skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's only if you want access to all the people who find Google useful. The guy I'm responding to wants a smaller web that doesn't grow. You can do that without drinking from the Google firehouse.

No one is taking the ability to make a smaller web away from anyone. But that's the nature of the small web, it's small. And maybe your business can't sustain itself on small. That's just incompatibility of what you want and physical reality.

You know what people say on this website about blocking ads, right? "Your business model is not my problem". It's true.

I get what you're saying and I sympathize. It just isn't compatible with the other guy's view. In a "smaller web" your business wouldn't even exist.
I guess the edge is more of the sweet spot where geosynchronous exists, too close or too far are both non-GEO.
Hey - me too!
Had he recently had a stroke prior to that conference? I don't remember the details but thought something about bright lights really bothered him.

Of note: I don't think he started his PHD until he was 50. I wish more people at this stage of their lives pursued his sort of deep, meaningful research combined with personal reflection and experience.
Would you sign your first born over to me on that promise? Obviously I'm joking, but i have in the past got nervous that there might be issues with this claim. I.e. previously i found that the MySQL welcome banner that Aurora gave me claimed it was a very specific version, but when i tested a bug fixed in a previous MySQL version (a weird edge cases for us around transactions) it failed the test. I'm worried that while the goal is for it to be 100% compatible, the number is closer to 99.X% and that means the migration isn't a small amount of work to verify.
So we play it communally on a big Bluetooth speaker.
Study: Cell tower radiofrequency radiation may contribute to cancer (2018)
I don't think it's necessarily a strange attitude, just more about what people might use email for versus what they might use instant messaging for - which target audience. My Signal experience mirrors yours, as I think folks really don't care too awful much which app is used, so long as everyone can use it together to chat/communicate as possible work peers, friends or family.

Email, however, is the line item on every single one of my bills (utility, credit, etc.), my mortgage, my doctors, my bank accounts - a cornerstone of what it takes to live in our modern society. Migrating to a new email address is daunting (to me) due to all these arms and legs having had this email address in use for ... 2 decades? (however long GMail has been around). It can be done, but it's a lot more work to go through for the average individual than just installing a new app.
In my post I said "preferentially choosing people of one race over another". Sure the hypothetical Country Club lets in some blacks, but it really sets a much higher bar for them. It sets a lower bar for other races.

That is affirmative action. Don't believe it? Look at the data unearthed from admissions data provided during the Harvard AA lawsuit. Asians must pass a much higher bar than certain other groups.

The question is, if it's not ok for the Country Club, why is it ok for Universities?
I'm tired of saying this but either I've been caught in a fluke of some kind or Google really isn't so good at advertising.

Or they are optimizing to fleece dumb advertisers or I am extreme outlier.

Instagram however, a service that I hardly use, manages to present ads that look interesting again and again.
They should take the penny out of circulation. Nickel too while they are at it.
Indeed. I came from C++, but I quite like homoiconic syntax by now. There have been alternative syntaxes [1] but their lack of popularity seems to align with your hypothesis.

1: https://dwheeler.com/readable/
The `volatile` deprecation is more about providing new library features to do the things people (incorrectly) use `volatile` for today. `volatile` will still have legitimate use-cases.
A software license to fight climate crisis
Am I correct in assuming these are mostly to filter out tweets pushed by Twitter from people I don't follow?
I used Mirage with Ember for many years and it has changed the way I think and approach front-end acceptance testing. I was very excited to see the work to extract the Ember-specific bits from the rest of the library (originally by @cowboyd / Charles Lowell and now from the original author Sam Selikoff himself) and am using it with a React app to great success.
I think the flat amount of direct and indirect death, as well as considering the amount of people who's quality of life has diminished, but not enough to kill them.

How do you measure that? Why do you think is higher for nuclear than for other technologies?
Yeah, some explanation about these would be nice. I know I can figure it out alone, but, still, an explanation wouldn't kill anyone.
Thanks :)

I get the idea of standing waves.

