skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right sort of textbook is just as good as a good lecture.
In math, books like Rudin's Principles of Analysis are extremely thorough, rigorous, and a great source of problems, but not a good book to start learning from. On the other hand, Abbott's Analysis is a less detailed book but a much better introduction. Any textbook that takes itself too seriously is probably not going to be as good as a lecture.
Thanks for making it!

In case somebody is wondering: The game was made with Scirra's "Construct 2", which is a great 2D game-maker. You can immediately try it (the current version 3) in the browser on https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/free-trial

I'm a hobbyist, and usually use Construct, Phaser or vanilla JS.

I have put the source-file on https://github.com/niorad/Ninio, you'll need Construct 2 or 3 to open it, though (paid version I think).

Tom, please allow me to say thanks for your work! As front-end-dev, I'm stunned by having C3 in the browser. I would highly enjoy reading about its software-architecture and approaches one day, especially since it's not based on any of the big front-end-frameworks.
A drop in the ocean.
my girl would think the button is a bomb...which it is in a sense
I suppose we'll have to weigh your assurances against the historical record of:

> In a 1960 interview, Bard reiterated that "the Japanese were ready for peace and had already approached the Russians" about capitulating.

> General Dwight D. Eisenhower, later said that "the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

> "Japan was already defeated and dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary," President Eisenhower wrote in 1954.

> The same morning that Nagasaki was destroyed, Prime Minister Kintaro Suzuki addressed the Japanese cabinet, declaring that "under the present circumstances I have concluded that our only alternative is to accept the Potsdam Proclamation and terminate the war." Suzuki did not learn about Nagasaki until the afternoon of August 9.
I think the above comment isn't 100% correct and should not be allowed either.
Try changing the default in Safari, on the theory that it might use that as some sort of “system search engine”? Failing that, it’s probably just hardcoded.
This Company threw away 26 tonnes of ice-cream
That’s good news! I’m on iOS 13, wasn’t able to find a way to install the beta yet (not a registered iOS developer myself).
That is exactly what I meant. You use PII to create whatever product(s) you sell to 3rds. I read the EULA over a decade ago. Good on Goog for stating it plainly. My answer is still, NO. Even when I go to .govs & other sites using Goog apis(UBO). More people would concur if they had an idea of how much all the minutia the SV giants(& the other alphabets)hoover up about our lives. And how it's used against us in daily commerce.

As for your red herring, I can only guess how mal-scans can be monetized. If anyone can do it, I have no doubt Goog will.

Edit: O-T content removed.
The us already controls the seas
My understanding is that on average, a tire loses a molecule's worth of rubber thickness every time it goes around. I would imagine tires lose more with heavy breaking of fast starts. The other day I saw some idiot on a motorcycle purposely spinning his tire at the stop, leaving a black mark on the pavement and a lot of smoke, which I then had to drive through. Fortunately that's rare.
NYC Councilman Paul Vallone Credits Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 Recovery
Hyperledger Ursa
totalitarian much?
Following this logic they should also remove Washington Post conspiracy group, it has millions of members
You describe it so well. It's worth emphasising how much frustration this causes. Especially to those who don't use computers very often. They desperately try to make sense of it or find some pattern. All I can say to them is: "No it's not you, it's just bad design, don't worry about it"
someone needs to read the article
It is a good first step. I am tired of the reasoning that Facebook is somehow some sort of "common square" because "all my friends are there" and therefore their actions should be constrained by legal language.

One of the great things that the Internet does is make it possible for any group to make their own echo chamber (see Parler as an example), and complaining that people don't show up says more about the people who created it and less about the regulatory environment.
> But it wasn't an attack.

Here's the thing:

Wiktionary tersely describes "ad hominem" as "A personal attack", so the number of people in disagreement includes: me, the person(s) who wrote that (who is not me), and then the multiple not-mes who have agreed to let it stand. Let's say that's beside the point and somehow flawed.

There's the matter of your last message, where you said it wasn't ad hominem. You have changed tactics to move away from the term "ad hominem" and focus on the phrasing of "personal attack". Is it ad hominem but not a personal attack, or is it not ad hominem?

> it's the exact equivalent of how you just said "you're wrong"

Sorry, no. At best, you're arguing that rightness or wrongness in the case of the original comment is either unknowable or unknown. That's uncertainty. Asserting that a case of ad hominem is not ad hominem isn't a matter of uncertainty. Whether it's true is knowable and known. It's known to be wrong.

