skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geology is a big part of Dwarf Fortress. They take their different stone types very serious.

About 'German Grammar': check out Heaven's Vault https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Vault

But honestly, humans don't learn languages by understand their grammars with the logic part of their brain. Games would be ideal to produce comprehensible input, and test players on their comprehension via actions, instead of making them reply with words.

There's some evidence that trying to produce language to early in your learning just ingrains bad habits. So instead you can just follow increasingly complex instructions to show that you understand. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_hypothesis
The most a friend of mine got offered for a four letter com domain during the dot com years was $5k. He said he would have sold it for $15k.

I checked he still has it.
George Floyd Protests and Race in America
That trade school which is now CMU did not start out being a hyper expensive prestige driven university. For years prior to the computer era it was a humble university in Pittsburgh.

"In 1900, he donated $1 million for the creation of a technical institute for the city of Pittsburgh, envisioning a school where working-class men and women of Pittsburgh could learn practical skills, trades and crafts that would enhance their careers, lives and communities."

It was not until the dawn of the computer era that things started to change.

https://www.cmu.edu/about/history.html

See this link for more details.
The progression of the Sherlock subplot in Star Trek: The Next Generation is a good example of this. It starts with Data trying to solve a case too fast, then ends with the computer creating a holographic life form to outwit Data.
Who has more money than governments? Sergey Brin is worth about $65 billion. The US federal budget is ~$3 trillion _per year_
One trend I've found interesting is take industrial design software tools (things for CAD, PCB, FPGA, etc) and then 'dumb' them down and add hostile creatures to destroy the player's designs. It's not a bad method. Literally, make simple code and add hostile bugs to it.
I noted quite a few here: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/front-end/css#links

I liked https://absolutely.every-layout.dev/ for its focus on thinking in layouts
But BLM through ActBlue (DNC) aren't skirting those same regulations?
> But this kind of knowledge acquisition only ever teaches the lowest hanging fruits, it's no substitute for drilling in the basics. Even lifetimes spent passing KSP won't bring you to a point were you could design your own rocket.

Yes. Though it can probably teach you enough that you have enough scaffolding already in your brain that you can get through a textbook without getting lost?
Yeah, I wouldn't have used extension for a math audience, probably just "related concept", or "application of". In the software context it usually means the opposite--something specific that makes use of some existing functionality.
Assuming your rollout is truly randomised, I find it highly unlikely that an absolutely random 5% of your users (randomised everytime as well) are going to cause your fall. It's still possible, but I'm not giving up on an elegant idea for that reason.
I'd argue that any "lofty ideal and romantic notion" is by definition wrong, because it assumes a simplicity about the world that empirically, demonstrable does not exist.
They don't need to. If an application needs to know how much free disk space there is, they use an API like statvfs(3) that queries the filesystem, which clearly knows how to compute the disk usage of itself. No application is gonna ask for the logical size of every single file on the disk; why the hell would they even care about this particular Docker.raw file?

As I said, reports like "macOS installer says there's not enough disk space because of a sparsefile somewhere" and "macOS tells me disk space is low every two minutes because of a sparsefile somewhere" just aren't credible if you understand how it works. Otherwise, how would they behave if you create a thousand "100GB files" like I demonstrated? Going all crazy? Your free disk space is negative?
Yeah, it served its intended purpose for a long time. It's extremely difficult for a wildly successful university from humble roots to stay true to its roots. Even public institutions mostly fail to stay accessible after becoming successful.

CMU has damn close to zero "working class men and women from Pittsburgh" in its student body these days, unless by "working class" you mean "parents were doctors, lawyers, and software engineers from shadyside/squill/fox chapel/etc." :(. On the other hand, it is one of the two big reasons Pittsburgh experienced a renaissance in the early 21st century (which continues to this day), and in that sense did achieve the goal of helping the Pittsburgh community thrive. Just not by elevating working class folk.
Support for unsafe constructs is almost critical to a languages success. There are certain things that just cannot be done safely, and any language that wants to be considered a systems language needs some method of providing that functionality. Usually native unsafe support is the cleanest way to go.
No discussion of the impacts on/from every other thing effected by policy choices.

Duh lock down slows spread, nothing interesting about that conclusion. What we need is broad analyses of the non-covid (mental) health impacts, economics, and a lot more. Decisions were made with lack of information and we can do better now.
Here is one example...

5. Niger: Wealth per Adult: $1,017
Niger is the largest nation in West Africa, but more than 80% of its land area is in the Sahara Desert, so it is prone to drought and famine. The GDP as of 2017 was $9.87 billion, but the wealth per adult remained low despite economic reforms.

