skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try using Wikipedia through Mac's Dictionary app. I never touch my browser for that anymore.
Proton is kinda the admission that even on Linux, Windows is still the better platform though.

I’m 100% not complaining because Proton has enabled me to play a libraries worth of games that were previously unavailable but it’s not exactly a victory Linux. The future might look like devs testing a little bit in Proton as “Linux support.”
Your hard work did not create your success

Yes, but without hard work, your unlikely to be successful.

I don’t disagree that both play a role, but some people like to claim success is 100% luck, which I definitely disagree with.
I used to love Rocket League, but it seems like every time they make a change, it goes against the community.

First they took some fun, casual games (alternate modes) and made them competitive. The competition isn't the worst, but doing this removed the ability to rematch. Since the games weren't as popular, you'd often find a really great group where both teams were fairly balanced and rematch a dozen times.

This was fun.

They took that away along with the 'Labs', which were alternate arenas. Some went into Rumble (Rocket League with fun tools), but it just wasn't as fun.

With the recent move away from keys, they totally borked their item system. Suddenly near worthless items would cost the user $8. They may have adjusted this, but I've all but stepped away.

It's a shame to see the game slowly go downhill. They had a perfect balance a few years ago that allowed casual and competitive people to enjoy the game. Combine this with the eSports, and everything should have cruised along nicely.
I did this almost 8 years ago for the health insights and recommended it to a few dozen friends and family because the UI was nice, they added new reports, and they were the only low cost provider at the time that let me export my data. I loved the service and found an unknown sibling through the site.

The FDA made them remove health insights so that made the service less useful.

But two years ago they started selling data to pharmaceuticals. They claim it is opt in, but I have a hard time believing them. And they prompt me to opt in about once a month. I no longer recommend.
I probably should have been able to guess, but it wasn't clear to me! I clicked this thread thinking "uh, that's weird, what does the chip actually do?"
23andMe actually had a subscription service when they launched. I was one of the earlier customers and remember having to pay monthly to continue to access my reports. What 23andMe needs is a premium full sequence service rather than today's limited one. I'd pay ~$1k for a full genome sequence.
> Hedgewar was convinced that Hindu men had been emasculated by colonial domination

He was right about the emasculation, wrong about the cause. Hindu men were emasculated a few centuries before colonial domination.

> Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent began during the early 8th century AD. According to a 1900 translation of Persian text Chachnamah by Mirza Kalichbeg Fredunbeg, the Umayyad governor of Iraq Hajjaj responded to a plea by men and women attacked and imprisoned by pirates off the coast of Debal (present day Karachi).

> Historian K. S. Lal in his book Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India claims that between the years 1000 AD and 1500 AD, the population of the Indian subcontinent decreased from 200 to 170 million. In Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India meanwhile he claimed that it fell from 200 million to 120 million by establishment of the Mughal empire because of killings, deportations, dissemination, wars, and famines.

Source: Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World => https://books.google.com/books?id=g2m7_R5P2oAC

In short, the Mughals , starting with Mohammad Ghazni, force converted Hindus to Islam and anyone who refused was executed. Historians put the # of Hindus massacarred by Turkish and Persian Invaders anywhere between 20 and 30 MILLION Hindus over an 80 to 100 year period.

By that notion, the muslims in present day india aren't even Muslims to begin with. Their ancestors were almost all Hindus a few centuries ago.

Like some Indian writers noted, Indian History books glorify the islamic invaders. Even in our history books growing up in India, we were taught that Ghazni, Gori, Akbar, Jehangir Khan etc were "Great Rulers". BS.

The Mughals ( Turkish and Persian Invaders) are responsible for emasculating and converting Hindu men to Islam.
> He wasn't arguing the current interpretation of the law as much as proposing an amendment

I wanted to point out it would require radical changes to our current laws and maybe the Constitution. I wasn't sure if he was aware of that. (Stronger versions of this argument, including ones deployed by members of Congress, have said it described current law)

> Were their ideas exposed to the world where they would have to defend them, they may be dissuaded from holding such extreme beliefs, or a passerby may see the flaws in their argument.

This is a popular position in a popular argument, and it's been debated to death better than we can. Here's an summary I found useful https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/hate-speech-social-media-gl...

One interesting study mentioned in that summation found that temporary internet outages in Germany reduced hate crimes against refugees.

