skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What he did should be illegal - and maybe one day it will be - but right now there are no laws against this.

If there were, a lot of very rich people - who have exploited this particular loophole would need to be prosecuted...
Yep totally agree, in fact sometimes when people see it and ask me questions about it, I suggest they stand at my desk and lay their hands on the two islands. Even without typing a single character they almost invariably react extremely positively to the ergonomic pose.
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This might shock and horrify you, but a lot of people live in _their own houses_ without 24-hour front-desk staff, room cleaning service, valet parking, or magnetic key cards.

Somehow -- honestly, I'm unclear on how -- they survive.
How to Ban Functions in C and C++? (like in Git)
The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job: Who should reap the benefits?
> can you say a bit about how it influences your every day thinking?

yes, I'd like to hear about that, too. I took Theory of Probability classes, and I appreciate that some complicated stuff is necessary to avoid some neat paradoxes, but must admit that measure theory hasn't taken my thinking or intuition forward at all.
Ad service / YouTube is 70% revenue for the search engine

Smartphone OS and location reporting feeds location data in which improves and validates the maps

Fact that other services are tied to the maps drives usage of the Maps themselves, increasing their quality further

Other companies, like Nokia, have tried to create a business from Maps without the install base

Apple has the install base and after five years billions of dollars is approaching a usable product

Wouldn't say Nokia's approach was a complete failure, but to pretend the quality is anywhere similar is delusional

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_(company)#/media/File:HER...

Certainly you aren't going to be able to create a decent Maps service without centralizing and processing an enormous amount of data
The basic tech behind it. The ui has changed a lot. There was an article a year or so ago saying the engineering team doesn't get a lot of big meaty change to do and new rotating managers push ui changes. A few details of that might be off, but the grid of cells has stayed.
Regardless, I’m sure they are getting money.
I think Sketch does this and I agree, it's the way it should be.
"Servers" refers to a broad range of software. If you're writing a simple app that parses JSON and handles REST, it can be an ok fit. Now if you're writing server software that needs to be high-throughput, then that's where you hit golang's limitations.
Wow, the vim keybindings are very intiutive. I just pressed O without thinking about it and it opened the highlighted link in a browser. although I miss using h and l for going right and left. also, I don't know about others but it took me some time to figure out the enter key to open comments page. maybe that should be mentioned in the help window.
You might be on to something but their product philosophy just seems to be.. different. Compare TeamCity to Bamboo; it's in a different league. Maybe that does come down to the extra human resources they can throw at stuff.

Their products are/were ambitious in an MVP environment.
There is Blendle, which I find pretty nice: it’s like 25¢ per article and you put money into an account ahead of time.
I agree on the value judgement you're making but the transformative aspects are the same legal argument.
Well, I did always think less of people who // wrote comments like this????
> I'm more than ready and willing to pay for a text-only version of every news website like the ones provided by NPR and CNN.

This may be true of you individually, but not you statistically. We used to have more minimalist news sites, but they were outcompeted by sites heavy with trackers, banners, ads, and all the other cruft we love to hate. This is largely because, given the option between paywalled quality and free crap, most consumers end up choosing the latter.
Yes, we picked the low hanging fruit a long time ago - the rare variants causing devlopmental defects etc. This is not what we are talking about.

As for your predictions - they've been said over and over again ever since I started embarking on the genomics hype 7 years ago. The reality is much more boring and selecting for complex traits that heavily interact with the environment is bound to have disappointing returns.
Your mileage may vary! I found it easy and rewarding, other people find the ortholinear layout confusing and struggle to type on it, as some sibling comments show.

The one hitch I hit early on, is that it turns out I type 'y' with the left finger on laptops, and on a stock ErgoDox, that involves hitting a layer button, which of course throws off one's rhythm. I had to turn that key into a dead key until I got used to typing y with my right finger (I still hit it with the left on a laptop).
you do not have to track people in order to display ads on the internet, you just incorporate the ad on the webpage, and whoever visits the page sees the ad
What's the performance of Go's GC like against the JVM's? Especially since both languages are about the same abstraction level and roughly the same speed (3x slower than C for general unoptimized code excluding startup time).
Thanks for sharing and well explained!
Pitchforks are definitely involved in ruminant husbandry.

Pedantics aside, it still seems quite optimistic that a hypothetical crow graduating in computer science would be fine with being treated like a domesticated animal. Perhaps it is possible, but ethically that would be uncharted waters.
I did my PhD in theoretical physics, and part of my thesis was on nonlinear eigenvalue problems in PDEs. I wasn't aware of the connection; though I guess it really depends on what you mean by "it's well known".
Are you using a different keyboard layout than the US?

