skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Same thing happened during most other wars, older population calls upon the younger population to defend their rights and riches. No war is better than peace.

Seriously, the clearer we see that boycotts and economic isolation are far more favourable than preserving the Wealth of a Boomer generation the sooner this via War that mentality can fade from Human consciousness.

I'd sooner see all of the boomers have their wealth stripped and lost before even a proxy war take place with drones.

This isn't entirely generational conflict, I have worked with some amazing people who happened to be Boomer aged, but given how collectively calloused they've been to all other generations to support an unsustainable path I want to see a massive correction in their standard of living and quality of Life so they get a wake up call to the true costs what what they have imposed upon the World. More of a rigid confined mental state that has been upheld for so long that they cannot escape it without a real kick to the head. Most of Greta's followers of notoriety are all Boomer Age or older, but seldom actually do anything: Merkle being a prime example of this.

As a millennial, I have it very clear in my mind how Gen Z will likely be the first generation to totally abandon any filial/paternal loyalty left in decision making when they truly understand the gravity of not just the Political/Economic damage (which has always been transient) that they are gong to inherit the dire Environmental situation.

I hope we see a massive diaspora of Humans to rural under populated places as a result, and given my conversations with many who seem disillusioned with their prospects in both the East and West that seems to be already happening; many HKers are fleeing to Taiwan or the UK, and others have been in Canada for some time but they're also moving to Australia, and the US.

These are highly skilled, highly educated migrants with Western values that are being competed for. Taiwan is offering them a form of UBI for those that arrive from HK die to political reasons, and the UK is making lots of accommodations for BN(O) passport holders.

This is what disruption looks like, its never pretty and almost always pretty damn messy, but I'm glad we're here as the CCP has to be stopped.
One of the craziest thing I have noticed is bikes have been sold out everywhere. You can't find a $1500 entry level road bike. My friends are telling me the cheapest they are seeing are starting to be $2-3k.

If you have an old bike that you want to sell, the premiums are almost 20-50% more. Some people are selling 3 year old bikes for MSRP. It's crazy right now.
I don't mind that, though, I think outsized reward is fair for outsized value creation. Where I disagree is that it should last more than a generation, and I believe that higher taxes should be levied to raise the standard of living for the bottom rung.

I believe in wealth and income in equality.
I remember resorting to using typeorm's queryrunner.query writing SQL by hand quite a few times. Eventually I figured I'll just get really good at SQL. Haven't tried it but MikroORM has been on my list of tools to try out. Hoping its good.
2 pages side-by-side on a sufficiently large screen looks great. I've only seen a few websites that flow text in columns and make graphics pleasant to interact with. Sure, many web browsers have reader mode but it's limited, clunky, and hard to configure.

Web designers have the idea that I want a big column of text running down the center and lots of whitespace to the sides, perhaps with sub-menus. This would look OK if I had my main monitor oriented vertically, but I don't and almost nobody does. As a result only about 50% of my screen space is working and I am constantly scrolling back and forth on long pages if I want to look back more than a paragraph or two.

I've developed a deep dislike of commercial graphic designers as a class of people because they took everything that was annoying about magazines and put it on steroids. Many graphic designers hate text and now we have a million interfaces that look superficially interesting but are deeply unpleasant to read.
> It's kind of sad that "for" is the keyword programming languages settled on for the loop construct.

Many languages only use `for` to mean a for-each style loop where it reads quite naturally:

Python - `for n in range(1,10)`

Ruby - `for i in 0..10`

Rust - `for n in 1..10` (also picked up the bare `loop`)

Others support for-each style loops along with the less than ideal C-style for loop:

JavaScript - `for (n of [1,2,3])` (second attempt, for-in has too many gotchas.)

Java - `for (int n : {1,2,3})`

Otherwise I agree that `while` reads far more naturally. I guess they must have wanted to minimize the number keywords in Go.
I don't understand how that could happen. It is something descibed in fiction from time to time. But I don't see how you can move your consciousness from your body somewhere else. Copy perhaps. But the consciousness that remain in the body will want to live on, I am sure. So that is why I cannot see us "stop" using our bodies. Certainly, we can become extinct, but that is something else.
Essentially, in this paper it's a light wave were the spatial and temporal dimensions are not easily separable. What the authors seem to do here is essentially do a time dependent spatial correlation of a light pulse, which then exhibits
"unintuitive" properties. The paper reads a little bit, like several similar papers in the field, where something relatively trivial is packed into a nice sounding story. That said I have not read the details yet and there might be something more profound.
Every case is different, I've heard enough horror stories for me to be at least very careful about it.
Maybe, just maybe, you should take the criticism to mean that your intent didn't come across well and that you have an opportunity to improve how you communicate with others.

