skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had about a half-dozen proposals accepted over several years. IMHO, picking a 'hot technology' is the biggest factor that's seemed relevant to the papers I had accepted.
And you can opt out of ads by buying their coin to distribute to sites that require payment.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/12/23/1543203/why-so-many... has some more details
Except the search page has changed, just well.

Within the last few years they moved the footer to stick to the bottom of the page and made the buttons flatter.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/google.com
A throwaway proclaims, without evidence, that their employer is a paragon of virtue and its victims are liars, miscreants, criminals etc.

A predictable pattern.
I don't remember most of them. This one is the latest I tried: https://p2k.co/ , sends your pocket bookmarks to your kindle
It's interesting that producers still send physical copies to theaters.
You got that right. I can’t even get them to deliver reliably to my mailbox at a UPS store. It’s like they just can’t figure out that it’s a business with business hours or something, even though I have it in the delivery instructions for that address. Either that, or they’re just straight lying like you said, but I’ve had enough repeated problems that I just suspect incompetence.

I once went so far as to try and get Amazon to blacklist my address for their contracted delivery drivers, but, of course, they wouldn’t do it.
Merry Christmas. Day of Hope. Enjoy time with family and friends.
Strategic competition will be crucial because once one side shows that it is possible others will quickly follow.

Do you see any reason that the technology outlined in the article cannot be implemented by 2025?
I'd buy a kit. Lots of them on Amazon.
The option to treat it like a motorcycle would help. You'd get a VIN, title, registration, and a plate.
The points at the end are nice but it does make me wonder if there was something more to the intelligence community's conclusions about ToTok.

It's terrifying to think just how fast some countries are moving toward full control of the internet and communication means for their citizens. From internet blackouts to intranets (just saw a BBC article on it [0]), it seems like the hot new thing for regimes is to take control of the internet because it's where people go for information.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496
Dale Carnegie has a pretty good book about managing stress. It's called "How to stop worrying and start living". Wikipedia has a summary of it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Sta...

Main thing that is got from it was thinking about the worst possible outcome of whatever is stressing you out and realizing that it's probably not as big of a deal as you're making it out to be. The project deadlines set by your management are made up and missing them won't be the end of the world, so you should treat them that way. A website going down for an hour will also not matter a day after it happens.

Do your best at work and learn to say no. If you're good at your job they will respect your work, and if they don't there will be a lot of other companies ready to hire you.
There are certainly some who do this, notably News Corp[1]. And the huge presence of that organization gives the impression that all others are this way too.

But it simply isn't true of respectable publications. People don't go to journalism school thinking "I'm going to devote my life to hiding facts". If they do, they don't graduate. And papers aren't interested in hiring people that are going to create an endless stream of retractions. Likewise, any outlet that doesn't issues retractions is highly suspect. So reporters at respectable paper really are trying to find the truth.

Indeed, this whole thread is not about facts but about a person's opinion about the tone of an article. And, quite frankly, a blog post that is lying about the article when he says it only mentions negative aspects of Monson's life[2] Which is probably why the lead image is not actually linked to the NYT article.

Papers often print things people don't want to be true, or say them in ways that offend certain groups. But to rely on a gut feeling or general annoyance or selected anecdotes to decide that a paper is lying would be an error.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/thomas-monson-...
Just like all of these Ring cameras getting 'hacked'. It takes very little skill to pour through a list of previously breached passwords and attempt to login.
If the full amount paid for your developer including office space, taxes, salary, benefits is 200k which pays for 48 weeks x 40 hours you are paying 104 dollars per hour. Ram probably costs you 2 to 4 dollars per gb.

Saving 1gb memory is worth it if it does not cost your developer more than 2 minutes to figure out.
Kids should be taught about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_tricks whenever we feel they're ready to absorb/rationalize them;
the problem i have with this approach is it's reinventing the wheel.

continuous integration, testing infra, rolling upgrades, deployment, logging, analytics on that logging, should all get solved problems I get out of the box in 2019
One of my old jobs was the next town over, fifteen minutes by highway. It was impossible to bicycle. If I were to work in the industrial park in my city it would take an hour or so. We have a lot of distribution centers and factories on the outskirts of town because no one wants to live next to a mushroom farm or distribution center, yet they provide a lot of jobs.

A lot of you guys don't understand that not everyone is a wealthy 24 year old knowledge worker and can just live in the downtown and bicycle everywhere. People have cars because they enable you to even find work.
Google does this constantly with Gmail, calendar, Android, and so on.
Fabric is a very hard problem because it has an extremely high number of degrees of freedom. Flexible materials are like this consistently. If you want automation, with few exceptions, you want stiffness.

