skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s do some back-of-the-envelope reasoning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova: ”The peak optical luminosity of a supernova can be comparable to that of an entire galaxy”

There are over 2 trillion galaxies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy), of which less than 10 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy#Distinction_from_other_...) are visible with the naked eye.

⇒ ballpark, it seems only about one in 200 billion supernovae will be visible to the naked eye.

Taking 1/50th supernova per galaxy per year, we get 4 billion supernovae per year, so we would expect to see one every 50 years, on average.

Also, that can be as comparable may be fairly exceptional, the Milky Way may be above average size for a galaxy, or we just didn’t notice them (unless it were very bright, few people would notice a new ‘star’ showing up for a few days/weeks, and they may have been ‘behind’ other stars. That can easily happen for stars in the galactic plane of the Milky Way)

Certainly, historically, we simply didn’t really look. It was not as if we had a world-wide scan for supernovae even 50 years ago (do we even have one today, or are we mostly discovering them by going through decades-old photos?)
After a local epidemic of chuggers ("charity muggers") here there was a good newspaper article on some disreputable charities.

A bit of web searching took me here:

https://thedevilcorp.wordpress.com/

It's very enlightening and alarming!
This is why I switched to backcountry. Resorts are a god damn zoo.
We'll have to update our myths. Artemis shot it off in a hunting accident, maybe?
Cool! You might enjoy this:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/lambda-calculus.html

[EDIT] Heh, I just realized that we corresponded on this back when I wrote it in 2014! Small world.
So is leaking personally identifiable information... besides, it's not like they're going to find them (if the data is properly faked).
I wonder if something akin to glassblowing would work in zero-G.
The idea is that you have the hash of some file, and you trust that hash somehow. (For example, maybe you stored it locally in the past, or someone important has signed it, or it's included in the Bitcoin blockchain.) But now you want to fetch the contents of the file from some peer you don't trust.

If you just hash each chunk separately, you have a storage problem. Let's say you have a 4 GiB file, about the size of a DVD, and you use 1 KiB chunks like BLAKE3 does. The set of chunk hashes is 128 MiB. You can't store that much data in any blockchain, so maybe you hash it again and store the meta-hash of all the hashes instead (basically a custom 1-level tree mode). Then when it's time to verify, you fetch the set of hashes from the peer as a first step. This is all doable, but now you have to download 128 MiB of chunk hashes before you can verify a single byte. You can try to use a larger chunk size to reduce this overhead, but that increases overhead elsewhere.
I suppose the issue with centrality is that not only can it indicate that you are both good at being an extrovert and good at being an introvert (when appropriate), but it can also indicate that you are bad at being extroverted and bad at being introverted when arguably called for by context.

I think what MBTI lacks is an appreciation of context - sometimes it's good to be Thinking, sometimes it is good to be Feeling. What individuals need to learn is 1. when each is appropriate and 2. if they're bad at doing one or the other, getting better at it.
$12-14/hr depending on the night. we pooled tips and then split them, which is pretty common practice afaik. at the time I was a college student with no real skills, so my alternatives were $9-10/hr in retail.
Interesting but a bit confusing since most of these drugs are for other conditions, and are not seeking approval based on ability to slow/stop /reverse aging. Thus any approvals would require having a particular condition to get a prescription (or an unethical doctor), and this aren't immediately useful.

Would be nice to be able to select only those drugs seeking broad spectrum approval based on specific aging biomarkers.
Same here. The answer is, unsurprisingly, money. It's much easier to get sponsorship for the cost of a run or a jump when the event is also collecting money for charity.

(assuming that the costs are not outright taken from the donations pool, then the reason is still money, but in a much more self-serving way bordering on fraud)
One of the most jarring problems with ipython is scoping of list comprehensions. I loose access to certain objects while writing more elaborate list comps all the time. I'd be really happy if that got fixed at some point...
MBTI does not end with same result over multiple attempts. And some of the variants that are available online produce quite odd results.
Gravity is an issue for mirror production. But it is far less of an issue than tension and deformation during the months- to years-long cooling of the substrate. The temperature and environment control to do that is challenging on earth, fairly impossible in space. Except with maybe a really really huge spacestation as a thermal sink, which we won't get for the next few hundred years I'd guess...
Telescope images are usually long exposures so that won't work. AFAIK there's no method of selectively dumping or damping the pixels only ass the Starlink satellites pass through the frame.

