skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would not be a problem if Arxiv was full of such articles, that would never cut it in an actual publication, but such articles are mixed with many that are eventually published and that just adds an amount of noise to the process that makes it hard to be sure what you're reading

I don't see this is a problem as, if you want to cite an arXiv paper, the responsibility on you increase, to ensure that the methodology etc is sound. This would be a better state of affairs than the "you must cite this highly cited paper just because it's a highly cited paper" situation we're in now.
I like the design statement that the text "Proudly OPEN SOURCE" is slightly off-center.
World's oldest fossil trees uncovered in New York
In case you care about Firefox not falling behind completely, please add some weight here.

Thanks & happy holidays! Tobias
When I think back on the science fiction I read and enjoyed as a child and teenager a half century ago, the wrong predictions that amuse me most are two central plot elements in Robert Heinlein’s 1953 “Starman Jones” [0]. Faster-than-light travel through interstellar space is now routine, but the “astrogators” who guide the starships must refer to coordinates that appear in a set of printed manuals. When a starship gets lost and those books are stolen, the ship is able to return to Earth only because our hero, who has an eidetic memory, is able to recall all of the coordinates from memory.

In 2019, of course, the information in all of those printed manuals could be put into a wristwatch with room to spare, while manned interstellar travel is nowhere in sight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_Jones
We can have development with constraint, we can have development without the cult of growth, we could go back to the more inclusive, constrained form of economic progress seen in the immediate post war. We could even try to tune the system in new ways to limit the clear problems of unconstrained globalised capitalism.

We do not need to go back to a Medieval agrarian feudalism, return to mercantilism or unwind the industrial revolution. It happened, we should learn from it and make the best of it...
Rule of thumb: if you give away exclusive rights for free, you're doing something wrong.
The scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong
Try this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cheerpj-applet-run... [Full disclosure: the extension is made by the company I work for]
3D movies cost €15 and IMAX tickets cost €18 in Berlin
Befunge is a stack-based, reflective, esoteric programming language. It differs from conventional languages in that programs are arranged on a two-dimensional grid. "Arrow" instructions direct the control flow to the left, right, up or down, and loops are constructed by sending the control flow in a cycle. It has been described as "a cross between Forth and Lemmings."[1]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge

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The moment you or your friends have kids, there are a lot of infrequent interactions with people and the names (and ages) really matter.

I guess the killing feature for me would be remembering names of parents if my kids schoolmates.

You end up calling people "the mother of $KID" for KID in kids in classOf($my_kids).
Some vaping suppliers added at lest one harmful ingredient which caused some deaths.

I suppose you could make a case that it's not that bad, or that it'll not happen again, or that patrons of brightly-lit stores have lower risks.

Instead, you're making a case that this proves the safety of all vaping products not tainted with this specific ingredient. That was not very convincing.
> There are some rare exceptions within the hard SF sub-genre -- where the science was diamond-hard and the author didn't use it as a platform for some sort of far right political agitprop -- but they're dismayingly rare; for more on this phenomenon see Michael Moorcock's seminal essay, Starship Stormtroopers:

What do Heinlein and hard science fiction have to do with each other? He's far, far out on the squishy end.

Also, I'm convinced that people who are convinced that Starship troopers is a fascist tract have only watched the movie uncritically, or have bothered to read the book, but have no concept of what military people are like. The best way to understand Starship Troopers is as Helmet for My Pillow or another of the countless WW2 memoirs, but in space. That's the narrative structure it follows.

> It says something about our desire for the fantastika that "Star Wars" (space wizards! Evil emperors!) is infinitely more popular than this stuff today

Strong counterpoint would be the Expanse. It's never going to dethrone a forty year old franchise backed by the biggest media company in the world, but it is proving more popular than I would have expected.
Test for Machine Consciousness Has an Audience Problem
Still not full-res and unfortunately the first two samples[1] I opened shows that it's still crap and can't handle fine detail/hair. Many people have hair.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/MXCeYaU
Dutch homes are pretty small and packed tightly together.
The Cycle from ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ Comes to Smithsonian
i'm not sure i follow...
the GP is basically saying: "its paid for by public money, it shouldn't be restricted"

how do you get from that to "i cant let anyone but people from my country look at this"?

there no logic in that whatsoever
Engagement-focussed platforms and publications are of course trying to sign up as many people as possible using dark patterns and other annoyances to make people subscribe to their services to be spared from all the bullshit. I'm not surprised: They actually provide useful services for free and the bigger the audience the higher their revenue from advertising. Over the next few years content on the Internet will go the same route as music and video: It's free if you endure the ads and there's one subscription for a majority of the publications with each getting their share.

