skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an added bonus, you can then easily create a unique email address for each service you deal with. Then you can do things like guaranteeing mail from important sources doesn't accidentally end up in your junk mail folder, or guaranteeing mail from a business that thinks spamming is OK because you once bought something from them does.
Intelligence services used to be unassailable. They did the dirty work for the country (and admittedly it’s a necessary thing in an unfair world), but a couple of major problems are: they are often wrong in very bad ways: Russian missile crisis, power of the late USSR where Reagan has to seek advice from DoD instead, gulf war II and then the internal and political spying (remember they were caught spying on congress?)
Possibly relevant excerpts from their privacy policy (to save you a click)

> SIA Scada uses the collected data for various purposes:

● To provide and maintain our Service

● To notify you about changes to our Service

● To allow you to participate in interactive features of our
Service when you choose to do so

● To provide customer support

● To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service

● To monitor the usage of our Service

● To detect, prevent and address technical issues

● To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

> We do not support Do Not Track ("DNT").

> We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service

> > Google Analytics

> > Behavioral Remarketing

> > Google AdWords

> > Facebook

src - https://tweek.so/s/privacy.pdf
I actually think that being able to learn an expiring things deeply enough that you start to see the permeant skills underneath is really important.

Being able to look at something and quickly separate the core important concepts that are being used from the syntax and implementation details seems super important for long term success in a field.
The self-righteous smugness on display in this thread about what is valuable to learn and what isn’t is mind boggling. Apparently humility and curiosity about things you don’t know aren’t on the stem curriculum y’all took
There is more to games than videogames where you raise levels or virtual money (which are, in turn, a very specific class of videogames).
Companies are way faster, focussed and efficient than any form of non-profit or governmental organization in building infrastructure that supports their cause.

I'm eternally grateful to Google for HTTP/2, Chrome, Web Vitals, Angular and so many other puzzle pieces without which the whole Internet wouldn't be what it is today. It showed foresight, wisdom, excellence, responsibility and stewardship.

The problem starts where growth ends, and all growth needs to end somewhere. There are only so many people on the planet with 24h a day to spend.

When that problem starts, a corporation still has to maximize shareholder value, and that's where the formally great stewardship gets endangered.

And then Google used its web browser, standards and search monopoly in order to

- shove the open-but-really-not-open AMP "standard" down everybody's throat

- eat up any kinds of comparison competitors by stealing their content into the featured snippets

- ...

So going back to your question, I'd still mostly trust in the benevolence of AWS — but I have zero doubts this benevolence will go away as soon as there is an opportunity to crush a competitor by ignoring that benevolence.

To quote Jeff Bezos here: "Your margin is my opportunity".
Consider also changing your default search to StartPage or Duck Duck Go
I discourage the use of "this" except for field references, in C#.

Field access and modification are the most important part of a member to consider. Mutation is a well-recognized pattern for bugs. I want the points in the method at which mutation occurs to be highlighted. The use of "this" to distinguish fields from locals makes that possible.

If you've been programming for a few years, frequently just the field access pattern gives you an intuition of what sort of member you're looking at in just a glance.

The programmer's brain holds limited context at any time. The larger the context required, the less detailed the understanding. Being able to predict what a method does in a glance means the developer better preserves their current context.

I strongly avoid inheritance, so I rarely have use of "base". Again, when I'm explicitly invoking "base", I really want that to stand out, because it's unusual.

(For this same reason, I also discourage explicit use of the "private" access modifier. Everything should be private, except for the few things that must be public. Extra access modifiers add noise, which distracts from the important information.)

Finally, I strive to make my code read as fluently as possible. In my experience, fluent code makes it harder for bugs to hide. The ability to clearly express a concept in a spoken language correlates very highly with the ability to implement that concept in a program without errors.

Compare:

if (AllChildOperationsAreComplete) { StartNextOperation(); }

if (this.AllChildOperationsAreComplete) { this.StartNextOperation(); }

The extra hiccoughs in the expression of the second form are each interruptions, each interruption increasing the chance that you drop some context while reading the code.
They became the villain when they started deliberately positioning the ads on their search results screen to trick people. Which I'm sure makes them lots and lots of money but is definitely evil.
Ah I may have spoken too soon then :) We use mux.com for our converting, and they should support (almost) all video files. We currently preview the file while it's uploading. So like I mentioned before, some file formats won't do that initial preview. We will improve this soon so all video files will work equally.
Over the years, I've learned things from different domains -- gongfu (martial arts), Go (the game not the language), various computer languages, and most recently, gardening.