> This paper investigates the link between social media and hate crime. We show that anti-refugee sentiment on Facebook predicts crimes against refugees in otherwise similar municipalities with higher social media usage. To establish causality, we exploit exogenous variation in major Facebook and internet outages, which fully undo the correlation between social media and hate crime. We further find that the effect decreases with distracting news events; increases with user network interactions; and does not hold for posts unrelated to refugees. Our results suggest that social media can act as a propagation mechanism between online messages and violent crime.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3082972
After doing this i can see why they have 6 million articles, here's one:

Michael Leedham (born 22 February 1950) is an Australian former cricketer. He played three first-class matches for Tasmania between 1973 and 1982.
Yes, I suppose I was partly correcting your statement "even BPA free means they just coat it with BPS" as the article was about a BPA alternative that is not BPS.
DirecTV satellite is at risk of explosion due to battery issues
The trend for the last couple of decades (since Reagan?) is: if it’s not used to kill people, contract it out. Systems that used to be run by DoD personnel are now ran by Oracle/Microsoft in the cloud and Northrop/Raytheon and various small companies for on-premise.
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Brown car interiors of the 70s and 80s were another fairly unique period of car design where brown flourished. I wonder if they were trying to capture the feel of wood and leather, as they moved into using plastics for interiors.
There's nothing bot like about this person's post. It's actually kind of a nice tale of civic re-engagement. It does make me more interested in hearing what Yang has to say because it seems honest and like a statement from someone who hasn't been doing political activism for years.
Everybody wants to sell razor blades these days.
Most Emacs people use use-package for this.
As a dungeon master, I have to say I did not expect my job to be automated so quickly
I would say that the majority of my meditation I do everyday consists of becoming distracted, noticing I’m distracted, going back to focusing on my breath, becoming distracted, repeating ad infinitum.

It’s about training yourself to become better at 1) noticing you’re distracted and 2) bringing yourself back into focus. It’s pretty much muscle training except for your brain, specifically on improving executive functioning.

Very little of meditation actually follows the “pure zen enlightenment” that’s commonly associated with it. Of course sometimes I do get a few minutes of that close to the end of my meditating sessions, but it’s not my main priority when I meditate and the majority of the benefits really come from the portions where I’m getting distracted and working on improving my ability to get back to focus.
Interesting. Things can go from ugly to nice quite easily, this is very observable in the fashion world; for instance, see modern streetwear. This phenomena seems to suggest that the concept of beauty and desirability is subjective, and can be influenced by external factors, and as such, might change in unexpected ways. If that's true, those who have chosen this color with the intention of discouraging tobacco use might be in for a surprise.
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I wonder how house prices will be affected with self driving cars on the road?
No not that they’ll make me replace it. That they’ll make it impossible for me to repair myself.
I tried opening http://vectorsdev.usc.edu/NYCsound/777b.html
but it requires Flash, so nothing worked there :(
Kind of sad for them to lose complete credibility just to prove that "orange man blumpf is bad"
I really hope I can continue to use my Sonos home theatre setup for years to come. For atleast playing music through the Sonos app and watching TV.

I have two play 3's, playbar and a sub and after having them for 4 years it still blows me away the sound and how convenient to is to use between watching TV and playing music.
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I didn't downvote, but your comment seems a bit off-topic (presenting a random js feature in a thread that is not really about this, and there is nothing really extraordinary in the fact that the OP learned NodeJS last year - good for her!). See also steerpike's comment with which I agree. Your intent may have been sharing this feature that makes you enthousiastic so I can understand that you may find the downvotes frustrating. Don't lose your enthousiasm though, it's a great thing.

You may want to review the HN guidelines, they discourage discussing downvotes.
Or it could operate like every other speaker produced in the history of earth that doesn't receive over the air updates: just fine.
Aside from range, why not simply go with Bluetooth? Over the years I’ve replaced most of my Sonos with Bose bluetooth, which are more versatile (i can easily play stuff from my phone) and sound better. The only somewhat decent Sonos speaker I still use is he bar for the TV, but even that is annoying eg. delayed sound on new play, no sound indicator, etc. Why bother with Sonos when simple Bluetooth does more for a lot less?
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In case you're genuinely curious, I suspect you're being downvoted because your parent comment comes off as incredibly gatekeepery[0].

It's also illustrative of a very common occurrence in tech circles where the moment a woman mentions competence in a certain technology the first response of men around her is to throw technical questions at her in a way they simply don't in instances where a man mentions the same thing.

[0]https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gatekeeping
Action against facial recognition is not worthwhile specifically because of the public attention drain it's focus will cause. The focus needs to be on the larger issue of person profile compiling and sharing by 3rd parties.
Indeed! Nearly every state does a heal prick of newborns and screens their DNA for a host of genetic disorders.
Look, at this point I’ll take a game that works well under Proton over the half-hearted abandonware ports that we were getting before.