> It's a bad idea to call other people wrong if you're going to react so strongly to being called wrong yourself.

This is a straightforward example of ad hominem, FWIW. And I'm not "reacting strongly to be called wrong". Separately from that, even if I were, that would not make it a "bad idea to call other people wrong" (nor would it put those people into a state of being not wrong).
Most markets aren't zero sum games.
Why not? Why do we even need to indulge this design flaw?
If you're looking for a hardening guide for iOS, then try the iVerify app. It will help you detect jailbreaks, check critical security settings, and teach you about many more.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/11/14/introducing-iverify-...
Not exactly for the same intensity of the feeling but the first coherent script I wrote was to impress girl I liked in junior high.

It was hand delivered on a beautiful red floppy, printed out some ascii art and made noise. Who could resist? (spoiler: she somehow managed to).
Water beetles that survive being swallowed by frogs
Will they say their removal was a conspiracy?
This seems more like hate-coding...
Took them long enough. Same day as this hit the news: https://www.salon.com/2020/08/08/republicans-paid-huge-stran...

If Facebook disappeared tomorrow I wouldn’t cry all that much.
Which group?
It's a good step, but what the US needs the most at the moment is a stronger education system. Most of what we're seeing today is really just a symptom of a deeper issue.
He/she is being deliberately obtuse & slippery. I believe their NDAs prohibit any kind of frank or unscripted conversations, you know, to protect the soulless citizen, Alphabet.
This feels too little too late. QAnon is a “thing” now, Facebook allowed it to grow big enough that they can probably find other platforms to grow even further.
>Batteries degrade, and after being replaced they work fine.

If the batteries were user replaceable, it would have been a perfect story.

Sending the device back to the manufacturer (authorised service center) can be inconvenience(data formatting, TOTP apps etc.) at best to security breach(malware install, device imaging etc.) at worst.

Also, if indeed a user decides to replace the battery on their own, an iPhone is the least repairable phone out there and getting worse with every iteration.
The Washington Post
His invention allowed the easier transmission of knowledge, which is undoubtedly valuable. His mistake was in thinking that transmission of knowledge necessarily leads to wisdom. Wisdom comes from direct experience. Knowledge is knowing, wisdom is being. They are two sides of the same process, but people often get hung up on the knowledge part of it and never go out into the world and deeply live.
I live in Hungary, there is a hungarian language COVID conspiracy group with 107k members atm. Reported them and nothing happened for weeks, they are growing easily. And I think nothing will happen.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Normalis.Elethez.Ragaszkodok...

There is not even a category to report them because Facebook only has limited options (nudity, harassment, hate speech, unauthorized sales, violence)
I would lose contact with most of my friends, that would suck.
> Facebook, as a platform, has enabled mass amounts of misinformation, hatred, and groupthink, to the point of becoming a serious concern for our democracy

I don't disagree, but I've wondered why that doesn't lead to people using it less?

One thing I've noticed is people care a lot less about misinformation favorable to their point of view. I've only see people angry about it against their perspective.

Another observation is that people get upset about the most egregious & outrageous lies. I've actually wondered how dangerous those are. Someone willing to believe Obama wasn't born in the United States probably was going to vote against him no matter what. They've made up their mind & are just looking to now justify their decision.

I think the more dangerous points are things that are right on the line of truth/fiction.
Great! I have done a similar quiz for pokemon routes, maybe I should polish and release it.
It would be interesting to see if an AI can learn about the movements that trace someone's particular handwriting, perhaps it can identify and reproduce the different "styles" involved (i.e from person to person).
It is worth noting that major religious groups are, and continue to be, designated as domestic (extremist) threats. Quakers were "extreme". It is very dangerous to give the gov. authority to choose which beliefs are extreme and which are not.
>You cannot allow religion and not allow conspiracy theories

It seems like the reason for the ban is that the group

"repeatedly posting content that violated our policies"

I assume that if a religious group also repeatedly violated policies, it would meet the same fate. But the article doesn't clarify what policies were violated.

Edit...missing words.
Donald Duck deep learning experiment
Yeah, it could be both. Also the two are somewhat complementary. Hence my (apparently typo'ed) statement that it didn't contradict the OP's comment.
It wasn't banned because it was a conspiracy theory. It was banned because its members practiced hate speech, harassment, and bullying.

