skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason this regulation exists is because enough people doing it is systemic risk.

You losing all your money impacts you. You and millions of other people losing all their money at the same time impacts society; they can't pay bills to their creditors, then those creditors can't pay, and soon enough we're talking bank runs and financial collapse.
Usenet's still around, but the signal to noise ratio is low and the lack of moderation is a real problem.
I like working in unflashy industries. A robot that can harvest peaches (incredibly hard) or work in semiconductor industry. Lots of robots automating the shit out of a very complex process. Toilet roll mills. Anything at 3M.

There is a whole world out there and potentially more fun than trying to invent a 4 legged thing that just looks cool and doesn’t do anything useful.

We need to make it cool to automate clothes manufacturing.
Or just go to old.reddit.com
AppImages are the only thing I run also, as a full time linux user and admin. I just hate the proliferation of questionable services, especially in systemd land. A lot of my focus is on minimization of stack, and snap and flatpak just don't stand up to scrutiny imho.
Leveraged ETFs are too risky. The better return is to just buy the top 30 tech companies by market cap
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Perhaps you mean encryption, not obfuscation.
> People who are into fitness don't need apps to track their fitness

Show me a runner without a Garmin (or similar)
And here's an essay that makes this same argument with a lot more detail: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zwno3Gxb8p6DmfadP/...
Running and cycling are very different than weight lifting. Easy to calculate automatically with an app.

That said, I think the market of weight lifters with good technique who use barbells is much smaller than the market of casual weight lifters/gym goers.
You are, sort of, missing the point

These Apps and Services are for

1) People who want 'to feel good' i.e. they did something for their fitness

2) People who want to transition from knowing nothing about fitness, to knowing something

3) People who want to develop a habit of fitness. Keeping tracking of things is critical

What gets Measured Gets Managed (peter drucker, google it)

4) people who are absolutely clueless and want to know where to start

a good example is the Water app. IT was super simple. 10 glasses of water. As you drink a glass you tap it and you can keep track

To someone who is very fit, it makes zero sense. They already have a routine and a habit

On the other hand, for the 98% of the population who don't have a very healthy and very disciplined routine, that is an app that can be super valuable

*

Please keep in mind that IN ANY ACTIVITY

the vast majority of people have ZERO interest in being Arnold Schwarzenegger of Fitness or Warren Buffet of investing

they just want to go from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence to even a tiny bit of competence

EVEN if it is just a feeling
Was that nesting server side?
> Okay, but are we really considering the Battle Royale gameplay features all that innovative?

Yes. Either accidentally or on purpose, the Battle Royale genre is a near perfect game type for streaming, which it evolved along side with.

> If a large map you can find stuff on that eventually shrinks qualifies as something enough to differentiate it, doesn't Fortnite's building mechanic qualify enough to differentiate it?

Yes! I am in no way suggesting that devs of Fortnite didn't innovate on the core concept, or that Epic owe the devs of PUBG anything. You're also correct about the wider age appeal and constant updates, though PUBG also receives updates albeit at a slower pace.

But Epic has far far greater resources, and though I don't think game genre's should necessarily be patentable, I do think Fortnite's Battle Royale would not have existed without the success of PUBG, and the fact that they could work off of a skeleton they knew was already tested and successful, especially with the lucrative streaming community.

I don't know about optimizing for society or whatever, it's just games man. I like that both can exist and be successful, while also feeling some sympathy for what could have been for the PUBG devs. Both can be true.
Fastmail, a darling of HN, does the same.
Just install chrome without snaps?!? Works fine?!?
You conflate misunderstanding project requirements with competence. So you think the most efficient solution _and_ implementation will come from someone technically mediocre? Go ahead and implement your high-level business solution - see how many resources you waste implementing it because you are unaware of a better way.
not sure if it is only snaps... my galculator takes a couple seconds to open and it isn't a snap... maybe gnome is the issue
For content-controlled code, meaningful encryption tend to imply obfuscation.
One type of bias does not preclude the other. In this case, one may even strengthen the other. The argument that VCs discriminate on wealth strengthens the argument of systemic racial and gender-based bias, given the disparities in income and wealth between races and genders. This is the indirect nature of systemic bias I was describing.
> I'm not sure which alternative query language is sufficiently general to match SQL. A datalog implementation on top of Postgres (via libpq?) would be really interesting though.

Datalog is already more general that SQL, though; even WITH RECURSIVE only gets you linear Datalog.
The rules of the game will remain the same (or even get worse for males): almost all females will reproduce (if they decide to do so) while a relevant chunk of males will not manage to do it. As an extreme example remember how reproduction works in an animal farm.
From the article: "One important staple across Polynesia is the sweet potato, which originated in South America."
No, it was all content Javascript.
Did you mean devmode instead of beta?