Reference:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/managing-wealth/112916...
Do you have any hints on how to pick a good PR firm? The last thing anyone needs is to hire one who thinks it's a really neato idea to buy a few weeks' worth of pop-unders on the OANN website.
> But the use of ex-military personnel for humanitarian and conservation work is also controversial, according to Rosaleen Duffy, a professor of politics and international relations at the University of Sheffield.

No, Professor Duffy, the use of ex- or active - military personnel to render aid is not controversial. It's a widely accepted and successful practice.
OMG. Don't give my Leonidas ideas.
They have revenues of ~$3 trillion and expenses of ~$4 trillion so...
Realtime simulation of aquatic feeding frenzies
This has to be a solved problem! If nothing else, hedge fund managers probably have at least a simplified model.
I took that more as a comment on media empire than on Bonnier specifically?
There are other governments, though.
Holy crap. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.

To give some perspective, the last public release of DikuMUD was in 1991.
Better question: Is there a fixed answer, or does it vary arbitrarily?
I made this throwaway to reply to this.

I'm the son of political exiles from a third-world communist country who taught myself programming through reading the web. Everyone around me, including my family, insisted I was wasting my life with software and didn't support that erudition. They would joke I would be watching porn all day. But because it was available online, they couldn't stop me.

By the time I was in my early 20s, I made it to FAANG to the most expensive city in the world, and made three times what my family household had made. Everyone else from my socio-economic class in my birth city remains in that city without exception; I even had offered to teach my friends programming in middle school but they refused.

In that regards, I don't care about this abstract objective of equality, that's certainly worth eschewing to increase income mobility and move people from poverty. Concern for financial equality over welfare just inspires disgust in me.
Why is GOP pushing a candidate who can't walk down a ramp or drink out of a glass with a single hand.

Or: short video snippets with little context tell little about anything
Wekan and Notion are, for some reason, the least popular, best options I've found.
We should fix it by adapting cephalopods' eyes[1] and throwing out our own garbage.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye
Can someone point to a good write-up on how to introduce and start using feature flags in a repo? Seems like I just can't find any good resources on this topic!
Well sure. A ton of people have more money than Nauru, or not restricting to international, cities and villages.
One pain in the ass thing I had to do was write a driver to support talking to MODBUS devices. MODBUS is a 40 year old register based protocol. It's not going away. Most all thr other mixed protocols of it's vintage are long long long dead.
Yes, that applied perspective is extremely important.

Especially for more abstract topics like, why does a market work better at discovering information than central command-and-control?

A game can't help but have some mechanisms. The mechanisms don't necessarily reflect reality, but they have to bear more weight of themselves than eg just a story does.

Game design shows at least some unintended consequences.

Especially the more simulation type games like Sim City where the game world ticks along without your input, as compared to more heavily scripted player focused games like an FPS.
> Types are for compilers, not people, and personally I think there's more disadvantages than advantages re: time.

Hard disagree. Types are for people. They're for people to tell compilers what to tell people. Which is incredibly useful. They are first and foremost a communication and code-navigation/wayfinding tool—for people.

As for all this extra time some folks keep complaining about, we must be using TypeScript entirely differently, somehow. I don't get it at all. Its overhead is less than the time it saves me in typo-spotting alone, let alone all the other benefits. Takes 5%, gives back 20-30%. It's not even close. Maybe it's a problem for really, really slow typists? I'm not even some kind of editor wizard and it hardly slows me down. It can't be thinking up the type definitions since you need to do that anyway—right? I hope? And at that point you may as well write them down.
it's nice to see so much of the original DikuMUD surviving this far into version 3, but don't understand why raw html is being generated instead of something to be parsed on the client given that the client is a web browser using web sockets.

as an aside, I have a nicely working copy of sillymud hanging out in my GitHub, and local copies of phoenix (the successor to sillymud), and epic (another highly customized mud that ran off of goldman.ai.mit.edu).
Interesting. When I dealt with the problem of wanting to give people access to my MU* through a web-browser, I worked around the problem by building an ANSI-aware bridge between the existing MU* and the browser.

https://gitlab.com/hlieberman/webmu
>already happened

Links, please? DDG turns up only these among credible sources:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/07/2020-demen...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/
I am with you on this.
Long-term Covid19 cases – Clinical Features
I can assure you, that link already exists several times over. There are dozens of links between Aurora and 350 E Cermak, and dozens more between 350 E Cermak and Cateret, NJ. There's even an entire ISP based off the lowest latency link between Chicago and New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_Networks
Hmm?

We safely connect to evil machines all day long. That's what web browser sandboxes and BitTorrent are for.

We download files from evil machines and use checksums to verify the files.
Sendfile is great for The Netflix Workload, but for more dynamic web stuff it feels like the "other way around" i.e. netmap makes more sense.. and QUIC is kind of a natural fit for that :)
If youre doing tdd or writing tests like this you have bigger problems.

