skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something I think about a lot. I plan to never stop doing mentally stimulating activities, even in my old age. The difference you can see in cognitive ability between the elderly is staggering.

One particular instance that sticks in my mind was a video filmed in the UK where for some unrelated reason four older men and women were interviewed, with ages ranging between 80 and the low 100's. The mid 80 year old had trouble recalling information, spoke slowly, and generally seemed to exist in a fog so thick you could practically see it. On the other hand, the person around 100 was completely lucid, maybe even sharper than me! I can't say for sure that this is due to keeping busy and not partially genetic as well, but the variability really struck me.
Are you crazy. I'm surprised this app hasn't taken the internet by storm.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=morse.vedppa.a...
Well, they were apparently being abused by their family, had applied unsuccessfully for asylum, and were (or thought they were) about to be deported to Saudi Arabia. They had told people that they would kill themselves if they were forced to go back. They had spent weeks maxing out their credit cards staying in luxury hotels and shopping. They had run out of money the day before they died, and were seen hours before their bodies were found at a park on the bank of the river praying. Also they weren't bound in any way that would have caused them to drown - they had apparently taped themselves together, possibly to keep their bodies from floating apart.

I mean, it's possible that they were murdered. But it's not unreasonable to conclude from the available facts that it was suicide. Do you have access to additional facts that would dispute that conclusion?
What about my side project Read Across The Aisle? We make a free news reader app that helps people keep track of their media bias. That is inherently political (the whole point is to help people become more well-rounded), but running an ad for my free app shouldn't be seen as a political ad since we are devoutly non-partisan.
But is the research using these tools coordinated? Or are these tool created and then independent researchers schedule time to use them?
I live in the Northeastern United States. I've seen drones at attractions such as Centralia and Rickett's Glen State Park (waterfall hike.) I find them really annoying as well.
Not to mention explicitly political merchandise, #resistance shirts, Don't Tread On Me flags, bumper stickers, QAnon coffee mugs...
Sure. I get that part. The tricky part is which of the many many apps do that well.
The washing machine is either in the bathroom, or a tiny closet in the majority of houses I’ve seen :)
Your comment is written in a way that implies that this happens. Do you have evidence to back that up? Not evidence that they take down suspected state-sponsored brigading, but that they were wrong?
You can't bike across the crosswalk, but you can get off your bike, step onto the sidewalk and walk your bike across the pedestrian crossing.
Quote from Jack

> We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought.

Will they also ban politicians? Accounts buy followers to grow and look legit, including politicians. Just removing ads isn't removing power of money, as people are (and will be) spending a lot of money to get organic reach.

Some of their most popular accounts are politicians accounts. That brings tons of traffic to Twitter and makes money for them.

While I don't disagree with their decision, I think they maybe overstating positive impact it'll have.
> The newer open versions still don't match Oracle JDK 8.

Oracle JDK 8 contained some small parts that were proprietary. And they mostly had the proper package name. You took the risk.

> Wanna bundle a JVM with your app so your users don't have to worry about the Java runtime? Well, you can't do that anymore.

You mean, bundling a JVM exactly like all JetBrains IDEs currently do?

> Wanna use JavaFX? You have to jump to Java 11 and hope your dependencies don't fail with module packaging errors.

JavaFX is a bit of a strange thing, and yes, it can be painful. And some modules struggle with the new module system. The module system is a breaking change, and in fact it took quite a while.

> Scala

That's a problem with the Scala compiler AFAIK, not with Java.
Indeed, nor are US mores even the optimum, particularly the slavery of Monticello; the spectrum of possibilities is much wider than I suggested, including both dystopias far worse than GULAG and states of global eudaemonia unimaginable today. But approximations of both Jefferson's visions and Stalin's are among the possibilities, and where we end up depends entirely on which direction we go. So my top-level comment was not, I think, hyperbolic; it was understated, but only because I cannot imagine what will happen in the future any more than others can.

I have no sympathy for the Catalan separatists; I think they are a bunch of nationalist clowns. I think dark days will come to Catalunya if they succeed in their secessionist mission. But I think that is a far less important issue than preserving the intellectual heritage of humanity, rather than subjugating the noble pursuit of reason and freedom to the depraved animalistic contest of dominance that these "laws" serve.
There's really no reason to run political ads on Twitter, and I doubt Twitter would have made this decision if it actually hurt them financially in any meaningful way. Politics on Twitter is quite simple, say something and get your crowd to retweet it. AOC and Trump are the masters of this, they get a lot of political messages/lies/misleading messages out, and they don't spend a dime on it. Facebook is a different animal altogether in terms of politics.
Reading the details, it _sounds_ like the court ruled on fairly narrow grounds - that is, that the claim for compensation under "eminent domain" isn't applicable to this situation. This doesn't _necessarily_ mean that there isn't some other legal avenue open to claim compensation for this insanity. At least, I hope it doesn't.
Checkout svgator (not free). I recently used it to animate an svg, the same way I would have done in Flash years ago.
Are proteins bright cartoonish colors, or sort of clear? Are cells empty spaces with some few things in them, or packed almost solid? Are molecules moving along trajectories with intent, or slamming about with shocking violence and randomness?