Food for thought.
Except the World Series is named after the original sponsors of the competition and is not meant to infer worldwide participation. I'm not from the US and I am not from somewhere that plays competitive baseball and I know that,therefore I assume in the competitive baseball world this is known widely enough.
With no government benefits there would be vastly more pressure to unionize and demand better wages or just ask for more on the front end and select the employer willing to pay more.
Of course you are correct, but the tools available to other governments still concern me greatly. Are we actually presently capable of making sure nobody snoops on our data? If so then I agree it is a better solution. But is it not better to use an imperfect plan which is implementable than wait for a perfect plan (if such a thing exists for cyber-security) to become implementable when a threat is present?
Surely you understand why compilers do this, right? This isn't compilers and standard writers being mean because they hate you. This is a language that you choose for speed being optimal for speed. In particular, signed integer overflow being UB was and still is a necessary evil so that compilers don't have to add ugly loop preambles to every loop you write.
I tried to write an answer a few times but I got stuck on the definition of what a Data Scientist actually does. I guess this varies from company to company. Maybe you could check work place ads you'd like to apply to and see what are their requirements? At least instead of doing your analysis on a GUI in my opinion it should be implemented in a programming language so that it can be automated and re-run as new data keeps coming in.
Empires are made up of people - both good and bad. Empires have both good and bad impacts as they expand. Its the people (colonizers, colonized) who make the difference in many cases.

Prior to the British Empire, slavery was ubiquitous, as was piracy. It was widespread in Africa, the Middle East, and other areas. After the British Empire, these scourges were pretty much gone, primarily through the efforts of the British Empire.

That is not to say that slavery and piracy were not actively encouraged, and used as instruments of the British state. In fact, slavery and piracy greatly expanded for a time due to British policies. The British state, and powerful companies and people achieve great wealth and power because of slavery and piracy.

Nonetheless, they were eventually ended decisively through the efforts of the British Empire, which banned slavery in 1807.

What happened? People changed, and fought for change. Their efforts changed the machinery of the British Empire for the better.

Consider John Newton. He was a slave trader, who eventually became an abolitionist (a person who fought against slavery).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton

Or William Wilberforce, who spent a large part of his life facing ridicule for opposing slavery, and fighting the powerful slave interests, finally winning that fight in 1807.

So, yes, a large government apparatus such as the British Empire can have an enormous impact on people, both good and bad.

Simplifying the complexity to "without colonization, we would be fine" or "colonization provided all of these great benefits" - both of those gloss over the reality, and make it likely we'll repeat the mistakes of the past.
Environmental harm should be one place where the corporate veil should be pierced and people should be held personally liable for their actions and decisions.

If someone dumped tons of deadly chemicals into a river for no reason, and those actions resulted in the long-term deaths of thousands, they'd go to jail. But if that person does the same thing for profit, as an executive of a massive conglomerate, nothing happens to them.
"If you want half the world's hackers to audit your code, put it in an Apple product. If you want all the world's hackers to audit your code, put it in a Nintendo product."
I’ve always been amused that people complain about the weather all year long and then when they finally get their week and a half of summer they complain that it’s too hot :)
Contrafreeloading and Cats
Can you not manually set the two tokens to the same "seed"?
That’s a crazy level of downtime. Whereabouts?
Yes, because the content is retrieved, presumably from a database, by javascript.
"A good temporary fix will become a permanent solution" :D
The fuck? Is there any documentation for this? CVE?
You should parse the claim like this: "Amazon, on the other hand, who is publicly shamed for the wages they pay, actually employs hundreds of thousands of middle-class workers." (As you are perfectly aware.)
Phew, agreed. I mean of course the company "can" read the message. If it does, I would love to see that shown by the app upfront, so I can avoid using it.
I have 20+ years of SEO experience, going back before it was commonly called SEO, before Google even existed. I cut my SEO teeth figuring out how to manipulate AltaVista rankings.

Here, I've marked up a typical content page of yours, showing what's wrong very blatantly. It took about 30 seconds to diagnose the whole site based on the repeating content farm structures and thin content problems.

https://i.imgur.com/k5brlYr.png

That page maybe has 20 or 30 words of quality content on it. That will get you an extreme demotion from Google if you're running a whole site like that in a content farm structure.

Your site was very likely penalized due to low quality, shallow content. Google tagged it as being a content farm. No conspiracy is necessary, it's obvious why it's penalized. Any SEO expert would point out the countless problems in the first few minutes of a discussion with them.

I looked at numerous pages, all were of very low quality, and thin / shallow on content.

On one page I checked there were 471 words, most of which were repeating low value words or from low value segments of the page (eg the "Link to this slang definition" section). Google knows the page is thin on quality content, aka shallow. I found this to hold true across all the pages I checked.