You should read the article.
I thought electric cooker uses less water in contrast to no water.
How do we know that this isn't just metastasizing the problem?
Because that is what pretty every US American independently from political affiliation i talked with about this told me. They need to spent their own money on things that is covered via taxation in many parts of Europe. Whether this is good or bad, is a bit a matter of opinion.

I have absolutely no doubt that if you want to maximize personal compensation and benefits, the US is the place to be. Nothing else comes close

But originally this threat was about "Why compete with FAANG trying to pay new grads $300k when you can pay an experienced developer from Europe $100k? I honestly never understood it."

I doubt that a statistically significant amount of new grads get 300k in compensation plus those kind of benefits. I haven't spent a whole time researching but I couldn't find anything backing this up. E.g. it seems that you need to stay at Google 5 years to get 25 days vacation and entery level total compensation at FAANG being more in the 150k - 200k range.

On the other hand as an experienced developer making more than a 100k in just salary plus at least these benefits is not that hard in Europe if you are willing to move or find a remote job.

From all I heard or read, outside FAANG, the financial industry, and certain hotspot, the compensation and benefits within the US go down quite considerably and the difference to Europe is still big, but less exorbitant.

So sure, if you come in with full FAANG (many / all? of which have had engineering teams in Europe for a long time) style compensation packages plus benefits you will be able to attract many Europeans, especially if they don't have to move. But then we are quickly back to square one: Why compete with FAANG?

And again, I'd argue a big part of the reason why US companies can offer these much higher compensation package to positions like software engineers is because they save it on lower end jobs and there are fewer regulations for the common good in place that would cost them money. For some, this makes US companies a non-starter independent from the individual offer.
Check out ulx3s [1], it's a quite an impressive open source dev board with lots of features, based on the same ECP5-series FPGA chip.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s#details-top
It’s actually more efficient to capture all wave lengths of solar store it in a battery and then only produce the wavelengths that the plants can absorb.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plants-versus-pho...
Does the DOJ use RECAP? If not, could they be convinced to? It’s effectively free money for them to just push out the RECAP browser extension over a group policy to their entire user base.
Go read Sapiens and tell me how humans don’t need beliefs. Religion is the reason us Homo sapiens and not some other species of humans are the only ones that survived.

I say this as someone who is deeply against any form of organized religion, but saying they don’t affect anything in the real world is like saying that violence never solves anything.
Humans are still way better at creativity then what is essentially a really large collection of random probabilities

Why do you want to make artistry extinct?
Indeed, "religious" facebook groups that cross that line are candidates for banning as well. Problem with conspiracy theories in general is it inevitably ends up with demonising some group or other that's "suppressing" the "truth"?

Want to argue the world is flat? Fill your boots. Start to say there's a cabal of scientists with nefarious motives? You're heading toward the hate speech line. Plan breaking into prominent scientists homes to obtain evidence? The line's behind you.
Comet (getcomet.net): A new open-source Reddit alternative
But is it fairer when a person lives in a country that intentionally has monetary policy that causes them to not be able to work for those lower wages? A person in the US is not legally allowed to move to one of those lower wage countries and cannot afford to house or feed themselves if they worked for those wages. A person in one of those lower wage countries can afford many luxuries on that lower salary due to cost of living differences.

So that person, even if they are highly skilled, will instead have to work at a low skill job for low wages . Not because they have lower skills, but because their government is looking out for the wealthy asset class as opposed to the working class and those other countries(like India) do not legally allow US citizens to live and work in their lower cost of living country.

I know of many companies with outsourced talent, that have a local office in the US where clerical workers and the janitors of the building make higher wages than the overseas outsourced engineers. And those clerical workers and janitors do not make enough income in the US to have decent housing or health care. They are forced, by the laws of the lower cost of living countries, to stay in the US and live poorly.
This is a fun hack. FWIW, similar sorts of things can be used to add a PATA drive to a Cortex-M microprocessor like the STM32 series.