The problem isn't that the authors think proteins are actually bright cartoonish colors. Nor that such colorization isn't pedagogically useful. The problem is that many students, unsure which aspects of what they are seeing are real, and which are artistic license, are known to get it wrong. Are known to end up believing that bodies and cells are big empty-ish spaces, and that molecular motion isn't extremely violent.

As here. That stately motion, is artistic license, not reality.

The critique of the authors, is that they are failing to do some things which would reduce the creation and reinforcement of these student misconceptions. They could have for instance, retained the stately motion for its pedagogic value, but added a brief clip of more realistic motion, to inoculate against the misconception. But they failed to do that.

Hmm, as for the cartoon colors, I don't actually know if some students end up believing they are real. I'd expect so. I do know many students believe blood changes from red to blue, based on the colors in a common circulatory system diagram, reinforced by vein color observed through skin.

I've a paper around here, somewhere, on kinesin towing physical dynamics, if that's something you'd care about.
It's just a difference in CSS.
In the Netherlands there used to be electric bikes that go up to about 25 km/h, mostly for the elderly, but in the last few years there are also "speed-pedelecs" that go up to 45 km/h and are popular with commuters.

Count as mopeds, and controversial because they are more dangerous (partly because they look like normal bicycles and the rider is sitting upright but they're going much faster than normal bikes, other traffic doesn't expect it).

But they do make it feasible to use a bike for longer commutes.
That's Project Vesta: https://projectvesta.org/

Basically, artificial green-sand beaches which absorb CO2 as they weather.
This is a new app written just for Catalyst, right?
This is most important when scanning code.

When I’m trying to add functionality of fix a bug, I’m going to read dozens and dozens of functions to winnow down to a handful of candidates.

Simple code can be filtered quickly and cheaply. Clever code requires contemplation. Which clears working memory.

Yes, I can understand your code. But I shouldn’t have to work for it.
How to Make Interactable Tectonic Plates in AR – Part 1
they aren't saying they're banning partisan advertising, they're banning political advertising. a non-partisan political ad is still a political ad.

that said, just because a product is free doesn't mean ads aren't "selling" it, which exposes the flaw in my criteria: if you're selling a political product, an ad can both be trying to sell a product and be a political ad at the same time.
So- can people sell political bumper stickers or no?
Part of the acquisition includes a plan to pay all the contributors debt in full.
To me the problem is that entire generations have tied their worth/sense of self into what they do from 9-5. The idea of stopping that is so anathema to them that they just can't handle it.

It's really sad to not be able to enjoy downtime in my opinion.
I'd be really disappointed if your opinion is unpopular. I completely agree and find it depressing to see how our culture admires Gates as an idol of altruism. He's had impact, sure, in the same way that someone with an infinite river has the ability to extinguish forest fires but extinguishes a few brush fires instead... just enough to outpace his competitors and lock in the perception of being most benevolent.

Worst form of social darwinism EVER.
> We don't let blatantly false ads run on TV.

Since when?
Really? The twitter userbase actually prefers it this way? That's baffling to me. Did the revolting userbase provide any reasons or explanations for this preference?
I know this is a late reply,but maybe you'll see it.

Regarding the synced/shared/global file ignore, there's an imperfect but usable work-around:

You can use #include statements in your .stignore, so you can include another file that contains the global ignore list, then sync that file. You have to set up the .stignore with the include statement for all of your devices/folders, but after that, it's essentially a global ignore list.

Hope that helps.
Procrastination

There's so much to do but I don't want to
Such a bore to do but someone has to
Browsing HN the clock's ticking
Maybe the task will go away but it doesn't
It’s just like anything else that is noisy, people need to learn to be respectful. Last time I was at the beach a guy would wake up early to fly his drone so he wouldn’t disturb people.
You can just not follow the bot account.
There are some government-backed propaganda, but from my observation, the vast majority of them in incidents like this one is a true grassroot phenomenon. Usually it's the result of a bunch of pro-governments activists and anti-government activists organizing themselves on social networks and raid their targets, believe they are fighting for a righteous cause, similar to 4chan's modus operandi.
Haha, reminded me of a time when I had just quit from a company as head of engineering, and a couple of weeks later a new Jr. recruiter for said company sent me one of those generic emails telling me that she liked my LinkedIn profile, and how she would love to talk to me about an open developer position at the company.

