skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep an account and remain logged in for the single purpose of using the "Preferences" setting that I always want the old version. So I can now just use the regular www-URLs and still get the old interface.

EDIT: Checking my preferences, there is an option on the bottom that actually is disabled and says the opposite: "Use new Reddit as my default experience". So I guess that's on by default and you have to disable it.
The title says

> Researchers crack

While the article says

> the researchers stress that their findings do not represent an exact solution to the three-body problem

Sigh..
Yeah I mean she is a pathological liar, she stated publicly twice that she had an abortion and admitted decades later that in fact she didn't. She also evaded taxes by keeping a bank account in Switzerland and paid employees of EMMA far worse than the common market price, all while renting a huge publicly owned property in cologne for the magazine for almost nothing.
The whole point on that rant and supporting comments here is that almost all software today is of such "quality of engineering".
I think that too much fragmentation in this space can turn out to be a big problem for Linux phones.

Designing and implementing a user-friendly and fast GUI is a very big task. Ubuntu Touch has had a lot of work go into it.
Yeah Borland was great with docs
>The second argument is that paying a person to do something with their body is the same as buying a human being, which would be slavery.

Being compensated for your work is the extreme opposite of slavery.
Just have watched 'The KGB, The Computer, and Me' a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx9h3Sm29I
Uber's Still Screwed, and Investors Know It
Good article on an important topic for novices, but why is it so long ?
How many JS build tools from 2014 exist? And how many are still used? I think both will be fairly close to zero.
I don't think the interns would be able to code an Atari game by themselves at the time

Still, sometimes getting the pink slip is better than getting a black mark on your cv
That may be true but there are still plenty of people who are able to hack on a developer Linux phone. Far more than a few dozen.
My bank app has significantly better usability than the website because it can mostly cache credentials and support a short login procedure. Or use the fingerprint scanner.
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Don't be fooled by SV having all the shiniest, coolest companies. Overall US infrastructure is tending very close to what all those scifi dystopias show us: just absolute chaos[0] for all but the richest people, who get their own privatized infrastructure and are thus isolated from these problems.

[0]: exaggerating for effect, but it's hard to describe it otherwise when comparing to any other developed nation.
That's your definition of feminism...
I consider an investigation to be "a fishing expedition" whenever there is no good reason at the beginning of the investigation to suspect that the target has committed a particular crime. Every time a FISA warrant has been publicized, it has fit that criterion. Following Cardinal Richelieu, any person subjected to enough surveillance may be convicted of something.
It is far more likely she got doxxed and the king of Europe was threatening her.
Yeah, no. Not agreeing to that. Could someone please sue engadget/Verizon for GDPR violation?
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From a road user's point of view, Audi's headlights are my least favourite. In the UK, emergency vehicles use blue lights. If you see a blue light it is unambiguous and you can be sure that an emergency vehicle needs to get by. Seeing a blue flicker in the peripheral vision will therefore demand your attention. However, so many times this blue flicker turns out to be Audi headlights. I know what they are doing but whatever it is it's too clever. Cars are far too dangerous to play around with this nonsense.
I find this remarkable:

This is the other ingredient to Stoll’s hacker-hunting obsession [...] a kind of low-burning moral outrage.

because I notice the same in a lot of other people worth listening to. In general you won't notice it until you spend some time with them. There is some internal moral compass influencing all decisions subtly, even in the knowledge most of the world doesn't care. Its different from SJWs etc in that its mostly silent, internal, invisible, doing instead of saying.

For an other example, here's what Neil Gaiman says about Terry Pratchett:

There is a fury to Terry Pratchett’s writing: it’s the fury that was the engine that powered Discworld

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchet...
Naming it "xmas" is probably more offensive to far more people, but the irony will be lost in someone like him.
Watching pros play it quickly becomes clear they are playing a different game than what your typical random pick-up-group is going to be playing from matchmaking. Their coordination is on another level.
The UK government "settled status" application procedure for EU nationals resident after Brexit was only available as an Android app. Otherwise you had to apply in person at a specific site.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/03/mps-slam-an...
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Google is an ad company that just happens to make other tech. They need to bifurcate the two in meaningful ways to re-establish trust.
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Libertarians were way ahead of the curve on drug legalization, criminal justice reform, school choice, and police brutality to name recent victories. We have been banging the drum on legalizing sex work for decades, and I'm optimistic that true freedom for consenting adults will continue to win over the 'Controllers of Lives' that want to ban freedom.

