skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go through your drawer of USB cables. You'll see that a lot of Type-A connectors now have the holes on both sides!
Yes density is the hot new thing I agree. The mouse and KB didn't give way. They don't compete with each other. Nobody is deciding to play civ6 on their phone instead of their PC when at home. People play phone games when they are not at a desk where they can game. Gaming diverged, following the hardware.
It gets them the critical advantage of consolidating power at home through more money (via more military-related contracts), which "more money" oftentimes equates with more political power (at least in Western-like societies). The "more power" part has always been an end in itself.
Mostly by Firefox fanboys, who don't see that Firefox has been turned into a Chrome copycat with built-in blocklists and TBB features.
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This is certainly out of my depth but how would this model 'reduction' improve provability?

It would (I assume) reduce instances of non-desirable behaviour. But how would it improve the evidence I am able to provide to a regulating authority?
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Guess what? Ethics page is 404 - http://www.ijact.org/index.php/ijact/ethics

Intentional or not, it is an irony
Minecraft was on the cusp of that change, and it's pretty telling how much of a hellscape the code was for years.
For the end user a SSD drive is just a black box made of plastic - and that's if they have ever seen it.
Those Oath sites really do love tracking before you even hit the article.

For anyone else with uMatrix blocking the 307 to https://guce.advertising.com, here is a cache https://archive.is/nJ0xw

Here is a better source with more info on AppSheet included: https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/14/google-acquires-no-code-a...
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Thank you. I appreciate your view on this. Im really thinking to create or start a business myself.
Now, I know that may be contrary to what I mentioned above, the amount of time needed to pursue this goal, meaning less time working more time at home. But, I believe I could achieve that or at least balance it in a way that works for me. I think the best fit at least from my ignorance is some type of SaaS. I can control time, I'm passionate about solving problems and programming in general. I just need to commit to an idea and go for it. I know that most likely the SaaS wouldn't be the end all be all, but at least it's a start. What are your thoughts on this?
Indeed. The project motivation is even similar to mine (bootstrap yourself in case everything gets lost). I guess the main difference between the two is that I tried to make the generated HTML minimal so it's easier to verify before entering a password.
Zeroing in on Decarbonization
The blog is one of biggest apple fanboy bullshits out there. And given the bias against google in HN / reddit, it is quite simple why apple is heralded as preserver of privacy.

Hell, one can disable most of google stuff and install f-droid, or even go lineageOS route. that's much, much more private than buying an overpriced, locked-in phone.

If Google is evil because it tracks some (easily hide-able) data that only few zealots care, then apple is much more evil, because they patent trivial things (such as optional chaining in swift, or rounded corners of phones) and do misleading marketing.
Your link says 68th.
Will Guyana soon be the richest country in the world?
Upvoted because you provide a detailed and calm post (which ironically is being downvoted!).

The internet does do a lot of good, but I don't think that it has increased negativity.

Instead, it's made it easier to communicate and see negativity.

As in, previously people would communicate within actual, physical social circles and often these would be (or inevitably become) an echo chamber for people with similar opinions.

But now, it's so easy to _communicate_ negative things due to pseudonyms and anonymity, plus it's easier to _see_ negativity because hundreds of different opinions are available in each thread - not just one or two opinions in the pre-internet, echo-chamber days.
Yes, and the founder of Shopify is originally from Germany, I bet he got inspired by that.
HN doesn’t really create barriers to taking it offline, does it? If one wants to be contacted, one can leave info in their profile. I was emailed this way more than once!

Meanwhile, if IRL meetings become a big part of the community, could this create fragmented/exclusive feeling in threads, especially considering there are folks who have reasons to participate anonymously or are unable to attend for other reasons?

I somehow feel like connections made here may be limited, but in some ways more pure and to the point, lacking the distracting visuals and inconveniences of flesh so to speak.
I love these sites. They contain an extensive amount of information, all in a catalogue that reflects how the creator thinks. My personal all time favourite is http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/
Congratulations dude, What a great story!
I don't think Watson is after some narrow, technical relationship between a particular gene and a particular ability. Instead, he make wide, unconstrained and unscientific generalisations which can only be defended by shrinking what he says.

To quote Watson: “I think now we’re in a terrible sitution where we should pay the rich people to have children.. if we don’t encourage procreation of wealthier citizens, IQ levels will most definitely fall.”