There are games that are native and run fantastically on Linux. But they were always the exception.
Thank you. I found your comment extremely helpful.
I still can't believe Mint is free. In the era of subscriptions, I'd totally be willing to pay for it, especially if it led to actual development and ability to have useful support.
They could have used Unity to get good Windows and mac OS support, and theoretical Linux support, but that's a decision they would have had to make from the very start.
That's very interesting indeed. Was it a kind of dialect that developed that way? I remember, first Bioshock game tried to capture such pronunciation.
Unfortunately Lonely Planet's old business model of getting people to pay for content itself has basically stopped working now that there's a million free digital competitors, and they've yet to come up with a replacement that does.
Co-founder of Truebill here. Try Truebill! And let me know what you think.
Sure, but a for-profit Corp can’t arrest you, in prison you, or take away your rights.
Not anymore, their new kits retain the sample for additional testing in the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Machine
Regardless of why the author thinks they're sad, it's a mistake to project the mental and emotional state of someone based on some facets gleaned from checking out their social media profiles. It's actually kind of creepy to focus on this individual especially since they're a teenager and aren't given a chance to rebut.
I really like the calendar feature, I feel like (if it’s used appropriately) it might encourage legitimate conversation.
It's the same with tractors from the 70s and 80s.
6 million pages! A quick look at their distribution:

3.6M of these pages got less than 10 views during December. 4.3M pages got less than 100 views each. 2.3M got less than 1000 views. That's the long tail. On the other side 680K pages got more than 1,000 views, 111K pages got more than 10k views, only 6k pages got more than 100k views, and 90 pages were able to gather more than 1M views (Star Wars, The Mandalorian, The Witcher...).

In summary: The top 7.2% of Wikipedia pages earn 87% of all the monthly views.

Yesterday I posted a deeper analysis on how these pages get their daily views:

- https://towardsdatascience.com/interactive-the-top-2019-wiki...

Apparently the most popular pages are all related to movies (Avengers, Joker, ...), series (Ted Bundy, Chernobyl, Game of Thrones), and deaths.
Pretty sure if someone is forcing you to vote for someone that's a crime in some local or federal code. You can also refuse to take 50$ and go vote in private?
> A coworker baking cookies and sharing them with coworkers isn't trying to make money off of those cookies. A startup is.

You're implying that the rules only apply to companies whose line of business is selling data. There wouldn't be an issue if that were true. Making money by selling mugs on the internet where you also collect some customer data is analogous to making money by working for a company where you also distribute cookies.
I haven't dealt with Go at all, but if you can use aiohttp on Python 3 (3.5+ IIRC), it is remarkably fast for handling asynchronous requests. In my testing, saw something like a 66% wall clock reduction over using multiprocessing to achieve parallelism. Sadly, cant use it in production, because aiohttp doesnt currently support Negotiate/SSPI auth.
AFAIK there is certain level of active development, though it was for a long time only one person, but also the general code is kept clean and portable, and it's mostly the occassional middleware that is an issue.
It would be interesting to have an independent study of the system, perhaps qualitative. Reading the other comments, not everyone is convinced by the idea and having scientific data may help. If the data hurts, that's life.
I’m pretty sure we don’t actually need any remote specific tools. The last thing I want is random coworkers suddenly speaking in my headphones.
I set all of my backgrounds and accents to brown (lighter and warmer than 448 C) and magenta. Now I'm wondering if something's wrong with me.
I see that perspective and appreciate the comment. To be more clear, the weird thing to me is the __degree__ of fanaticism. I understand being passionate, there are many things I'm passionate about. But there are very few things where I would drop everything and campaign for someone. This REALLY reminds me of religion (I left a religion that sends people to go knock on peoples' doors for 2 years of their lives).

I also think politics (I'm not sure if it has always been that way, but I don't remember it like this when I was younger) has a lot of parallels to religion and that similarity is growing. I do actually believe this is rooted in the growing partisanship. That political answers are not "best solution vs a different solution" but "good vs evil". Partisanism relies on good vs evil. There's a John Cleese skit about extremism that always makes me laugh[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXCkxlqFd90
It's not the cost. I don't want shitty search, shitty stores, and crappy products just because some guy sent his friend $20 for "ISIS money" and then got banned from Venmo so he decided to whine on Twitter.
> There's a difference between late merges and late lane changes

Starting to go off topic, but I'm starting to feel I'm the only person the never refers to a lane change as a merge when it isn't a part of a lane ending. IMO, a "merge" should only refer to lanes ending. Otherwise, fighting about "late merging" becomes ambiguous.
This will forever remain in grey area. I learnt almost all my coding skills from my first job as a programmer, I owe my mentor forever for whatever successes my skills will bring me in the future.
I saw it at Burning Man
Must be nice in your ivory tower. 7 billion people can’t all be working on “the next big thing” most just want to get paid and enjoy life.
Congratulations on finishing your new home. And judging by the timestamps on your first forum post pretty much on/ahead of schedule!

To those who might gloss over the link to the build thread - it’s not to be missed. I’m only part of the way through but will read more after the kids are in bed.