There is nothing wrong with two consenting adults choosing to have sexual relations for monetary exchange, and I care nothing about "downsides" that come from legalization. It's morally imperative that we allow freedom, then deal with the consequences. Otherwise, we should just ban alcohol, driving, having kids, or anything that can potentially have negative effects when we allow people to be free and make their own decisions.
It was more or less a rethorical question (I guess that’s why I’m being downvoted), because there is no competitor. If there was, then Electron wouldn’t be so extremely popular in the first place, and we’d see a lot more popular apps made with all the tools mentioned in the other replies to my post.
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Judging by the thread on /g/ 4chan will have a good day with this guy
This highly depends on where you live.
Very possible. Also, with everything being already digitised today, there is less of a need of being able to precisely input points from a piece of paper.
The screen resolution of the OpenMoko was very good at the time: It had a 640x480 2.8" screen which means a very good 286ppi.
Assuming everything is live presumes that we should have to care about what others think about any given conduct. Social justice is what this is plain and simple. Rule of law (or the absence thereof) is meaningless in modern society?
Yes, but we don't know how to check that an entity has a conscious experience, so we can not falsify that a Turing machine has one, either. That's the whole reason for the Turing Test, btw.
I can only speak for New York State (which used a paper ballot that is then fed into a scanner by the voter for tabulation), but the paper ballots are generally sampled and checked against the "electronic" votes. They'll manually count enough paper votes until they have a match to the machine counted votes (within some acceptable confidence interval, obviously).
CTRL+F

"chinese room"

CTRL+W
If you compare the definitions in say a dictionary[1][2][3], they have high overlap, but are not the same.

Phrases illegal law and illegitimate law have different meanings. While the first seems an oxymoron and the second may be, both seem to be legitimate descriptions of objects in existence.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legitimate

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legal

[3] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illegitimate
I didn't know that. Did you know this before or is it in the book?
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The Danish government had a program developer in the 90' for the job centers (the job centers are suppose to help unemployed people return to the job marked, they're just very good at it). Somewhere in the specs. the was a limit on how long the loading time for a window could be.

To get around this load time restriction the developer simply put less information and features into window. So rather than spending 10 seconds loading one large form and fill it out, users would have to click though X number of windows, filling out part of the form in window.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but your comment reminded me of this case.
But the outcome would probably just be a law exempting politicians from the location tracking.
When you want to play football you can go out into the street to play as well. The experience won't be top sports level and may in some cases differ significantly, but that's not hugely different from what it is like to play an e-sport with a team full of randoms.
The story discusses the provenance of the data after the opening paragraph:

> THE DATA REVIEWED BY TIMES OPINION didn’t come from a telecom or giant tech company, nor did it come from a governmental surveillance operation. It originated from a location data company, one of dozens quietly collecting precise movements using software slipped onto mobile phone apps. You’ve probably never heard of most of the companies — and yet to anyone who has access to this data, your life is an open book.

Is your suggestion that the NYT wait until every large tech company leaks their databases to their reporters?
Benefit? When my friendly junior developers add a variable where it isn’t supposed to go the system yells at them.

This is much preferable to me yelling at them, or production getting broken.

Typescript may be a little bit slower if you never make any mistakes ever, and can keep the full state of your program in your mind at a given time. Nobody makes no mistakes.
Helicopter rides as cheap as an Uber ride
What counts as air pollution? Smog? Sulfur dioxide?
Well, there is no impact that is immediately visible, bit since you mentioned Panama Papers, their content was studied by various entities providing lists to the banks. The last 100gb breach resulted in fallout from Formations Company. We still don't know how much of the recent 2TB drop will be utilized..

There are people who watch this stuff. You are right that an average person does not seem to care.
Slack does have (very-long-time-beta) Linux build[0], though I personally prefer to just use Slack through my browser instead of suffering through an Electron app.

[0] https://slack.com/downloads/linux
I think this probably doesn't need to be said but LGBTQ people on Mastodon are not an example of what I meant. To make it extra clear, I also didn't mean to imply that just any group with a strong presence on such networks is automatically "fringe" or worse...

It's just by my (admittedly subjective) impression large-scale, community-wide adoption of decentralized networks has been mostly by radicals or militants, because they have increasingly been banned from mainstream social nets. They had an easier time taking the hit from jumping to a new network, because they had been ostracized.
>It's not like the case of football, where you need friends and you need to go out to play

In fact this is part of the problem. the Dota-like/MOBA genre indeed has decent match making for the major games, but having a team you know, are communicative with and have a long/deep experience with one-another's playstyles helps immensely. I only really played League, so I can speak mostly towards that, but it's a different game queuing with friends than it is queuing with randoms. A lot of the excess communication required for a smooth match is removed when you have established a "sense" of how your teammates will react to situations, and it changes your judgement a lot when you no longer have as many random variables to consider during team fights, ganks, etc.