However, what the author describes isn't "the web". The web is about 2 billion web pages with just a couple of percent of them being actively maintained. I'd be willing to get that just a tiny minority of these pages are actually serving the annoyances this post highlights.

We've seen the abuse of new technologies come and go, people just don't think about what they're building, they simply use what's available: Blinking text, text with drop shadows, Comic Sans, pages full of GIFs, pages built with tables, iframes, pop-ups, link-hijacking ads, Flash-ads, embedded Java code - the web was never the clean and organized place make it out to be. Never. It's a romanticised notion that just doesn't die. It's the same rethoric as when people claim that life was easier at some point in the past.

It's all about finding common ground on what's necessary and what isn't and it usually starts with a couple of independent publishers trying out something new and the big players following their lead. HTML5 video killed Flash and Silverlight with WebGL/Javascript & modern CSS features being the last nails in their coffins.

The web isn't just a couple of hundred big players and we will probably survive annoying push notification requests, overly complex Javascript and EU-mandated cookie opt-in hints.

We will have to live with me stuff being abused for a while until browser vendors device that it's gotten annoying enough to do something about it.

I wouldn't be too surprised if we find that all browser vendors decide that they'll disable cookie support in their browsers with a clear prompt to allow 1st party cookies globally only to then do some local machine learning magic to click all custom cookie acceptance dialogues without user interaction or something similar. Of course we'll then have to endure our browsers asking for permission to access Bluetooth devices in our vicinity or to run advertisements disguised as tiny WebAssembly programs. But even that will sort itself out as some point.

The web has always been user hostile and that won't change. The level of hostility however, will.
Would make sense to teach also the probability theory and, maybe, Python coding basics. To give them tools they can use after or even in the prison itself (in some cases).
Gun Homicide Linked to Poor Social Mobility
In modern practice, the shorthand is more or less instantly compiled. Using a desktop application like Plover, you will only ever see the actual word you meant to type.

But yes, the old analog ticker-tape output would have been the shorthand.
It's even available on Cloudron.io too.
The problem is how they define a better communication between mice. From an human point of view?

Normal male mice fight. You enter in my zone, I'll bite you and chase you off. Normal female mice are more tolerant with relatives and pups, but not with any other female. They can fight also with strange females.

This is the rule for the species and the definition of perfect and normal communication. "pacifist" or mesiah mice is anomalous and probably would send a really confusing message for the other mice.

"I'm too feverish and tired to fight right now, so let me alone" is common among animals and not necessarily related with autistic behaviour.
Improve practical and critical thinking skills.
Albedo is a simple concept that plays complicated roles in climate and astronomy
I don't think Elon claims any of those things. I think what he brings is a unique clarity that is hard for others to replicate when looking at ideas that already exist.

By leveraging this clarity he can Get Things Done™, and we've seen tangible proof of that already with Tesla and SpaceX.
Newton's Bad Apples: when expensive experiments hide nonsense behind complexity
React isn't used for webSITES. It's used for web applications.
WhatsApp told to share details of targeted users of Israeli hacking
Thank you for putting this into perspective. Apple would want to have a few people working on just assessing the risks and opportunities those other constellation projects have on their business and that would include wargaming "what if we made our own" scenarios.
Hubble Images of 2019
You are over-thinking this. Just build software and sell it.

Contractors would be an awful idea. Expensive, inconsistent. You are standing by your product you should know/trust every line of code in the beginning.

Why are you invoicing yourself for your time?
I moved my desk outside in the last couple of years when the British weather obliged. A few notes:

- temperature. if the temperature is right for you, chances are that it's a bit too warm for your electronics. Chips get hotter, which can result in all sorts of problems (particularly with big screens and graphics-intensive apps, but modern storage as well is often at risk by poor cooling).

- cables. Even if you are in a mostly-covered space, chances are that your cables would get wet when raining, so you are constantly taking them in and out of the house every day.

- insects. Yes yes, nature is good and we need bees and everything, but... they are really distracting.

- environmental noise. Compared to a home office, even a quiet residential street can sound like hell on earth when you are trying to concentrate.

So uhm, yeah, fun for a couple of days, but not long-term.
It's already an husked iteration of what the field was ten years ago. And within the last 2-3yrs, the business of transcription has headed towards SaaS-like providers with fairly dismal compensation structures.

re: "extinct in a decade or two," time horizons look more like 5-7 years maximum, though that has more to do with structural labor changes and machine-assisted processing; can't even consider an NLP breakthrough in the equation.
I did put a qualifier on that statement though, I said "unless". I doubt the average person is having constant surgeries, procedures, expensive tests or expensive medications every year.

Like I could see something happening in a year, but not every year.
For IBM owned* 9.0.0.0/8 which has 16,777,214 (and when I worked there twenty years ago there were a few hundred other ranges that they owned/acquired).