But TFA at least implies that galaxy structure might not be stable. So there's perhaps a cycle of waves forming, wrapping up, and then reforming. So at any given time, we'd see whatever mix we see.

I mean, I doubt that we've observed any particular galaxy long enough to see whether its structure is stable or not. At least, if the cycle is longer than some hundreds of years, which seems likely.

But then, we do see what galaxies looked like in the past, at increasing distance. And I vaguely recall something about more distant ones not so much being spiral. Even so, that doesn't necessarily constrain ongoing structural stability.

There's also gravitational lensing, which sometimes lets us see events through different paths, and so at different times. However, I recall that the path/time differences were on the order of years at most. But even so, maybe we wouldn't have noticed cases where path/time differences were great enough to see galaxy structure changing. Or maybe such path/time differences are just implausible.

It really is hard when all you can do is look at stuff.
Url changed from https://twitter.com/bbw1984/status/1220681916543840257, which points to this.

If anyone finds a more neutral and substantive article on this, we can change it again.
At least Signal is seamless once you set it up. I use it for all of my SMS/MMS messages even though my immediate family and a couple of other contacts are the only Signal users I text.
You seem to believe that it is because your parents were reading a lot to you that you were able to read by yourself at the age of 4.

We read books to our daughter at least 1 hour a day since she is maybe 1 year old. Yet she does not know or is even willing to read by herself, as most children of her age, which seems perfectly normal to us. But she already developed a love for books that will certainly be very useful to her for studies and entertainment. This is what we should aim for as parents.
Honeyland (2019)
Quicksort comparisons are obviously not predictable
Glad you found something'

Since the pi does have screwholes you can also just literally mount them straight on the wall :) me I like that asthetic out in the open but if they're in the closet anyways it doesn't really matter.

ps. don't forget PoE!
Yes, even many old school radios will have something that indicates transmitting or not.
Awesome, added it to my twitter. After refreshing, I wish there was a way to remove "Promoted" tweets still.
Stealing phone calls is fighting back against large faceless corporations. Lying your way into a job at a startup is very much not.
Pulumi – Infrastructure as Code
I would love to see this list updated with example screenshots of what each one actually mutes.

Either way, I had no idea Twitter muting worked like this, where you could actually mute TYPES of tweets, and not just content IN the tweets. I don't think they go over this in their docs: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m... - I wonder if they will block this or break this if it picks up steam since it would lower their engagement numbers some (half the reason they stuff all this extra junk in your timeline, to begin with).

I can't imagine this is something that's intended or expected, but I could be wrong. I'm guessing OP is going to end up regretting posting this awesome little "hack" once they change it so it no longer works. haha
A Trillion-Dollar Paradox Stalks the Stock Market
Beyond the Innovator's Dilemma work, I found his "How Will You Measure Your Life" a beautiful combination of heart + strategy + long game perspective. RIP. https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life
Thanks, it's really cool.

I hope it gets enough backing from corporations that have big/huge C++ code bases.
I suspect that the honesty/subtlety of the approaches really only is differentiable at the low levels which most people are able to master. If you can't do that you can't play, of course, but being able to do that doesn't really differentiate you.

At the higher levels, I suspect LA involves just as much dishonesty as Portland, and as much subtlety to make those lies work in an environment where brazen-ness is the norm.
> Also if you are making homemade pancake batter I usually make mine the night before.

Do you add extra baking powder or anything? I believe BP will slowly lose potency just not sure how fast
That's actually one of the main arguments against paid blood/plasma donation, and the major reason that we don't pay for organ donations, because it results in a society where the poor literally sell their own health for basic survival. Plasma is sufficiently replenishable and donationations are safe enough that the net gain of lives saved is considered worth the societal risks.
This must be documented somewhere?
Hmm, I’m not sure you’re right about the historical trends. As I see it, the static typing battle has been going on forever. Each style has been popular in certain areas but neither has ever been completely dominant.