Because Krabby uses physical keys.
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Another technique for tuning into the perception of horizontal motion: Use your hands or forearms to block your view of most of the picture, leaving only a narrow horizontal slit. For me the effect persists upon expanding my view to the full picture again. To 'switch back', look at a thin vertical strip of the picture for a moment.

As soon as I manage to see the motion as left-to-right, the dots look yellow — though the impression is really close to flickering between red and green. How readily your visual system will merge individual strobes into a coherent, moving visual impression depends a lot on how awake/alert you are at the moment. So you could also try again when you're more tired. Another thing to try: Change the playback speed to 2x. Though I'm not sure if that will increase the frame rate to 60Hz or skip frames. In this case you want the former; it may be necessary to download the video and play it back locally to achieve that.

By the way, I once managed to produce a similar illusion completely by accident: I had made an engine for rendering totalistic 2D cellular automata (a superset of Conway's Game of Life) that randomised the state-transition rules upon a keypress. After a while of browsing random rules, I found one with a tendency to produce neat tiny gliders: A sequence of three distinct colours (and therefore states, I thought) racing across the screen — something like a cyan dot trailing a purple one behind it, with a pink one sandwiched between them. But then I looked closer and saw that the pattern was only two cells wide. Taking a screen-shot and looking at the freeze-frame confirmed that the gliders only occupied two neighboring cells, with two different colours, at any given point in time.
There's also Fork: https://git-fork.com/
I do have some lingering switching issues, notably I've put -/_ and +/= on the left side since there isn't room on the right, and `/~ are below left instead of above left.

It's annoying for the first hour, then the muscle memory kicks in. It seems to be slowly but surely sinking in, I expect at some point my fingers will just learn which is which.
> editing code using anything else feels like a pain

What if I told you I read way more code than I edit?
> The problem is that revenue from paying subscribers is not enough.

Nope, it's enough. News is just not what you think, it's far from simple business. The biggest value news outlets provide to people who own them is the value of influence and controlling the narrative. So they are deliberately chasing after the eyeballs to spread their influence and no business model that narrows the audience much is even considered.
I would set a goal on where/when you decide to remove ads... It's really easy to keep that extra revenue as it will tend to grow with your site. Beyond this, having the paid subscribers get an ad-free UX when logged in?
I use an ergodox as well and I still manage to use my regular keyboard just fine but it feels bad. After drinking the ergonomic kool-aid you notice how awkward normal keyboards can sometimes be.

That being said I've made a script that uses xmodmap and xcape to emulate some of the functionality of my ergodox layout. Obviously I can't physically modify the keyboard but I can remap control to caps lock, use xcape to make it send escape when used on its own (and use "space cadet shifts" to input parentheses), I also like to shuffle some keys to make them easier to reach (for instance I don't use Alt a lot but I use Super to control my WM, so I use xmodmap to swap them on regular keyboards).
I too have run into this recently at work. IntelliJ for Rust, Dart, JS/TS, PHP etc but I break out Rider for C#. Would be a dream if one day these were combined so IntelliJ would be a true polygot IDE
No need for an entire Raspberry Pi and Linux, a esp32 with an ethernet interface is enough

https://github.com/espressif/esp-iot-solution/tree/master/ex...
My perfect day is 8 hours of caffeine, an hour at the gym, 4 hours of alcohol, SSRI for a nightcap. YMMV
I subscribe to the paper version of my local paper because it is so much easier to actually get information from. It's so well designed. I think the reason people have gravitated to online news is herd mentality. What I like about paper news: my focus is more under my control. I can evaluate and skim whole articles at once. I am not constrained by what if visible in the window. Also, no distractions. Every time I open my computer or phone I am waylaid by distractions. I am a software / AI engineer and I think we have created a dystopia.

One thing I am seriously afraid of is that our tech dystopia will drive local newspapers out of business. I hate to think of what that will do for corruption, inefficiency, everything. Just awful. I dread the day my local newspaper announces they are ceasing publication. The reduction is staffing over the last 15 or 20 years is incredible. I think the San Jose Mercury went from 1800 to 35. That is depressing.
Very successful? AVE routes, including the BCN-MAD one, are not financially sustainable. Spanish and European taxpayer money devoted to the comfort of businessmen and bureaucrats and the profits of contractors while metropolitan lines fall apart and receive little to no investment.
Unfortunately, a site like SO works because of network effects. It was bootstrapped as far as popularity because it had two well known founders - Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood.

I wish I had some ideas about how to get that first critical mass.
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> They aren't specifically holding out on some sort of terrible secret about the IQ of black people.

You continue to miss the point because you are unable to divorce your perspective from the stereotype that you think you are arguing with.

>But even saying a number between 0 and 100 doesn't make sense. It's not additive. Interactions are incredibly complicated, even when it comes to organic diseases. Complex social traits are just way beyond our reach of understanding.