I chuckled and forwarded the email to the then head of HR and CEO. I am good friends with both, and I knew they will take it with humor.

It is difficult to find good recruiters.
Sounds like the American Cancer Society can advocate for itself but not for candidates or policies.

Fine:

Donate to fight cancer

Not fine:

Donate to Candidate X to support cancer research
An urban growth boundary is not a policy that fixes this problem.

We require streets to be very wide to accommodate car traffic.

We require homes to be a certain minimum size.

We mandate lots of parking.

We have minimum lot sizes.

We have set backs from the lot line. This means you can't build row houses. We have places where if you buy an empty lot, you can build a row house matching the ones on either side. If you buy an old building, you can't tear it down and build new because it is grandfathered in and a new building would have to conform to a different set of rules.

We do seem to be lightening up on parking requirements in some cities, but many of these other issues are not being aggressively addressed.

You mostly can't build walkable neighborhoods in the US. This has been true a long time. The New Urbanism movement was about trying to do exactly that and they frequently had to do a lot of research and find loopholes to try to create anything akin to their vision. Their plans were usually denied the first time they were submitted and then they would go through zoning codes very carefully and start renaming things on their drawings to a conforming use that largely preserved their intended layout.
Don't forget the web:
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
possibly to hold position in wind?
The general dismissal of "conspiracy theories" as being categorically untrue and the realm of insane people is such a tired notion. Happily for the power structure, it is the very notion they hope we all parrot. Countless comments here and in similar threads start with some preamble about not believing in conspiracy theories, but...

People all over the world are engaged in conspiracies. A theory is an attempt to understand a complex reality. Anybody who thinks that governments ever cover up wrong-doing is a conspiracy theorist. Do you believe that your government ever lied about something?
This whole insistence on not bearing the "label" is so mind-numbing. Can we get past the superficiality of name-calling and talk about reality?

Of course, we sit around and say conspiracy theories can't possibly be true because of vaccine+autism and flat earth. End of story. Well it turns out there are links between vaccines and developmental disorders, but maybe those fears are overblown by scared parents (yeah, don't look too closely). You can argue that it's a worthwhile risk to take for the preservation of civilization. But to say there is no link is false.

The world is full horror being perpetrated by powerful people. But we were taught by the evening news that conspiracists are whackos. One thing I've learned is that if the media repeats something over and over again in order to imprint it into your brain, it's probably because there is an agenda behind it and not because it's the good old truth.
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning [pdf]
If the offense is limited to shoplifting, then the lack of desire to spend resources on a full investigation obviously leads to that 2%. So that stat would be relevant for a shopowner who went after a shoplifter themselves, but not this situation - the police expending more resources is already taken as a given.

But sure, let a few more incidents of shoplifting escape justice because the perp manages to get away. It would take an awful lot of shoplifting to rise to the level of harm of blowing up a house, or (in other incidents) killing innocent bystanders in a high speed chase.

Either way, municipalities and police departments aren't even able to properly weigh those options if they can simply escape responsibility for the damage caused by their choice. Instead, shirking any potential harm pushes them into that same must-act mindset that you're arguing from.

Society is not going to fall apart from a little more shoplifting, but it will fall apart when people see the police as a source of chaos and injustice.
You might want to browse Reuters.com or BBC (might be too much) instead? “Hacker News” is not exactly the place to stifle creativity.
> inspirational pop-science-as-spiritualism

This is the best description of this type of science writing I've encountered.
Who says they will? They just gained market share and more ad dollars.
Will pixelfed ever support "stories" ? I kind of became addicted to stories on Instagram, although I admit the old gallery-only is less stressful
Political ads are free speech.
I mean, maybe. I've seen accidents fiddling with conversion EVs 15 years ago, and you could say the same thing. Drop a wrench onto a battery pack and you no longer own a wrench, but bare skin contact with a few hundred volt pack isn't instant death.

I wonder if oily rags are more dangerous than both.
ITT: They'll switch to bots! They'll just start doing x!

So? We can address that when we get there. This is a step in the right direction for once.
It's a gamification choice. Watching those numbers tick up is proven to be addictive and keep people on the site.
Hiking and cycling communities tend to be quite friendly.
I cycled Europe quite a lot, and have met many similar minded people.

Long distance hikes are a good way to meet cool people too. Europe is full of them, and the longer hikes mean you get to meet and make friends with people for a few days.