Tesla has been unable to automate wire harness installation because it's super flexible with many effective degrees of freedom (they hope to solve that using a stiffer flex cable that consolidates the wiring). Even moving some fiberglass fluff with a robot was an unreliable bottleneck they eventually removed.

I even saw a project once that attempted to automate cloth handling by first stiffening the cloth with starch so it could be more predictably moved from place to place.

Cloth is fundamentally hard. It's not impossible to solve these problems, but it's not at all trivial.
Vernon Unsworth says entrepreneur's tweets 'humiliated' him
It's not an alfred alternative, but Everything Search, (https://voidtools.com) is really nifty.
> Burning trees that will grow back does not add any CO2 to the system, only just temporary. The trees that grow back will take up the CO2 again.

This is stunningly illogical nonsense. There is no closed system [containing only trees and their CO2; the planet with all its molecules is probably a closed system], trees will happily grab any CO2 in the atmosphere regardless of where it comes from.

If you burn all the trees, none will grow back and all the CO2 will eventually be elsewhere (possibly, but not necessarily in other plants).

If you don't burn any trees, but instead cut them down to use them for building houses, new trees might grow using CO2 from other sources.

If you plant more trees without burning any, they will happily use all this evil "added" CO2 to grow.
> Every time you see a story in the general media that grossly misrepresents a subject you know well, remember that feeling. Because for every other topic covered, I guarantee there is a domain expert feeling as you did.

I learned that in the 80's. I was working in an office building that developed a gas leak, and after a couple hours it ignited and blew the roof off.

The 3 local news channels all covered it. They each told starkly conflicting accounts of it. None of this was because they had any agenda. It was just sheer sloppiness and rush to get the story "in the can" and on to the next. For example, one described the building as a warehouse. It was actually an office building, and looked like an office building.
From my recollection, Ballmer continually overpaid for random acquisitions that screamed “in the moment hot thing” versus well-thought, strategic. From an outsiders view, the whole we must take over the world syndrome manifested into trying to buy a way into everything that could be big versus fit well with Microsoft.
what countries out outside the reach of interpol / US extradition for this type of crime? Guessing he's still in South America someplace.
> For starters, where do you see that the apps can be uninstalled? Since when system-installed apps can be removed by a user without rooting or replacing the system?

Which is an issue that affects pretty much every smartphone with a default Android ROM: Google is baked deep in there, often there's a ton of additional smartphone vendor bloat and trackingware.

A lot, if not all of that data can be accessed by US intelligence agencies trough the third-party doctrine [0].

The same applies to the biggest social media companies out there, they are all US based: Billions of people, all over the world, tell Facebook their deepest secrets and most personal and private details.

For any non-American that's a massive OpSec risk just waiting to happen, its making large parts of populations suddenly very transparent and vulnerable to all kinds of nasty tactics like blackmail [1].

Which is one of the main reasons why countries like Russia and China push domestic alternatives: It's not all just about controlling the platform, the biggest part of it is giving their citizens a local alternative that doesn't mass-scale dox them to an "adversary state".

In that context, I consider it kinda weird how US Americans freak out over TikTok being Chinese and some app by Russian developers sending data to Amazon servers, supposedly being "massive security risks".

But when other countries don't want to give up their populations data wholesale to the US, that's suddenly made out as pure oppressive authoritarianism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

[1] https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
I can appreciate the sentiment behind not saying that something “isn’t my job.” But that’s also a quick road to people shaming and guilting one another into doing work they think needs to be done, regardless of what the hierarchy thinks should be done. Simple answers usually aren’t the right ones.
> People tell me this, but I genuinely can't tell the difference between Chrome and FF's speed on linux.

It's pretty apparent in "web apps" - plenty of SPAs grind Firefox to a halt and not Chrome. The other major win for Chrome is battery life on laptops. I know it's getting better for FF, but it's still not that close.

Safari actually does the best on (nearly) any hardware you can convince MacOS to run on, but they broke extensions recently so it's not viable for me anymore.

(I still run FF Nightly as my main browser.)
You could plan some small steps if you’re feeling overwhelmed. After reading some of the other replies, I came up with a few steps, tailor as needed:

1. Write down your goals or ideas for features. If you want to learn a specific framework, write that down as a /constraint/

2. (Optional depending on your style and background) Write down 10 or so requirements, if it feels natural to do so

3. Draw some block diagrams and flow charts. Keep it simple and think about which major components you need

4. Now you can survey frameworks. If you had one in mind as a constraint, does it still make sense? Pick whatever frameworks, libraries and development tools you need to solve your problems. If you don’t know what you need for a component, write down TBD.

