skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you want to have a silly argument about the US vs the UK (or actually the US vs Europe, which is even less relevant to my original comment). I did not make any claims about which is "better", so there's really nothing to talk about here. That is, unless you wish to continue going on long rants, telling your life story, using the mass murder of gay people as an example of progress, and making wholly inaccurate claims about the history of gay rights in the US. State-level civil partnerships are, as you know, of marginal value when not recognized by the federal government, which all Americans have to deal with. And it's inarguable that in the years following the introducing of civil partnerships in the UK, gay people in Britain were able to have their relationships recognized legally more effectively than gay people in the US (particularly with regard to e.g. spousal visas).

>England is about the same size as Alabama. And perhaps more provincial.

Alabama has a population of 5 million. The UK has a population of 67 million. England has a population of 56 million. London by itself has a higher population than Alabama and is vastly more diverse and outward-looking.

From the examples you use in your comment, I can only assume that you just don't know much about the UK. E.g., there are also plenty of memorials to various LGBT causes in the UK. There is nothing particularly remarkable about this.

> [The Church of England's] positions are those of the head-of-state.

America doesn't have an established church, so it's hard to make a sensible comparison. The current American head of state doesn't support gay marriage either, by the way :) It's not really true that the Church's position is the Queen's position. The Queen, though head of the Church, also signed into law the legislation that legalized gay marriage. The girl wears a lot of hats.

>the Queen could change CoE policy

Actually she couldn't. This would be a violation of long-standing constitutional norms.
Wont have time to do this, nor do I have a github account anymore since that once welcoming place has been assimilated by the borg.

However, here's a hint: try to install a minimal ubuntu server on a VM and install/run your package.

You'll quickly discover the real transitive dependency set of your software.
A king and people who work for NGOs :)
I was really excited when Google Play came out with audiobooks on their platform. I realize that Google's success may still result in an oligopoly situation. That would still be better.

I'm a prolific Audiobook listener, but actively avoided Audible because of the subscription model.
Extinguish, I have no examples.
But Embrace and Extend, here is a possible one. Not saying I think this is a case of the first two E's necessarily but I know other people have pointed it out.

1. Build WSL2 and incorporate Linux kernel into Windows with great integration.
2. Add DirectX and GPU acceleration support for Linux that works in WSL2 only and not in regular Linux: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-GU....

These two steps could certainly be looked at as Embrace and Extend, although I admittedly fail to see how they could take an Extinguish step from here.
Migrating Large TypeScript Codebases to Project References
Reuters conducted an opinion poll on the law in June.

49% strongly opposed it.

7% somewhat opposed it.

27% strongly supported it.

7% somewhat supported it. [1]

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-poll-ex...
Yes, I noticed that, as well :)

So what do you think, does del.ico.us can have a second run under Pinboard creator?
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> Every one of those platforms tightly controls access to their platforms.

They actually can't. Not legally, anyway.

I am not a lawyer, but Nintendo famously lost a lawsuit, when attempting to block third-party software distribution : https://openjurist.org/16/f3d/1032/nintendo-of-america-inc-v... Sega (back when Sega was a major console competitor) also lost a similar lawsuit, when attempting to block third-party software distribution : https://openjurist.org/977/f2d/1510/sega-enterprises-ltd-v-a...

If we still had anti-trust enforcement, this should set precedent against what Apple is doing here today. We already decided this issue in the 80s and 90s, making a specialized locked-down computer (i.e., a "game console") does not entitle you to own the entire software market for that device. And so long as you don't steal copyrighted materials to do so (see Nintendo v Atari), you are allowed to reverse engineer and sell your own software for these devices, without any royalties or licensing owed.

If you want iPhones to be treated like "gaming consoles" instead of computers, then it is already legal to jailbreak an iPhone, distribute your own apps (or entire app store) and sell to iPhone users, without ever paying Apple a single penny.

It's even legal by precedent to modify other people's software when selling your own third-party software (see Game Genie / GameShark lawsuit, it's legal to sell a program that modifies someone elses copywritten software, so long as you don't include or redistribute the original copywritten code).
No matter what the future may bring for TikTok, it has surprised me because it definitely showed that the Chinese are coming with their unicorns and coming hard. I was expecting something like that but in a decade or so. You can argue that is not that technically advanced and slightly derivative, but its explosive growth, smart user engagement tactics, polished presentation (a constant weak point with Chinese products) is nothing short of amazing.
Awaiting a heavy dose of woke ideology injected into blender.

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He's referring to the fact that most commerce on the App Store is for physical goods and services (Airbnb, Amazon, Uber, food delivery, etc). Apple doesn't take a cut of those transactions.
Youtube does a pretty good job of recommending new content though.
For a start: the speed at which stars rotate around the center of a galaxy. This should be due to gravity, yet the speed of stars further from the center isn't slower (as it should be). This holds true for the vast majority of galaxies.