Now, any non-indoctrinated human can understand that the issue of "perfect" phenotype is not about modern groups at all;

TO be clear - it is Watson who is making racial arguments about Irish, Black and Jewish "races".

The whole point is what you are saying - the "perfect" human isn't about racial selection. It's Watson's clear racism (and he admits he is racist!) that makes it so dangerous.

This isn't some indoctrination thing - it's anyone who has read the Nazi or Communist "scientific" justifications of their theories that should hear alarms.
And in the US the Affordable Care Act means that if you don't have much income the government will pay for some (maybe all?) of your health insurance premium.
Hardware Kickstarters, what could possible go wrong?
I’d love it if there was the equivalent for this, but for politics.
software engineer/manager with (bigger) international projects. This is on the high end for such positions.

I can't complain :)
This deserves a bit of clarification: ROP is an application of threaded code technique. Conventional Forth (proto-father of stack-based/concatenative languages, alongside with Joy) is based on indirect-threaded code (ITC), so the connection between ROP and stack-based programming is rather indirect (pun intended).

For anyone interested, Book by Loeliger [1] and "Moving Forth" series [2] are essential readings on this topic.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/R.G.LoeligerThreadedInterpretive...

[2]: https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/
No, it’s a preference. Don’t make excuses.

Note that this is exactly the reason why anything Lennart does is met with vitriol. He can’t keep his hands out of the cookie jar and when challenged, he and his supporters bring on the excuses. It is not for Lennart or his supporters to decide what’s better for me. That’s for the distributors to decide. Systemd does not get to decide preferences and neither does it get to set defaults.
Yes: By design. This helps make brute forcing the password harder by forcing each attempt to take a while. The crypto implementation in the browser itself is pretty fast.

You can easily make it faster or instantaneous by lowering the number of PBKDF2 rounds in the html-vault script. The default of 20 million seems a bit excessive based on the feedback so far.
Well, it's actually much worse than that. We expect disagreement in science on the interpretation of data. What we don't expect is disagreement about actual measurements, especially not for something as basic as temperature. It's not like the disagreement here is about the output of a particle accelerator, it's literally about "what was the temperature in the recent past" which should be well beyond any controversy or disagreement.

The problem with our societies approach to climatology is anyone who scratches the surface of this field sees problematic practices, but the moment they try and talk about it legions of what can only be described as true believers attack them and do everything they can to shut them down and destroy them completely. Our societies discussion about climate has become totally unhinged. You now see important people who seem to literally believe the world will end in just a few years or decades. There's absolutely no reason to believe this, yet any attempt to bring the discussion back down to earth via actual scientific discussion is attacked as "denialism".
This is so great. I would have preferred to do something like this when I was fresh out of High School instead of going the traditional route of studying full-time or immediately entering the workforce.
I really wish they added a GUI configuration editor - editing large JSON files by hand is a poor user experience IMHO.
In the early days of film there were long running serials played that had such a the investment that it had a limited audience. Film became more mainstream as it's format locked down to 1.5-2hr films that busy people could enjoy.

Investing heavily into a long running video game is more intensive than long running film. Finding the right form for those experiences that isn't totalizing in it's presentation could help. A 3hr run and done episode of red dead might be more consumable.
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on the contrary it can make you more productive. for one it forces you to take a step back regularly instead of blindly going down a potentially wrong path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
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You're going to a lot of trouble to justify someone releasing their supposed source code run through an obfuscator.
The non-standard features like Steam multiplayer and mods Workshop that lock out non-Steam users pretty much forever are IMHO even worse than the 1-year exclusivity (as long as it's not retroactive).
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"Think Different" always makes me think of this picture:

https://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Think_cc51f2_2807418.jpg
The very first site I ever visited on the web is still live some 25 years later http://www.armory.com/

Older sites are unfortunately ever rarer, thankfully the archive project does a good job in maintaining a record of all the information they stored.
I wish they'd release the source of the obfuscator they used.
Now I'm confused. Why would people from all over the world deliberately try to get into a nation that has structural racism, is populated by racists and which was founded on racism?

