skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> something that's unanimously agreed upon amongst historians and economists

Can you actually show this to be true?

Lots of things in history is are pretty unique. At the time East India company was clearly not special, other institutions of that type that existed. And we can find clear precedents in history.

Any attempted to really define colonialism will either be incredibly convoluted or equally aligns many other historical situations.

Lots of what we call colonization is also not threw quasi-private space sponsored monopolies.
I'd consider myself generally a power user... I still really preferred chrome's out of the box experience over Firefox really early on.

I think a lot of times more technically driven products resist change a bit too much. Some of the best examples are Gimp and Firefox. Gimp's UI is hideous and despite Gimpshop builds offering a better experience to users, they still resist. Similar for Firefox's overall ui/ux when so many preferred chrome (including myself).

Not all UI change is for the better, but when the vast majority of users prefer a different experience, it's helpful to listen sooner than later.
this is super true:

The parasitic elite (in the US) have CRUSHED the working class by ensuring that entering the middle class is as difficult as possible, while the middle class have largely used property to boost themselves into their own generational wealth. The inflation has been due to US debt, which comes from Military spending, QE, etc. The public market has been dominated by large brands who have a slew of predatory practices (looking at you JPM Chase, Apple, Bank of America, etc). NIMBY policies (by the newly elevated middle class, clutching their pearls) and work centralization in dense urban settings, has hurt the whole situation...but there's hope with Covid, ironically. That's what I believe based on my own observation (and experience).
Slightly related: is there a good open source platform around for managing health clinics? I've never stumbled upon a good one in my searches.
You're welcome sir
Coding Interview Questions with JavaScript Solutions Set 2
That is a great simple explanation of the economy, thank you!
Not in perpetuity. Go 2 does not promise to be backward compatible.
Anyone else completely exhausted by the amount of discussion of mental models? It seems like the virtue signalling cliché of 2020.
Yup. That's me.

I hate shitty band-aid code. I love perfection.

I'm Michelangelo - but that by definition makes me a loner.
I love staring at my code and contemplate on it's beauty just like the result of the code working.

I'm perfect at one-man projects.

I hate processes, standups, scrums and all that team playing bullshit.

I love customers and bosses who are trusting and freedom giving.

I love beers, steaks, good food and team gatherings - and i love people whom i am "working" with - but everyone knows i am working on something that is NOT "let get this shit done quickly and push this out of the door by next friday". That's not me.

Although I'm the one my boss comes to with "i don't know how but can you do something about it tomorrow"?
I'm good and super sharp focusing and delivering on my own.
If i need help - I'll ask.

I'm all for skunkworks.

I debug my code myself, using techniques i polished myself over the years and I'll end up with lightbulb that will last 100 yrs. Not the one that cost $3 and requires full replacement after 3.5 weeks of light usage.

I try not to buy stuff made in China. I love stuff made in Europe or Japan.

So, don't push guys like me into your "processes" and "change managements" wasting pipeline bullshit.

I won't fit.

I speak at conferences. I do evil harmless things. I violate countless stupid compliance rules. I take risks no one knows about.
I don't follow rules, and pretty much skip reading them when i can.

I do my best to deliver masterpieces. One piece at a time.

Downvote me.
What language? I tried Python Django a year ago and didn't get half the detail NewRelic shows out of the box. Given the much higher price I didn't even bother looking into custom instrumentalization.

But a year has passed, maybe I should give it another try since NewRelic is trying to make everything as hard as possible with their new UI.
The best solution I know for Wikipedia is to just host your own copy of it. Never need to send any queries out to the web. It's only around 100G with images. I use a simple url filter to change all wikipedia links to point at my local copy. Works like a charm. And fast. https://www.kiwix.org/en/
Their purpose isn't to get accurate information, they're there to give immigration authorities an easy legal way to kick someone out for something that would otherwise require a higher standard of evidence. I.e. anyone answering yes to that question is obviously a red flag but a former SS officer who writes in no can be kicked out by proving he knowingly lied on the forms due to his past as an SS agent without proving he was involved in or knew about the atrocities, which could be a lot harder.
As always with these kinds of ideas, it can never work, in this case due to Gresham's law: bad money drives out good. No prostitutes or manual laborers (good money) are going to trade their time. Only aspiring actors, amateur artists, and etc (bad money) will be willing to participate in the market.

You can't get around money, at least not as a large scale economic system.
Add new DNA into the human mitochondria. If you could do that, you unlock a massive amount of science around how mitochondria function, kinda similar to “what I cannot create I do not understand.

From an engineer’s perspective, mitochondria are kinda the equivalent to virtual machines running on normal computers, as little “virtual cells” within cells. Their genomes are so stripped down that you can do some wild things with them.
Does Google collect user data using tactics banned by Google?
The Founder's Journey: Reactive vs. Preemptive Fundraising
As a developer, the two most important things to me in a laptop are durability (I take it many places) and a good keyboard, and I have found that the ThinkPad P, X and T series are equally good in these regards and leagues beyond the competition.