Type safety is easy in a dynamic language. Stop mutating variables and stop mixing types. Suddenly that whole class of errors evaporates. No need to test things that are impossible.

And for those times you want some magic in your life, nothing is stopping you, no need for generics, just proceed with caution and test accordingly.
SSRF on project import via the remote_attachment_url on a Note
Sad that this post even getting more than 200 points haven't reached the front page. I must have been mistakenly flagged for some reason.
I think that permafrost loss being accelerated and the affect it has had on overall temps is concerning. I wonder what man-made acceleration of permafrost loss like the hydraulic mining has speed up this process that has been taking place since 2013 and I think we are seeing the results. Sad really.
The US is the wealthiest country on earth. Sergei Brin's checking account would be the 74th largest GDP in the world.
Can we make any comparison between programmers' "useless inventions" and the scientific endeavor? As Marie Curie puts it:

> The story of radiology in war offers a striking example of the unsuspected amplitude that the
application of purely scientific discoveries can take under certain conditions.
X rays had had only a limited usefulness up to the time of the war. The great catastrophe which was
let loose upon humanity, accumulating its victims in terrifying numbers, brought up by reaction the
ardent desire to save everything that could be saved and to exploit every means of sparing and
protecting human life.
> At once there appeared an effort to make the X ray yield its maximum of service. What had seemed
difficult became easy and received an immediate solution. The material and the personnel were
multiplied as if by enchantment. All those who did not understand gave in or accepted; those who
did not know learned; those who had been indifferent became devoted. Thus the scientific discovery
achieved the conquest of its natural field of action. A similar evolution took place in radium therapy,
or the medical application of radiations emitted by the radio elements.
> What are we to conclude from this unhoped-for development shared between the new radiations
revealed to us by science at the end of the nineteenth century? It seems that they must make our
confidence in disinterested research more alive and increase our reverence and admiration for it.

That's similar to the sudden usefulness of video conferencing software to continue critical business (healthcare, education) during the pandemic. But video software hasn't been a "useless invention" - its use has been obvious ever since Doug Engelbart demo'd it.

Developers, to the extent that we do enjoy making useless things and designing useless abstractions, lack a north star akin to scientists' pursuit of "truth". Optimization and elegance come to mind, but they aren't established as ends-in-themselves in the same way that truth or knowledge is.

My gut (a programmer's gut) tells me that the comparison could hold up, especially if we adjusted our north star.

[0] https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/curie.pdf
Thai fintech firm Synqa rakes in $80m in Series C funding
I've used PatchCleaner [1] for many years to make room. Sometimes I need to copy missing install package files back to Windows to complete an uninstall or upgrade, but that is small price to pay.

[1] https://www.homedev.com.au/free/patchcleaner
Are you avaliable on Spotify? I found a Segfault podcast there, but it's completely on a non-common language.
Brevity does not need be dismissed as an immediate association or prelude to flame wars, nor does it reflect unsubstantive thinking. While I understand your desire to vanguard the guidelines, and aversion to the messy-nature of the ‘race debate’, dang, I disagree with your conclusion as applied in this case.

Assuming positive intent and being vulnerable enough to ask questions usually will do a lot more to mete out such flame wars than latching on to the first emotional misconstructions of the drafting of ideas.
Tcl client library for the NATS message broker
> 1 Books I chose to read myself

> #1-3 happened despite formal schooling

How did they learn to read? Plus I've never met a school that didn't encourage kids to read.

> Making it easier to create video games

Yes, video games are getting harder. And will continue to. GTA 5 cost half a billion and it's easy to see how it could be better. Until we have amazing AI it won't change and then nothing in this blog counts.

> Another insight is that making things easier has nonlinear effects.

This is where the blog gets it totally right and what Education really needs. Just nothing to do with computer games.
And German kids aren't even particularly smart about math. The German schooling systems just sucks slightly less, I guess. Perhaps because they don't vote local school boards. The democratic process interferes at state level.

(I grew up in Germany and now live in extra-nerdy Singapore.)
At some point ex-military might just mean good at operations and logistics.
This idea seems to be pretty similar to TensorFlow. Could anybody familiar to this elaborate the difference?
> can beat governments to the punch on this kind of aid.

Yes, exactly this. Not "can provide the aid", but "first to the punch". You really hit the nail on the head.

The morality of massive wealth accumulation -- and the morality of various mechanisms for changing that accumulation -- is definitely something that reasonable people can have a polite and respectable debate about.

But it is absolutely unacceptable that wealthy individuals are beating government to the punch in disaster relief and preparedness. COVID-19 is the dry run, and the USA has absolutely failed on such a profound level that we should have actual existential concerns about how broken our government has become (and there's plenty of blame to go around).