New law- You First. Force the author of this article have an Open Door policy to his house. Just anyone can come and go as he or she pleases and take what they need for a period not less than 10 years.
The relevant metric is the ability to move the market. The % don't directly matter.
Yes, but linking to the text version instead of simply providing the text is hostile to the user. You know what resource I requested. You know where that resource is. Give me the resource.
That's pretty funny, thanks for sharing!
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And how fast these pages load :-)
Perhaps I'm missing something, why is it funny? :)
And Fleetwood Mac.
I think it's a very common thing with success that people want to attribute it to their skills and not factors such as pure luck.

Might also be a cultural thing, in many societies there are myths of equality and everybody having a chance.
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The Man in Seat 61 is one of these sites, except it's still continually updated and is probably the single best location for train travel information, anywhere.

https://www.seat61.com
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The product I’m building since 15 years evolved from a 32 bit desktop app (with dependencies from the early 90s) into a heavier 64 bit desktop app 10 years (hundreds of man years) later, and further into cloud services that weren’t even a term when development started.

When you build something that will have new requirements in ten years, implemented by different developers, then you can motivate spending time on code hygiene.

For a game anything that won’t be in the next game you can duct tape. The parts that will go into hundreds of games over a decade is the “engine” and I suppose in that you’d find the same sort of discipline and hygiene as in any other long term code base.
Managing people work is not that bad by itself - you delegate things you don't want to yourself do or you want to give more resources to.

If you can do interesting work and use your team to help, it's great. The problem with management IMO is all the politics, "managing expectations" (I think this term must have been coined by some hardcore sociopath) and team quality.

You rarely have team of senior experts only so you can focus on doing great job. You have people underperforming, having issues with others etc. Also, employee personal agenda is often more or less different from company goals - it's a constant battle.
Yeah, I guess so too. Toby told in a podcast [0] that he finished an apprenticeship as "Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung". Though it's not the same as "Duales Studium" (which gives you an academic degree while former doesn't) I guess this program was highly influenced by his experience.
Though I'm asking myself if this kind of program is common in Canada or is Shopify doing something unique here?

[0]: https://fs.blog/tobi-lutke/
I don't see it mentioned (at all), but my hypothesis for 30% is that it is because of money laundering. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to provide gift cards, would have to limit spending per app, cap all the prices, monitor whale spenders, etc. Easiest just to make it unprofitable.
Just wait until they see the Windows save symbol!
It really is, because the regulation is strong, faster and cheaper transfers, common account numbering system, nobody bats an eye if your money crosses the border (it was a nightmare in the US, BoA would reject my client's wires all the time without explanation), etc.
> That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.

with the proper code comments for the hair (in the code or in the source repo) and regression tests it becomes possible to clean up and even rewrite.

floppy disks are no longer a thing and neither is windows 95. RAM & swap space are abundant, so that OOM may never happen any more IRL.

the app's whole architecture may have been carefully chosen for the hardware and simplistic compilers of another age.

is it okay never to rewrite a webpage where 50% of the codebase is IE6 hacks?

if it is code that must be maintained, then at some point the hair may need to be shaved; it simply cannot grow forever as the world moves on around it. the doma of "never rewrite" is silly without further context.
As someone who studied cognitive science in college, I can tell you that reproductibility is a big concern among researchers not only in cognitive psychology, but also in the social, clinical and developmental subfields. Reproductibility is also a concern for serious sociologists, and I'm sure it's the same thing in most of the other disciplines you've listed.

By contrast, most of evolutionary psychology is hardly testable since it tries to extrapolate what constitutes human essence at this point primarily from observable human behaviors, which is might be more a function of our current environment rather than genetics. It can also be used politically to justify anything, from neo-Nazism to anarcho-communism.
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There are quite a number of games which are praised for achieving an emotional connection to the presented characters.
The last of us is just a generic 3rd person shooter saved by its cinematics.
In addition to speed, wire transfers are not reversible. Which is a feature, but you described it as a bug. People associate wire transfers with large amounts of money because typically the largest transaction they deal with is buying a house. And in buying a house, a wire transfer is used because no one wants an ACH reversal coming through clawing back the funds after selling their house.

Having run a business, 6 figure amounts are routinely moved via ACH. Some banks make it hard for consumers to send money to a random person’s account via ACH, but within the US, it is always possible and is literally how most companies pay their employees.
The government requires banks to do some of these things. Not just to prevent fraud, but to prevent money laundering, funding terrorists, giving money to entities controlled by sanctioned countries and other criminal activity.