It's been my experience that for every expiring skill, there is hidden, a more essential, permanent (or rather, "timeless") skill.

The technical skill for drawing and recording the battlefield topography is no longer relevant.

But you can bet that spatial reasoning and situational awareness / situational reasoning and topography is still relevant for the military professional, whether someone is drawing the maps by hand, or using modern navigational devices.

Having to construct maps (mapping the actual terrain with an abstract representation) helps construct a model in the mind, and doing so lays the foundation for developing spatial reasoning. An artist's eye is trained to see things as they are seen, not as they are interpreted, thus disciplining one's perceptual skills, which enhances situational awareness.

One of the things I have learned from gongfu, is that once you have refined the essential skill, it can be applied broadly in many other domains, outside the one you initially learned. Those seemingly disparate domains I listed (martial arts, Go, computer languages, gardening), all share essential skills that allow me to transfer things that I learned in one domain into another (with modifications).
Did you read it all? "Odious as he may be, Trump is less the cause of America’s decline than a product of its descent. As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country."
The variation selector link is dead, but is archived.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160417233039/http://babelstone...
> If I need quick hot fix RIGHT NOW, I can't just log in, change couple of lines and restart, must go through full deploy cycle.

The ability to do this is usually abused by developers, it is best not to have it. Cattle, not pets.
Going full client side would also mean you could host it for free and it could handle a ton of traffic.
> Like I say in another comment, a recipe is not a precise set of instructions that leads to a reproducible result, like a computer program or an algorithm. It's a template, a mnemonic, an informal description of how to achieve a result in the ballpark of a certain target.

Which is provably false for the vast majority of recipes. And you need a starting point for a recipe. You can't "grab ingredients in the quantities you desire, and cook them" if you don't know the quantities, or the temperature, or what to look for in a finished product.

> I think this is one reason why many people have trouble with cooking, even when they're very good at following instructions: because they treat recipes as instructions to be followed

The reason people have trouble cooking is because people are not born with an innate ability to cook. And on the contrary I think many more people cook now precisely because the recipes are not vague incantations of ingredients.

Music and painting are not precise either. And yet, you don't expect anyone to become a master improviser from day one.
Awesome. Tella should be fine on Chromebooks, but we have an issue with the performance of recording in the past. If anything comes up drop us a line on livechat.
There are plenty of screenshots showing the WYSIWYG aspect on Google Images: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=sigil+ebook+editor
Wow. I didn't think this post would cause so much controversy, since these "opinions" are shared by Visual Studio 2017 and above [1]

1: https://i.imgur.com/9F6Lyx8.png
Asian median income is quite a bit higher than whites.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizat...
Really feels like an exercise in making a bad solution fly (Generating a huge triangle mesh before rendering it). If you use distance functions(SDF) to your Julia set then with raymarching you can compute the surface directly without taking the detour via a huge mesh, dunno exactly what Julia set they are using here but other sets have been directly rendered for the last 10 year in realtime (adding pathtracing would probably set back the perf a tad but still be faster than this detour).

https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/juliasets3d/juliaset... (There are links to youtube recordings of the realtime renders as well as actual code samples on shadertoy)
My oldest daughter left for college yesterday, living in a dorm. She's only 10min away, but between having her move out and worrying about COVID, I'm a basket case. I expect the campus to shut down in a month when cases numbers balloon, but I hope I'm wrong and they keep things under control.
Dating App Scams
Definitely not, you'd need to use something like Spinnaker to accomplish that.
Where people are moving during Covid
Oof... I caught one of those phone pole cables on the forehead running in the dark one night, and I caught the guy wire of a soccer net/goal under the chin one day during practice. Both very unpleasant experiences
For long books or books containing large images or videos, that giant HTML file would be so gigantic that many e-readers would be slow at loading them or even fall over (the average e-reader doesn’t have a fast CPU or loads of memory).

I also expect data URIs for images would make the HTML file, even if gzipped, larger than the equivalent ePub.

HTML also isn’t good at doing the book-like things such as pagination, tables of content and on-page footnotes.
I used to use Linux Mint at many computers. But making hard to use Snap is just shooting itself in to foot.

Currently I prefer Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Debian, where Snap works.

It's like community just complaining about Snap, and not rushing to provide pull requests for alternative package systems like Flatpak.