Just wanted to easy one worry of you: the age, popularity and maturity of your application has no influence on whether or not these permission requests are granted. The approval process is formally defined and mostly depends on what your application does exactly.

You can find the specific processes in the docs at the bottom of this page: https://snapcraft.io/docs/permission-requests
Damn it folks, stop trying to make your designs pixel perfect!

There will always be font rendering inconsistencies. It's how the web works.

> The cross-platform problem is a harder one to solve as you can't control how the operating system handles font rendering.

Bingo.

So stop trying! Embrace flexible designs and differences in rendering
> Adding an index has performance costs, storage costs, etc. Just indexing every permutation of columns is prohibitively expensive. Then, columns with low variation need different indexing approaches, or sometimes even refactoring of the schema.

To be clear, I’m not suggesting a DBMS should always add a new index every time it encounters a query that’s slow due to a missing index. I’m saying that DB servers should look at trends of queries - and see where real wall-clock time is being wasted, and act accordingly.

The performance cost of an extra index for insert/update/delete queries is only a concern when you get to the point where you do need to manually manage indexes - but for most database tables with less a few million rows there’s no reason for the server not to automatically add indexes on columns used in predicates. It won’t be perfect, but it’s better than allowing slow queries to always be slow.
I'm pretty sure it supports normal USB mice: https://github.com/simoninns/SmallyMouse2/blob/master/Smally...
> Personally, I want to see Usenet come back.

I agree. Though our perception of usenet from the compuserve era is probably tinted by nostalgic fondness.

Once the internet took off - as I recall - usenet started to become a cesspool of trolls and advertisements.
Assault weapons are light weight short barrelled rifles designed to be used in close quarters. That's it.
Let me build some credibility here: I have been working out for roughly a decade, have gained over 70lbs, and was ranked in the advanced category (set by ExRx standards) of dead lift, squat, and bench.

Now, my suspicion is that the target demographic for this "works out" for social benefits, not for actually making fitness progress. I say this because someone who takes fitness seriously would never drop $1500 on an accessory that a pen and journal wouldn't be more than capable for. For that kind of money a home gym is more than accessible. Even a few kettlebells for even 1/4th of that would get someone into phenomenal shape. For a significant amount of my fitness career I did yoga at a local studio and met many of the target demographic. Many wanted a way to stay in shape while also having a social aspect. This abrogates the social aspect while having a sub par fitness experience. I can only think of a demographic that doesn't understand fitness at all, has significant money, and doesn't want the social aspects of a group fitness class; this demographic is probably niche.
> Getting closer than that with people who have had COVID and tested positive for antibodies with a reliable test is generally ok

I haven't done the research -- but I get the impression that a positive test result in MA, where the base rate is very low, would be more likely a false positive than a true positive.

I suppose the false positive test varies a lot between tests too. But do people generally know which test (and hence which false positive rate) they received?
Easier? It was effortlessly easy. I guess I thought I'd miss meat, but never have, not once. Just a habit I guess, like a lot of things.

Well, I went vegan not for dietary reasons, but because it dawned on me that treating animals as if their lives have no value except to serve humans, as if their suffering doesn't matter, is irrational, cruel and wrong. That was 25+ years ago, have had no health or other problems. Have never really worried about my diet at all – a balanced diet and all that, I mean, I just eat what I feel like. I only think about it when talking about it like this. Good luck!

p.s. Some other commenters mentioned B12, I read about that in the beginning as one thing you don't get in a vegan diet, but as it's added as a standard supplement to soy (and other) milks these days, I haven't had to worry about it.
I have the same problem. Snaps are confined to only files within $HOME. I keep almost all data under /media/ and this caused snaps to be mostly unusable for me, at least unusable for productivity apps where I need to process data. Some apps though are self contained, e.g. Spotify, for example, works fine for me as a snap.

The limitation stems from a design problem, details at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1643706.
I remember reading this one here in the 2000s, here's one from 2008:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385068
"Appimages are great but there's no sandboxing or updates"

Actually there is sandboxing and updates, if you want to take an extra steps.

I prefer AppImages over Flatpack and Snaps for essentially the same reasons commented above.

I typically launch them with Firejail for the sandboxing. i.e. "firejail --appimage /path/to/appimage" instead of just the appimage alone. Seems to work just fine. Firejail has additional options that can be done.

Some AppImage creators do provide an update method that can be installed using zsync2, but I've not tried it since the whole point is disposability.
Possibly - but in my case the windows was just floating on top of all of my other windows, and whilst I could move and resize it, I could not move it like other windows.

So popping out a new firefox window that operates like a normal window would be great, but the current solution seems like the worst of both worlds.

Also on an unrelated note, seeing your username we used to work together - hope all is going well :)
Given that you are enriching the site with your continued engagement, then yes, continuing to patronize the site is propagating its unethical behavior.