On most of the pages I checked the most frequent non-common words were "definitions" and "include" - ie hyper low value content. Your typical page looks like it might have 50 or fewer words of quality non-repeating content (content unique to just that page, written by a human). That's hundreds of words shy of what it needs to be at an absolute minimum.

The pages all have repeating content farm structures (which were increasingly common 8-12 years ago) with shallow content in those areas of the page, which is something Google sought to clean up around the time you're claiming the penalty occurred, which makes perfect sense.

You built a content farm, with a lot of shallow content pages, Google dramatically changed how it treats those types of sites, and your site most likely got nuked because of it. If you build a content farm structured site, where all the pages have repeating segments and your offset of positive value only consists of dozens of words of quality text on each page, you stand zero chance of getting traffic. That started being true 8-10 years ago as Google updated its algorithms to target content farms, to wipe them out of existence. They killed a billion dollar site, eHow, circa 2010-2011 in the process:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHow
Data systems that learn to be better
It's not true that PDFs are only for print. In fact, MacOS display technologies are based (at least the first iterations) on PDF. PDF for screen can work very well, the problem is that the industry never standardized this aspect of the technology. The result is that viewing PDF nowadays is far from optimal. I truly believe that PDF could have been a much better technology than HTML for modern websites. Instead HTML, which started as a semantic technology, was shoehorned into what we have today.
Languages don't maintain internal mutual comprehensibility over those sorts of time frames. This is what English looked like 1000 years ago:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43521/beowulf-old-eng...

The only ones that maintain any significant population that can use them are those that are liturgical languages (e.g. Latin, Hebrew, Classical Greek, Classical Arabic, Sanscrit, ...)
I don’t know what country you are from, in my country laughing is never a thing people are supposed to not do.

On the other hand, since it was always very not natural for me, i’ve used this strategy (basically laughing on command- that is, actually, fake laughing) for many of my teenage years, and it has taken several years and much thought for me to realize that it was making me really miserable.

Now i tend more towards not forcing myself to do anything that wouldn’t be natural from me, and this has made me much more satisfied with myself (even if, sure, simply growing up would have that effect anyway..)

If what you are actually saying is you are naturally wired to laugh a lot and you were actually restraining yourself, well then sure, but then also i’m sure you never had much soft skills problems...
I think the catch is that "microlibraries" can still contain reasonably large amounts of functionality that's non-trivial to replicate.

I'd be happy enough to import single-function dependencies for "urlencode" or "is_valid_email" rather than manually grow out all the edge cases (again).
Having a backup is one thing. Restoring from that backup in a way which is piecemeal is another thing entirely.
With all due respect, this is obviously not true. The U.S. used to literally have slave labor. Then it had child labor, uncapped workweek lengths, no safety regulations, no minimum wage, etc. The workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, for example, earned the equivalent of today's $3.67/hour working 52 hours per week thanks to there being "no government fingers on the scale".

I know that libertarian types like to pretend government regulations just appeared into reality suddenly, without anything provoking them. But the reality is, most government regulations were put in place to save people from unsafe conditions that the free market exploited.
I'm surprised to see that if the power is out in your area, that the power used to boost coax signals in your area is not out as well!
I think that really depends on what you are used to reading and is in neither intentionally or unintentionally misleading. There is quite a bit of literature about spatio-temporal correllations, spacetime correlations... outside the gravitational fields. It simply means that space and time are coupled.
Yeah "home quality" UPSs I've found cause more outages than they prevent.
The other day I looked into rowing machines (ergs). The one that seemed like the no-brainer best choice according to basically everyone is sold out everywhere. Heavily used ones are going for like 20% over retail on Craigslist. So much for that.

I've been meaning to DIY a squat rack in the garage but I need a bar, and I haven't even bothered to check that. I assume they're hard to find and selling for over-normal-price used, same as everything else.
Perhaps it wasn't relevant to tech?
You seem to be dismissing FOSS, despite that it has taken over the world when it comes to servers and smartphones.

I think that dismissal is correct. While both may be open-source, neither is "free" in the sense of the term that Stallman is using. Cloud services may run on Linux, but it's a very TiVo-ized form, where the free core is wrapped in many layers of proprietary code that serve to negate the freedoms that Stallman is pushing for. Similarly, Android, while it is open-source, is nowadays so dependent on Google Play Services (which is proprietary) that it seems hardly fair to call it free software in the same way that one would call a Linux desktop free software.
My anecdata is definitely in opposition to your anecdata :-) I’ve personally struggled in the past to keep a consistent fitness habit because it felt like it took a lot of time. However, Covid gave me a couple of extra hours a day, and, coupled with the discovery of amazing body weight exercises on YouTube, I’ve been working out virtually every day for the past 3 months. That’s longer and more frequently than I have ever exercised previously.
Startups Braced for the Worst. The Worst Never Came
PDF is a document display technology. It doesn't pretend to encode the semantic of the document. PDF producers are responsible for doing this.
Why do you assume the GP is a Brit?
> Unless it’s something like s3 giving high error rates

Just firewall off the real s3, and point clients at a proxy which forwards most requests to the real s3 and returns errors or delays to the rest.
There are two things:

- DNA Methylation
- DNA Acetylation

Methylation downregulates a gene's expression. Acetylation upregulates a gene's expression. In any case, over your lifetime methylation profiles of your genetics can vary, generally increasing.