Without packaging to Snap, I just end up producing separate .deb package for each distro, like:

- Ubuntu 18.04

- Ubuntu 20.04

- RasPi 4

etc. Separate .deb package is needed, because different distros have different versions of dependencies.

Snap works on multiple distros with one package, that saves a lot of time.
Your son wants to be there in person and he is at no danger from the coronavirus...

EDIT: *infinitesimal danger
This slogan describes the state of affairs in the society that Communists were aspiring to build, the Communism. It's a class-less and state-less (one and the same from their point of view) paradise, where nobody has to work and all needs are taken care of.

The USSR was not in the Communism, it had Socialism (which is not "a lower phase" but a "transitional state on the way to the Communism" as same as Capitalism, Feudalism, Slavery etc.). However, as far as equality goes, they subscribed to the French Revolution's "liberty,equality,fraternity" with a huge emphasis on "equality", "fraternity" meaning that Soviet people had to help other peoples ("fraternity of peoples") and "liberty" meaning "absence of slavery".
Probably from the fact that they happened. Here are some examples.

[1] Enola bean, long produced in Mexico and exported to the US, was patented here on the basis of the inventor having been the first person to grow it in the US: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5894079A

[2] Buzy Lizzie, a hybrid vining ornamental was patented in the UK based on knowledge of wild African hybrids: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/22/outlook.develo...

[3] To break from specifically plant patents, here's a different case of patenting the drug produced from a plant. The antimalarial Simalikalactone E was isolated and patented from Quassia amara after the plant was identified by Guianans. Here's an article on the controversy: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/french-institute-agr...

Here's the patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2443126B1
The average user sees http://123.45.67.89/~sk/microsoft.com/techsupport as a legitimate Microsoft website. That's what this change is intended to fix: users that see a domain in any part of the URL as being valid. They want to change it to only show the part that's actually security relevant. If you tell the average user "Look for Microsoft in the URL", and they find it in the path, they're going to fall for a phishing scam.
Watching television for hours every day is at a minimum a bad idea and often an addiction. Many people would go crazy without a signal. Just look at how many people can't even function under COVID! As if being alone with your thoughts or with your family could ever be a problem for a healthy individual or family.
I guess the obvious thing to point out are the multiplayer modes for Call of Duty, Battlefront, Overwatch, etc.

Short films have been made about this, and of course Ender's Game.
Hi. I also work at this scale. It doesn't take a year to delete the data. Be upfront with your users:

'Your delete request is being processed. No one will be able to see this item though it may take up to three days for the data to be completely removed from our servers'

This is not a technical challenge, it's an issue of priorities and Facebook doesn't prioritize privacy. They were able to release a TikTok clone in a few months, but can't solve deleting data?
A gap year isn't free, and they are taking classes that are mandatory to graduate off the table for online.

Also, a gap year at this time? Fun.
That presumes that a CEO should be making more than a distinguished engineer. The truth is that CEO salaries are completely public so there's much deeper competition for the highest-paid ones (the ones getting paid the most, not necessarily the best at the job) in an ever expanding bubble the increases the salaries from those making less ("this is what it takes to run an organization of this size"). If we had an actual way to measure value on the job things would be better (something like points above replacement) but no one has figured this out for large organizations that require cooperation (+ different kinds of value).
>Autonomous JSON Database costs 30% less than comparable MongoDB Atlas configuration.

>Autonomous JSON database gives you 2x throughput consistently across different workload types and collection sizes.

This is great!

>The result is a no-compromise document database providing low latency CRUD operations and full ACID consistency.

The recent Jepsen report[1] highlights some of the major transaction consistency issues with MongoDB and why it might not be suitable for all workloads.

[1] : http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6
I recall looking up a picture of the apartment building I live in in this same photo set, but from (I think) the official NYC source. It was a clunky, multi-step process. I'm glad somebody made a really easy way to do it quick.
I'm thinking more DOS era. E.g. all of the different Another World ports.
95% of Chinese Users Would Rather Give Up Their iPhones Than Lose WeChat
>There's reasonable evidence at this point that Covid infections do long-term damage, even to healthy people

It is already a known fact that diseases with fever and/or lung components leave a small percentage of people with long term damage. Covid is like the flu in this regard.

From https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

>COVID-19: Lasting damage to the lungs, heart, kidneys, brain and other organs is possible after a severe case of COVID-19.

>Flu: Influenza complications can include inflammation of the heart (myocarditis), brain (encephalitis) or muscles (myositis, rhabdomyolysis) tissues, and multi-organ failure.