There’s a lot more to the Internet than the karma-farming thieves, astroturfing shills and larpy activists on reddit. Broaden your horizons and you might be pleasantly surprised!
I'm thinking of going back to metafilter myself.... not sure why I stopped.
i.reddit.com also works amazingly better than the redesign on mobile, it loads easily 10x as fast, has better usability and doesn't force you to log in to browse by subreddits.

Given how far they're willing to go with dark patterns to con people into installing an app I'm actually amazed that they still bother to maintain this legacy versions. Seems like it would've been easy to let them bitrot into being unusable.
Just want to put this out there: Between being "defeatist" and believing a project has reached a point of no return is a gargantuan chasm.

Sometimes things need to be scrapped and started over, largely because of mistakes in the foundation. That's not being defeatist, it's just refusing to try to fix something that is almost certainly easier to rebuild (even if that's a lot of work).
There have been so many problems with investing in Robotics. The collapse of Rethink Robotics (led by none other than Rodney Brooks) and Jibo and Anki as well as many others leaves one wondering about long-term investor commitment to robotics.

Listen to this podcast on the subject of challenging investing climate in robotics: https://www.cognilytica.com/2020/07/08/ai-today-podcast-what...

Just an alternate non-hypey, non-rosey, non-theoretical, non-SV perspective on what is actually happening in the robotics industry.
That’s something a VC could say instead of silence. Helping someone build their business would be incredibly supportive. However it seems that no VCs were interested in doing that.
> Just leaving the site is kind of a defeatist attitude.

Yes but you should do it anyway for the good of humanity, if you don't want to feel defeated then help to build the alternatives like Lemmy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23664067
Continuing Ubuntu One was not sustainable:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-servic...

Ubuntu One file syncing, also server part, has been Open Sourced with much effort from Canonical:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-one-file-syncing-code-open-so...

Ubuntu Touch https://ubports.com is run by community and has rapid progress, it's running on PinePhone etc.

Canonical would have liked to continue Unity:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/10/why-did-ubuntu-drop-unit...

I would presume Upstart Init system was changed to systemd because other distros started using systemd.

I don't see a trend here.
In case this eases your worries: the approval process for permissions is formalised and does not depend on how mature or well-known the app is.

In addition: users always have the option to override permissions. The approval process is for automatic (default) permission grants. Even if these are not granted, users can grant them manually.

The specific processes for approval are listed at the bottom of this page: https://snapcraft.io/docs/permission-requests
Bars are more dangerous than schools, so I think you have it backwards. We need to convert school gymnasiums into speak-easies.
It’s not just a problem of dataset sizes. You now need to send every update to every DB server. For something like an open world MMO it’s easy to start hitting billions of updates per second. Databases have hard trade offs and you need to make compromises somewhere.
Farmers and animal rights activists are coming together to fight factory farms
what is that domain? cant seem to find any useful info about it.
>Damore's memo was reasonable, accurate, and the criticism to it has been, like yours, entirely without substance.

The Wikipedia article on Damore's memo lists a number of substantive criticisms[0]. For convenience, I'll list them here:

This Vox article[1] gives a brief background of Damore's argument from biological essentialism. It references the general consensus that the premise (that cultural and sociological gender roles result from innate and immutable differences in gender biology and neurology) has been discredited[2,3], as well as a Stanford research paper[4] which concludes “Through a rather constructivist approach most studies show that no scientific experiment has proved the existence of systematic and/or significant biological sex differences in most cognitive functions.”

This BBC article[5] mentions a criticism by a cognitive scientist, This Intelligencer article[6] lists numerous criticisms and rebuttals by scientists, referencing this Quora article by an evolutionary scientist[7], and another criticism from studies of gender and STEM[8].

Now, that's as many as I've been willing to list because I'm now thoroughly bored of hunting down sources, but there are many others I haven't listed if you want to do the research yourself. Now granted, wikipedia also lists a number of counter-criticisms, but that alone doesn't render the criticism invalid, it merely demonstrates the existence of a controversy.

I'm leaving this comment here for future reference, and referring to it every time I notice someone bringing up the myth that Damore's memo is based on rock-solid, unassailable science, or that no "substantive" criticisms have or can been made.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...

[1]https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/8/16106728/google-fire...

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2016/may/...

[3]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/07/silico...

[4]http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/images/TR3_Stereotyp...

[5]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-40865261

[6]https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/some-scientific-argu...

[7]https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...

[8]https://www.vox.com/2017/8/11/16127992/google-engineer-memo-...
I'm thinking I probably need more organization than simple note-taking. I tried daily journals but it's hard to find stuff later unless you happen to land on the perfect cross-linking or search system, or somehow integrate with a reminders app, and have the system support every type of document or diagram you need from your markdown...