I'm currently running Fedora on a ThinkPad P52 and couldn't ask for a better development workstation.
someone needs to give you an award

EVERYONE here claiming 'just move your product online' and
'sales have doubled for people who moved online'

do not understand the nature of competition online

You have to be Top 1% online to survive

Top 0.1% to thrive

In the real world you can be the third best coffee shop or t shirt shop in your locality and still do well
Impossibly high standards?

Like, not lying to users about data collection, not opting users into third-party products, not censoring add-ons for political reasons?

Gimme a break. The foundation is given a big break as it is, being tax-free. Then there is this huge greedy corporation bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars while resting its brand on the perceptions most users (outside of HN) have about Mozilla and Firefox being a non-profit thing in general.
Sure, I don't disagree. My point is that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and SQL is the good.
Unfortunately we don’t have anything beyond editing yet :(

We’ve known TALENs can edit for a while, but that breakthrough made it a lot more efficient.
>https://codepen.io/yuanchuan/pen/Lwyjxd
This is perfect for my SG1 inspired reskin of webwormhole p2p file transfer project.
I love articles like this! This reminds me of an article from back in the day on using multiple backgrounds to create a non-repeating infinite tiling image. It used varying ratios to make it possible to use a specific set of sprites to create variance. Sadly, can't find it anymore. It was about 15 years ago in the A List Apart heyday.
Notes on Picking a Database
The big assumption here that really bothers me is that any civilization that developed the technology to expand into the galaxy would've found us by now. That's so bogus. We can probably expand to Mars, but we're still bound by the speed of light.
VSCode feature request: Implement Google Chrome-like grouped tabs
I submitted a feature request to VSCode for something pretty new that was recently added to Google Chrome (see https://blog.google/products/chrome/manage-tabs-with-google-chrome/)

The request it for a Grouped Tabs mechanism, similar to what Chrome introduced. It lets you create a "group" of adjacent tabs, where groups can have a name and color, displayed next to it.

If you like it and would like to see it implemented (or at least die peacefully in VSCode's backlog), please upvote it in the VSCode's repo issues.

The link is: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100335

Sorry if this violates any rules.
An actual href'd link to the issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100335

Again, sorry if this isn't kosher.
Yes, I definitely got my depression from my mother's side of the family. But as far as I'm aware, after controlling for environmental factors (such as amount of time spent with each parent, etc) there's no detectable bias toward maternal inheritance.
Mozilla made $436M from search deals in 2018
This is a very revisionist explanation of how Chrome succeeded: Simply put they paid to be injected into Adobe Reader and Flash Player installs. When Android came around, every manufacturer was required to include Chrome as default.

None of this had to do with product quality.
Desire. Aversion. Desire. Aversion.
Tesla is in bed with China, a country deadly serious about electric vehicles. Plus, many of the other car manufacturers buy electric parts for their own EVs from Tesla.

The worldwide initiative in this direction is strong, so the projected valuation could be just about right. Tesla is part of a global bet.
I know I procrastinate when I don't know how to start.

But learning how to break things down into chunks and make a checklist makes it a lot easier to avoid that. A well defined task is actually fun to do, and I'm much less likely to avoid it.
Proposition 8 didn't restructure marriage and the rights associated with it. It just took away rights from same sex couples.
I know the upvote button is small. I'm a noob so I don't have a downvote button so I can only guess they put it right next to the upvote one.
We used iTerm on OS X to open ssh sessions to each node in a cluster then broadcast identical sets of command lines to each cluster in a set of panes in a team I worked on a couple years ago.
I've just bought my first analog synth, and Chapter 8 on Synthesis is the precise introduction I have been looking for from essential principles. Thank you for posting this.
god bless you soldier
Not at all. I have a pretty cursory knowledge of Photoshop and imagemagick (whenever I use either one I have to constantly google things).
Mastercard is a competitor to Visa.

2nd layers for Bitcoin can scale to many thousands of transactions per second.
There is a recent thread on how even CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is akin to wire-heading[0], and we've known for ages that loneliness encourages depression and addiction[1] so it's not a far leap to suggest that adverse environmental conditions can be measurably, significantly even fatally unpleasant. I think this conclusion is also common knowledge, intuitively accessible to any observant adult. It's strange, then, that we spend so much time addressing the chemical conclusions at which individuals arrive by virtue of their social relations. I suspect there are political reasons behind the medicalization of depression. Why should my neurochemistry be held responsible for relations whose creature I socially remain?

0. https://twitter.com/buss_patriarchy/status/12890769568734658...