Javascript, Python and Ruby are the big dynamic languages today. But you can go back as far as you like, to when languages like Perl, TCL, Lisp and BASIC were big. There have always been dynamic languages.

Static languages have gotten more robustly type-safe over time (even today’s C is much safer than K&R C). But apart from that shift, it seems to me that the static vs dynamic landscape has been much the same for decades.
IKEA has metal straws.
Can't you just sort your timeline to Recent for the same effect?
For promoted, you'll need to use like a browser extension or something 3rd party to remove those. I would be VERY surprised if they gave native ways like this to mute the main income source of their platform (promoted tweets/ads). haha
Block the accounts as they come, and you stop seeing any of them.

In my experience, the vast majority are time-limited movie accounts.
http://archive.md/1pzuJ
Also: a list of mute words for Twitter to ignore when they see this!
FYI - the "Explore Voices" link gives a 404.
The fact that one of these is a list of symbols and the other one isn't. They mean different things.
So without stereotyping too harshly, I wonder if his humility came from his faith? I've met quite a few LDS who show significant tolerance for beliefs that conflict with their own, maybe because historically Mormons have been the victims of intolerance?
Thank you! I hacked something similar quick and dirty, but i will use definitely Mirage with my next project.
before 2000.

In fairness, the adoption of typed languages in the 1990s was about C/C++, Java, possibly Pascal, Delphi, Ada. None of those languages were built upon ML's innovations (type inference, first-class generics, first class higher-order functions, pattern matching etc). I conjecture that the rise of dynamically typed languages was primarily because the aforementioned typed languages adopted an awkward approach to typing (no inference, subtyping + casting to implement both, ad-hoc polymorphism and generics, or, in the case of C++, generics by compile-time meta-programming which has been awkward in other ways).

So 1990s types were a worst-case scenario: not expressive enough for many practical cases (you had to cast a lot anyway), hence the safety you get from typing was not much, syntactically heavyweight, bad error messages. Pointless trivial type annotations like

A a = new A(...);

are truly grating, but ubiquitous in the typed languages popular in the 1990s. No wonder people preferred Python ...
It doesn't ring a bell, but when I hear about TW2002 I can't help but think back to SRE/BRE, what fun.
Must enter one by one? Can't I copy and paste everything?
A conspiracy theorist acquaintance pointed to an article about this study as a reason to be against 5G. I don't take anything this person says at face value, but they are also not automatically wrong just because I don't like what they say.

Is anyone familiar with this study, any similar studies, or possibly be able to explain its implications to someone like me not knowing much about this science? On the surface it appears to have some significant results, but how those results are spun in articles across the web I don't find trustworthy.
I think the logical next step is for Google to start showing old-school banner ads at the top of the page and pop-ups, and pop-under's. Once that happens (and I am thinking it will be relatively soon), their transformation and subsequent and inevitable slow decline will be fully complete.
I don't think you guys should feel like you need to respond to these sorts of comments. JetBrains products are so clearly genre defining and to have some of them for free is just a cherry on top.
Multi-Origin Trusted Web Activities
> allowing more planes in the air

So that's a good thing? interesting.
Aurora compatibility with MySQL is great. But as any 100% compatibility claims this one is bullshit. You can get close but you never really quite hit 100%

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...

The following features are supported in MySQL 5.7.12 but are currently not supported in Aurora MySQL 5.7:

Group replication plugin

Increased page size

InnoDB buffer pool loading at startup

InnoDB full-text parser plugin

Multisource replication

Online buffer pool resizing

Password validation plugin

Query rewrite plugins

Replication filtering

The CREATE TABLESPACE SQL statement

X Protocol
Hmm. Maybe VGA Planets? But that game was created only in the early 90s...
Space Empires I. II and III should be mentioned, IMO. Great games.
Edit: and especially Space Empires IV
> In the first look Lifetime profile looks like it just tries to find the low hanging fruit cases.