Methylation of your cells isn't something that happens in every tissue at the same rate. So you actually need to define a biological clock based on methylation over time for all the different tissues. Then you can also build clocks for 2 or more tissues, or the whole organism... maybe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic_clock
This is great storytelling, thanks. Maybe worth a letter to 2600 magazine?
Can confirm; I've been trying to find a sub $1k mountain bike in Southern California for a week without luck.
I imagine AWS and other clouds have a staging/simulation environment for testing their own services. I seem to recall them discussing that for VPC during re:Invent or something.

I'm on the fence though if I would want a separate region for this with various random failures. I think I'd be more interested in being able to inject faults/latencies/degradation in existing regions, and when I want them to happen for more control and ability to verify any fixes.

Would be interesting to see how they price it as well. High per-API cost depending on the service being affected, combined with a duration. Eg, make these EBS volumes 50% slower for the next 5min.

Then after or in tandem with the API pieces, release their own hosted Chaos Monkey type service.
There's always someone coming to help you out for your own good which just coincidentally enriches them. Listen, if you want to come cut my lawn and install pretty little lights but enslave me, don't expect me to thank you for the lawn. I can cut the lawn myself. Thanks.
Mux (YC W16) raises $37M Series C as its developer video platform scales
RFC 8805 – A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds
Because you can put more units on the land and make less money per unit, but more money overall. We don't have to guess about this. We used to allow developers to build and this is exactly what happened. (We already have places like Queens, for example. It's not hypothetical.) Then we made it more or less illegal to build and that's why it doesn't happen anymore.
It might make sense to update to "most widely known" to avoid that source of ambiguity. You can take that sentence as ((best known) algorithm) or (best (known algorithm))
> C will never stop you from making mistakes

As making mistakes is nature of human, and C will never stop human from making mistakes, then C will preserve human be natural forever!
> (b) class costs plummeting due to logistics and competition

I think this is unlikely at least until social distancing goes away. The average class size has decreased significantly in order to make social distancing possible.

Pre-covid, classes at our gym were sometimes so packed that you couldn't comfortably do a forward lunge without stepping on the person in front of you.
It's more complicated than that.
There are Smart-UPS online. Thats double conversion also 0ms transfer

Some of the "newer" online models will have a green mode, which although double conversion green mode introduces a transfer time (~2ms, basically relay lift time).

Backups are also square wave, or stepped sine
Smart are Sinewave output.

This is specifically APC.

Also remember there are tare losses (copper / magnetizing and conversions), so a UPS just sitting there can use up to 30W.
I won't just imply it, I'll say it too: It's impossible to stop ALL crime while also retaining privacy.

I also said in my (very short) comment that such an extreme level of power never works out in practice. So we need to accept that as long as privacy exists, some amount of crime will. We can't eliminate privacy without giving someone too much power.
Each satellite will be definitely replaced after some time, I think it is around 5 years max. It seems likely they will not be replacing them with the same ones but with updated designs. Whether and when it will be with laser comms is unclear, but IMHO probable.
Not if you pay attention at all to national politics, it isn't.

Most companies are not going to go backwards because they know that a second a Democrat is in charge, they're going to be tasked with sticking to tougher regulations. They're not going to backfall after this much time and energy has been spent on the issue.

Trumpism isn't about doing what's smart, though. It's about smiting those who disagree with you and dismantling the regulatory state while strengthening the administrative state by stacking the courts so that Congress is locked out of decision making. They aren't doing it because it's the smart thing to do. They're doing it because Democrats hate it.
We enabled our anti-censorship tools in Belarus
If you are one of the powers that be, and probably are of the ruling generation with 20-40 years left to live, why wouldn't you accelerate your gain? These people in positions of power don't care about the long term, because they will be dead by then, but will be able to realize that short term gain in their limited lifetime.

The only way to tackle climate change is to force politicians to sell all private assets and ban them from anything but investing in an index fund for the remainder of their life. Harsh, but public servants should really hold that name literally in my opinion. The science and engineering on climate change has been solved for decades. Whether or not we act in time is a political question, not a technical one.