skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point, but I think a strong counter-example would be anything we get from satellites. We went to space for political reasons, but let's just say it was for the sake of science because it sure didn't solve any immediate problems for mankind. But it did create the technology for satellites, which allow us to better predict the weather and gives us GPS tracking, and other things as well. But imagine you wanted to develop a global tracking system, would your first thought be to invent satellites if they did not already exist? So it definitely does matter sometimes, although which times is obviously open to interpretation.
It has all the ups and downs of humanity as a whole of course, but as other users have said specific subs (usually less popular and well moderated) are where the gold is.

My main problem with Reddit is the repetitive in-culture jokes, memes, and reposts. A lot of content is pandering to the Reddit audience with a flavour that is calculated to win over the crowd (see all the complaints on /r/pics of political signs or weight loss progress pics - it pisses a lot of people off because there's better places for it, but gets upvotes from the masses).
I wonder if subtle cognitive decline leads to early retirement.
The Cherry G80-8200 is sometimes available in that layout, although newer ones went full-ANSI.
Deadspin Journalists Quit En Masse
Catalan are not fighting 1v1 some other region, they are 1 v rest. Even if every other region is less politically powerful, their sum is more powerful, and their sum benefits from extracting economic output from Catalan. Catalan cannot reasonably get a constitutional change because the rest of the regions benefit from them being part of Spain. Again, it's a one vs rest ordeal.
>comfortable with non-binary truth

Careful, getting a bit too postmodernists in here. If you look at it too hard all "truths" become false eventually, and that can pave the way to apathy.

>And it's okay to be make a mistaken evaluation, just reevaluate and adjust the simplified "truth" assessment model based on more recent data.

And how many politicians on both sides of the aisle double-down on an issue just to remain consistent to their base?
Or worse, change their position thanks to millions of dollars worth of lobbying or the promise of a high-up position once they're out of office?

>And a so-called "neutral" person is, by not taking action, implicitly supporting the dominant narrative, which may be a lie after all.

Maybe the Stoics were on to something. If the masses believe the lie, doesn't it become the truth?
You don't have to live in New York City to run a content website. In fact, you can live wherever you want and work from home.
Trust me, in this case will be war

At difference than Norway, there is a silent majority in Catalonia that is fuming. They had being opressed in the last decades by separatism. Now they can't exit home without finding a burning barricade and the pavement vandalised, can't go to work without finding the highway blocked by a group of clowns sit singing kumbaya, can't enter in the university without the permit of masked people boycotting the classes and closing the doors (It does not really matter because they will not find a local job anymore in the 5000 companies that have quited the area by this permanent climate of confrontation).

Poor workers struggling to survive, students from modest families, owners of small family bussiness sued by using spanish in their small shops, elders that can't sleep by youngs playing war games all night... Being poked in the eye each month, each day, hour and minute, by children demanding permanent attention. Children that want to steal their rights and identity, make their lifes miserable and chase them off from their homes and properties...

In some moment of the future this silent half will face some apparently trivial issue, reach boiling point, explode and raise in a bloodthirsty rage swirl.

Separatists crave to achieve a reaction from Spain that would justify their agenda, but trust me, the mortal hit will come from inside.

The rest of Spain will take some popcorn and enjoy the carnage and backstabbing on TV
Is the media really shaming young men for being useless? What are the most notable movies or shows?
> And the grandparent just argued that we should easily be able to regulate companies.

That is what you got out of comment? That certainly wasn't my argument, and rereading what I wrote, I still don't see how you get it.

Let me be succinct: I wasn't arguing for or against Twitter's actions or making any suggestions for what I would do. I was simply pointing out that making an argument solely on the grounds it is a slippery slope is vacuous.
This is interesting because paid education has been pretty bad for mathematics in the US as opposed to France which sees a continuous stream of brilliant and successful mathematicians.
I also think it's unethical, and I think it's disappointing how rare it is to hear someone speak honestly about what SEO actually is in practice.
Nerve compression. It's horrible, and can go from non-existent to disabling fairly quickly from inflammation. I spent most of last year getting 7 root nerves fixed. The trick is radio frequency ablation, which is once you identify the nerve causing the pain you use radio waves to cause a lesion on the nerve. This blocks the nerve from working. I didn't know this before, turns out we have a lot of nerves that don't really do anything but cause pain. Pain specialist have it down to a science, I highly recommend. It can be an adventure identifying the correct nerve though. I found it well worth the inconveniences. There is also steroids that can be used for excessive inflammation too, but they tend to not like to use them unless they have too.
The bar for Linux is “does it work at all?” If it’s not completely broken, then everything else matters little, because it could just as easily be broken. (Source: daily Linux user for... like ten years now?)
DJI nailed the ideal form factor for consumer drones (and maybe for quadcopters in general) when they came up with the original Mavic Pro. Since then they've been experimenting with incrementally smaller form factors to find a price and size where the truly average Joe will decide to get a drone to bring on his holidays, but I'm not sure that decreasing size will unlock a large number of new customers.