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8AHODc6phg
I think there is a fitting English saying that kind of sounds like "eat your own pie" or something like that. I can't find it!

I agree with your general sentiment.

But there are situations and teams where programmers don't tend to have an optimal individual skill-distribution so to speak. Surely there is an opportunity to complement each other to a certain degree.
Thank you.

true master carry no sword
Compared to what.
Eat the food he won't touch and exaggerate how good it tastes. If he doesn't want it after that, no sweat, otherwise it may become a power contest where he's asserting his independence (as he should be). You can also try giving a choice between "this green thing" or "that green thing".
The article is full of urgent suggestions of what "we" should do nationally, but doesn't mention who failed to ensure "we" had a coordinated national response.
Unlimited Google Drive, honestly. It’s nice being able to keep an offsite backup (but not the only one, of course) of my NAS in the cloud.

I assume they’ll get rid of it at some point and then I’ll move, but it’s surely handy (OneDrive is completely terrible UX wise and has a 5TB hard limit).
Yep, but they didn't put it on the store shelves until August 10. It's sold out now.
someone has to write this in manifesto format
I was diagnosed with ADHD almost twenty years ago as a young adult. In my experience learning about how your mind works and spending time to come up with the best system and techniques to keep yourself on task is absolutely critical and should be worked on by any adult with ADHD. I would say that long-term it is more important than medication.

With that said, medication is also quite helpful. In my experience it provided a quick and independent support to my feeling better and productive. I found them critical when the controls I had built for myself proved insufficient or had collapsed. For example, when I moved from an office job to remote work I found the change and the lack of societal pressure to be focused on work left me in disarray. Medication helped me stand myself back up and find the routines and structures that worked in the new environment. As I built these support structures up I found the need for medication was reduced and stopped taking medication for many years. Years later, after a cross-country move which came with the loss of local friends and community I found it necessary to restart. I prefer to not take medication unnecessarily so one day I may be at the point where I stop taking them again, but I'm not there yet.

My advice would be to try medication if your gut says you need it but if you already feel fairly happy and productive then it may not be necessary.
Rust was originally designed to be a systems programming language to replace C++. When you have experience in languages like C++, all of the questions you asked have extremely obvious answers, to the point of being an automatic decision.
A Broken Cable Has Wrecked One of Earth's Largest Radio Telescopes
So how does “changing your mind” lead to a better quality of life and having all of the options in your 90s that you have in your 30s.
You can't just port something to work on Sony / MS / Nintendo platform, only them manage the toolchain and they just don't usually support things outside of C++ / C#.
My advice? Be Fred.
Can we do this with nuclear DNA?
A novel solution to the Fermi paradox
The End of Politics
Not sure if it counts as "mainstream", but Clojure has been stable for years and years. The core data structure manipulation functions are there and they simply work.

The last really big change was transducers, and even those were nicely retrofitted onto the core functions without any breaking changes.
Mozilla (the for profit subsidiary) received $436 million from search deals in 2018 [0].

Your CEO took home more than $2.3M and your treasurer (who only worked 6 months) $1.2M in 2017 [1].

Why don't you hold these people to very high standards?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google
[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-2017-fo...
Although "all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed," organisms have been known to alter our environments to suit our needs, rather than suffer them even to our deaths. For example, when it rains I often open an umbrella.

Perhaps with the right anti-depressant cocktail, I wouldn't bother.
>This would bug me less if their big ideas weren't Pocket and a VR chatroom.

It's probably just Pocket; developers working on the latter were hit with layoffs today, too.
Inalienable rights cannot be taken away by governments, which don't have rights. That there are temporary exceptions for prisons and emergencies is inconsequential to this thread.
In Canada (at least in the province of Ontario) we use something called the FIT Kit, which is a through-the-mail stool sampling method. Men get it for free when they turn 50. But it has a shortcoming (as does its competing non-invasive method) that it can't differentiate blood from a polyp vs blood from hemorrhoids etc. So it can be prone to false positives if you have any of those conditions.

