skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've posted reasons in post over here, do you find them baseless?
I have been playing dwarf fortress for about 7-8 years. If anybody has any questions feel free to ask me.

I think the difficulty of learning the game is overstated: if you follow a tutorial, use a graphics pack, and use dwarf therapist (dwarf therapist is a must, most experienced players also use this because it's just a better UI) I think you can get the hang of the game in a few hours of play time. Probably the biggest barrier to learning the game is the UX but if you're a programmer that will be much easier to learn. I recommend https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Quickstart_gu... and https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Dwarf_fortres... as guides, and I recommend downloading the "Lazy Newb Pack" version compatible with your operating system, as it makes switching graphics and managing utilities/settings very easy.
Tangential. I find it annoying that Firefox hardcoded a whole bunch of URL's in their search bar history. I have 'Provide suggestions' off (privacy), yet it suggests me walmart.com, facebook.com, americanexpress.com, etcetera.. all sites that I have zero interest for. I guess they must be there, because they earn some money from it?
> But that value derives from the process of living.

Ultimately how someone spends their boundless time is up to them, but in general I'd agree that the point of life is to live, not just to exist, yes. But in general, people working on longevity do it so that people can live more. And the purpose of going on existing forever is to be able to go on living forever. That value doesn't become less over time.

> That value only manifests itself while the movie is playing, not when it is sitting on the shelf.

Can you un-metaphor this to a point about humans?

> And dying is an essential part of that process

And there you've completely lost me. Right now it feels like you're speaking in metaphor, analogy, and cached responses. Humans are not movies, and life is neither film-like nor has a plot that needs to end; on the contrary, humans are a source of boundless novelty and creativity. Why do you believe it to be essential that life end? What, precisely, do you see as bad about not dying, and in particular, worse than the alternative of continuing to live?

I'm genuinely curious at this point, because thus far the only underlying arguments I've seen you mention anywhere in this thread seem to be roughly "we evolved to reproduce and then die, a longer lifespan doesn't serve reproductive fitness", as well as that we have a finite planet with finite resources and you expect immortality to lead to infinite growth. The simplest counterargument to the former is just "so what?"; there's no argument there for why we cannot direct our considerable concerted efforts towards surpassing that, nor for why we shouldn't. The counterargument to the latter I've made in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23645480 .

There's far, far too much science fiction and fantasy featuring "immortality angst", of people who live forever and think that's a bad thing. Far too much of that angst relies on metaphors and words designed to sound profound (e.g. "life is precious because it's fleeting"), and those aren't even arguments, nor do they hold up to a moment's thought.

> Only if it ends prematurely or painfully. Otherwise it's just part of life.

It's always premature as far as I'm concerned. I intend for it to one day stop being part of life. Why do you believe that to be bad?
I typed tits.com and it went to boobs.net
T-Mobile already trying to get out of merger conditions on 5G and hiring
>"Until this technology is 100%, I'm not interested in it," he said.

Umm... I'd like to see technology, which passes this test.

Relevant obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/
The author is an expert D programmer and the post is too deep for beginners and average users of D to understand. Here are the words from the OP from Reddit. Ideally this should've been the first one/two paragraphs of this post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hfkq5e/a_patte...

A common complaint about D's const is its transitivity makes it hard to use, and the blog post attempts to improve this situation by giving user-defined types the same power that built-in types have. Currently, the way to work around the issue is to simply not use const and instead rely on convention. Essentially, you'll write the same code in both cases, but currently the compiler gives you no help. I want the compiler to enforce these things, and I believe almost every D project could benefit from this.
They have links for a webring!
Alas, the webring is no longer working, although you can check it in the Internet Archive.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191213105245/http://www.webrin...
How to combat online voter suppression
Coming soon: the Labrasource Retriever browser extension for legal citations
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I have both turned on, but cannot reproduce on ios 13. Must be 14 new shiny thing, glad I skipped the update. The amount of things that Apple improved over last 7 years is incredible, I think it’s time for them to move on.
just leaving this tip here, if you use node.js, `npx gitignore node` generates the appropriate git ignore files for common ignored files including ds store
Interesting.

These guys are supposedly launching their ride hailing fleet this year on public roads.

"unorthodox entrepreneurial zeal of Kentley-Klay, an Australian native with no prior automotive experience." was the key mover on all this and "touted Zoox’s strategy of building its own vehicles for full autonomy as wiser than the standard approach of retrofitting existing cars that Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and others are taking."

Their CEO did attack silicon valley for choosing the path of fear "at the expense of profound progress for the Universe."