On my personal wishlist for future drones are more sophisticated and precise physical controllers with better pressure gradients, and especially the ability to program flight routes to allow mixed human/automated controls – e.g. "Respond to flight controls normally, but when I press this button 1) increase altitude to 90m over the course of 15 seconds 2) rotate camera downwards by 30 degrees over 15 seconds 3) begin rotating aircraft left by 1 degree per second"
What's premature (it has been around for at least a year)?

And why is it unfair to ask for open governance from companies other than Google and IBM (redhat is part of IBM)?
Looks like R & D only so far. But they are in proximity to City of London. JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are both staffing up their AI Research divisions. They all compete in the same talent pool. So I would not be surprised to see some sort of partnership with a major bank in the coming year.

Regarding multi-agent deep reinforcement learning. If anyone has caught any of the League of Legends play recently streaming on Twitch leading up to the Finals. Particularly Faker and STK. DeepMind certainly has it's work cut out for them. Even 99.9% expert level human play won't be enough ;)
Depends on lots of factors. Most maintenance is preventative in that context, so its hard to pin down a specific thing that would break down first or how long it would take. If something does break unexpectedly its usually treated as a big deal every time so it never happens again.
Why Does Israel Have So Many Startups?
My guess is that as long as the orbital periods of the involved planets are sufficiently different (not being rational multiples of each other for example) , making the system ergodic . Then Mercury will always be the closest by the metric.
Many of the libraries used by popular Data Science/Vis tools today (Matlab, Numpy etc) use BLAS and LAPACK which are written in FORTRAN
This point of view is kinda incoherent. These platforms are not open. They're owned. And the owners can decide what you can and cannot say on it. In the end, if they think that some kinds of expression are not good for them, they not only have the right, but from a corporate perspective, a responsibility to their enterprise to end that expression on their platform.

Pressure from lawmakers and the public alike can change their policies. And we can always vote with our feet.
It has seemed inevitable since the volt's door handles that eventually all electric vehicle designs are going to converge to a nearly uniform teardrop form.
Firstly, if you're saying most people are just fine then that's surely the wrong framing; you don't wait until most people are hurting.

Secondly, why does one try to persuade people that the scope of hurt isn't that bad by... eyeballing a HN post for popularity? And using that to counteract a report full of collected data?
> I should hope that's not how I come off.

Well... you didn't really. You seemed to be somewhat in the neighborhood, which is why I mentioned it, but not really there, so I tried to be gentle. (I hope I came across that way...)

> My meaning was more that which languages are popular is more a result of inertia than anything.

To perhaps strain a metaphor, I think it might be more like a gas cloud gravitationally collapsing. You get denser regions, which have more gravity, so they are able to attract more gas and get even denser. In the same way, a language ecosystem that has more... something... attracts more developers, which makes it a better market for third-party libraries and how-to books and consultants and tools, all of which gives it even more "something". ("Mass" is the word in the analogy; I'm not sure what the word is for language ecosystems.)

But for a project I'm going to start right now, it's perfectly rational for me to take that "mass" (or whatever) into account when choosing a language, because it means I can find programmers, and tools, and how-to guides, even if the language as a language is no better than the alternatives.

I guess that means that I'm agreeing with you about "inertia". I don't think it's just mindshare, though. It's the ability of the ecosystem to help you get your project done.

And the languages that attain that kind of "mass" are languages that were able to attract it when they didn't already have it (when they were just starting out), which is either some indication of merit, or an indication of organizational support. For organizational support, see Java (Sun publicized Java heavily, but also wrote massive libraries). For merit, consider C. (When it started out, it didn't have tons of publicity or great libraries. But it was good enough, and it was free. That was enough to start gaining a following.)
To give a quick summary: I look at the upcoming weather, see the times of upcoming meetings, see messages people have sent me, pause/resume/skip tracks on currently-playing music, track hikes or walks, record audio, check my heart rate, check the current time/date, and pay for stuff.
I own a mavic pro 2 and I almost always use it in the AI modes like circling, following, point of interest and what not. I often let it follow friends and really enjoy having it with me. Just wish it was a bit smaller but I really like the camera so probably won’t switch anytime soon
The current Wikipedia article about the new parent company is a thing of beauty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G/O_Media&oldid=9...
Buddy, there's nowhere that you can live where the shoes your children need will be free.
Some of us don't want to spring for unlimited data plans and get rather frustrated when reading textual news incurs the charges associated with streaming video. Bandwidth is not boundless for everyone.
Unfortunately it silently fails.