5. Find a peer, and justify 1-4 to them. You will likely find most of your decisions make sense, but now you’ll have confidence and maybe make a few changes.

6. Now you can set up your development environment. You might find a few pain points already here and make a few more changes to your plan.
> But Brave has a backdoor!

> No it doesn't. Brave is open source and there has been no backdoor ever found. Many people claim that Brave being able to use custom HTTP headers are a backdoor but this isn't true. HTTP headers are allowed as per RFC 7231. See Brendan Eich's response to this.

This has got to be a joke, right? Nobody's claiming that Brave 'using custom HTTP headers' is not allowed in the HTTP spec, the problem is that Brave downloads a list of headers to inject into requests for specific websites.

I'm not sure I'd call this a "backdoor", but considering it cannot (to my knowledge) be disabled it at least deserves a conversation. Trying to minimize the complaint with "it's allowed in the HTTP spec" is insane.
always work on the step you know you can take next. There are lots of unknowns in every project, but there are usually a few knowns. Usually the problem is not pulling the trigger to move forward on the knowns. You will have to re-write, you will have to backtrack, you will end up wasting oodles of code and time, but steps backwards are steps forward when learning is a part of it, and learning is always a part of it.
When to book your flights and hotel for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Oh, I certainly agree. But a naive algorithm can be used to predict the opinions of the naive.
>> 3. Halt foreign online payments

> That is extremely unlikely to happen.

That's what very much has already happened. Visa and MasterCard pulled their services a few years ago after another set of US sanctions. Also, if you are a business and using SWIFT to transact - US has the final say what you can and can not do. So now Russia has it's own payment card system MiR and working with China, India and even Iran on alternative to SWIFT.

I think it was a mistake for US to retract payment services. A smaller country may be severely affected by it indeed, but not a country of the size of Russia, China or India.

Now if payment networks were pulled, then what is next? Internet would be the logical follow-up. Hence the testing. It all makes perfect sense when you look at it from Rissia's side.
I know this pain of being undecided on what to choose. Though the difference being I do have a core stack I build with, it's just when I do hobby projects I often want to try something new and end up exactly feeling like you feel, too much choice! But I've always found when I have a problem, I work better, so if you have MVP idea, flesh it out, define it best you can, then force yourself to choose. If you can't choose, use Node / Vue. It's all javascript and no matter what choices you make later, building something significant in javascript is going to serve you well. If you need a database, choose postgresql, getting some core sql skills is very useful, even if you end up moving to nosql dbs. If you need cheap hosting, try digital ocean. This is a bit different from my core stack, but I have built things with those things, and they are fine, not necessarily the best but have a lot of transferable knowledge and plenty of people use them so there is a LOT of info on how to do most anything you will want to do.
> Knowing that you can model reaction networks using categorical concepts may not provide new insights IF you have no deep familiarity with those concepts—but if you do, then knowing there is a "symmetric monoidal functor from the category Petri to the category Dynam" is a richly useful piece of information.

Look, I completely agree with the general point. I love new ways of thinking about things. But blindly applying extremely complicated tools to domains where their power isn't helpful is not good.

What is happening here is like taking a 2-line program that adds together two numbers and dressing it up into thousands of lines of OOP, until you have AdditionObjectFactoryGetterSetter objects being created by AdditionObjectFactoryGetterSetterFactory objects. Then you can bring in powerful OOP tools, but the only things they help you with are understanding the excess complication you added in. Maybe the sheer scale of that structure is beautiful to someone, but we're discussing whether scientists should bother learning it.

> I'm not sure in the context of reaction networks whether modeling the system with compositionality guarantees and a clean mapping between graph representation and differential equations gives scientists something new or not

And I'm telling you, it really doesn't! There simply is not a rich enough formal structure present in chemical reaction networks for category theory to yield anything useful, like it did in parts of pure math. Adding a complicated structure on top of something simple does nobody any good. All of the "guarantees on compositionality" were not useful, in the sense that they went without saying in freshman-level courses, or worse, were problems solely created by the introduction of category theory.

> the illustration of this method is done clearly, and the generality of the method is enormous.

The fact that the technique is extremely general does not improve things. If a technique makes science harder to do, you can't make it up on volume.
I'm not sure why the opposing opinion is somehow the holder's fault. Anecdotally, I've seen much more hate, violence, calls for violence, unhappiness, and economic dissatisfaction today compared to 10 years ago. This could be due to any number of things, some real and some related only to perception. This is a subject for debate, but it doesn't make sense to imply that the observation itself is somehow wrong. Your dismissal is antagonistic where it doesn't need to be.
The cynical me hints that "for the kids" is just a nice way to say "I need an option for 50% that I get to execute, should I leave our startup." With this logic, the price of the house doesn't matter.
Isn't all of the global art marketplace, a swindle to begin with? It's a money laundering industry in its entirely with almost barely any money actually reaching the original artist. It could have easily been him selling something he drew up in 2 days, make up a bullshit backstory, sell it for 50 million and he'd actually not have to disappear
Try the book "Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Scherz and Monk.