A specific amount of extra (not yet observed) mass distributed in the right way throughout the galaxy could explain this.
Humanloop is such a great name for an AI platform :) Congrats on the launch!
I think that's where the idea of ideological incentives come in.

If I don't particularly feel the biological urge to have children (aka drive to spread my genes), I might feel differently if I had more faith that my country's society and culture were worth contributing back to.

I don't feel that way about this country (America).
> Anyway, we can't tell anything unless the moderation process and decisions are also made public.
Unfun part is that the administrator of the zone (which is ROSNIIROS not the FID) is being overtaken by the government.
Nadella seems to be largely hands off W.R.T any funding / acquisitions. AFAIK, LinkedIn is still operating independently, Github too.
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> This graph is from Tim's website and illustrates the relationship λ (lambda) between the world't total accumulated wealth (C, the integral) and our ever-accelerating energy consumption rate (a, measured in 10^21 joules per year)

It's an odd choice to use global accumulated wealth rather than the global equivalent of GDP (GWP). What are the error bars on the calculation for how much the entire planet is worth in dollars?

For reference, GWP growth rate has been between 3% - 6% in the period considered by that paper. If the net world wealth growth rate was 1.82% during that period, it would suggest that depreciation effects are significant in determining that figure.
Why would someone who has never bought alcohol know where to buy it, or what kind/price point you prefer? Sounds like you might be the irrational one here.
> At some point, someone's going to go apeshit and go after the leader of the mob that canceled him.

I believe it's a testament for how anti-violence everyone in our societies are. People being publicly hunted down in witch trials rather kill themselves than turn on those who seek to destroy them.

I'm similarly surprised that all those pyramid scheme people live peacefully after their schemes blow up and thousands or millions are left holding the bag, while they made off with millions and might possibly face a year or three in a luxurious prison.

When you consider how many people wish them death online and nothing happens, death threats to random Twitter users can probably be ignored in general: if people aren't going after those that defrauded them and took their life savings, they're not going to come after you because you disagree on politics.
Came to say the same. The notes mention that the profiles are updated daily, I wonder if “Flat Earther” used to be a profile. Perhaps reimertz chose that post title because it concisely conveys the spirit of the site, even if it isn’t an actual option.
Thanks for the links, a lot of interesting stuff there.

I think this is actually a good example of the point I'm trying to make.

There appears to be an underlying mechanism here that's worth understanding that may have real effects. None of this suggests that left nostril 'relaxation' and right nostril 'energy' is a real thing. The closest may be that last link which I don't have access to.

The reason understanding the underlying mechanism is important is because it allows you to differentiate what could be real (potentially switching airflow in nostrils because "the olfactory system maximizes the ability of its distributed receptor neurons to encode differentially absorbing odors.") and what is pseudoscience "you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile.".

The latter sounds suspicious to me and these links don't seem to really support it. I'm extra suspicious when there's a strong interest in motivated reasoning (yoga-affiliated people being bought into it) to find it correct. It doesn't mean it isn't true, but it's less likely to be so.

The cycle can still be a real thing, there may still be real effects, and the left/right relax/energy thing can still be nonsense. That's why understanding what's going on is useful.
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Culturally, the internet is very much an American thing though. Any computer network controlled by almost any other culture would probably be extremely boring.

The idea of registering a domain and "owning" it at the exclusion of everyone else is still wild to me and clearly a parallel to staking claims of land by American settlers. The boldness of collecting and presenting information in an unique way on a website, communities and forums emerging organically, are also processes that draw inspiration from a real or idealized past of starting from scratch with no authority around. The tolerance of occasional security breaches and (initially) rejection of centralization and censorship have been labeled the "Wild West" before.

A German internet surely would have come with red tape and a mere playground area for private citizens, and credentialed entities taking over content creation. Communist ideology would have made the thing centrally controlled, and judging how tightly controlled copying machines and telephones were in Eastern Germany as a means of communication nothing of cultural value would have come out of a communist internet in my opinion.
R&D for prosthetic limb design or physical therapy using augmented spaces perhaps? Maybe Car crash simulations for accident scene investigators?
Until it's a default in frameworks like Spring Boot and in ELK stack logging systems, in most places it's not happening.
He may have been going by "About this Mac", which will show the Intel GPU if you're not plugged into an external monitor, or using a program that activates the dedicated GPU.
I don't think Brave's attempts to integrate BAT are either a scam or a pump-and-dump. I think they're sincerely just trying to figure out how to move "the internet" to a revenue model that doesn't necessitate holding its users hostage.

