entire "dark sectors", families of particles that only interact with each other, that harmlessly pass through you all the time. Similarly, you have to care about prestige to get prestige -- but if you don't care, the loss doesn't hurt at all. It just passes by harmlessly, like so much noise.
I tend to get jealous when I see people working with their hands, prefferably outside. Sometimes I even observe the guys cleaning the street and thinks, maybe its not that bad after all?

The times I have done such work (like construction) resulted in a much greater satisfaction and feeling in my body than after a day in front of the screen (even though I have been productive). Doing lots of running and gym but it does not generate the same feeling.

Have lately started to do something about it, maybe switch career totally.
Those kinds of headphones sans speakers don't actually do much noise cancelling. They just reduce the volume to safe levels.
Unfortunately, this list is a total joke.

I know someone who made the list last year, and it's literally their only accomplishment. They spent so much time trying to look good on paper that they've yet to accomplish anything real in life.

Their resume _looks_ great though...
You know the second part you are quoting isn't actually published by the EU? It's published by two people who got funding by the EU. This program supports many things in the domain of Rights, Equality and Citizenship, including;

Analytical activities (studies, data collection, development of common methodologies, indicators, surveys, preparation of guides…)

When researchers are supported by a group, that does not mean it was approved by them or made by them. It seems you are trying to spread misinformation to me, or do not look into the sources you provide.
I'm 26 and the only thing I read are HN comments. I don't even read the articles. :)
Adopting a democracy in the internet age is non-sensical. There's a long list of philosphers/politicians who have not agreed with democracy, mainly because if you control the public opinion, you control the vote. That is easier to do with mass media, and much easier with the internet.

But maybe this is precisely why China would adopt democracy. They already control the media so it would be easy to control the masses, just like in the united states.
we had real offices and my coworker and I cut a huge window sized hole in the drywall

Yeah, that's not an open office.
>There really isn't a good "line on the sand" to distinguish who/what is conscious and who isn't for anything from humans to octopuses to microwaves to computer programs.

I agree, but one step further I don't think we even have a base line definition for what consciousness really is, so how could we start defining what is and what isn't?
How can you be worth $30m but not have accomplished anything?

Edit: I'm dumb, this isn't what 30 under 30 means.
I'll take my "realclimatescience" in the form of physical evidence over a significant period (ice cores, growth rings, etc) rather then a few anecdotes about heat waves (that's weather, not climate). If that's ok?
Anyone who says anything as inane as "The science is settled" deserves the highest form of ridicule and mockery, yet as you can see in this article the wagon circling is more about politics and power than performing good science.

The more that gets revealed about the whole academic journal scene points to it being more a scam and house of cards credibility wise vs. sincerely advancing human knowledge.

And we aren't talking about "journals" like these: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-ho...

Sigh...
Specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21083277
Unconditional. Quoting from rational wiki:

"U/Acc claims that there is no action that can lead to acceleration or deacceleration, and that "To the question ‘What is to be done?’, then, she can legitimately answer only, 'Do what thou wilt'". This however does not mean "do nothing", it rather means that "the unconditional accelerationist, more than anyone else, is free at heart to pursue what she thinks is good and right and interesting—but with the ironical realisation that the primary ends that are served are not her own."
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Understanding Disk Usage in Linux
> The example code is JavaScript

And then introduce `==` and `===`.

Yep, I usually don't like the articles with clickbaity item lists like "10 ways you are iterating wrong over an array" but somehow I would like to see that here.
Private buyers won't just automatically pay more, so they can't "just raise prices".

Of course prices will still be raised, but the point is that Medicaid drug spending is rather directly linked to negotiated prices for drugs, not just based on whatever the manufacturer asks.
The thing that really bugs when when discussing climate change is that it's one of the clearest examples of confirmation bias I've ever experienced as an adult. Forget geological time, if anything out of the ordinary weather-related occurs then it's because of XYZ climate change reason.

The same people telling me the world will spiral out of control in just 12 years are also saying that we shouldn't build any nuclear power plants, or that the root cause of climate change is "institutional racism"[1]. It is really starting to look more like a religion to me than a science, and I don't say that lightly.

1. https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/xwneej/racism-climate-cha...
Have rich deceased parents.
Simply upgrading the material isn't re-inventing.

But sure, reinvention has to happen sometimes. Doesn't mean you are the one to do it. It's like the rule against implementing cryptography.
This is so bizarre to me. So lets say I am assaulted, and that person serves time and then is freed. After a certain period of time, I am no longer allowed to write about my experience online? I am not allowed to warn people, "hey, this guy assaulted me 10 years ago!".

Now, suppose he was never convicted. Am I allowed to write about my experience now?
Uber and EVgo announce partnership to electrify rideshare
You and almost everybody else in this thread are missing the core of the idea, which stems from Land, and tries to hammer in the fact that humanity has no agency. Rather than being a philosophy of our continued evolution - things we do - , it speaks about our imminent transformation/extinction - things being done to us -.

Under that light, accelerationism is nothing else but our collective acceptance we're as powerless against the technocapital positive feedback loop as against the movement of tectonic plates. It's this separation from and casting out of the "human security system", that allows one to look at the phenomenon with objectivity, and it's this separation that most critics and readers that look at accelerationism from the prism of conventional human-centered philosophy are missing.
7x "How can I deliver a better user experience with asynchronous operations?" sign-up form, impressive!
Then they should have a reporting option that goes something like "User is under 13" which requires a verification of parental consent to continue use of the account, otherwise it's just a blatant violation of COPPA.
In India its worse. People have to apply themselves. How ridiculous is that -- imagine Einstein applying, hey I should get noble prize for this, this and this.
It absolutely does. An ex-boss of mine who tried for years got himself on one of these lists and it took a lot of effort and resources just so he could bring it up in every introduction call/meeting he made to clients.
Doesn't that then stand that you need to qualify the backing of the rest of the scientific community, then qualify the backing of those backing the backing, then qualify the backing of those who are doing the back of the backing of the backing?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but the burden of proof decreases as the claims become less extraordinary. I'd suggest "a whole line of science which until this point hasn't been controversial" can probably be trusted, and that immediately choosing to disregard a group when it says something you don't like strikes as more reactionary than skeptical. I very much doubt you considered all of climate science a hack science until it started to butt up against your personal beliefs.
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Same. I'll be surprised if more people prefer video form of content.