This urine test, which looks for a specific rna signature, probably doesn't have that flaw, and could probably be done through the mail like FIT.
I guess I don't understand the distinction you're making between "editing" and "genetically transforming"?
I have not used twitch in at least a year.
I can't tell if twitch has devolved into a mess of advertisements, or I have been redirected to advertisements because the stream is done; but I will just take this as a sign to stay off twitch for another 365 days.
What makes the “natural” log natural? 3b1b Lockdown Math
This is so cool, it reminds me of this series of responsive pixel art: https://essenmitsosse.de/pixel/?showcase=true&slide=5
Those who enter later in life may not ever quite feel at home.
When your game is 125GB it does not really matters if your dll is 20MB instead of 30, it was the case 15 years ago now it's a much different story.
Facial Recognition Startup Mounts a First Amendment Defense
The current Go 2 drafts do.
Eich literally donated to ban gay marriage. That's a deserving case of cancel culture, if there is any.
Just off the top of my head, Kenya has a KPMG office. I don't think its accurate to say that Kenyans have to be runners for a sniff of opportunity. This is the sort of patronizing contradiction that comes out when white people self-flagellate.
You could fork the extension and modify it for your own usage
You'll be remembered always Fravia! For imparting the knowledge and the collective effort to teach RE!
Which product specifically do you use, if you don't mind me asking? I'd like to try it myself to see if it helps me as well.
there is no year zero. Let that sink it
Refactor #16
Now I'm completely confused. There's an argument going on? Does it involve me?
Writing your own type system in a Lisp is an afternoon task, but nobody does that because...
Yet Another Doom Clone (In 13kb of JavaScript)
That implies that all efforts to change external circumstances are linked to mental health issues.

Also understanding does not automatically lead to fixing. We understand a lot of things that we haven't been able to change. And what if the understanding we gain shows us that the causes of our anxiety and mental health issues are things in the world around us?
NixOS and Nixpkgs. They are not instant updates in most cases like Arch, but Unstable has quite a few updated packages, and everything or anything can be updated or held back without fear of breaking, as previous config is a simple reboot away.
Google hate train incoming
node-tlds has almost 500,000 weekly downloads on NPM. This PR has a little bit of everything and brought some joy to my evening.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/tlds
Special laser's 'spacetime' waves have remarkable properties
>"Unless there's some search engine that ranks based on locale"

Yelp works like that as well, Yellow pages and Google Maps too.
Unfortunately, most of Fravia's googlefu has bitrot since his passing in 2009. I wrote my own guide for contemporary search: https://www.gwern.net/Search
Let people worship as they choose. Adults have the right to choose their own risk.
My company has been using PhoneGap to deliver enterprise mobile apps for years. Though we have long realized that PhoneGap will not be be around much longer, the migration has been quite a pain for us.

We have been able to move to Ionic without many code changes, so that's our de facto solution. I'm curious to hear about others' experiences with PhoneGap, Cordova, and Ionic in the real world. Ionic seems to be the best path forward as the "spiritual successor" to PhoneGap, but I have also been looking into React Native (possible with Expo).
The problem is they don't believe it. The NRA publishes like a dozen or more political magazines that tell the members its all a lie, meant to shutdown their organization that is standing up for their rights against the evil liberals. The members have been conditioned over the last 15 years or so not to believe in the media except their own propaganda outlets. The problem is on one point they are right the NY AG campaigned on shutting them down. So now when she says she has evidence of financial impropriety and there internal propaganda arms says "see she is dong what she said she would do, she is making it up to get ride of us so she can take your guns" they ignore the evidence of wrong doing.

Of course they never heard about Oliver North trying to kick LaPierre out for this because LaPierres cronies kicked Oliver out instead then turned around and lied to their members that Oliver North was the one stealing. Its insane.
> The question is, was the policy created with the intent of racism.

This sounds reasonable, but this is not how US Federal law works.

One key concept is strict scrutiny [1] -- when a regulation that infringes fundamental constitutional rights (such as equal protection under the law), or when a law pertains to a "protected class" like race or national origin, the standard is much higher.

In particular, in such cases, you do not have to prove, for example, racist intent to strike the law down. See the link for more. The obvious reason is that it's very hard to prove intent.

The current administration did manage to be blatant enough in its attempt to add a question to the census to suppress counting of people it does not like, that it did indeed reveal intent. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny

[2] https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/trump-administration...
It's great that a user-centered protest against a CEO who literally donated to ban gay marriage is considered "virtue signalling". And that's not even considering that Eich was a CEO for all of 11 days before he quit.
Magnesium is amazing for many things.

Have several crippling conditions. Magnesium has brought drastic relief.

Muscle aches, migraines, cognitive issues.

Al much improved.
It's also the powerhouse of the cell.
great analogy
You may want to try rss-bridge so you can just get tweets from those people into a feed reader
I think the post was saying that different folks have different skills and we should give people the space to do what they enjoy. I agree with it, and somewhat fit the archetype of "Fred" in the post.

That said, I could only nod along with the first half of your comment - the rest started to get a bit condescending.

I mean, you do you - if this working style works for you, that's great! But I think you can still work on your craft and be a perfectionist while appreciating how others want to work as well.
> I think that’s when their values changes from being a technically excellent product to being a friendly company that values harmony over function.

What part of this announcement is valuing "harmony over function"? How does laying off 250 people compute with that?
My answer to this question was ‘A John Scalzi Novel.’

But IIRC weren’t mitochondria subsumed by another cell for ATP output forever ago in our evolutionary development?
What dosage do you take? I've had some results with Magnesium Citrate.