It seems that people are surprised that this happens, and/or think covid is different in degree. The numbers I have seen so far are quite small and unsuprising, for example less than 50 people with long-lasting fever damage in a country of 50+ million.

Do you have any sources claiming covid is different in this regard than any other fever/lung disease?
==Until plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. stop being a part of the undesirable Other to middle and upper middle class Americans==

Source? I think most people view these jobs as the foundation of the American middle class. At least we do in the Midwest, where I grew up.

==Paying $100,000 for your kid to study underwater basket weaving at Harvard is still socially superior to running a multi-million dollar business in the trades.==

Having a Harvard degree gives you higher earning potential than a career in the trades [1].

==It is a problem of culture, not economics.==

Oddly, all the jobs you mention are historically union jobs. Meanwhile, one side of the political aisle has attempted to weaken unions over the past 4 decades. If we want people to embrace union jobs, maybe we should embrace unions?

[1] https://www.scholarshipcare.com/average-income-of-harvard-un...
One has to believe there's a deliberate intelligence effort signal boosting this a fair bit, meshed within the various layers of accounts/platforms propagating it.

Similar example of practices:
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/07/ghostwr...

The above relies on a fair bit of identity building as well, so Q's source/breeding in more anon platforms helps all the better. Intense stuff.
I should have made it more clear that I was trying to recreate the mental model that my teacher’s explanation gave me, at the time. I realized after posting it that my model was wrong—I know it’s really the other way around.
From the abstract of the article, literally the first paragraph:

Abstract: The QAnon conspiracy theory, which emerged in 2017, has
quickly risen to prominence in the United States. A survey of cases
of individuals who have allegedly or apparently been radicalized to
criminal acts with a nexus to violence by QAnon, including one case
that saw a guilty plea on a terrorism charge, makes clear that QAnon
represents a public security threat with the potential in the future
to become a more impactful domestic terror threat.
wow, great find!
Apple definitely is the store owner. They built and run the AppStore app and backend infrastructure, set the rules for what goes on the shelves and what doesn't, take a (large) cut for providing distribution, arrange things on the shelves, point people to products. Whether you disagree with Apple or not in this case, these are functions of a store, and it's clearly Apple's store.
Last time I worked in a C# code base I made the entire code base StyleCop-clean. StyleCop has a rule that you are supposed to use an explict "this", although it may only be for field access (I can't remember).

Personally I think having a consistent style is more important than the details of that style, on the balance of things (use your judgment, this ain't a strict rule) and I love that we have tools like StyleCop.
Neurosity releases Notion 2 EEG headset
France has reasonable labor laws with respect to firing people, so the list of people fired there is not known yet.
That doesn't mean it isn't worth playing the games. Time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time.
This is a stupid article

1) Many people don't use the tech giants and get by just fine

2) Actual tough stuff is getting by without the currently dominant Operating Systems for desktop and mobile and Office Software

THAT takes us some work

Also the AWS employee talking about 'Amazon and Google as the providers of the very infrastructure of the world'
is absolutely ridiculous

There are a ton of cloud providers and in many countries Google and Amazon don't even have much presence
Using Sidenotes on Web Pages
Site seems down. Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200814144723/https://cyclingin...
It does, now. The whole build system was uprooted with the change from legacy build to buildkit. One of the current "experimental" features is build volumes.
From the article/rant:

> Safari is a joke.

Why? I use it daily as my primary browser. I am a software developer.

Anytime I enter a discussion about this, I get a lot of responses that are _completely irrelevant to me_ about plugins or ... rendering? or whatever other stuff I honestly can't even remember. None of that stuff matters to me. Safari is a great browser - it's simple, fast, and the only annoying thing about it is there are sites that will display modals saying I should use a modern browser like Chrome. Get real.

If you dismiss Safari as a 'real' browser, your opinion loses credibility to me. I honestly wonder if you've ever used it, or are hopping on some bandwagon about it.
This already happened because of QAnon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/pizzagate-attack-sente...

These people see a powerful satanic child raping cabal of power that run things from the shadows. Their champion is Donald Trump, if he were to lose this election it's not a reach to see an uptick in these sorts of attacks. Because, honestly, if this conspiracy were true, the only moral thing to do would be to oppose it.
Factorio; the only game I've seen with timeseries, graphs, tiered alarms and notifications, and you get to automate yourself out of a job.

It's like SRE 101.

I love it of course.