Once again, this is not about explaining individual behaviors with precision. This is about distribution statistics. Explaining consistent differences in populations which undeniably exist. This kind of research is absolutely critical to understanding and correcting social inequities that, ironically, people fear will be exacerbated by such inconvenient truths, as you put it.

Classical notions of racism are incidental to the science and their mention serves no purpose but to turn this discussion into a flame war.

>Scientists aren't afraid at all of inconvenient truths - see global warming, cigarettes/asbestos causing cancer, lead poisoning, nuclear research, various environmental research

None of these topics have such significant potentially negative consequences for social inequity. They all fit neatly within socially acceptable bounds.
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You can hop on reddit and resell it on for 50-100 less than you paid for it. This makes the experiment less expensive, and if you're trying to pinch that last penny and have some patience, you could cruise those same forums until one comes up on sale, and sell it off for what you paid for it.
That sounds an awful lot like how ads in newspapers used to work... you put the ads in the paper, and whoever reads the paper sees the ads.

So why do we let people tell us it can’t be done on the internet?
Recently they've create the (arguably) best language on the JVM thus far: Kotlin. Now Google supports it for Android.

Just to add one to that list of awesomeness.
This is what I use which also removes utm_* tracking parameters.

getloc () {
curl -sI "$1" | grep -i "Location" | awk '/http.*/{print $2}' | sed 's/[%+]*//g' | sed 's/&*utm_[a-zA-Z0-9]*=[a-zA-Z0-9]*//g' | sed 's/?\s*$//g'
}
Use CPS and get rid of RET altogether.
I worked on a project using a similar concept for concentrating micro-algae in the water solution it is grown in. The previous method of extracting micro-algae was filtration or centrifuges. Filters get full too quickly and need regular attention, and centrifuges take too much energy since the density of the particles were very close to the density of water and didn't spin out easily.

We tried using standing acoustic waves to organize and "conclomerate" the micro-algae in the flow and siphon off water quite similarly to the image in the article. It "sort of" worked but only when the flow rate was really, really low because these forces are totally dominated by drag forces and even the smallest levels of turbulence remixes the solution.

What else could this be used for? Think of something that doesn't play nicely with filters or centrifuges and doesn't need to be processed at really high flow rates. Applications in the medical industry come to mind.
I’ve never experienced that much politics on the none political subs. I went over to r/90DayFiance out of curiosity just to see how political a sub about foreigners coming to the US to get married would be. I was pleasantly surprised.
I did see that, and maybe Japanese regional cuisine varies a lot more than I'm imagining. However, I'm still not convinced that something higher-level is going on.

For example, I think you could find a similar correlation between (say) soul food restaurants and diabetes prevalence in the US. Soul food tends to be starchy and fatty itself; you could also make a similar argument that the number of soul food restaurants is a proxy for food preferences in each region.

However, soul food is especially popular in African-American communities. There are genetic factors that predispose African-Americans to diabetes. Soul food restaurants are probably more common in poorer areas. Diabetes is also linked to poverty: partly through diet, but also through things like access to preventative healthcare and management of pre-diabetes. Perhaps there still is some residual effect of the restaurants themselves, but it would be much weaker after adjusting for other factors.
>(E.g. "I don't like Bach because..." rather than "I don't understand music theory enough to appreciate what Bach's doing.")

It's very possible for me to understand and appreciate what Bach is doing and still not think that this is sufficient qualification for ascribing more artistic value than Harry Potter. As an amateur programmer, I can appreciate all the work that goes into an operating system, but I don't assign more artistic value or appreciation to it than Bach, even if, by whatever measure, the techniques required to make an OS are more intricate. Similarly, I could never get into Iannis xenakis' works - but I do appreciate the work put into it, and I understand how and why he's done it.
> Multiple question marks appear unprofessional and are therefore avoided.

Seems like a really weak assumption to me. Seen enough swear words etc in actual code bases, "???" in bug trackers, ... to think people would worry about the number of "?" they use in comments.
You should consider adding, "The Intercept" to your regular rotation.

https://theintercept.com/

Edit; I also like The Drudge Report and RealClearPolitics because they're kind of just raw feeds of a bunch of articles that may not surface on choosier aggregators.
The Guardian website, whilst not perfect according to the standards of the article and some other posts, is very performant. They have ads and other dynamic content, but load is deferred on this stuff and wrapped properly to avoid reflow, so the entirety of the article text is immediately readable. Just for interest, see also their tech blog [0] and their entire frontend on GitHub [1].