Heady stuff! Will be very interesting to see their launch if all this talk pans out! Full new vehicle assembly from scratch PLUS autonomy! Very impressive.
Final Week of Open Beta for Endless Elevator on the Google Play Store (Android)
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.ZuluOneZero.EndlessElevator

All the details are here (and feedback can be done directly on the web site - all responses are anonymous):
http://www.zuluonezero.net/endless-elevator-beta/

Play as the LawMan. A deadly spy working to save top secret plans from the bad guys. You are stuck in the Worlds Tallest Building in the villains' secret oasis and the bad guys are literally everywhere! Your job is to find the secret messages hidden in the building and to climb as high as you can.

This is a voxel style rework of an arcade classic into a relaxed endless shoot-em up with a unique 2.5D floor climbing vertical play space with a timeless spy themed soundtrack.
Capturing 54M Passwords with a Docker SSH Honeypot
Maybe because a lot of Apps are doing that and it's not a special bevaviour of TikTok
In the United Kingdom, "Parliament is supreme, and cannot be bound by previous Parliaments". The Queen and her ceremonial roles and duties exist because it is the will of the people. Those can be removed by an Act of Parliament. The people through their representatives in Parliament rule the United Kingdom.
That is a well-written blog post. Thanks for sharing. Wondering if I can do this with a BSD kernel.
> "Can you imagine a budding musician complaining that musical notation should be made "easier for beginners"?"

Yes, of course I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_music_notation and from the linked website "is designed for learners in general".

> "worse, that he/she expects the language to be dumbed down to make it easier to learn."

And why should "simplify" have the connotation "dumbed down, for dumb people"? Everyone benefits from simpler things with fewer warts and fewer hazards.
Realty.com owner can technically sue the Apple and settle for a million dollars at least
Or even better, XCode, Brew, and other services that have git can set it globally when git is installed. They know about MacOS after all
I understand why you might feel this way, but I don't think the parent and grandparent comments are necessarily "looking for blood." They bring up valid concerns.

Disclosure: I haven't read the linked article.
It is probably done on purpose so that you use the apps instead of the browser... it's not like they don't have the money to fix it.
Yes!! Thank you
From the article:

> Comcast's version of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) will be turned on by default for Firefox users on Comcast's broadband network

> Comcast is the first ISP to join Firefox's Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) program

> Cloudflare and NextDNS were already in Mozilla's program

> which requires encrypted-DNS providers to meet privacy and transparency criteria and pledge not to block or filter domains by default

I believe Firefox must not turn on Comcast's DoH as default even for Comcast ISP users. They ought to show some kind of first time prompt.
The following is slightly off topic and very subjective. I remember Quora when it first launched. So many interesting answers from people that „have been there, done that“.
Like first hand experience from working on IE5 in the browser wars or working at Nasa.

Quality was very high in general. Today it has become a shadow of itself with generic questions and answer that are just marketing plugs.

It makes me a bit sad because it was unique and there still is nothing like it in my opinion.
No matter whether or not we are actually looking at an extinct variety here, I found this article on an archeobotanist approach fascinating: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fruit-in-renaissance-a...

Essentially they look at old paintings for unknown fruit varieties and then try to find plants or seeds from the same area that still have those features and try to match paintings to fruits.
That site works fine as long as you don’t use Cloudflare for DNS. It’s technical and opinionated at the same time[1]; I don’t have a side or stake in it, but I found I couldn’t make archives on it or otherwise access this domain while I was using Cloudflare DNS, so this is still happening as of a month or so when I last tried it using the Cloudflare DNS iOS app[2]. Try it for yourself. Set your DNS to 1.1.1.1 and try to visit your link.

Again, I’m not disagreeing with the archive.is stance either. I do think their argument has merits; I just think this is a case of competing incentives for archive.is and Cloudflare. Archive.is likely has reason to not want their server or scraper IPs burned, or otherwise blocked by Cloudflare or associated sites or users, anymore than archive.is would want to be blocked by any domain; it’s counter to the purpose of the site, regardless of what site operators may want. By that same token, Cloudflare has a financial and business interest in doing what customers request of them, within their SLA and product matrix. I don’t find either party’s position surprising, but I don’t know where it goes from here, if anywhere.

DNS is an unwieldy holdover from a past era, but it’s what makes URLs work for many use cases. Tested, functional software is a good thing, but so are alternatives. This isn’t meant to be about DNS generally, just about archiving services, I guess, and how hard it is to find the good ones we have, as well as create new ones.

Maybe things like Web3Torrent[3] can bridge this gap?

[1] on HN (2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1-1-1-1-faster-internet/id1423...

[3] https://blog.statechannels.org/introducing-web3torrent/
Difference Between System Software and Application Software
Huh, a $200m convertible note. Never heard of such a thing.
Thanks for pointing out both. I was not aware of Intel and, I didn't realize that Samsung got that big.