Years ago I worked for a company that claimed to have largest Filemaker Pro database in the southern hemisphere. One day there was some sort of disk issue and filemaker silently failed, then for months it kept pretending that everything was fine, it just wasn't writing to disk. This lasted until a power outage one day when the company discovered it had lost months of customer data, no backups of course, the backup system was working fine but there was no new information being written.

Data loss isn't forgivable, especially in the non-technical user space that filemaker is aiming for.
Too many sites and services work badly with FF. The Chrome incompatibility monopoly is a huge issue.
I think Mercury might still win. When the Sun is closer than Mercury, there is a lot of time when Venus or Mars are closer than the Sun.
As a developer started his career during the cloud/everything-as-a-service boom, thinking about Kubernates networking gives me anxiety
I scraped Capterra awhile back with this intention. What I learned is that every business category (there are hundreds) had at least 3 market leaders with 4 or more stars.

That’s partially due to Capterra being incentive on behalf on the ads they run to have positive reviews up, but it could indicate also that we’ve reached a saturation point where the CRM for X niche has been largely filled.
and here i thought this was going to be about compuserv or prodigy. those experiences, along with aol, were the means by which many people experienced "the internet" in the "olden days". the only place i used the "internet" was at the computer lab in my school...all my friend's parents had signed up for one of the walled gardens and had no idea what else was "out there".
I don't get asked about working with Microsoft Access that often, except when it comes to interfacing an online store with a POS or Accounting system.

MYOB Retail Manager, which you will find in many bricks & mortar stores as their POS system (often with multiple registers), uses MS Access as its database.

Why they never switched to SQLite or MSSQL Lite I don't know but it's there, does the job most of the time (except when it corrupts itself) and there's no value in moving away from it, and going all-out online is a big scary change for them.
> What about the other extreme, where every political ad contains blatant lies because anyone who doesn't do that cannot possibly get elected?

Basically an arms race of lies, where those willing to lie the most have the greatest advantage. What's worse is that the most insidious of the lies will appeal to the parts of the targets' psyches that wants very much to believe the lies, and therefore unlikely to proactively fact check (i.e Pizzagate).

And as has been the trend of late, lies that are eventually publicly debunked will be minimized as being "just jokes".
Age causes brain volume decline and intelligence loss, like distance causes tiredness in marathon runners. i.e. it can't cause anything, it's an abstract measurement - age doesn't cause rust, oxidation does. Distance doesn't cause tiredness, running does.

Increasing age and increasing decline can't mean that age causes decline, it shows one or more of: processes which cause decline keep happening, repair processes either don't happen or get worse, new generation either doesn't happen or gets worse.

(If worms were eating your brain, your brain volume would go down and your intelligence would go down as time passed and your age increased, it wouldn't prove that age caused your intelligence loss. Correlation isn't causation).
Do you have a source for that, because I've only ever heard that the camera outside his cell did not provide usable footage.
Have you seen PlantUML [1]? You create your diagrams in text in their DSL which is fairly intuitive.

There’s a hosted version of the rendering engine here [2] though it’s easy enough to run locally.

[1] http://plantuml.com/

[2] https://www.planttext.com/
You can set Siri on a Mac to accept text and turn off voice responses, then trigger it with a keyboard shortcut. Works pretty well and much faster than the voice controls.
Maybe someone could take inspiration from Blizzard and create a "Classic Internet" ;)
I generally agree with the author's sentiment regarding "the Old Internet". However, using "voat" and "thank goodness" in the same breath raised a red flag for me about the author and their motives. They mentioned being kicked off raddle.me for posting links to their site (the one that's currently linked to on the top of the HN homepage); maybe that was with good reason and not a result of gatekeeping?

For example, from _Men and Women and Marriage_:

> In contrast, from what I've observed of women's behavior, most women marry for money. Some of them marry several times for money. You see, women understand why marriage exists. It exists to ensure that women will be provided for while they raise their children. This is why so many marriages are dissolved after the children leave home. From the woman's perspective: no more children, no more reason to be married.

Perhaps, in addition to the conveniences, opportunities (learning, employment and otherwise), etc. the "New Internet" has afforded us, making this sort of trash harder to find is a bit of silver lining.
Or maybe he always had assistants to do most of that for him at work and now that he's retired he doesn't have that anymore so he's reaching out to you? Anecdotal evidence is dangerous.
It depends. The article is advocating for writing poetry if you are struggling to communicate. That’s not the same as struggling to write.

