skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think I used this, even justifying a two-row taskbar for a while. There even used to be a Google widget to search from the taskbar (and yet here I am instantly turning off web searches in the start menu out of sheer disgust).
What error do you get? If it's:

> Your email address is not linked to a Yahoo ID. To join this group, you need to link your email address to a Yahoo account.

Then you need to go into "Account security" and link an email address with the account. I don't know why the instructions don't tell you this.
The complexity is just moved somewhere else; instead of being explicit in an API, it's implicit in a behaviour. If you want to permission those bits you're doing CRUD ops on, or refactor how they're stored, change their normalization in the database, split them out of a monolith into separate services, ensure you're not permitting the UI team (or worse, your customers writing direct to your API) take dependencies on stuff you want to deprecate, well, the complexity just comes back; it's just in the code handling those custom codes, and all you've invented is a multiplexer that obscures the complexity.

I think there's value to it though, to GraphQL, but mostly on the read side rather than CUD side. Often all sorts of widgets need to knit together data from different sources, and if your data is relational under the hood, with REST endpoints per relation, the knitting is work better left to a library. I'm less convinced for updates.
That's because the internet has mostly become a cesspool of people trying to "get in on the google content pie". There are thousands if not millions of sites dedicated to each unique/specific topic that are just re-hashing the same content. It's a global-level markov-chain-like generator to create "realistic" or "real" textual content. And Google loves it because they're seen as "champions" of helping you find the content you need in this pool of non-sense, whilst simultaneously being the cause of the content-explosion due to the promise of ad money.
> “criminalize acts that amount to ecocide. We believe this radical idea merits serious discussion.”

Destruction of the environment creates a huge threat for the whole humanity.

It's appalling that suggesting to treat it as a crime it is considered "radical".
So someone else could use them first? Try thinking before you type.
Literature’s Arctic Obsession (2017)
Linux is basically the only system that targets a stable syscall ABI, and that's basically due to being loosely coupled with all other parts of a Linux-based operating system.
One of the most interesting aspects of this case, IMO, is that USGS geologists figured out that the origin of the balloons was Japan a specific region of the coast that could account for the minerals in the sample of sand. The Army Air Force looked into this area further, and destroyed the hydrogen plants they found there, which helped put an end to the project!
http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/forensic_geology/Japenese%20ven...
> The funny part here is that a college student should know how to keep a balanced ledger!

That's something I was taught neither by my parents, nor at any point through my schooling. It'd be great if folks had this kind of fiscal literacy; but where are we expected to gain that knowledge?

I've heard tell of "civics" courses, back in the day, that taught the basics of what adults are expected to know. But they're long gone now.
It's a large aggregate of currently available OSINT resources, what content you can expect to find on them, and how to use them basically. Could you find out all this data somewhere else? Definitely. I found that having the desk reference was helpful though.
> He also knew how writing worked and he had the idea of using characters to correspond to phenomes.

Actually, he didn't. He knew that the Americans had a writing system that was sparse in its use of characters, and that it was capable of reflecting all text, but he didn't know any of the actual principles. This is why he created a syllabary (each character is roughly a syllable [1]) instead of an alphabet (each character is a phoneme). He also had access to an English-language Bible, although he couldn't read it--this is why Cherokee has several characters that look like Latin letters but have completely different pronunciation (ᏣᎳᎩ is pronounced "tsalagi").

The creation of the syllabary also corroborates the general history of scripts: most scripts start out as logographic, morph into a rebus phase (homophonic punning--using a picture of an eye to represent "I" because they sound the same), and then transition into a syllabary. In the development of Egyptian, the script instead became an abjad (reflecting only consonants); by the time this came to the Greeks, they added vowel letters to make the first alphabet (and all alphabets are essentially derived from the Greeks); the abugida innovation (marking vowels systematically) happened a few times, although most existing abugidas derive ultimately from the Brahmi script. Sequoyah skipped straight to a syllabary because of access to Latin script that illustrated that logographic script wasn't necessary.

[1] Mapping are of course rough in all forms of scripts, but syllabaries are usually even rougher to map, since languages can have quite complex consonant clusters. In practice, most such scripts tend to stick to classifying CV (consonant-vowel) pairs as syllables and use multiple characters to represent CVC, CCVC, CVCC, etc. syllables.
> Does this mean that they want to ban syscalls from everything but approved "fat client" libraries like libc?

Yes.

> (And perhaps ban versions of libc that have bugs?)

There is only one OpenBSD libc.
The large telescope mirrors aren’t single parts even in terrestrial telescopes. We have to assemble and calibrate them on their isolated mountaintops, starting with the giant support structures intended for suspending the mirrors against the pull of gravity with minimum distortion regardless of orientation of the telescope.