* Turns out they freed this up a while back (good!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...
> open access should only be granted to citizens of a country, for research arising from academic institutions in that country?

Fine with me, then countries can sort it out between themselves. Easy, considering way harder things have been done in international academic efforts.

> Actually, do public libraries get access to Elsevier etc?

No, they don't.
I feel similarly and would feel a bit awkward telling someone that I use it.

On the other hand I think I have to face the fact that I am just not good at remembering a lot of tiny details - especially about people I have only met a few times or don't see very frequently.

I think remembering stuff about a bunch of people is possible but when you interact with a lot it becomes more and more difficult to remember everything.

Of course one could argue that in this case you maybe should "sort out" your relationships to determine who of all these people is really important to you but that feels even harder for me than using a personal CRM to have a good relationship to people that are not part of my circle of best friends.

Family is another example. I didn't choose them but I have to see them once in a while and among other features recording what presents I got them and they got me would be good enough to at least not blow up some celebration because I would get the same present again or being able to connect presents to people who gave them.
A practical application is that you can host your code on any untrusted server and know that the hoster won't lift your data.
I wasn't commenting on Heinlein, I was commenting on John W. Campbell, who was basically the go-to editor for hard SF (and had an Agenda, capital-A intentional).

The Expanse is popular because -- surprise! -- even a niche market can be a large market when it's a niche in a billion person audience.
On iPhone 6s Safari text overlaps a lot, unreadable.
if you have 20 people on your team, and they each have 5 PRs merged which are deployed with some continuous deployment strategy, you're already at 100 deploys in one day. :-\
12 is few enough that they might actually produce something of value. Besides, Steve Jobs originally wanted to sidestep the telcos and build his own network. I’m sure the thought kept living inside Apple and now they have the cash to do it.
Looks great...

I've been using a different extension "Redirector", and setting my own rules. But this should cover most of them!
If you use developer tools, probably would not work. Because the faked location is clearly marked as debug information. And it will not work for applications that are not specifically reading it.

Edit:
Maybe possible for a rooted phone with "unofficial" solution?
Yes, but I do have some far future plans about utilizing the "Login with Twitter" authentication method to let people use the API on their behalf, which would allow making tweets etc.
It’s especially bad because you can use Facebook to log in to countless other sites, which you will also lose access to. I even had to upload my photograph to Facebook once to ‘verify’ myself, and my photo was rejected with no reason given.
According to the article it cost $4600 a day to build.

On a 8 hour work day on federal minimum wage that's only 52 workers being able to work on the entire project ignoring all machine and material costs.

Too right it couldn't be done today. Or there were a lot of costs accumulated by the project that were not assigned to the project.
Reviews are voluntary.

Peer review is not (if you want to keep your career, that is).
I always found the excessive usage of linked lists in lisp style languages to be rather odd. It's about the worst possible data structure for performance unless you have a sufficiently smart complier... I think it's used for the beautiful simplicity of the language and not because it's actually a good way to compute things.
Do double binds automatically come in though, when you allow people of disparate backgrounds and experiences a platform to express opinion?

Could be constructive though as far as law is concerned.

What typical examples would you refer to?
It essentially emulates browser requests, "unofficial API" is just a fancy term for web scraping + using required parts of the public API where guest tokens work (ie. fetching video info, cards and polls).
I for one appreciate when a modern project takes care and expense to recreate certain historic elements that tie the project into its setting more seamlessly than a lowest possible cost execution.

I appreciate that whether it’s directly in my backyard or across town.
Perl, Ruby, PHP
Repeatedly crashed Chrome on my Pixel 3, even when I tried to close the tab. Had to switch tabs, then close it, to get it out of that little loop.
You are correct.

I looked at this statement.

“On an adjusted basis, Iridium said its operational profit rose 20% from a year ago to $78.7 million.”

Rookie mistake. I knew better.
I would be very interested in this if it can be used as a Carddav server. I run a Nextcloud instance solely as a central point for managing contacts. It syncs with my phone, alias lists for NCID and various other bits and pieces.

Something that specialises in this a bit more, but will still fill in that piece would be quite attractive.
I did it again. I made the assumption that the PinePhone has no way of killing the GPS. In fact, this is incorrect. According to the PinePhone wiki [1] the hardware killswitch for the modem also kills the GPS:

> Modem: On enables 2G/3G/4G communication and GNSS hardware, off disables.

That is because the GPS is bundled with the modem.

> GNSS: GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou/Galileo/QZSS, with A-GPS

The PinePhone sounds great!

[1]: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#Killswitch_confi...
CrowdStrike also uses ember and loves it.