Watching pros play does a few things as well; you see not just good strategies, but mathematically sound and consistent strategies, which make the times you do play much more fun since a lot of your guesswork is removed. Pros also tend to have the skill for higher performance, and you get a chance to see pretty unique situations and plays that just never happen in ranked/normal queues. Plus, the pros have a huge audience typically, and you respond with the audience; being excited about an awesome play is amplified when you and thousands of other fans are collectively "losing your shit" over a play.

So yeah, you can go solo in such games, but the experience is always better with a team of people you know and can trust, and you end up in the same situation as football where you need to find others.
Also, putting your cursor on a keyword, hitting F1, and getting the right result immediately. If I let myself I get so frustrated and angry by the massive regressions we've made over the last 20 years.
Hardly the first response, since it's been a mess for years, but it follows naturally from your second sentence: it's clear that the problem has festered for a long time and the local system is incapable of fixing it. If the corruption can't be attacked from the inside, perhaps outsiders will be able to break it?

It took Federal prosecution to get Al Capone, after all.
Do some patent searches for the companies pioneering the technology. Read their white papers. You can begin to assemble an idea of how they do it. It’s not entirely revealing and is very tedious. But you can connect the dots. NYT is somewhat half-hearted when it’s not a political subject.
> twitter.com

I found it funny that this appeared on Twitter, a website which always slows down my browser, especially in VMs.
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> I'm not sure the question of "whether an X can have conscious experience" (where X is computer, dog, fish, human infant...) is even all that meaningful.

I do know that I have a conscious experience, so that's quite meaningful - to me. I cannot check that any other being has similar feelings, so the doubtful question would be whether "an X other than me can have conscious experience"; but people with good manners make the polite assumption that it's also true for other similar beings.
There is opposing evidence?
> The stack size of a 16-bit program is typically 4-6 KiB with a similar size for the heap. This is smaller than the size of the HTTP reply + JSON returned by Slack!

Maybe this would be a good opportunity to stop for a moment and reflect about whether or not the industry is really moving in the right direction.
So? He would be remembered as the author of two huge hits, and would be able to immediately land another stellar gaming job.
I clicked on the above https://meta.discourse.org/ and get a white page. UMatrix tells me it blocked 32 Scripts from one cloudfront domain and 9 from another.

Maybe it's me misunderstanding UMatrix, but I assume "scripts" mean files. Could also be script blocks, though.
YouGov's numbers neither confirm nor refute the parent's hypothesis because women and feminists are not the same thing.

No evidence has been presented to support the parent's anecdotal belief about what feminists think. I have spoken to plenty of feminists over the years and have found them to be split pretty evenly over this issue. My point was that the opposition to legalizing sex work is mostly from females, and may or may not be from feminists (whatever that word even means in 2020).
I insta lolled when I saw his name and read his report. How can he live with himself then?
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Yikes it’s early. I reread this 3 times before I realized it wasn’t talking about office furniture.
People on HN seem to hate them, but honestly progressive web apps have potential to solve most/all of those usecases.
Good and short description, but it's only a little part in digital marketing.

This is just retargeting, an old hat. You can do even more sophisticated things, like predicting what's the best next step in the sales funnel. In general, every step you take before you purchase online is recorded to build your customer journey. And there's a lot more data, like referrers, user agent, times and so on.
I hope the bright rectangle and other dynamic features will not blind me when having this insanely complex headlights behing my back, or heading me from the left side, or... actually the stricter road regulations regarding headlights in US are not a bad thing at all.
Let them vape just like we, as a society, let people smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, and consume fast food and sugar. I feel like the trend to outlaw things like kratom and vaping is so hypocritical, I can only assume it's because they compete against big tobacco/pharma, not any kind of altruistic research.
Scroll Anywhere firefox browser add-on - it's way more ergonomic to hold right mouse to scroll a webpage

MING SHI 2000S ADJUSTABLE SAFETY RAZOR - the Merkur Futur patent lapsed and now one of the best shavers on the market can bought legally for less than $10 posted.
> The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding

Without specifying how it was tested that's meaningless. For example I've read of a test where keyboard users were slower because they had to do a find/replace operation on a file manually, moving the cursor only with arrow keys. That's like saying using the mouse is slower after forcing mouse users to type text on a virtual keyboard.