We then add active optics to compensate for atmospheric distortion, alter airline routes and city lighting to help improve conditions, and then pray for no clouds on the nights we want to observe.

Constructing telescopes in space will become a reality within the next decade, while terrestrial telescopes currently in planning will be finding it harder and harder to navigate the mixture of light pollution, accessibility and indigenous rights. I expect there are terrestrial telescopes already in planning and even at early stages of construction which will never be finished. Between the ever-growing forest of red tape and the ever shrinking cost of building space telescopes in orbit, there will be an inflexion point where it makes sense to dedicate the remaining budget of a terrestrial telescope project to building its spaceborne replacement.
> I was just saying that collaboration with RT is a big red flag

How come?
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> The Office of Censorship then sent a message to newspapers and radio stations to ask them to make no mention of balloons and balloon-bomb incidents. They did not want the enemy to get the idea that the balloons might be effective weapons or to have the American people start panicking. Cooperating with the desires of the government, the press did not publish any balloon bomb incidents.[33] Perhaps as a result, the Japanese only learned of one bomb's reaching Wyoming, landing and failing to explode.

Find this ironically interesting. The same goes for almost every new cyber attacks out there.
"It is a disturbing sign when authorities press baseless charges against children of people who served their country their whole life."

The baseless charges are disturbing but if they have done something wrong it's also disturbing to NOT press charges against children of people who served their country their whole life. Which happens quite a bit.
I sort of half agree half disagree.

My mental model on this is that for a given skill/outcome everyone sits somewhere on a continuum of possibility with upper and lower bounds depending on intrinsic factors.

So, in that sense I agree there are those people who could develop a certain aptitude through a clear pathway of study. My model assumes their highest level of aptitude they can attain is capped at that lower than those who are "naturals". Conversely if you are a natural and you never seem to develop your aptitude, you will bumble along likely doing OK or even accidentally doing well, but those who can reach the absolute top of the aptitude spectrum are those who a) realize they are a natural b) seek out a pathway to accelerate their progress and c) actively work really hard at it.
That list of telescopes only goes back to 1932, and I studied astronomy at one of the institutions in question.

As an example, why is this area named Observatory Hill? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Observatory+Hill,+Cambridg...

> In general, I'm fine with scie!tists needing to accommodate people more than they had to 100 years ago.

Indeed, that's the majority opinion.
Many things are unexpected in hindsight.
I have a plot idea for a movie set in the near future, about a team of UN special forces who hunt down prominent early 21st century climate change deniers and other "eco-criminals".

The movie starts in medias res with a captured eco-criminal being transported by boat to the international criminal court at The Hague, and flashes back to tell the story of their capture, and how the climate has changed over the decades since their crimes started.

Eventually the narrative catches up to the point where the movie starts, revealing the climax of the story. The captain of the boat announces they have reached their destination, and the guards bring the handcuffed eco-criminal from the brig to the deck. After a short speech by a judge, the eco-criminal is lifted up, revealing concrete boots, then dropped into the water.

As the credits play, the camera tracks the eco-criminal, their body twisting frantically before becoming lifeless, sink down through the North Sea to the abandoned Dutch streets below.

Yes, this is a sickening and dystopian vision, and I don't endorse it as a model for society to follow, but I think it would make for a powerful story at least.
I didn't expect to read that so thoroughly, thanks for the interesting article. =) Sad indeed that is how it turned out to be.

And why authors would object their works being copied if they were out of print already? They weren't exactly making money in the first place. And wouldn't it have been easy to ask Google to delist their books if they wanted? I can see why Google was so eager to digest yet another big lump of information but the authors wouldn't have been left empty-handed. Now they got nothing, and I guess Google saved a lot of money too.
Loose Lips Sink Ships
Discrete versions of this are already being tested for use enhancing micro in competitive e-sports

Also see Stelarc's Movatar[0] for an working human-installed, early-web version, providing a VRML to Human web interface.

[0] - http://stelarc.org/?catID=20225
There's an interesting Radiolab episode on this. Highly recommended

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/fu-go
Interestingly, there was a comment that purported to out two names here, but it's been deleted. Darn my wonky short-term memory, but one was definitely Skyler.

From Google's Take Action (https://www.google.com/takeaction/) page:

"Information empowers people. We need to protect the free flow of information and help make sure the Internet is available to everyone, everywhere."
In this sense, was Duke Nukem Forever still vapourware in the sense that it didn’t end up being whatever the original game would’ve been?
The funny part is that by providing low latency service to them, they are (hopefully) going to be able to fund SpaceX longer to build rockets to get human colonies off-planet.