It occurred to me that Kingston probably has its own fab too.
I Avoid Procrastination
> These are human definitions for classifications, and biologists agree on that.

I'm a biologist, and I don't agree.

> However, if you make a statement that "two groups of animals that can never reproduce successfully with each other are separate species" then nobody will argue that.

You're assuming animals with two sexes, and even there things like ring species throw a wrench into that.

> What I'm saying is that the photons exist only in the model.
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> See, you made the same mistake as everyone else! Atoms aren't the only things that exist! There are free particles in vacuum chambers, particle accelerators, outer space, etc... that aren't atoms. There's a device called a "free electron laser" that has a continuously adjustable output frequency!

But those particles exist to us only as the results of measurements. We cannot impute a category to them that is definable in terms of familiar categories. They are no more or less real than the photon. I don't personally dislike the term "particle" for them, but "vacuum excitation" or similar just doesn't have the same cachet as "particle," and usually carry other undesirable baggage. Even "vacuum" carries problematic classical baggage.

> The electron is in an orbital though, right? With a defined angular momentum, position in space, and everything. Even if you abandon the concept of point particles, it has a bunch of properties. Now show me all of those properties changing as it absorbs the photon.

No, you can't impute properties like angular momentum to a state outside of measurement. We're used to thinking that we can because of classical systems where we take our sequence of measurements of a phenomenon over time and interpolate them infinitely finely and assume that as we do so the measurements converge to a continuous function. But since that limit doesn't exist for quantum mechanical phenomena, you can only speak in terms of measurement outcomes.

Plus, even if you could impute a property before measurement, you could only impute them to pure states. Almost all quantum states are not pure states.

So we can't show you those properties changing. All we can speak of is the probable outcomes of sets of measurements.

> That's fine if you're designing a laser or something, but that's not what is physically happening with a single electron around a single atom.

Is what you consider "what is physically happening" something theoretically observable?

> Even then it's not entirely clear if all interactions are quantised.

Of course. That's why continuous spectra are a thing.
WebKit has a public bug tracker.
What’s the logic of them selling to Amazon? Why didn’t they just continue on and try to raise more money? I assume this was purely a move of desperation and they couldn’t. Is this just a full blown acquihire?

Also, what happens to employees? Presumably, their stock is worthless. Will Amazon just give them all new stock packages to keep them on?
This is clearly just cherry picking. They did NLP + Echo + Alexa in house. Cloud / servicification on their own.
Devil's advocating here, because I agree more with your sentiment:

That comment has sparked a larger subthread specifically about Twitter as a medium, rather than the content of the post. This specific subthread is so popular, it's near the top of the page every time I refresh this post. So we could say it stifles discussion, also because people are prone to voting up a comment like that despite the fact that it's not really relevant to the post.
I think they meant it only runs quickly enough when everything's in cache? But that doesn't make much sense to me. It's really hard for me to believe it'd be I/O bound though, when memory bandwidth is like tens+ of gigabytes per second?
There is however a huge loophole

From the ban: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6956465/Boston-Ci...

"Nothing in (b)(1) shall prohibit Boston or any Boston official from:

a. using evidence relating to the investigation of a specific crime that may have been generated from a face surveillance system, so long as such evidence was not generated by or at the the request of Boston or any Boston official;"

So if a third-party, say the FBI or DEA, provides info from face surveilance systems to Boston with them specifically requesting it, they could use that.
This is exactly the same what I'm thinking about: what's the purpose to redesign something which was good and familiar with something which is totally unpleasant. On a large monitor you have to move not only your eyes, but your head from left to right, from top to down just to find the relevant information, which on the old github was on the right place. Too bad there isn't an option to revert to the old design.

It seems to me Github from the Microsoft acquisition is going into a wrong direction.
Hi! Thanks for your comment!

Happy to answer questions about the issue screen! :)

To foster collaboration, we made the description huge (you can write anything from a line to 1 pager, to X pagers there). We also believe that communication contains persistent information and non-persistent information, so we have on the same screen an activity feed with comments (for non-persistent information), next to the description (for jotting down persistent information).

We also have a principle of hiding complexity, so there are not 15 fields to fill in for each issue, a title is enough.

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Often is a stretch. 1x has been pretty market the last 5+ years for early stage and non distressed situations. It looks like the last raise was the Series B after the founder got fired, so it’s possible the B investors had a multiple liq pref if the company was in a weak spot then. But I’d still guess not.
I didn't miss it, it was the first thing I said.

> Giving him all his time back, which is priceless.

It's valued at "a livable wage", which isn't always but ought to be, "minimum wage". That's how much money you need to have every month to not need to work and still be considered living.

> "The OP is correct in that materially, the capitalist and the worker are largely equals. We all use the same phones, TVs and computers now."