Calling it a “house” doesn’t seen quite sufficient. This is a detailed look at the whole process from plans to excavation to build-out of a veritable fortress.

Here’s just a taste;

> Due to the design of his house, he had to install bedrock pillars. There are 55 pillars in total, and each pillar is a bit over 3 feet in diameter and goes into the ground a bit over 50 feet.

Later on, talking about low voltage design for Cat6 and fiber drops;

> I expect to have a couple of hundred drops in total including for things like cameras, sensors, and the like. I expect there is be somewhere around 10km of wire to pull give or take a few km.

EDIT: Great drone footage of it all as it goes up too. How do you like the DJI Mavic? I was thinking of getting the Mini.
> These efforts are well intentioned, but facial recognition bans are the wrong way to fight against modern surveillance. Focusing on one particular identification method misconstrues the nature of the surveillance society we're in the process of building. Ubiquitous mass surveillance is increasingly the norm. In countries like China, a surveillance infrastructure is being built by the government for social control. In countries like the United States, it's being built by corporations in order to influence our buying behavior, and is incidentally used by the government.

He’s right, but we should take every winning battle we can, no? Even a few notable victories could help to change public opinion about whether things are inevitable or not
side note: feyerabend is a variation of the german word „feierabend“ which consists of the two nouns „feier“ and „abend“, „party“ and „evening“ respectively. we use that word for „home time“ after the work day. i.e. „feierabend! i’ll call it a day and go home“.
Ok, so they currently pay taxes and streaming services don't (or not all of them do). They are fighting this. Fair enough.

But that won't solve the problem. Everything cable offers is now offered by the internet and even much more. It might just very slightly slow down the decay. This is inevitable.

What's wrong with companies simply dying when they lose customers? What are we trying to solve?
That and the website of the desert hunter who found the crashed SR71 should come with some rabbit hole warning labels. :)
If the images exist, you can't actually stop someone from running facial recognition algorithms on them in private, legal or not. To really stop facial recognition, we need to stop the collection of those images in the first place.
How about comparing a blocking server in Go versus the same in Python, then an async server in Python vs the concurrent Go server? That would be a more apt comparison.
Wikipedia's rules on notability and article length prevent it from growing infinitely (in theory). So my point is exactly that - all that "low-hanging fruit" is mostly gone, and most of the actual writing work that's left is either writing a new article on a subject that is at the margin of notability, which one would expect the average adult to have less interest in than writing a new article on a truly notable subject, or rewriting a section of an existing more notable article which tends to annoy whichever editor last edited it.

But you make a good point that the maintenance work probably grows linearly with the size of the corpus, so really the flat number of active editors shows that the number of editors actively engaged in the research and writing of entries has probably actually declined significantly since 2007.
In Canada, it’s now illegal to hide your face during a protest (a gift from the Harper years)
given the popularity of WSL on Windows 10..i think we will see Windows becoming the best Linux platform there is.

A lot of gamers i know have switched to using WSL for development (unless they have political objections).

I think it will be more likely in the future that Linux gamers be asked to become WSL Gamers

In fact, WSL works so well (including Docker and Kubernetes stuff), that i have a strong suspicion that Microsoft sales staff have been leashed pretty deliberately for optics reasons.
I suspect you may enjoy the music of the Chats
That's hardly consolation for _all_ the lives wrecked?
There's a similar story from Jeremy Stoppelman about Google scraping Yelp content in 2010 even though their licensing agreement ended in 2007.

Source is the Senate Antitrust Committee hearing in 2011 on Google's dominance, the BI link below includes the exhibits as well.

https://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-ceo-on-google-2011-9
Oh I really really loved smex. That's probably why it took me so long to get helm. helm doesn't improve on smex for this use case, I think. At least the stupid simple way I'm only going to use helm. But helm improves on other things spectacularly.
Tbh, AirBnB is pretty bad to use itself. Not b.com bad but still shouldn't be used as an example.
I used that color here as the background...

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

And here

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

I actually like it...
It is probably an identical filter made by the same factory with a different description written by different people because different agencies were involved.

I have no interest in buying and disassembling the filters to compare them but since they are both charcoal filters they are the same. If they were not, then one of them would be advertised as a charcoal filter and the other one would be advertised as a charcoal filter + some other filter.
You are assuming Signal is not already subverted by US Gov.
Fair enough, I just don't find that solving one edge-case at the same time as creating countless new major issues is particularly helpful.
That’s why I have two PLBs. Two is one and one is none.
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The other great thing about your set up is you can add a $15 Alibaba Bluetooth adapter and you can integrate with any audio client. Rather that using the sonos client to control which room something plays in, you can have different bluetooth devices connected to different amps and you select which audio device you want your client to output to.
Personally I think this more convenient and easier to use that proprietary end to end systems