Every decentralized or censorship-resistant network gets dragged down to the worst of its adopters in the public consciousness (not entirely by accident IMO). It's sad, but should be acknowledged as par for the course at this point. If you're not going to fall into line, expect the power brokers to mix you up with the worst of 'em.
Using proxy servers is quite common in China, to the point where internet cafes used to have instructions on how to do so.

I wonder what percent of people are actually stymied by the gfw, versus minorly annoyed
Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll
Things I learned while making a database of songs on Jango Radio:

1. Create covering indexes sorted by each column to be searched.

2. Enable sqlite_stat4

3. Use WAL mode.

4. Set a busy_timeout

5. Vacuum and analyze daily.

6. Nobody has heard of Jango.
I completely agree and understand. My statements were about the person inciting others to commit the fraud without so many words. Basically, I was saying it is not fraud to tell your twitter followers to buy and return an item. It may be conspiracy though.
Is there a way out of the Tik Tok storm?
How did RSS go downhill?

Other commenters in here have mentioned their readers of choice; I can add mine: NewsBlur.

Turns out RSS is still in pretty common use, as far as I can tell, unless you can point to a handful of sites that aren't using either RSS or Atom.

Invariably, when the topic of RSS comes up, someone laments its "passing", which leads me to ask (again): where is this impression coming from? Is it the mere absence of Google Reader?

Is there a social aspect I never knew about?

I see you mentioned other tools being lacking, but I know NewsBlur, at least, provides all those capabilities. (Not sure about "curating", though; maybe you could define that a bit more? There is the "blurblog", which has its very own RSS feed, which lets you surface articles you like, and there's the "save" function.)
My point is, you probably wouldn’t feel different if those things did change.
He’s reading the room correctly. At no point in the last 20 years have even 30% of people polled said that we need more regulation of business and industry: https://news.gallup.com/poll/243662/americans-worry-less-gov.... Since 2006, a plurality, often an outright majority, have said we need less. And at every point since 2006, a majority of people have said the federal government is “too powerful.”
Shameless plug, I have made one of these interactive toys as well:

https://neon.muffinman.io/

I fell in love with generative art this year, and it became my favorite thing to do. Neon is the first presentable thing I made.
Do you think it's necessary for a novel to take a strong position on the Cold War? Propaganda from an enemy state is not a way to get a clear picture of what a place was like.
If you find yourself binging it more than once a week, bookmark it? Crtl-B brings up Firefox's bookmark sidebar and you can just search it there as immediately.
There is a big, big difference between, "we found a rock on earth that is probably from Mars that was blasted here some time in the past," and, "we went to a specific area of Mars and got a rock and brought it back." Not least of which is the intrinsic value and aspirational nature of us actually fetching things from other planets ourselves, with intent and purpose, rather than luckily stumbling upon some.
I led the European billing engineering team[1] at Yahoo 2003-2005. We processed millions of dollars worth of payments for European premium services every year, so we had a very clear idea of our value to the business, and I had to deal with that exact same thing when we needed a server upgrade once in that three year period that cost a fraction of what I got approved in bonuses for my team every year.

Afterwards I tried to estimate the cost to Yahoo of the time of the dozen or so people, including one of the founders, and I don't remember my estimate, but I do remember it was many times the cost of the server.

[1] yes, Yahoo had multiple billing teams - that's a story in itself; my team existed almost entirely to protect the European businesses against the perceived inability of the US billing team to accept and respect the requirements of the European business. Of course we couldn't admit that to the US team, so my job was basically to repeatedly refuse to surrender an inch in terms of customer requirements whenever the US team tried to convince us to move something over to the US platform.
Ah, the ad thing makes sense. It's technically true but the meaning conveyed in the statement is quite different.

As for the subscription model, I've thought about that but developers that aren't huge companies have a hard time NOT integrating in-app purchases for cloud services (see "Hey", which had to use social media to get their update approved [1]), so it couldn't be the "vast majority of apps".

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21296180/apple-hey-email-...
You don't "own" a domain: you have a recurring lease on it.
> You originally wrote that applications were a subset of programs and this changed because of iPhone

You’re right I did. Agh truth be told I don’t know when the shift happened (it all feels like ancient history these days) but I do remember people making a distinction between applications, utilities, games and systems software, which they don’t now. I even remember teaching material making that distinction (old enough to have been in Uni when GUI applications were just shifting away from novelty).

Also you keep saying that I’m missing your point about APIs but I’m not. My point is that Windows documentation isn’t a legal document and thus using the term “application” for stuff that could mean any software is perfectly valid. Even now many make a distinction between systems software and applications yet the contents in most of the reference material applies just as much to systems software as it does application software. This is what is meant by metonymic purposes of the term.
I just tried Mastodon yesterday. I was highly unimpressed with the on-boarding funnel and confusing UX.