Handlebars isn't really what ember uses. And it's unfortunate that the extension is shared.

there are tons of improved semantics with Octane's Ember Templates that the handlebars you're thinking of could never dream of representing -- mainly @args vs attributes (like html attributes can be forwarded via ...attributes)

<MyComponent
class='foo' // any html attribute
@arg={{this.value}} // @ = arg
// this = owned by the current context
/>

(and inside that)

<div ...attributes> // gets the class attribute
{{@arg}} // you *know* that @ means it was passed in
</div>

is there anything in particular you don't like?
Is there a regular version or just this trendy dark mode, that I find hideous?
I'm not going to enable javascript to find out what your website does when I have no idea what your website does.
The academic reviews I write take me about one to three days of work. I have to work through a usually densely written paper, maybe read up on some background that I'm not entirely familiar with, develop a good understanding of the content, judge it, find places where the authors might try to hide some downsides of their work (it happens!) etc. Only then can I sit down and write an honest review.
The geometry, hence tiling, of the concrete blocks used is quite interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvUG6VNcNR0
Motivation is key. The successful apprentice is one who is motivated to learn from the master. The only problem with the classroom method is that it is often demotivating for the students.

With all the online information available, autodidacts have a great opportunity.
I really recommend the paper referenced and the whole idea of calm technology. I was inspired enough by LavaPS and the paper that I implemented a similar model for a Program Visualization course project back in 2000 or so, and brought the idea back when working on monitoring for my first web ops job in 2008!

The link is dead of course, but it was easy to find another copy (https://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/weiser.pdf), and in searching I learned that there was even an O’Reilly book published in 2015!
"Performance advocate" is a thing now? Things like that or "growth hacker" make me long for the peaceful days of "ruby rockstars" and "javascript ninjas"...

Never mind the fact that we're plowing the depths of functional programming, complex data structures and asynchronous wizardry just to make sure that displaying a few bytes of text and flat-shaded borders isn't too slow.

I don't remember GUI programming being that hard in the years before this. At least for these rather simple results. Getting a full DTP platform out on a 20 mhz machine with 4 MB of RAM required some advanced pattern wizardry, but most web UI patterns aren't that complicated. They just aren't helped by the client-server nature and Javascript being Javascript, as much as you wrap it up in the Emperor's new C# clothes.

> Sites have become bigger, more interactive and more complex and this number is still gradually increasing in an upward trend year after year.

Yeah, but is it useful complexity? The whole frontend scene often reeks of "bullshit job" syndrome. To get results customers could live without in a framework not re ally suited for it, we're developing complex tools, even more complex tools to package and deploy them and then have more coaches, trainers, video walkthrough creators and premature optimization providers than ever before.
You can’t have it both ways though. If you have a more selective process than the one that hires-then-fires-after-3-months, you’re _already_ going more than 6 months without filling the role, because by being risk averse to hiring “bad” candidates, you’re passing on good candidates.

So either you pay the cost by trying more people more quickly, or you pay the cost desperately waiting and waiting because you’re so confident your interviewing filter is tuned correctly and that you know better regarding who to hire.

(In a small company, the process of hiring is often quite poor because it’s idiosyncratically controlled by the early employees and founders, and usually reinforces their cultural views and their biases of interviewing, so having a restrictive filter is even more harmful to small companies.)
I think you could argue that infrastructure quality has grown at a pace that justifies the increased expense.
to be more clear: this ticket got created 4 years ago.
It's the golden standard for how ambitious web apps should be structured built tested and and deployed nothing comes close once you've experienced ember you can't possibly equate to the industry status quo
Santa Claus was pilfered from pagan and Norse people? I find that hard to believe.
> I don't understand what you mean by "causal" in this context.

I mean that if you want contextual autocompletion (e.g. have only the relevant functions being shown given the type of an argument) then at some point you have to give your IDE this type information before typing the function - however you look at it it will always be [context] [function] instead of [function] [context].

> A.f(B) is just a syntax sugar around f(A, B) unless dynamic dispatch comes into play.

this is a complete implementation detail of your operating system ABI and the way OO languages compile down to it, and in no way a "general truth" (of course there is an equivalence between both). There used to be some CPUs with hardware instructions for OO method calls in the 80s for instance - you may want to call that syntax sugar around electrons, but I would respectfully disagree :-)

(even then, for instance Microsoft has the __thiscall calling convention for C++ methods which differs from __cdecl used for C functions - so even there there are fundamental differences between a.f(b) and f(a, b) as arguments will be passed differently to the method.)
Andy Weir's "The Martian" was hard sf. Aside from a couple of inconsistencies which were necessary for the plot to evolve, everything else was rock solid.

A lot of people write hard sf. Alastair Reynolds is one of my favorites.