Who doesn't want a micropython board with gigabytes of code space ? :-)
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How quickly would you get back in touch with those you actually keep up with? And those that aren’t actually your friends just people whose memes you like? Do they really add that much to your life?
When religion-focused groups engage in bullying, harassment, or hate speech, they should be removed too (and I assume they already are).
How big are the teams you've worked with? I agree it's productive for deep work and when design is already worked out for large changes or additions, but I've had many people on my team complain that they can't work through a hard problem on a whiteboard with peers or quickly sync up on a design and require more time in meetings to get things done across components/team members/teams. Also not everyone has a dedicated office space at home, those people are hurting and having a hard time focusing in many cases.
This gameplay is brilliant! It gets super hard when they have totally different obstacles and I love it.
No doubt. Threats, threatening people, and threatening regimes exist and I'm certainly not advocating for a lack of justice and ethics.

It would help if society at various levels became less divisive, that's all. That certainly involves moving beyond the us vs them mentality in a lot of different ways, which takes emotional development starting at the level of the individual.

I can tell that you feel very strongly about the ongoing political situation, but there are of course many other contexts.
I've definitely read more than two stories with NoScript enabled. I also block cookies, that may be whats doing it.

Edit: Just went to past submissions from medium.com, opened up about seven. No paywall showing.
This intereste me because I've been looking at folding and unfolding of programs recently for some bit of fun work on the side of my PhD (or maybe not so on the side). I was looking for easy examples of this thing online and this is the closest I could find:

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/refactor-fp/catalogue/Fol...

-- Folded program
showAll = (concat . format) . map show
table = concat . format

-- Unfolded program
showAll = table . map show
table = concat . format

I've been wondering if there is maybe some kind of correspondence between programming and geometry in this respect. In the context of programming "folding/unfolding" is just an analogy and one has to stare at examples like the one above for a bit to appreciate how apt it is, whereas it's much more obvious to see when it comes to geometry. Also, the programming term signifies replacement of a structure by another, whereas folding geometric objects is, I think, not really a replacement. But, well, this thing is now stuck in my mind.
Watch: Damien Chazelle Shot This Vertical Short Film on an iPhone 11
My partner works in education and was trying to launch a new programme, IT were super slow and refusing to update a banner on a page (Moodle site).

I quickly tested that JavaScript would be executed on the parts of the page she could control, so, I just used a simple script to replace the banner.

Somewhat unfortunately, my test to see if scripts were executed was to make an alert popup with "[name] is damn sexy" and a colleague of hers happened to be refreshing the page at the same time ;) (this was at 8pm when most people were home)

It was totally fine, banner was replaced, colleague laughed and I relearned the lesson to test things out in non visible ways (and with safe language).
made a myspace template, does that count ? oh and a patch for a space agency too (agency which refuses to hire me, how pretty)
I can think of plenty of uses of empty space. Housing is just one of them. What I didn't come up with was any need that tech companies might have. (I hadn't thought of datacenter, which another commenter mentioned, but I doubt the space opening up will be particularly useful for that.) Regardless, I've not heard of any tech companies needing huge amounts more space recently. Starting a new housing company to use this space might make sense, but I doubt any of the tech companies have any desire to become housing companies. I guess I could be wrong. If they do, I'll be removing any investments I might have with them, though.
It's not exactly the same, but https://keithjgrant.com/posts/2019/02/adding-webmention-supp...

Webmention's offer some ability to link comments back to your static sites?
Ultimately this is about removing the limitations of agriculture as it stands (1 acre/acre, 1kw/m2, 330ppm CO2) so that we can convert energy and chemicals into food in a scalable, reliable and repeatable way. This has obvious medium-term applications outside of our atmosphere and gravity well, but if we allow energy costs to come down by orders of magnitude by continuing to make advances in nuclear energy, it will inevitably lead to a system that's preferable in terms of land use, both in terms of former agricultural land that can be returned to forests and relatively small high-density power plants that will replace sprawling renewable infrastructure. I don't understand why people keep bringing up the idea of using high-rise buildings in an urban/near-urban environment; surely you'd want to do it in lights-out factories on the cheapest available land, and if energy is cheap enough to make vertical farming profitable, shipping costs would be negligible. A single 1km X 1km X 1km underground vertical farm could be sufficient to feed millions of people while leaving the land above it available for forests/grassland/tundra, or provide district heating to a sizeable population.
Thanks, that one looks great.
As long as we have cattle we will have manure anyway. Might as well use it beneficially, also because disposing of the rest is already hard enough.
Apologists. I don't get it either.
> they affect nothin in the physical world

There are religions that center around worship of nature.

I don’t agree that humans don’t need beliefs though. Most people today are filling that need with politics and are very fanatical about it.
Was Facebook their main platform? I thought it was YouTube.