“Writer’s block” covers a wide range of definitions from “I don’t know what to write about” to “I don’t believe I even can even write a grocery list.” There is often a large psychological component. Free writing can help in some cases, but in other cases the free writing can be repetitive and uncreative, possibly exacerbating the underlying psychological issue.
It's a real to life point. Live Action's prolife ads were taken down for being 'political' even though the ads have nothing to do with politics.
A 9/11 humor story
Because they're manipupating content, CFAA is a law that exists to mitigate unauthorized access and obstruction of computer systems...that's how,the same law any ordinary person would face.
nowadays most of us have no idea what is propaganda and what isn't. heck sometimes you eventually research it and realize stuff you believed was true for decades because you were just told so by some authoritative source (like "TV" or what not really), turn out, is between misleading to flat out wrong. Note that I'm not even thinking about this in terms of politics. It seems to be the case for so many different things, sometimes due to ignorance, sometimes malice.
Might be a stretch, but it was interesting to see that around the time of the MIT Media Lab/Joi Ito and Bill Gates connections to Epstein came out, Netflix happened to have a new Bill Gates documentary front and center shortly after. Iirc it was called something like The Brain of Bill Gates and the trailer seemed to paint a positive image of him (didn't watch/don't want to). Maybe it's been up for a while, but it was definitely the centerpiece upon landing for a bit
Retain in the sense of withhold makes more sense when you're talking about a physical item that can't be duplicated and shared without limit. I don't think I would use it in that sense when talking about data.
Nerve compression. It's horrible, and can go from non-existent to disabling fairly quickly from inflammation. I spent most of last year getting 7 root nerves fixed. The trick is radio frequency ablation, which is once you identify the nerve causing the pain you use radio waves to cause a lesson on the nerve. This blocks the nerve from working. I didn't know this before, turns out we have a lot of nerves that don't really do anything but cause pain. Pain specialist have it down to a science, I highly recommend. Also, tingling or numbness is a telltale sign of nerve compression.
Wow, ageist much? My wind model is F77.
Maybe the claim is exaggerated but having money doesn’t make you invincible, especially to larger organizations.

Regardless nobody should have such personal details revealed as news without their own doing, no matter how rich or famous they are.
It's like using a butterfly net to capture water. They do it but it's not effective.
The teardrop is the ideal aerodynamic form, and electric vehicles, and BEVs need to maximize aerodynamic efficiency to maximize range, which is still quite limited compared to internal combustion vehicles on even the best BEVs.
A magazine targeting men distributing pictures of scantily-clad ladies? The humanity! On a more serious note, I don't hear any issue with tabloids putting guys in speedoes on the front, let alone hear it called, "politically divisive." What distinguishes the two?
Oh, I got another one -
Design your new kitchen and use AR to preview it.

Step 1: Measure your room by pointing the phone at the corners and triangulating the room. Can do iregularly shaped room. More pictures = more angles = floor plan through the power of trig.

Step 2: On your generated 2d floorplan place the kitchen units you want

Step 3: hold up your phone, point it at a corner again to triangulate location, generate 3D perspective view of the kitchen units / new floor / painted walls / lighting and put it ontop of the picture in the right place.

Make a rough prototype and then convince a major retailer to pay you to finish it without owning the IP.
I enjoyed reading this.

However, a better title would be "I miss the old Information Superhighway" (the stark 90s name for the Internet)
Why it's premature to say that Ebola has been “cured”
The Cure for Ebola (2014)
Apple’s fiscal year begins in October and ends the following September. The just released results were for the fourth quarter of the 2019 fiscal year, 2019-Q4.
Imagine if we applied this standard to a story of significant presidential malfeasance in October. Something so terrible no one would ever vote for the person. Should we?
Results mindset may get you some results, out of pure luck since you can't control results, but the steess and agony it adds to life is not worth it. 20 years of misery to back this up.
But they take time from both Sun and Mercury.

I think Sun will win: let’s say there is a planet A between Mercury and Sun, given math in video, A is better than Mercury. Planet B is between A and Sun. Repeat until you get to the surface of the Sun.
> And a so-called "neutral" person is, by not taking action, implicitly supporting the dominant narrative

Strongly disagree, this would imply that an individual's support of a narrative can change simply by the environment around them changing while the individual stays static.

Three Christians, two athiests, and an agnostic are sitting at a bar. Does the agnostic support Christianity? Two of the Christians leave. Does the agnostic now support atheism?
I certainly agree it's no replacement for a proper DB when full SQL functionality is needed, but it does have basic aggregates like count(), sum(), etc, available as formula fields:
https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/203255215-For...
The sun isn't a planet. It's a star.
Along with their sports coverage, yes. And how is “smokeshow” politically divisive?