I can ignore ads, but what I find incredible on major (insert news/tech/whatever here) sites is the reflow from not properly reserving space for both ads and lazyloaded images. The following seems particularly to be a problem on mobile and in apps like Apple News: load a page, scroll to the meat of the article, then experience 1, 2, 3 page jumps as stuff loads in above your scroll position.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/info/series/digital-blog
[1] https://github.com/guardian/frontend
being able to organize things into separate projects in Eclipse, in the same window, is very nice
I think that the necessary conditions for mass market ad supported quality journalism have largely disappeared. Except for perhaps a handful of nationally prominent newspapers, 20th century dailies didn't turn a profit on "quality journalism" (investigative reporting or in-depth analysis). It was too expensive to produce relative to the revenue it yielded even before the Web. But geographic and technological barriers to competition meant that newspapers could command high margins on low-production-cost material (police reports, sports scores, weather forecasts, classified advertising...) and end up with enough money to make employees and owners happy, even after bundling in some prestige reporting that won Pullitzers.

It's kind of like how Bell Laboratories did some unprofitable and groundbreaking basic research back in the heyday of the AT&T monopoly. The lack of competition in AT&T's main line of business inflated prices but also let executives choose to fund a few unprofitable ideas that they considered worthy.

Now competition is fiercer and prices are lower. We're also not getting the positive side effects from monopolies that people had conceptualized as natural features of "the telephone business" or "the newspaper business."
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> 'Get My Data' only gives you access to all the files / photos that you uploaded to the group

Your comment is quite interesting! I did not receive only my own contributions, but got fairly large files that seem to me to be exhaustive archives of all posts and other materials uploaded by any and all group members during the entire time I was a member of each group.

It's pretty interesting if different people are being sent totally different things though as you indicate. Maybe I am just lucky.

I'm pretty happy myself that they have this method to get everything from the time I was a member of any group. I can't think of any other service that provides for that. Yahoo seems to be the most open and data accessible service I can recall. Other boards facing imminent shutdown I had to go to a lot of trouble to scrape old posts using bot scripts, which was inconvenient.
Some of the best and most lasting systems start out this way.
1) Meaningful outcomes are really hard, and research is piecemeal. As a researcher, I know I have to publish intermediate and smaller results, because I can't get grants for bigger studies without a track record of publication. This is the way science is done today. Without an angel to just give $15 million for a study of an idea with no track record, you have to build the justification for longer-term studies paper by paper.

2) Placebo-controlled trials are not appropriate at all times. You can't placebo-control yoga. What's placebo yoga? For acupuncture, they placebo-control by putting needles in random places; for pill studies, you get a pill of indeterminate content. For yoga.... well, you know you're doing it. That may be part of the benefit. No getting around that.
Lots of people from other cultures travel with food and meat products.

Some common scenarios I have seen:

* bringing foods that is unavailable over for their friends that live overseas

* bringing home presents of food

* bringing over food that is far cheaper from one country
Taste has nothing to do with it. You can't give people an explicit ability to use your code and then be upset that they did.

If you want money then ask for it. Offer a product or service. There are dozens of licenses to choose from.
It's been tried. What that usually means is you manage the ads yourself, or it's some really small ad network which doesn't have that many advertisers on it competing to give money to the website. Advertisers are as lazy as anyone else, they don't want to have to deal with numerous agencies to deploy ads, they want one, maybe two, and would certainly like it a lot if they had some metrics to show their boss.
Everyone does, that's totally legit. However, even without editing anything, just "moving around the file" is much snappier with vim. Even when I'm reading code I'll move to certain parts of a line to better understand what's going on. Plus, you do eventually have to edit code.

If you really never did anything except read code, then I think vim wouldn't give much of an advantage. Then again, neither would any of the shortcuts that every IDE provides.
This unusual layout arrived from a convoluted train of thought - switching from a full-size to help with mouse-related RSI issues; missing the keypad; and being left-handed.

Honestly as a righty putting the numpad on the left makes much more sense to me now that everyone expects to have a mouse in easy reach of their dominant hand.

Not that I've put this in practice myself; the only time I ever really need a numpad in my life is on the very rare occasions I'm playing a roguelike.
> The advice to use the text only versions for NPR and CNN is solid advice.

Is it?

https://text.npr.org/

You can access some 10 stories, not much more. There is no apparent functionality beyond that.

At least for NPR, their text interface is a step in the right direction - but a slap in the face at the same time.
You mean the internal libraries that are reused throughout systemd?
> mindful activity (meditation, thoughtful breathing) are good for us

The mindfulness craze has been criticised quite widely by psychologists, has no proven benefits, and at least some evidence that it can actually be harmful.
I am mentioning this in the off chance you did not tried it, exclude the node_modules/vendors/build folders or other third party code that is not part of your project you are editing.
When Google introduced Chrome in 2008 (via comic!), they claimed that within 20-30 minutes of a beta build, it was automatically tested on tens of thousands of the most popular webpages. Is that no longer true? Does that not include any which use local storage?