I get caught up trying to design the best system, and end up with something that only half works -- I just post notes to myself in Slack, particularly in the @you channel, the one it sets up for you at your username. Downside: every time I switch jobs, I lose a TON of context. Upside: everything's in Slack and I don't have to worry immediately. :) Plus, it's always possible that I'd lose the computer I was taking notes on, or not allowed to sync notes to my own private repo, or whatnot.

If I need to write longer-form notes than Slack allows, though, I often turn to Notes app or OneNote (if on Windows). But ... it's constrained because I end up not being able to stick with one cross-platform note taking tool -- the tools I use are too different. Still waiting for the perfect tool that has yet to arrive... I suspect the answer lies in the operating system -- to track what I work on in any app and helping me surface and record metadata better. To move from tracking files and folders to helping me track activities and outputs/decisions. Integrating git commit logs with macOS-like app-based revision history with operating system file browsing (for other kinds of cloud storage) seems like the right level of abstraction to work at, but I'm not sure what the right UI would be. :)
Many of the regulations are meant not to protect irrational actors but rather to protect rational actors from swindlers. For example, brokerages that push clients with zero investing experience to trade options.
Speed of Travel in Jane Austen's England (2016)
Easy SIMD in the context of image processing is one of the cool things about Halide:

https://halide-lang.org

It was personally eye opening to see how vectorization can be the gift they keeps on giving when you can sprinkle it throughout a computational pipeline vs spreading work across cores.
Google's losing fight to spammers is a part of the problem.

I'm not arguing that Google is sacrificing quality for revenue. Though I'm sure Google has the run the numbers on such practices.

Instead, I'm arguing that Google search has lost some ability to differentiate between generic and specific. I'm thinking of any of countless cases where I give up on keyword bingo and make a phone call or post in a chat app to get the information I couldn't squeeze out of a Google search.

Google often chops and screws keywords that should not be.

Quoting does not yield expected results, even when I can ultimately find the exact quote on an eventually discovered result.

Fuzzy matches often pollute results for similar but distinct searches. Differentiation is not always easy or even possible.

Fuzzy matches regularly fuzz the wrong words for my searches.

Results often outdated by years or even over a decade.

Limiting by time often returns results outside the range. Mostly in the 'results' before the results.

I often find myself thinking some searches would be easier with a hand written regex.
That wouldn't work in the general case. Those patterns would also match long options. If I add a case pattern `--all)`, and I call the script with `--all`, it's also going to match

-*a*|--arg)

You could fix that with:

-a*|-[!-]*a*|--arg)

> It doesn't support args of the form -avalue but those a pretty uncommon anyway.

You could

-a*|-[!-]*a*|--arg)
if [[ "$1" != --arg ]]; then
value="${1#*a}"
fi
if [[ ! "$value" ]]; then
value="$2"
shift
fi
;;&

Putting the option stuck together to its value has the advantage of working nicely with brace expansion. For example, you can call `strace -p{1111,2222,3333}` to trace those 3 pids and avoid having to type `-p` 3 times.
> The only solution is to develop systems that don’t have usernames.

I disagree that this is the only solution. The OP comes very close to discovering an alternative one: don't allow users the power to select their own arbitrary username.

When a user makes an account on your site (and if your site actually needs publicly-displayed usernames in the first place), give them the option of, say, ten usernames generated by the site itself; these don't need to be numeric codes like WeChat does, they can be pronounceable phrases in the same manner that Gfycat generates URLs. Everyone will end up with names like "questionable wet aplomado falcon", "each unlawful harlequin bug", "icy inferior iceland gull", which honestly isn't any worse than the average name I encounter on Reddit or elsewhere.

The biggest downside(?) of this approach is that it makes it harder for someone to build their personal brand, but the older I get the more I think it's a bad idea to use a consistent nickname across different websites.
To me, that sounds like you've hit a ceiling in your current stack, and probably workplace, and lack examples of people around you to learn from. What the solution to that is depends on your situation. Change of workplace? New career direction? New hobby?

> I have no idea what "better" is any more. Faster? Easier to read/maintain? More loosely coupled? All of these?
"It depends." As a gross generalisation, most juniors optimise for their bug-bear of one of these at the expense of all of the others. Most mid level devs try to balance them out, and hopefully, most seniors pick which ever is appropriate for the task at hand, with an eye on the long term consequences of their design - if there even is a long term consequence.

Re webpack replacement; Given the amount of time I've wasted dealing with webpack and it's madness, I'd back you up and say it's probably a net win - as long as it's documented enough to avoid the bus factor. It's not like golang is some esoteric language where it's impossible to find devs for.

P.s: I want to clarify here that I'm not necessarily a good programmer, I've just spent enough time stuck as a niche programmer & probable expert beginner and fighting my way out of it that I recognise the patterns. I'm probably a better study of dev behaviour than actual dev.