Which is why I was trying to point out that's a sham measure, it's like saying "King Richard is your equal because you both speak English!". That might be true, but it's certainly not true that we are equals, it's a distraction from all the things which aren't equal. If nothing else, it shows that using a smartphone, TV or computer has lost its significance now we all have it, rather than we all gained signficance by having it.
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I use ddg and I can confirm the sketch<enter> -> Skechers.com
Every layer of this type of complexity adds risk. Seriously, MCAS was designed to increase safety, but instead added risk.

It may be better to go to full automation then to start having various controls be locked (with the issues around those added mechanisms).

There are already LOTS of situation on airbus in particular where the plane simply will not do what you tell it. Overall this has saved a lot of lives (envelope protection etc).

You CAN almost always override / remove the safety envelope (pull breakers to get to direct law etc) but why. These plans can now be flown by relatively junior pilots (or in this case by folks with potentially fake pilot licenses).
This model is very useful for understanding magnetic refrigeration, which in turn gives deep insight into how entropy works.
If a marketing department is just told to reduce spend by 90% they will still be running some of their highest-ROI campaigns on Google and Facebook. Completely pausing Facebook means it's about something more than just budget cuts, because even with a reduced budget marketers always want to have at least a small presence on Google and Facebook since the ROIs are so high for the best campaigns.
Those are customer facing mostly no?
I love CDDA, but it is not really that similar to DF. It's a very punishing rougelike with a huge amount of depth, but it's an RPG style game, not a strat/base management game, and it doesn't create a procedural story with Rich depth, it was some fun depth, but that's coded in by the developers.

HN crowd might be impressed by the scale of the contributors though. Last I checked it has over 1.1k contributors. Just cloning the repo takes a while.
Still if you have pre calculated sizes of the folders, does it really matter what media was used to transfer data? Also I think people realising more and more that it'ss not very rational to trust to anyCloud with personal data. My rule is simply never use any cloud.
These are the hot takes I rely on HN for.
Might want to keep an eye on the battery if it's an A540, A3000, A5000, A3010, A3020 or A4000.
China will pass a controversial security law in HK. Here's what you need to know
> the lawsuits and IP-infringement will still haunt everyone involved.

I suspect donations are used mostly to keep the lights on.
Stop (ab)using z-index: Understand how it works and when to use it
That’s customer facing. Read my comment again. I’m talking about non-customer facing / utilitarian technology that is used to facilitate their customer facing services and products.
> Can we reduce “surveillance capitalism” by reducing the incentive to collect personal data?

No. There is a financial incentive and people tend to willingly give their personal data away for free, often for public exploitation.

I am working on solution for this though. My approach is to provide a social application that is point-to-point without any central service. It is inherently private and never anonymous. When people willingness give their data away it is only to somebody they know and encrypted from everyone else. I am starting with file sharing first (trying to wrap it up this week) and then will add messaging and media soon.
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> Similarly, saying that the "this specific mathematics is all there is, just understand that" when a simple verbal statement can be made that is not covered by the mathematical model doesn't mean that the statement is somehow invalid, it means the model is incomplete or narrow in scope.

Not necessarily. It may mean that the verbal statement invokes a language game to define a category that has rules incompatible with the rules of the formal model.

> My point is simply this: The mathematics of QM is not equipped to answer fundamental questions like "what is a particle" or "what is a photon".

Sure it is. A particle in QM is something that obeys the formal structure laid out. Dijkstra had some very biting things to say about being unable to cope with true novelty because you're trapped in reasoning by analogy (EWD1036).
Teardown of the Singaporean Covid-19 TraceTogether Token
You get a sense of it here https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-17/robot-tax...
Maybe that's his point? That he assumes this is unusuable unless he has extreme indication otherwise.
Also, he said this technology, not any technology.
horse reality 2.0:

COLLECTOR - Not only do you enter modded Breyers in online horse shows, you even have your R card. Next up: scratch build.

ENTREPRENEUR - Thanks to optimising tax breaks (and a partner from a good family with a day job), you live up to the title of the book Losing Less Money Raising Horses.

COMPETITOR - You marry your vet. This just makes it official, the two of you already spent nearly all your waking hours together anyway.

SOCIALIZER - You wish to make friends so you can collectively flame the benighted heathens who use a different colour tack or prefer a different breed.
Store your app's configuration, including per-folder view options, in a centralized store -- either ~/.dreamfm/ or ~/Library/Application Support/ Dream File Manager/

In the same view options configuration window, have a checkbox option to make the configuration portable along with the files, in which case write it out to .DS_Store or a similar file, to be used as a local override à la .htaccess

Explaining this option succinctly may be a challenge but not impossible. Maybe "Save view options with folder" with a hover tooltip explaining that this would enable the view options to remain the same across user accounts and computers.