To do it you'd need a screen in front of the sensor that could occlude the pixels that the Starlink sats were passing over..
That's a pretty well done site, thanks for taking the time to make it.

I don't think that all 'dark patterns' are necessarily always bad, especially after seeing everything that made your list, as you have "Complete the Collection" as an example.

While I think that it can definitely be abused and does belong on the list, I do think collecting things can be part of the fun of games for people, and that's been in games pretty much since games moved from the arcades into the home consoles.

Like platform games are often 'Collectathons', and one of my favorite games of all time, Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo, has 5 collectible flowers and 20 red coins (and you have to do it with full health at the end of the level) to get up to 100 points for every single level. One of the things I love to do in that game is try to get the full 100 points in as many levels as possible.

Another one is Badges, which is similar to Collections, but you're collecting the completion of goals instead. Personally I loved when Xbox 360 introduced Achievements, and I still wish the Switch offered them. When done right, it can leave a lasting demonstration of how much I enjoyed the game. Of course there's some stupid, grindy, super time consuming garbage that borderlines on player abuse for them, so I agree they qualify as a dark pattern, but I don't think they're inherently or always a bad thing and something game developers should always avoid if they want to make a game that wouldn't make the bad side of your list.

A lot of these dark patterns I do think are probably always annoying and a bad experience, though, like "Wait to Play".
Make the invisible visible within a microservices app
How would you define sensitive content? The real challenge here is to train a classifier.
But people think they are donating money to a charity, not purchasing an experience from an event company. It’s misleading at best.
That's only one side of forest. Don't they contribute on thermal buffering, wind patterns and evaporation too ?

Also it may help sustaining the good chain.
> kids with computer access at home can work on them at home

More than once, my kids have been required to print something out, often in color. I have a crappy inkjet printer, but the quality is so bad that I've taken their assignments and printed them out at Staples a few times.
This is a really good article and worth the read.
Nice, hopefully other companies will follow on their steps. Especially naval shipping companies somehow.
Shouldn’t the fact he’s using it and likes it be proof it exists and not a substitute tool?

In addition to his workflow, I want to add that I really appreciate having the parameters and types displayed when calling a function or method. Sometimes it’s unavoidable asking yourself questions like “which way round are those arguments?” or “is that a signed/unsigned integer?” Sure you can look at the code behind the function you want to call but having the IDE prompt that saves you navigating away from the code you’re currently writing. That’s a massive win for me. Particularly for projects that require less active development
In a situation like this the consequences of being caught for fake IDs are less damaging than this data breach, especially if you're an LGBT performer in certain locations.
That's not a bug - that's a feature.
I don't follow the distinction you're making about GDPR. I don't think anyone is saying they shouldn't have this information, just that they should make at least some minor modicum of effort to secure it.

GDPR doesn't say you don't need to properly secure data even if you're legally required to collect it.

GDPR solves this problem as much as any legislation can.
You're drinking 1%.. Is that 'cause you think you're fat? 'Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.
To be fair, it's a pretty large claim to just assume that something "went wrong with the attempts to screen out the confounding factors" and that the conclusion must be false.

It's a shocking conclusion, I'll give you that. And to be honest, I'm not convinced either. You might very well be right. But it's a strong claim to make agains a peer-reviewed journal publication.
My kids school allows them to take the Chromebook home. But until now class assignments have always been written assignments. They have "modules" which they do at school, not at home. There were a couple of days where it just got to be too much screen time. I've banned opening the Chromebook at home. It doesn't go up to their room. Allowing them to take the Chromebook home isn't a healthy idea. Too many downsides, I haven't seen a single upside.
you may be right that it's due to clover/square/whatever, but the staff definitely expects 18-20%. they will remember you if you always tip 15%.

the post-tax thing is bullshit, I agree on that. tips should always be calculated from the pre-tax total.
The debacle, and the dilemma of who to blame, exposes a pretty big flaw in capitalism theory: the idea that the market will choose to punish the shareholders. The reality is, the shareholders have been insulated from the negatives and rewarded with the gains.