I really hope the outcome is "competent government, regardless of size, and sabotaging implementation is treasonous" as a bipartisan consensus.
Is there relevant hardware you could purchase? Maybe an expert in your field will take money so you can pick his/her brain for a few hours?
To keep that in perspective, the GDP of Niger (population 22 million) is about the annual budget of San Francisco (population 900 thousand).

Is comparing very poor countries to individuals from very rich countries a relevant framing? Global wealth disparities aren't a new phenomenon (and global wealth inequality is decreasing!)
I try to read books/papers on mac as it's faster to google and go deep into things I don't get. Select text (a+space and it queries selected text on google).

Then it's trivial to open any note (with alfred) from my wiki (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge) & edit it under appropriate topic.

On the go, I usually note things down in Telegram saved messages and later transfer it to wiki or turn it into articles. Have macro to open saved messages instantly (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-ios#widgets). Or I just pass it via share sheet.

https://excalidraw.com & Figma is also great for visual thinking (tying concepts together).

After I read a book, I review it in goodreads and recently realized that more useful reviews aren't just thoughts on the book but are summaries. So I try summarize my learnings from a book there.

For fiction books, I usually listen to it & Audible has nice highlighting feature but mostly the same applies. Important stuff gets noted in Telegram.

And as for apps I use PDF Expert to read PDFs on mac (love multi tab support), the Files app to read PDFs on iOS. And epub I read via Books app on mac/ios.

I'm quite excited for http://holloway.com because all books should be online by default. PDFs/Epub is archaic and lose ability to link to specific parts of a book instantly. i.e. just looks at this (https://www.holloway.com/g/alice-in-wonderland), so much nicer to read.

What would be even more amazing is when you can take ability to note under any line in a book (as Holloway already lets you), and see everyone's notes for any line/chapter of the book/paper you are reading. Similar to what https://fermatslibrary.com is doing.
Are you saying that BLM are coordinating with canidates for elected office without disclosing the contribution?
An Open-source nRF52840 M.2 Developer Kit designed for fast IoT prototyping
I was just saying the other day:

We need an app that abstracts away the browser / browser engine, and just presents a working website to the user, probably without ads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23570523
Make me think about how Scott Adams talk about affirmations.

Thank you for breaking it down in simple steps.
Unfortunately this research is not conclusive as it's not shown how this reaction is different from reactions to other pathogens
If you want to do the reverse, browse the old web on modern browsers, go to https://theoldnet.com

It uses the Wayback Machine as its backend, but with tweaks so the site appears to load "natively".

(Also works on old browsers, too, if you use http instead of https.)
Quick and dirty full-text search with SQLite3 and Golang
Unfortunately parents don't know how to teach STEM topics, not in the US, especially given years of cultural slash on hard science and engineering. I don't have hard numbers, but I'll venture to guess that very few parents can explain how to use recursion to find the closed formula of a sequence, or the intuition behind vector space, or why 0.9999... is actually 1, or even as simple as modeling a problem as a linear equation system. And all these are really high school basics. I'm using math as an example, but the same idea applies to other subjects too, like not every parent knows how to write, let alone providing precise and accurate feedback to the writing of their kids.

And from a parent point of view, why would I want my kids to waste his or her time in school learning very little, and then to spend my own time tutoring them? All I want is my teachers to do their job, and do it decently.
Yes, I'm with you on this, but it seems the timeline mentioned above is off. However, the figures you refer to are impressive and show the power of money to corrupt people to take advantage of others at all costs. In reading up on the Jane Austen novel Mansfield Park a couple months ago, I came across this startling assertion about how so much of Britain's wealth came from slavery:

"By the end of the eighteenth century, the sugar plantations of the West Indies (like Sir Thomas’s plantation in Antigua) were pumping four million pounds into Britain as compared with only one million pounds from Britain’s interests in the rest of the world (The Abolition Project)."

https://consideringausten.wordpress.com/austen-and-antigua-s...
> OpenBSD has an even stronger security culture.

BIG citation needed.

> Not sure it makes a difference over Linux

It doesn't.

Edit: listen, I understand that people are religious about their operating system kernel, but please make a reply to these points if you have one to refute.
Do you ever tare off the latest breaking headline and rush into another room and slam it on a desk and say "you're gunna want to see this!"?
One of the officers involved George Floyds death gets confronted while shopping
Generally I find that the bugs that are easy to find with tests and the bugs that are easy to find with static types are different.

I don't think we disagree much. As your experience shows, trying to replicate type checking via unit tests is almost always impractical. Which means the tradeoff of not having static typing is not that you're writing more tests, but that there's an increased chance of bugs.

And I agree that once a JS project is large enough to have a build process, the benefits of TypeScript almost always outweigh the costs. I'd even like to see JS interpreters allow and ignore TypeScript types, so you could use it without a build step.
I annotate inside the book. Great if you own the book and really annoying if you don't.
Can you go on? I’d like to read more about this.