For bigger cities, free walking tours are both fun and a socializing place.
>While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics,

It's kind of horrifying that one can make such a statement, acknowledging the dangers of advertising, but still insinuating that commercial advertising somehow isn't dangerous and harmful, just the political ads...
> This must be sarcasm. Yeah, they reject violent action at the same time that explicitly provide all the necessary logistic support for violent action, like telling people where is the police in real time, (the same policemen and policewomen that are ambushed later)

THAT might be sarcasm. There is no terrorism or violence implicit in informing people of police location in real time.

> they also slowly introduce and train naive youngsters in the exciting world of crime and urban war

That is false.

> send people to burn the streets, lose their eyes.

That is also false. The second part is quite disturbing, putting the blame where it should not be.

> and (with a little luck) die for the cause and create the long desired martyrs that will come some day

That's disgusting.
Ask HN: What software/app do you wish would exist?
Looking for some ideas about some stuff that might already kind of exist, but could be improved on in terms of features/UX. Also, it could be something completely new.
I've also begun to stress this in code reviews and mentoring interaction but the question is; how to present this idea in a way that "early in their career" developers (and not so early) can appreciate? Simply admonishing them about "keep it readable!" isn't effective in my experience.

An example that frequently occurrs is decomposing a large method into smaller methods. Okay, there are now more lines of code (due to adding method declarations), but what was really gained? The gain that can be had is identifying common use cases and factoring some of those methods out to utility classes that can be referenced from the same source file and others. This can be difficult to identify unless one learns to really look for these oppurtunities.

The approach I've been taking recently is presenting the idea as there's always a minimal level of abstraction, and code should try to achieve it. I'm interested to hear what others think about this.
I'm reminded of the dodge that religious institutions have achieved. In exchange for tax-exempt status, they are forbidden from explicit political stances and endorsements; yet in practice, many churches are highly influential in the political process, as they of course are allowed to take moral stances (abortion being the big one), and encouraging their congregations to "vote their consciences", etc.

Seems to me that Twitter advertisements would likely take the same path, where the bought political influence is instead abstracted away into generalized "awareness campaigns", push-polls, etc.
Good tech isn't just stuff that's subject to control and modification. Look how many species you can choose from. Look at all the stuff around you made out of wood.

Trees create habitat, buffer wind, provide shade, retain soil, and on and on. They're good at what they do.
Bravo. That whole thread is smart, well-reasoned, and puts democracy above profits. Good for them.

I particularly like his last point:

> A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.

Which I cannot read in any way but “f-you, Facebook.”

And honestly, he’s totally right. This issue is NOT about freedom of expression...it’s about freedom to pay for expression (and freedom to pay for having others see your expression), and I don’t think that’s inherently a good thing. It’s certainly not what the first amendment is about.
Qt is really good for doing UI, in my opinion, both QML and non-QML. They do a really good job at keeping things coherent and concise, which really helps first-time users, specially after learning the basics.
What ads aren't political? At this point, when politicians are just reputation-laundering spokespersons for multinational financial interests, it makes no difference whether you advertise for the candidate or the product.

Perhaps this will disincentivize investment in electoral politics, but it won't rescue the public discourse from financiers' influence.
World's oldest running websites from the 80s and 90s
Forbidden how? Getting off your bike to cross the street?
I don't agree with every call Twitter makes, but I find Dorsey to be by far the most interesting public figure in the social media game. His two JRE interviews[0][1] and his Tales from the Crypto interview[2] are all worth checking out, IMO. He seems to think Twitter should use a blockchain in the future, and that small social circles should have a system for internally moderating content without needing it to be okay by Twitter's standards, but obviously they're still currently taking down content that breaches their policies in $CURRENT_YEAR. I'm really interested in seeing where Twitter goes, I think Dorsey plays realpolitik sometimes but I don't think he has the same goals as Zuckerberg. I could be wrong, and Dorsey could just be a next-level showman, but I'm hopeful that he might do something truly interesting with the platform. I've still never made a Twitter account.

[0]: https://youtu.be/_mP9OmOFxc4a

[1]: https://youtu.be/DZCBRHOg3PQ

[2]: https://talesfromthecrypt.libsyn.com/tales-from-the-crypt-61...
Maybe a silly question, but if I run a for profit SaaS and I package my software with my business logic up in a linux container which uses alpine as a base (which uses busybox), am I required to release the code for my business?
Plenty of people are interested in Epstein's crimes. The FBI is still chasing evidence discovered during investigation of those crimes (mostly because it could tie to other people's crimes, and mostly without interference from Epstein's estate, since dead people have no Fifth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure).

But if the question on the table is "Was Epstein killed to eliminate the possibility he'd implicate others in his criminal confessions," the answer is "Probably not."