It’s almost like a Gibson or Stephenson novel.
There are close to 100 million CCP members, and virtually every successful businessman in China is a member. Alleging that this app is some deep conspiracy by CCP top brass is both unlikely and unhelpful, especially given that the Party has been clamping down on loans elsewhere.
What was the original plan exactly ? Subscribe to as many groups as possible and then wait until the last moment to grab the data ? That would almost certainly have resulted in massive bandwidth problems and massive bans by Verizon in response at this point, failing the archival effort anyway.
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The EU has a requirement for companies to share financial data about consumers if the consumer requests it. It's designed to support services like Mint.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/25/psd2-europes-banks-brace-for...
Sometimes you need a martyr to make people realize the fuckery happening around them.

For example, from Occupied France during WWII...

On 5 December 1940, Bonsergent was convicted by a German military court of insulting the Wehrmacht as he insisted on taking full responsibility, saying he wanted to show the French what sort of people the Germans were and he was shot on 23 December 1940.[50]

The execution of Bonsergent, a man guilty only of being a witness to an incident that was in itself only very trivial brought home to many of the French the precise nature of the "New Order in Europe".

wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance
IDK if this is any help, Verizon is holding their annual conference On Dec 10th (less 2 days away as of this writing), with C.E.O. Hans Vestberg presenting at 12:15 EST.

https://www.verizon.com/about/investors/ubs-global-tmt-confe...

Maybe someone can pipe up at the conference.
Do you really think that coating will last in the high radiation environment of outer space ?
And to make it worse, they started sending that tracking data through "functionality" endpoints to make it difficult or impossible for extensions like uBlock Origin to block without breaking the site. I believe it would pick a random endpoint out of a few possible choices, but as one example, it would sometimes use the same endpoint as voting, so that couldn't be blocked without also preventing you from being able to vote.

It's possible to detect the difference between the request types if you examine the actual data on them, but the common privacy extensions don't usually examine the requests on that level.
What does unspiderable mean in this essay?
China doesn't have effective means of debt collection (the social credit system is supposed to change that, but it's not widely deployed yet) so the risk is currently just a few billion lost to debtors who default on their microloans.
Ask HN: Have you used postgrest.org in production and how did it go?
You can't get a SIM in China without showing & registering your ID, and you can't get access to payment facilities without additional verification (link to bank, referral from user, etc). There are of course ways around this, but they're non-trivial.
I’m not trying to change anyone’s opinion. I think Russia is heading to dark place and as a liberal I am appalled at some of the Russian government’s policies and oppression. But the story most of us get in the west is weirdly biased, and not contextualised.
Everybody I know who plays Pokémon Go turns off the AR features, because they don’t care about them. They would rather use their smartphone normally than pointlessly aiming the camera at the sidewalk.
You're right, not quite 100 years.
It's a set of groups that have been specifically requested by the fandom community. Of course, the groups handed out depend on what's been joined, so if / once all the fandom groups are joined, we'll move onto something else.

I appreciate this isn't made clear in the instructions, but if you have a desired set of groups in mind, you don't need to use the chrome extension. Just join the groups you want saved and (provided you've sent the account details through the form) they'll be added to the queue to be archived. I did a lot of Amateur Radio (Ham Radio in US) groups that way.
Sorry, got sidetracked, wanted to edit in the issue link. It's this issue: https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner/issues/1...

Thanks for the suggestion though, I saw that thread about linking a fallback email address as well but that seems to be a different thing.
Wait the library wasn't lost due to that fire, but the contents were slowly lost due to the passage of time and people not caring or having access to copy it's contents? That makes the analogy way better, but the "burning" part is sadly wrong.
How are optional keys a nuisance? I find that using the patterns:

if "optional_key" in my_dict:
do_something_with(my_dict["optional_key"])

Or:

optional_value = my_dict.get("optional_key")
if optional_value:
do_something_with(optional value)

Works as expected. Nested optional keys can be a bit annoying, although:

my_dict.get("optional_parent", {}).get("optional_child")

seems to work.
Can you back up your implication that the saliva epigenome has no other meaningful and impactful correlates?
Comparing WSL1 and WSL2 filesystem I/O performance on local and host files
It's always been interesting to watch that despite a lot of common similarities, politics took a different turn in Ukraine. While Ukrainians regularly run their politicians out of office, the same doesn't happen in Russia.
A lack of emotional control is usually understandable. But it suggests a lack of care and focus that does not befit an important effort. I learned years ago to never send and email or text or to make a call when angry. I always thank myself the next day when I am able to choose my words more tactfully. That email makes them look like a group of angry trolls.
It comes from the consistent history of the factually incorrect propaganda reporting, with direct funding from the state budget. The very same state that dictates convictions to judges for political prisoners upon a phone call from the state administration.
Hmm - I think Away's CEO apologized because of the public pressure that had been building up over the past couple of days. She didn't have much of a choice given how much the story had been trending.