There's a chapter on microcontrollers.
Looks like that domain is banned by the moderators, and all submissions of it get killed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=isitchristmas.com

That's probably because the site is off-topic (not something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity") and has been posted over and over again.

The HN Guidelines describe what's on-topic and off-topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's also a FAQ list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
All Altra shoes are zero-drop, so heel and forefoot are at the same level. It doesn't mean there's no padding.
I was going to agree with you since hobby, for me, is more of a solitary activity. But then I do know several people at work who would say soccer or basketball is their hobby, something they play regularly and look forward to doing. Although kendo sounds like it would be difficult to keep up outside of school. But I have not lived in Japan to know how popular it is outside of school.
This is exactly what I mean. I can't tell if that's a joke or not.
Cooking is very old and our digestive system has changed as a result. I don't think it's limited to the high latitudes.
This is a thought-provoking response and does make me reconsider my position. It doesn’t please me, but perhaps we do need to encourage market pressures that force Mozilla to create a better product.

However, as I said in my above post, my objection to Brave largely stems from how it is marketed and promoted. I’ll re-iterate: People try to sell it as the “pro-decentralization” and “good web citizen” browser. Brave isn’t doing anything compelling enough to earn that status in my eyes.

I am not going to argue about how much Mozilla innovates. Rust is pretty cool — I agree they could do more. The people pushing me to use Brave seem to want me to do so as an act of charity. I will re-evaluate my choice to charitably direct my web traffic through Firefox, but, to be honest, my first choice otherwise still would not be Brave.
Yeah I've been doing that with Spanish and have been tempted to make a music based language learning app where you listen/sing along in the language that you're learning and can pull up the lyrics at any point and see how it translates to your native language.

Nice part about music is that it's usually memorable and you're willing to listen to it more than once. You also get to hear a native speaker pronouncing the words and it's not weird to try to sing along.

Another option would be to find an app that can connect you with people who speak the language that you're learning and are trying to learn a language that you know. Having a text and phone conversation with them is a great way to learn.
> Journos think they have everything all figured out before they even investigate. They just need to investigate enough information to slap it into their story as if they were a algorithm automatically writing a sports story from the game stats.

I wouldn't restrict this to journalists. Wasted a year during undergrad working for a political scientist who knowingly ignored evidence on a historically oriented project that would render their fashionable hypothesis void. Bringing said evidence up in meetings on multiple occasions didn't help my prospects of getting anything positive out of the professional association (besides perhaps that should get out of the racket?).
When you consider this came from research that was funded by Jawbone, Eight and that the author has equity in InCarda, it makes me question the authenticity of their claims. Can someone from this field corroborate what is claimed?
farther. us has extradition with all south america, and is widely believed to have a large cia presence as well. (lots of historical evidence for that).
https://www.voanews.com/archive/explainer-extradition-and-us
interpol has 194 member countries. https://www.interpol.int/en/Who-we-are/Member-countries
google says there are currently 195 countries.

somehow, though, I don't believe they're in North Korea? Nor that the documentary filmmaker could get there...
Only because there are a number of people who monitor all the pages. It couldn’t (currently) be done with an automated setup, as shown by the legion of bots that monitor as well and still don’t do a perfect job.
> It seems unarguably true that I can’t buy anything from them if I can’t find it.

Most people are looking for the best value they can get at the lowest price they can find. Amazon's site makes that process difficult and nearly impossible. I can only speculate as to why that is.
So much of the result of a search is now explicitly advertising. Amazon now has a new incentive to sell ads and display those ads as often as possible, whereas before their only goal was to return relevant results to the customer making the search.
Some people were hoping for more particles.

I’m not sure I agree... was just trying to explain why there is a perception of progress slowing down.
Googled up an Apple ][ in-browser emu (what a time to be alive, etc) and poked around for a moment, think this might be it:

https://i.imgur.com/jvFvdsF.png

Edit:

You can see how it's used here:

https://bigflake.com/disasm/applesoft/Applesoft.html

It's actually two (overlapping) subroutines with entry points $B01 and $B07, their symbols in the source are CHRGET and CHRGOT. So 20-odd bytes in page zero for two calls. The code is, of course, also self-modifying. All in all, a fitting little tribute to Chuck Peddle.
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