I think one point people miss is, the social media market is highly competitive. All it takes is for Twitter's UX and on-boarding funnel to be 1% better than Mastodon's for Twitter to win.

Someone needs to provide decentralized social media platform without leaking the decentralization into the UX and on-boarding funnel and I've yet to see anyone do that to date.*

*I'm still looking so if anyone has anything for me to check out I'd be thrilled!
Apple doesn't refer a sale. Apple makes the sale. They are the store, something they have set up and enforced.

The developer has no capacity to deny a customer, yet has the responsibility for the bad customers shopping someone else's store.
3D models can be used for testing/training self driving cars.
IANAL either, but my understanding is that wrongful dismissal is breach of contract, whereas unfair dismissal is illegal [1]. So if you write this procedure into your contracts, and then follow it, it's not wrongful dismissal. To be unfair, for a probation period of less than two years, it would have to be meet one of the criteria for being "automatically unfair", which are basically about the employer doing illegal things, or be discrimination [2].

I would also be very careful before implementing a scheme like this - as you say, you would want to have it thoroughly checked by legal and HR experts.

[1] https://my.ucu.org.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/280/~/unfair-d...

[2] https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/leaving-a-job/dismiss...
That one was born on a conference center toilet. I find the assigning of creators only to be meaningful for those who can't create..
Thanks for explaining. Yours is one of the first articulations I've been able to understand regarding (a) == (b).

Here's why I still see (b) as a sensible position. (I'm sure some of my reasoning only seems valid if you share certain core ideological beliefs about virtue) :

- Civic virtue in a democratic nation. It seems to me that a democracy relies on people accepting laws that they don't agree with, at least in most circumstances. The alternative (AFAICT) is that laws are merely suggestions for those inclined to act that way anyway. Or perhaps, laws are for other people, not oneself. (I'd agree that it's morally imperative to break certain laws, but I don't usually hear this distinction made regarding illegal immigration.)

- Fairness to persons who aren't willing to break the law. By ignoring illegal immigration, we're basically rewarding people who ignore the law over those who are willing to await legal entry/residence. This includes would-be immigrants, legal employers, and legal job-seekers.

- Communicable diseases. To the extent that the spread of communicable diseases can be reduced by imposing screening, vaccination, etc. at border crossings, illegal immigration burdens current residents with greater risk.
probably wise to have a new word for it other than slavery, though I sympathize with the sentiment.
> The all-mighty account creation hurdle will kill all such initiatives.

I don't understand why people consider this to be such a barrier. In an era where we have browsers that suggest secure passwords, store and fill credentials, and sync credentials between devices... why do we still think of registration as an impossible ask for the average user?
I think he knows he's working in a feature factory. What's hard is knowing what you can do to change it.

Where I work, we happen to have a pretty relaxed management. While they always have a ton of deadlines and always push for more work, they largely don't care about the outcome, so you can just ignore it. Every once in a while something will be actually important, but mostly it's just dumb roadmaps for features that don't add value.

What my team has found helpful is to just ignore those fake tasks, and just create the features we actually believe will be valuable. Hopefully we can leverage our outcomes (and the collected data) to convince management that our way is better. Some day.
Let's check. I just sent their support an email to ask for all personal data they have on me (I'm living in the EU, and have Swiss citizenship). I will update in this thread once I have an answer, and if I don't have one then that will be a good reason to write a blog article...

Regarding the IMAP support, I don't see how it's an issue that they provide it to their paid tier. ProtonMail is a paid service, with an option to have limited free accounts.
Renaissance Italy was also a hotspot for the development of technology, far more than Switzerland at the time. A lot of this development was driven by warfare and enabled by achievements in the arts: perspective, for example, enabled far more detailed schematic drawings. Or, the numerous architectural innovations which enabled buildings like the Duomo to be constructed. Most of the best-known Italian renaissance artists were also engineers.

There’s something missing in our appreciation of the Renaissance, says Paolo Galluzzi, professor of the history of science at the University of Florence-something very important. While we rightly glorify this period as an extraordinary flowering of humanism and the arts, most of us have overlooked the engineering accomplishments that were just as much a part of the Renaissance as the “Mona Lisa.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/1998/01/01/237121/the-art-o...
A lot of people including myself would agree with you. But 2020 has been bruising on our mental health so we're not taking any chances.
Great observation, I didn't even notice.

Hang Seng Index,

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/28/asia-markets-hong-kongs-new-...

Wow.
Well, the way directx on wsl works is it redirects dxgkrnl escapes/ioctls to host windows system something not possible on native Linux.
Harder to read != worse.

I have yet to see a programmer write code that manifests an artifact as effective, adaptable, and robust as a human body.