That's exactly right.

> Can it be further extended to guarantee safety guarantees in the future, or it's just a hack? I'm not sure about it.

It could be extended to catch more cases, but it can't realistically be extended to create a useful C++ dialect that is really memory safe. See https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/09/more-realistic-goals-fo....
For optimal effect, add the following to your /etc/hosts or its equivalent on your system:

127.0.0.1 twitter.com
Significant whitespace typically denotes blocks of statements or expressions. How do you use whitespace to represent a data structure? After all, the whole point is that literally everything, code included, is a list. (Edit: if all you want is homoiconicity, grab prolog, rebol or julia)

There are plenty of non-paren functional and OO languages (f#, haskell, python, java) to replace functional and OO lisps depending on the itch you want to scratch. JavaScript has babel / babylon to generate a full AST to rewrite source code, though you need to either fork babylon or use sweet.js if you want your own macros.
An Adult’s Guide to Social Skills, for Those Who Were Never Taught
Solar Realms Elite sounds similar, but Amit Patel wrote it in 1990. It was inspired by Space Empire Elite in 1987 (the programmer was 13 years old at the time).

This article has some screenshots: https://breakintochat.com/blog/2016/02/02/jon-radoff-creator...
"Vaporizing" a satellite is a misleading concept which draws on atmospheric analogies that do not hold up.

A satellite is made out of metal and such things. You can heat that metal hot enough to melt it, but then its structural integrity will fail, and the liquid will disperse into a cloud of metal droplets while other satellite-parts drift away. When the metal droplets cool off, they will still remain in about the same orbit. This does not make an impact with any of these droplets particularly safe.

Transporting the amount of energy to properly vaporize metal is also problematic and expensive.

We do not possess tractor beam technology. Our tractors on this planet all use mechanical linkages. If we did have tractor beam technology, powering it would remain a problem.
What I want is an option in the dropdown menu next to tweet to mute the tweeter for 24hours. Sometimes, someone randomly goes on a tirade you don't want to scroll past.
If you like this, be sure to check out Wired Elements - a set of 20+ fully working, wire-frame style web components built with Rough.js (by the author of Rough.js): https://wiredjs.com/

They're great for rapid wire-frame prototyping.
> "crossing the chasm" is a single insightful drawing

Funny, I recently read that book and have about four A4 pages of notes.
I have a feeling that we'll arrive soon at StatGate... The point where we find that many companies have been providing erroneous and/or outright false web stats, recommendations, reviews and other metrics to users in order to steer and increase profit.

Social media sites offer the ability for everyone on platforms to pay for primary placement now. This is a big conflict of interest in how posts are shown to users, and why very protected/secret algorithms are now applied to creatively show posts to some users and not others on all of these sites and services.

Once a company like Google has cornered the search market,and they also have tentacles everywhere through their collected data form other sources (e.g. google maps, gmail, google trends, Android, etc) there are few ways of backing out. They are now deeply ingrained in our society, and they'll know about anyone who is inventing an alternate path before it even happens and possibly operate in an anti-competitive manner. This is the modern realization of Skynet in a way I guess. :/