Boeing's board has no meaningful aerospace expertise at all on it, going back to the McDonald Douglas merger. Shareholders have been rewarded for this successfully executed, multi-decade, and anti-competitive plan, so they keep re-electing the same board members who in turn ensure the shareholders aren't punished for objectively unethical decisions.

But capitalism doesn't require any ethics, it's completely amoral. Corporate charters don't require morality, ethics, or for companies to be a benefit to society or disallow them from being a negative to society (except insofar as they aren't breaking laws). And none of what Boeing has done has broken any laws, such as they are.

No one is going to prison. They're all protected by an explicitly designed system. The Commerce Department, overseeing the FAA, has had their select panel of industry experts and insiders say in a report this week, that everything at Boeing and the FAA is perfect. It's completely, totally, unquestionably perfect. And Congress would be risking this perfection by changing even one single thing about the existing arrangement.

Commerce won't change without a significant leadership change. Congress has cut FAA funding for decades, relative to the growth of commercial aviation, meaning there aren't enough regulators to move even a little bit away from manufacturer "self-certification".

What we have is what the industry wants, the politicians want, the average American consumer wants, and the American citizen wants -> profits for shareholders, kickbacks for politicians, cheap airfares, and please stop talking policy so I can get back to my consumerism.
I don’t think that’s true though it sure seems like it.

Pseudoscience is very seldom harmless. There is often someone making money off of someone else in the background, and in other cases it’s just plain health risks (for example Chiropractors killing a young girl by injecting her with turmeric or a naprapath taking a cancer patients money for snake oil for something that could be spent on proper healthcare).

I can’t think of a single harmless pseudoscience.
Just a thought, but you don’t store them in an unprotected S3 bucket.

If you’re required to handle this kind of sensitive information — for any purpose, but I would say this is even more true for anything tied to anything of a sexual nature or anything tied to health — you should take every precaution that that information is secure, encrypted when possible, and that your systems are regularly audited for vulnerabilities.

If the onus of properly protecting sensitive data — whether you’re legally required to hold it or not — is too much or too expensive, you shouldn’t be in that type of business. Period.
Nonprofits don’t fund something the size of Firefox (which doesn’t need 1100 people or now 1030 or whatever the headcount may be, but needs hundreds). They must give grants to get bigger grants as well as annual pledge drive donations from the long tail. They end up depending on the biggest foundations, which are tools of a relative-few billionaires.
looks like a screen recording on device, standard iOS feature.
I think OP was implying not to write new code in C. If possible, we can also use replacement tools written in safer languages if they offer the functionality we need (e.g. `ripgrep` instead of `grep`, or web servers written in safe languages over those written in C/C++).
The one major issue with autocomplete is that—like with anything else in life—if you become too dependent on it, you will be crippled if (for whatever reason) the IDE or the autocomplete feature fails for any percentage of the time.

I speak from personal experience as this happens regularly in Xcode for large iOS projects. Xcode is notorious for its fragile indexing system. Symbols are often not correctly picked up, and autocomplete is notoriously unreliable when the projects get large. This happened often enough that it actually trained me to become much more comfortable writing code for long periods of time without relying on autocomplete at all.

If autocomplete/IDE indexing system lags behind or is unavailable for even 0.5% of the time, that translates to real time where the developer is waiting for the autocomplete list to appear.

With Python, Ruby, and other languages, one has a plethora of IDEs/editors/environments to choose from. However for Objective-C or Swift, the environment is severely limited. AppCode does exist, and it does have a much better indexer and autocomplete, but it is very different than Xcode and most iOS developers will not be able/willing to move to AppCode. And that's even before considering their licensing costs.

With most helpful aids, I would say that autocomplete is a gift and useful day-to-day, but to make it a central dependency during the development phase seems to be a mistake.
I don't think I've committed that fallacy because I've never called these jobs "good" even if they are, for a particular person, the best among alternatives.

Whether a business deserves to survive based on how it treats its lowest rung of workers requires a lot of value judgments I'm not prepared to make. Off the top of my head, Walmart provides access to low prices (saving money) to orders of magnitudes more customers, than workers it exploits. Their current starting salary is $11/hr. Whose job is it to make sure someone has enough money to live on? The term "living wage" ignores those who for some reason or other don't work. Who gave Walmart the responsibility to provide their employees a "living amount" of money, and whose responsibility is it for the unemployed?
I think if the use this type lock. anyone can hacked https://bdresults50.com/schlage-be365-review/
> And the fact that Apple’s methods were designed for autocomplete means that the language is practically unusable in environments without it, which in practice means substantial lock-in to Apple’s proprietary dev tools since no one else invests as much.

This may be true as an effect. But these features in ObjC language (named arguments) and idioms (using them a lot, with verbose symbol names) both date from NextSTEP days, when the developer tool market was entirely different, and I doubt these language features were chosen with any thought whatsoever to this goal.

The author may not be implying otherwise, but some readers may take it that way.

From what I remember of the era, I think the motivations were more about clarity, and maybe some desire to "make code closer to human language." Why make class or method or argument or variable names cryptic abbreviations, when you can just spell them out? Won't this make the code much more readable and comprehensible, and as they knew then as well as now, code will be read many more times than it will be written.

Ruby idioms still lean in the direction of verbosity in symbol naming; perhaps both ruby and ObjC got it from smalltalk, a heavy influence to both. Which is interesting, because smalltalk also famously traditionally locks you into a particular difficult-to-write-an-alternative development environment; but at the time and place the choices were made that led to that, it also surely was not a "commercial" decision.
It's unofficial, there was a discussion on Reddit yesterday with people asking if the author would provide access the content to archive it in case Apple DMCAs it, to which he gave some childish strop in response about how he deserves the in(fame)y. You'll find it on /r/DataHoarders if you care to look.
2257 was passed well over a decade ago, with minimal public dispute. The only concerning thing is if the models don’t fully understand what the law entails. All affiliate publishers have to have that information under the law.

Also, because of face recognition there really is zero anonymity at this point. It would be very misleading to represent to someone otherwise.
Nearly 40% of the world’s 195 countries will see civil unrest during 2020
Couldn't they look down?
I cannot agree with this comment more! If your org is not a type 1 or type 2, don't roll out an ERP change. Get to 1 or 2, then do it. You're just asking for pain and will lose a lot of great employees who refuse to go through that pain with your org.
Completely agree, but do we have to root for Mozilla if we want to root for Firefox?
I'm convinced that people would, in general, be much more competent at general writing and communication if they spent more time reading for pleasure as kids. I developed a huge vocabulary and an instinctive grasp of grammar because I read voraciously; constantly immersed in more-or-less decent writing, I could immediately tell when my own writing was "off".
> So if someone trying to convince you that there's life on Mars starts from the premise that the earth is flat, are you going to give credence to the rest of their talking points or brush them off?

The problem being described is folks using that dumb flat Earther as a reason not to listen to anyone else on the same side of the debate with much better arguments.

"Someone claimed climate change will make the world 180 degrees by 2021, which is silly, therefore climate change is debunked."
Stopping digging doesn't mean the hole fills up by itself. We should still stop digging though.

> What we have emitted so far is in the air and it's too late.

Why? There could be carbon capture technologies implemented, massive reforestation efforts organized.
Most egregious detail in the linked article: Epstein and his entourage were given a private tour of SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne in 2012, well after his conviction for sex trafficking of minors.
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Wait, you're not exactly sure whether your instructor died or not?

Just how drunk were you? Mushrooms are way more rewarding anyways.
Anyone has suggestions for iOS/Android reverse engineering?
Wow that is very interesting! That would be a worthwhile experiment to test out for sure.
That link is to an emulation of an MS-DOS port of the original arcade. You can play the emulated original stand-up arcade game here:

https://archive.org/details/arcade_qix

Press F3 to choose language, then use 5 to insert coins, 1 to start 1 player game. Use cursor keys to move along existing lines, use Ctrl+cursor keys to draw fast, use Alt+cursor keys to draw slowly.
Reformer: The Efficient Transformer
If some idiot made claim X with poor evidence and I used that to conclude claim "not X", I think I might question if I'd been repeatedly concussed. That would be a truly idiotic mode of knowledge acquisition.