I think in most scenarios both can be fast enough that the difference doesn't matter, provided there's proper support for both.
We have a ten-year-old car and the only complexity in the headlamps is a ratchet to adjust vertical and horizontal axes whilst in a garage.

More modern cars are becoming so complex so quickly that I am reluctant to embrace one even if full EV. Car reviews that state "packed full of technology" are like a warning sign to stay clear.
In the old days, you would just go on AOL's Windows programming section, find a shareware rich text control, and use that.
Ad companies very much are building out cdn so they can do this. But it’s a complex marketplace and e-commerce/media folk are very reluctant to cede control.

Amp is probably the ad tracker cdn that has been most successful.
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Somewhat (?) related:

https://palm.com/

Perhaps PostmarketOS or at least Lineage might support it one day (or now?!? Didn't look)
I think you left out “can” before lead. I was born and brought up in England where Elizabeth II is, as the coins say, “By Gods Grace Defender of the ((Protestant) Christian) Faith” and I don’t recall anyone including myself being particularly oppressed by the state church. Even the plentiful Atheists where I lived didn’t feel the need to acknowledge it let alone fight.
As someone who has lived here (US) for close to 15 years, what I find baffling is that some of the voting isn't even that myopic. It is so strongly ideology based that a poor coal miner would vote for a politician who would gut his healthcare and scream "socialism is bad" at any alternative which might actually be beneficial to them in the short term.
I didn't see a section on CSS-in-JS libraries (or did I miss it?). That seems to be one of the more divided areas as far as opinion is concerned.
Subtitle: "But, we won’t get it in the US."

It's amazing to me that carmakers can introduce features on headlights "so as not to blind oncoming drivers" -- as if they know they've been blinding us for years. It also suggests these headlights might not have the functionality to keep from blinding drivers ahead of them. My rear view mirror has a dimming switch, but my side mirrors don't.

I would avoid driving at night entirely if I could, but in the winter that's simply not feasible. What am I supposed to do when traffic blinds me? Is it legal to wear an auto-dimming welding hood behind the wheel?
China-made processor to release a new version with 100% performance improvement
I can't edit my comment, but after reading up on Intel's secure enclave last night, I still don't get how this would work in practise. As the end user (me) needs to know what the server is going to return in order to verify that, I don't understand what's stopping the server from returning that anyway. Even if it's using public key crypto to sign a challenge I send it, I still don't understand how I can have any assurance that this key only exists inside the enclave and isn't just running in software on the server.
Funny you mention this. Outside the Guantanamo prison complex is a sign bearing the unit symbol of the military branch operating the facility. This is affixed to a fence bearing “maximum security” signage, etc. Displayed on this sign was their motto which contained verbiage about defending “freedom”. I found this ironic as there was a prisoner staring out through the fence standing next to the sign.
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> But the modern web works better for the billions who otherwise would not have started using it in the first place

We need to start talking about expected utility.

For software that's used briefly and once in a blue moon, it's perhaps not worth the effort to make the UI particularly ergonomic. Most web pages fall into this category - the random e-commerce shop or pizza delivery service you're using today. It would be nice if the UI wasn't actively user-hostile, but it's not critical.

The problem is with software used regularly, for extended periods of time. Like, during a work day. A very large part of the world's population interacts with software at work. A lot of them sit in front of a small set of programs 8+ hours a day, day in, day out. For example, a word processor + e-mail program + IM + e-commerce platform manager + inventory manger. That software needs to be as ergonomic as possible, otherwise it's literally wasting people's life (and their employers' money). Such software needs to be keyboard-operable, otherwise it's just making people suffer.

A lot of software falls into this category. If you're doing a startup that is meant to, or even conceivably can be used in a business, you probably have some full-time users. You probably want those full-time users. If so, then for the love of $deity make it more like that old DOS POS than the hip mobile-on-desktop web garbage. Otherwise you're wasting people's health, money and sanity.
That's what it's called if the person you are paying for sex with is not an adult.
And in Win95, your 16-bit apps could still do whatever they want as they were only cooperatively multi-tasked
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Big news corporation all participate in tracking. Not a single large org doesn't have direct business relations with Google or Facebook.

I remember the day some years ago when my favorite paper (not US based) claimed it would try to still report critically about Facebook even while they are engaged in a cooperation and how such a market situation could be detrimental to independent news covering.

They needed to do that because these sites mainly drive engagement. Today, they also write a lot about the hot button topics of today, which isn't any different than boulevard really. They still have good content, but that doesn't put the meals on their table anymore.