If you don't understand any of these issues, the bank's behavior will seem willfully incompetent and spiteful, and raises some of the feelings expressed in the SP. But you won't find it different at "new tech" bank.
Definitely open source it! The world needs more open source games!
Yes, I agree. That was poorly phrased by me.

What I mean is that academia finds it structurally impossible to do research that ends with the conclusion that maybe there's enough research done into something for now, that perhaps there's no problem that requires this sort of academic attention, or perhaps we lack the tools to make useful predictions in a field at the moment. There are no feedback loops.

Imagine you go into a very small, very closed field like climatology or economics, do some research, and your conclusion is this: "climate is too complex for us to model with any certainty, our data sets are corrupted and low quality, we really have no idea what's going on and can't fix this any time soon". Or even "the climate is changing but not in any actually problematic way, there's nothing to do here".

This may well be a legitimate or correct conclusion (for any field of science), but it's also a career-terminating one. Research into the question of how effective research can be just doesn't get done by academia because there's no ground truth end goal - research isn't a means to an end, as in the private sector. In academia research is itself the end.

This is what I'm trying to get at. To leave climatology for a moment, look at how long it took for replication studies in psychology to start at any scale, and how much science - for decades - has been found to be completely bogus. It's a staggering amount. Every time I read something about the replication crisis I'm stunned by the enormous scale, and how much more there seems to be to uncover. Academia has simply not been funding "psychology skepticism" and to a large extent still isn't. The production of large amounts of nonsensical research is guaranteed by the incentive structure of academia, in which research is entirely self-justifying and in which it doesn't pay to shoot down colleagues in your own field.
Yeah, I don't care about Apple. You know very well what you are getting into if you buy their products or make these mobile apps. I do care about Google's bait-and-switch where running a "Google-free" Android is starting to be very problematic, a lot of apps just not being provided outside of Google Play, and/or not working without Google Services anymore...
> Put the risk on the banks and get money within 2 hours?

How does a wire transfer “put the risk on the banks”?
Those GCs are special exceptions. Most modern GCs just aim to have bearably low pause times.
It's also a great issue for me since I have to reconfigure everything.

I don't know how the Firefox account works but the fact that FMAC is an extension and not natively included in Firefox may be explaining why it's not synced ?
Agreed, I think it's important to bear in mind the "time value of code".

Some code may very well be "set and forget" - you write it once and noone ever looks at it ever again. If a project is allocated 100 days, why invest even 1 of those refactoring and polishing code that really doesn't need it?

The difficulty, of course is knowing which code is 'set and forget' and which isn't. I usually avoid refactoring until you hit the same "how does this work again?" wall at least three times.
Lol, how is that working out on Android ?
It has a light side, a dark side and it binds the whole universe together.
Another more basic (like OP's) but still popular one (>13k GitHub stars) and also written in Go is Vegeta: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
Wow, I hadn't realized. How insidiously dangerous. Funded by the Charles Koch Foundation.

Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at MIT and former member of NAS, says he was initially drawn to the organization because he was worried about what he saw as a growing relativism in the academy, evident in the work of deconstructionist philosophers like Jacques Derrida. NAS seemed to be taking a stand against those intellectual currents, Emanuel said — though he adds that he eventually became concerned about the organization’s stances on climate change, especially during a much-publicized incident in which hackers stole thousands of emails from a group of climate scientists and accused them of misusing data.

In a 2010 article published on the NAS website, Emanuel described the event as “a scandal” — but he didn’t see it as a challenge to the scientific consensus on climate change. The National Association of Scholars, on the other hand, sought to extrapolate the Climategate incident “into a universal condemnation of the field,” Emanuel told me. “It was just patently disingenuous.”

He left the organization soon afterward.

“It sort of revealed them not to be what they claimed to be — people who stood for scientific truth and scientific integrity. It was just another organization that used that as a front,” Emanuel said. “They’re basically a political organization posing as an organization dedicated to free inquiry,” he added.

https://undark.org/2018/04/18/national-association-of-schola...
I think 30% (15% after a year) would be all right if there was another way for the user to install the app by downloading from vendor website.

I know part of the value proposition of Apple is actually not letting user download apps from sites, but then something like Udemy model where the cut varies if you bring the user or they bring the user, could make sense.

Then Apple taking the cut as referral wouldn't feel that bad.