Anyways, my point is around the dangers of using individual narratives to generalize and paint a picture. It also sets a dangerous precedent. Such a narrative could be written tomorrow about any startup/company really - You can substitute Away with Tesla, Amazon, Uber, JPM and a whole host of 'successful' companies. There is lots of employee turnover at these companies; all you need to do is go and find a bunch of unhappy former and current employees and you've got a cover story.
I believe you are correct but it's worth pointing out that the post above is from an oracle blog and seems to suggest they do run on exit.
There's definitely an imbalance at play here. But the Fed's actions have not been shifting dramatically. I don't know what the FT piece is referring to when they say they increased the size of Monday's operation. That is not reflected on the Fed's schedule of operations. The term offering Monday is distinct in the term length (~1 month), not its size. That means the value will be held on the Fed's books for longer than the 2-week term and overnight term operations that they've been running continuously.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/domestic-market-operation...

I expect this longer term offer is because there is the expectation of year-end stress in outlays and could destabilize the market toward year-end. This term offering runs through the first week of Jan, so they're hoping to smooth over the possibility of year-end illiquidity.
True, but software is only one such department that this reasoning works for. Legal, Public Relations, Accounting, HR, facilities, etc, are examples of other departments that need specialists for fields that everyone really ought to get some literacy in.

If you're head of human resources at your company, any human resource problem the company has, is your problem, because you're the human resources guy.

To be fair, most of those departments demand certification to participate in, but if everyone was able to make spot fixes to the companies software, then I'd start demanding that only certified software people be allowed to touch our git repo.
> They need to start advertising like Occulus is doing, buying up literally all the ad slots on Youtube.

Not everyone has the money of Facebook behind them. ;)
You should be able to trivially run the Dockerfile[0] on a standard Ubuntu image for qemu, should that be your only reason for desisting.

0: https://hub.docker.com/r/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile/
It did happen in germany.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-perfect-crime...
I don't think Chattanooga has some special exemption from federal income tax.
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None of the good stuff counts for anything if in the end they walk away leaving society to wrestle with the high handed faceless abomination they have created.
"When, in 1965, an interviewer from Cahiers du Cinema pointed out to Jean-Luc Godard that “there is a good deal of blood” in his movie Pierrot le Fou, Godard replied, “Not blood, red.” What the cinema did to blood, the internet has done to happiness. It turned it into an image that is repeated endlessly on screens but no longer refers to anything real."

Damn
Surely the goal should be to be accurate rather than balanced?
I get your point, but is it possible you meant "flange"? A flange can be taken to mean "random mechanical part." A phalange is a bone in your finger.
You need to have/generate meaningful data at significant scale to really be a company where AI can make a big difference.

Few companies build products that generate or interface with data at that level.
For what it's worth, if I saw Datalog on a CV I would think "has studied the ways of the old masters" and when I see GraphQL I think "blub". But I don't claim to be good at hiring.
It would make sense if the user could trigger different "motor programs" on demand.

Machines (and the shock suit, presumably) are very good at executing movements precisely and repeatably, but they're not great at determining what to execute. Surgical robots work somewhat like this: the user plans each action (cut here, cauterize there) and then robot executes it.
The problem is that so much of physics is quite counter-intuitive (that is one reason it took so long to discover).

The basic principle of education is to start where the student is and then lead them step-by-step to what you want them to understand. That being the case, I would say physics should start with student's intuitive understanding and then explain, like through examples they can understand, why some of their intuitions are mistaken. Maybe this could even be turned into Socratic questioning.
Datomic provides a fantastic range of query features, but the underlying Datalog engine does have drawbacks in how it evaluates results eagerly and requires intermediate result sets to fit in memory [0].

For comparison, I work on https://opencrux.com which uses lazy Datalog evaluation and can spill to disk when necessary. Naturally there are downsides to this approach also, including a dependence on seek-heavy use of local KV indexes.

clj-3df is definitely interesting although not strictly comparable :)

[0] https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/query.html#memory-usage
"Maybe try actually reading it though?"

Your first sentence is "In the popular telling, there is a strong and reasonably constant relationship between health spending and life expectancy.". My comment was that I am not aware of this being the popular telling. But instead from what I can tell most people agree that the US doesn't deliver better results despite much higher spending.

Otherwise I think you have dug up a good and useful amount of data although I think some of your conclusions are debatable. This is probably to be expected if you analyze such a complex system.