At the end of the day, how can we trust companies that manipulate us to boost profits? We simply can't, and we shouldn't really allow monopolies to get this big and embedded into critical services.
The most infamous hire I was involved in was a guy with a long resume who had an ok technical interview on phone with me. I didn't ask him any real technical questions on the on-site visit (big mistake!). We hired him and literally knew we had made a big mistake hours into his first day. He couldn't do the simplest things (e.g., he didn't seem to grasp the difference between relative and absolute file paths, didn't know what ping was). I still don't know how he gamed the phone interview. The worst part is that management hired him as a senior developer. I could have told them he wasn't at that level, but they just looked at his years of experience on his resume. He really pissed off the junior developers as he bugged them for help on his projects.
If you have a typo in the name, Google will fix it for you, whereas your browser will happily take you to a domain that is probably owned by a scammer.
Wow, thanks I think? You probably cost me quite a few hours of time.
How does search work for end to end encrypted apps/email? If they can't read it, they can't index it either. Does the index live locally?
You also said "excluding black people". Don't gaslight.
Only for breaking up satellites already approaching the atmosphere, though.
Set it up right and you could look all the way around the globe at the back of your own head :-)
The space opera setting hit a sweet spot in terms of complexity/depth at that time: strategy game world models had to be quite simple back then and space aliens were an ideal setting for allowing the player to fill the gaps with imagination. While historical setting always have a sore spot were the necessary simplifications cause a mismatch with reality, in a sci fi setting whatever the game rules are saying is canonical world building. If a garrisoned spaceship equivalent of a phalanx unit can occasionally kill the spaceship equivalent of a bombarding stealth bomber, then that's the unquestioned reality of that world.

But today we can have much deeper, more detailed world models. CK2 is awesome because it populates a simple civ-world of obtainable and upgradeable cities with thousands of simulated courtiers to meaningfully interact with, EU4 because it so carefully maps out all the socioeconomic forces that shaped the world when political interactions first started to become truly global.

If you add similar details to a sci-fi setting it just feels arbitrarily burdensome. There's no way you could connect with, say of a dozen of fungoid admirals in the way you connect with a Hanoverian Capet general who learned to respect eastern religions on an aborted crusade and is now wed to a close relative of a recently ousted Czar. A similar amount of details added to a generic space alien would have zero upside, you could just as well name the stats A through Z.

The rare exception was Alpha Centauri whose designer apparently understood that problem and focused on world building content instead of trying to out-4X all earlier 4Xs.

What I could imagine to also work in a generic 4X space setting is a game that makes ship designs the main characters in the spotlight: don't just have that customary complex ship editor, give the individual designs an identity by accumulating RPG-like bonuses over time so that an outdated but properly "leveled-up" design can remain a viable option over more modern contenders. You might want to keep those space-B52s flying when generations of experience make the damage control teams so much more effective, production lines run at 10x efficiency and all your modern gun batteries have been tailored to the confines of its surprisingly versatile weapons bay anyways. SMAC already had prototype cost, but that was seriously lacking flavor. Stellaris has the occasional event driven per ship bonus (iirc?) but that's too micro to be engaging. Blueprints for a series of ships could be just the right level of granularity.
Or, to belabor the disease analogy, an opportunistic infection. Distrust makes it easier for otherwise fringe sources to spread beyond what would be expected in a healthy media environment.
Boeing really can’t catch a break huh.
Can you give me an example of "media and establishment are repeatedly caught misleading the public"? Are there documented cases outside of Fox news? Its a genuine question.

I thought the rest of the main stream doesn't lie and if they realize what they reported is wrong they retract and issue and correction/apology as needed.

My impression is the whole "media is lying" is a narrative furthered by Fox, right wing talk radio and more so Trump now to discredit the good institutions and to bring their trust level down.
The Beacon Hill Tunnel: How a Half-Mile of the Boston Subway Was Built (1911)
This is exactly the same for me. I only search reddit through google (and ddg otherwise), but it no longer is providing me with recent results even when I filter.
Ah, Master of Orion!

I had a ritual when I was 13 or so: when I got home on the last day of school before vacation, I would play Master of Orion nonstop until 3 or 4 am.

I still enjoy this game and play it a few times every couple of years.
The Firefox Browser is a privacy nightmare on desktop and mobile
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Somewhat related, I've always found the "wandering hours" watch complication to be incredibly interesting: https://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/07/watchismo-times_20.ht...
it's just one floor field hospital, there was even scheme posted in Chinese media, can't find it right now, went through too many stories

https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode...