skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting how different people react to things like this. I went off the road and my car rolled and smashed into a concrete barrier upside down, squishing every part but where I was sitting. I wasn't afraid at any time, immediately before, during, or after. The concussion was rough and I had a lot of suicidal ideation going on in the next few days, though, for no real reason³. I genuinely cannot believe the person I was in the next few weeks. Some sort of total sap.

But I don't really think about it anymore and I don't carry it with me as anything more than a memory of an incident. Objectively, minor changes to circumstances could have led to my death, but contemplating that brings me no fear or anger.

This reminds me of the fact that most soldiers going through combat don't actually get PTSD¹. Even among those seeing horrific things it's not that high².

It's not a tough vs weak thing, imho, just an accident of how we are. I didn't do very much to be 184 cm. I didn't do very much to have functioning lungs. I didn't do very much to walk away from a car crash and be suicidal for two weeks and then have no adverse effects after.

¹ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891773/

² https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/why-some-...

³ My life was fine, no one else was hurt, and I had a slightly strained calf. The desire for suicide was not driven by reason.
You just discovered utopian communism, the end game - the solution is that the people “owning” the factories are the same who receive its output!
Without Apple there would be Windows Phone, Blackberry, and Android devices for Epic to sell games on.
It seems like it would be a lot easier to convince people to take that point seriously by funding the post office until after the election and having the discussion then.

Funding USPS for the rest of the calendar year is, in relative terms, not that expensive -- so, I would find your argument a lot more credible if you were willing to have the discussion about privatizing it in the new year.
Why compare EU countries to the US? Why not countries with states?
I get that people don't like learning new and unfamiliar things, but OCaml's syntax is actually pretty nice, and the editor tooling is a lot better. ReasonML has some nice ideas like more sensible parsing of types and automatic variant to function conversions, but even so I don't think the syntax fragmentation is worth it.

I started a native ReasonML project but eventually converted the project to OCaml as I became disillusioned with the relative verbosity and noise compared to straight up OCaml.

Don't be afraid to learn something new, especially if it looks weird or inscrutable. Things are rarely weird for the sake of weirdness, and you'll expand your horizons and perspectives, eventually understanding (and maybe even liking) why things are the way they are.

This applies to functional programming, Lisp, array languages, etc. The intellectual laziness of programmers never fails to astound me. Excuses for why only the things they currently know are somehow the best. Comments like "X is the best because I don't know anything else" are so common it's sad, even among senior software engineers.
A cell tower today is basically a selective directional broadcast of ~2.5GHz backed by a microwave backhaul, conforming to local topography and about ~3 miles away.

An internet satellite is a phased array broadcast of ~20Ghz with a microwave backhaul without regard for local topography and about ~600 miles away.

... I am not sure there is obviously a better choice here, if the launch costs no longer dominate.
Ok, maybe I should have said "relegated to niche applications" instead.
The difference is that the Linux Foundation doesn't have a side business getting a cut from every install of Apache Server or something. They do not have a strong stake in how people end up using Linux.

Google has a strong interest in how people end up using the web and they have a particular vision for it, a vision that many on here disagree with.

Imagine if IBM ran the Linux kernel. We would be hearing many of the same concerns.
Most vegans I know see it as the right way to be in the world, not something that brings complexity or social pressure, so it ends up being no hassle at all.
Please keep your disgusting far-right dog-whistles off HN.
(I'm a googler who works closely with the web.dev team).

Google also pays technical writers to contribute to MDN which we consider to be THE destination for reference documentation. Both Google and Microsoft have employed multiple fulltime techwriters to contribute to MDN for the last ~7 years, I believe.

We don't consider web.dev to be an alternative to MDN. web.dev doesn't do reference documentation, but rather guides, tutorials, and news. web.dev is developed by the Web DevRel team and you can be sure that everyone working on Web DevRel and Chrome knows the fundamental importance of a diverse browser ecosystem. If there's anything we can do to make web.dev more inclusive, we'd love to hear it.
> I was under the impression that the reason more STEM degrees weren't online because you can't effectively replicate science or engineering labs at home very well.

True, you can't. But I have a BS degree in physics, and I took a grand total of one physics lab in four years. (I also took one in chemistry.) True, that's not engineering. But then, most math people don't take many labs at all.

So maybe this is true of the "TE" parts of STEM, and not so true of the "SM" parts.
while i don't immediately agree with everything you said, you raise an interesting point about the power dynamics of old and new media, and i find it disheartening that it's being buried rather than discussed. at least you spent more than 2 seconds formulating a response, which is more than most on this thread.
Linux have shown themselves to be trustworthy maintainers of an open project. Google have not.
> We should be pushing people towards STEM and trade schools. Hopefully this situation helps do that.

Might as well cut the S and M off that because most people who get a science degree probably aren't working in the filednwithout higher education and even the there's so few jobs available. Most people with math education probably aren't working directly in mathematics, but at least you can make the argument that there are other fields where math is related enough to be somewhat useful.
If the justification of affirmative action is to "correct the harm caused by previous institutional bias," how is it justified that it discriminates against Asian-Americans when we've never held institutional power in America?

There is zero way in which may post claims discrimination against Asians is justified by purpose of affirmative action and implying that I am doing so is a despicable bad-faith troll. Of course, the truth of the Federal Government's claim various colleges are discriminating against whites and Asians is a different corner of this debate, which is to say it's the thing looking at this would argue.
A business is a ship at sail
why do you think Hamas would allow 2700 tons of IED precursor to leave Beirut???
I like explicitness for readability because I hate tool heavy environments! Most Java/C# IDEs are quite resources hungry, and noticeably slow down my Macbook.
NASA headed towards giant golden asteroid that could make everyone a billionaire (2019)
> "companies don't "advertise" hostpots as an alternative to fiber/cable"

They do around here!

http://www.three.co.uk/store/broadband/home-broadband

https://www.vodafone.co.uk/gigacube/
I think you should publish it on a personal web page, and on each of those platforms (Apple, Android, Itch).

Without actually playing it, and only looking at the video you provided, it looks like a playable, but basic tower defense game.

I don't think this is a game you can effectively charge for, for a few reasons:

* It doesn't appear to offer anything unique over other basic tower defense games

* It seems very simplistic; your playthrough video didn't appear to show a game start, round start, round end, or game end screen. It looks unfinished

* It appears to be using stock art from the Kenney.nl site

None of these are explicit reasons not to charge - I am an amateur game dev, and use the Kenney art for most of my stuff :)

My games are also largely incomplete, there are things that I should add, but none of them are the game that I am working on, most of them are prototypes to build skills and test mechanics for something else.

It is awesome that you built this, and I think a better approach would be to publish it on each of your website, the Apple store, Google play store, and Itch. Publishing to each of those is relatively easy, and is a good learning experience.

You could also offer players an in-app purchase to upgrade to paid version, and implement features that appeal to them (including something as basic as supporting you as an indie dev).

Publishing those apps, and building a payment feature will be a big step in ensuring you have skills that are marketable as a developer, and help you learn the pitfalls of publishing, it also starts building a portfolio you can point at when applying for jobs if you want to go that route.

Keeping the game free means that folks will be more likely to try and play your game, and if you build in social features then you can solicit feedback from players about what they like and don't like, which will help you learn about game design.

Providing an option to pay creates the potential to make some (even a small amount) of money while doing this.

Either way good job, and look forward to playing it once it's published somewhere!
It's more than reciprocal. Fusion rate and luminosity go up enormously with stellar mass, like m^4 or even higher, so the lifetime goes more like 1/m^4.

Sirius for example is 2x the mass of the sun, but 25x as luminous, therefore 2/25 the lifetime until it runs out of hydrogen.
I also went to the web site looking for screenshots, but the "home" page is a detailed changelog. Oh, there's an "About" page, screenshots are probably there-- no, that's a life story of the project.

Neither of these are interesting for the (presumptive) target audience of "people who want to edit epub files".
So how does it get from DB --> JSON response? SQLAlchemy or dbapi?
Despite the fact that they have laid off 120 of their staff, Monzo seems pretty good. The people that got laid off seemed to only say good things about working their on Twitter, and most of the developers I follow that work there seem passionate about what they do.
I sincerely wish for Democratic Governors to threaten to barricade voters in their states' Republican districts so that they don't get to the polling stations. Because what Trump is doing is simply the equivalent of this. No one asks if roads turn a profit.
That still doesn’t answer the question how, if the laws of physics are time-symmetric, the universe as a whole can have a time-asymmetric evolution of entropy. I.e., if something forces entropy to increase in the long run, then that should hold in both directions of time. So what is it that causes entropy to only increase in the direction of the future, but not in the direction of the past, given that the laws pf physics do not distinguish between both directions?
Right - but they can build a hardware platform and then they would have just the same control as Apple does.

Epic is a publishing company that has made billions, and rather than investing that in building anything new, they are just seeking to increase their cut.
I'm not sure if Zerotier still uses Rethinkdb in production. Someone knows?
> we know that there are a much greater percentage of people who will experience significant health problems

Can you quantify this?
Really sorry to hear that. I do not have such a device and without. If I knew which engine was being used I might have a starting point to figure out what might be happening.

edit: I noticed that the QR needs to contain a message or it will not scan.
It's hard to look at someone else's weld and know if it's good because lord knows what they did under there (if it's externally bad there's some pretty obvious signs). It's easy to lay a weld and know that it's good from a combination of how you did it and how it came out. If you know what you're doing then a bend test just confirms what you already knew. X-rays keep honest welders honest.

For "easy" material combinations you can get away with a surprising amount of corner cutting and still pass a bend test. Good welds aren't hard. A community college will have you passing a bend test on an overhead weld in a semester and doing the same for pipe in two but it will all be in steel and a limited variety of consumables and processes. Those kids might be masters of 7018 but hand them some aluminum electrodes and they'll be lost. Good welds the first or nearly the first time on material + consumable combo on which you only burn say 10lb a year is what really takes practice.
Well, accusing people of not reading is going to net you downvotes. Tone does matter if you're concerned about fake internet points.

Yes, consistency is good. Making things easier is good. Are you actually arguing for using "this" when it's syntactically unnecessary, or against? It isn't clear from what you wrote whether you're even taking a position either way (although, I do agree that you should pick one and be consistent about it -- I favor using "this", even when it's not necessary).
> Not being a jerk

I don't like that word. It seems like subjective name-calling. One might say how they really feel at the risk of being a jerk, but that depends on how the other party takes the feedback.

I think a better rule is "Not being hostile".
Agreed. Maybe it's gotten better, but when I used HughesNet in the middle of the woods in Maine, I would say it was comparable to dial-up except with worse latency and reliability. Anything in the ballpark of a 4G connection would have been phenomenal.
looking back yes. But IIRC, bankruptcy was declared and this was someone's property. Obviously pretty stupid but everyone must have hoped it will solve itself. They could have sold it and held the money in an account, it's not like they were the crown jewels of the British Royal family. $12 Billion negligence, plus the dead and wounded.
I grew up in South Bend, and most of the 'Fighting Irish' near campus bars are way too small for social distancing. Pre-covid, all of them were shoulder to shoulder packed with students and locals. Please be careful celnardur. It's a wonderful place and campus, enjoy your time there.
Cryptographically sign them before sending.
Ok. Lets enlarge youre analogy. So, its ok to censorship any public speach?
> "Cultural Marxism" is an anti-semitic conspiracy theory

How so?
Can anyone tell me why this was not previously possible? Both latency and speed? What did Starlink do differently
Zuckerberg was elected in one of the most democratic processes possible.

Voting is a very fascinating topic. If a person publicly endorses the mayor of Miami (or the CEO of Pepsi, or the President of Ohio State University) for President of the US 2020, many will criticize that person for throwing away their vote. Then half the country laments what terrible leadership we have, and how did these bozos get elected? It's always the fault of the other half.

Well, you have more liberty to vote about Facebook than you have to vote US2020. Just log off and never go back. Otherwise, don't complain about not getting a vote. If you did log off and never went back, complaining is kinda like always blaming the other half for the bozos in office.
Dozens of Covid cases appear in New Zealand, possibly from overseas travelers
Firstly, the milking you refer to is already happening, and has been happening for hundreds of years. Second, as i've already said, the way i see reparations is not a simple cash transfer. Its stopping the systemic injustices and having programes in place to help black communities in terms of loans, grants and educational scholarship.

If you agree that the New Deal and GI bill helped spur economic development (though they were not perfect) and lifted poor white people out of poverty, why not do that today for black people? Black people were systematically left out of that help, so time to give them the help they are owed.
It's in the article. Because these are the kind of customers who provide no loyalty back. They'll drive an hour to get a part from a different shop because it's cheaper. There's nothing you can do to attract this kind of customer apart from lower margins. So why bother with them if you can run your business well by focusing on everybody else?
The plastic exterior seems like the easy part for a hobbyist, but I take your point.
> "Cultural Marxism" is an anti-semitic conspiracy theory

Your opinion on this is noted. But it's not "antisemitic" or a "conspiracy theory" in the least. CM is basically identity politics, abolition of nuclear family, and other commie bullshit like that. If you're denying the existence of that in today's discourse, I'm not sure what to tell you.
Built this interface using the Gradio[1] library. Forked the DeOldify[2] model on github.

[1]: https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio
[2]: https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify
The payouts are neither "subsidizing" nor "for no apparent reason". Do you think the Mozilla–Yahoo deal was also an act of charity? It's baffling that people think that the arrangement between Mozilla and Google is unique. Google is paying royalties to Mozilla for driving attention to Google properties, just like they do with their other partners who aren't named "Mozilla".
>A lot of what you're saying isn't actually true here.

You're talking latency not bandwidth. There is only so much spectrum to go around.

My understanding is that there is only a certain amount of bandwidth to go around and there are diminishing returns on adding people beyond a set capacity. I am not arguing that fiber is faster, I'm arguing that fiber has is cheaper at the bandwidth/cost in more dense areas. I don't believe we will see satellite based communication in cities (at a large % of population) for a long time.

Now I'm willing to believe someone who's worked closer to this than I have and to learn, but I've done enough in the satellite industry to not take what you're saying without seeing more evidence.
Indeed Prime tries to encourage employers to think about such candidates by using coding tests on its platform, aimed toward showing employers than “non-traditional candidates” are even as skilled as children beginning of the halls of academia.

Seen helps employers more easily connect with not just some of the toughest to fill tech roles Indeed data shows that the toughest to fill tech role within the US is programmer https://www.bloggerzune.com/2020/07/Indeed-Prime.html?m=1
> The benefits of working at a startup are enormous

Not really. I joined a 200-300 person startup that had a successful exit. On average, I made the same annually as I would have at one of the bigcos. With extra risk.
I recently listened to a 2015 interview with David Ungar, of Self, Smalltalk, and misc fame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nfrC-YLYqc

Amongst other gems was a nice reminder about Self's innovation in eliminating the 'self.' prefix (or equiv). It's in the name, right? Can't believe I forgot that.

I'm surprised no successor (to Self, Java, or both) has eliminated (disallowed) variable aliases. So that local and instance variables cannot have the same name. Voila. One category of errors completely eliminated.

--

Any and all use of 'this.' prefixes is a full stop hard omega fail. For both the language and any user of that language.

Whatever else I think of JavaScript, the lack of intrinsic identitiers (name?) should have immediately disqualified the language and prevented any further consideration.

Huge disappointment that TypeScript did not address this original sin. (Haha, nerd joke, I slay me.)

This OP gives example of this.method(...). What? Is that a C# thing? Why would anyone do that?

Oh well. Let's go back to arguing about dynamic vs static typing.
Or you can right click the omnibox and choose "Always show full URLs"
I am a gay technical professional, and I see homophobic or otherwise dehumanizing language tolerated, with moderation efforts instead against those calling out bigoted comments.

I can tell you this makes me feel unwelcome, and makes me disappointed in our industry in general. Dog whistles are often very obvious, as is the case here. Not allowing any common-sense deviation from "always presume good faith" is absolutely ridiculous.
Picking Locks with Audio Technology
This. So this. So very this.

Color me odd, I did do 20+ years of Smalltalk, that weird "objects all the way down" language where self was not an option.

What I have observed anecdotally over the the last 10 years as I've become much more of a polyglot is that, very generalisticaly speaking, spheres that frown on self/this produce code that is less "objecty" than otherwise. Spheres that eschew it's use often feel like just simpler C. And to be honest, that's fine. If you thing object oriented programming is just about "better organizing/structuring" your code, then do the ALGOL style thing. But if you want to have that "my God, it's full of objects" experience, try being explicit with your message sends.
I’ll be clearer. Your healthcare system is laughable in comparison to many countries and the federal government hasn’t gotten anything done in the past 8 years.
Well, he has been elected, people has chosen to use facebook.

I don't use facebook because I don't want all my private info controlled by an external company.

But most people has chosen to use it, and have chosen to continue using it because the pros outweigh the cons for them.

The first monarch is usually elected. The offspring are the unelected.
This ‘not competing on quality and price’ argument is bogus.

They are competing with Android on both.

It’s pretty obvious what would have happened if Apple had simply stopped competing for even a few years.

Having multiple stores will simply increase the costs for developers, and make the user experience worse.

A bunch of publishing companies will compete for a slice of the action using all the normal marketing practices.

What will they contribute to the development of the platform? Nothing.
Totally get it - though I think the upside of the FPGA, is that it works like real hardware (in theory) so has some advantages to emulators, especially if you want to use real hardware / accessories.

I know some emulators do a good job at this too, but it can often be quite constrained (like VICE's emulation of specific carts)
Art is important.

Especially for a competitive genre like tower defense with hundreds (thousands?) of titles, programmer art just won't cut it.

If you're hellbent on selling a tower defense game, have you considered hiring an artist to improve the look?
I’ve noticed a thing common to most retail shops that are not clothing-based.

Bicycle shops attract employees who are really into bicycles. Computer stores pick up folks who are really into computers. Book stores, comic book stores, record stores… you get it.

None of these types of shops select for "people skills." Insider knowledge is valued, the ability to have a conversation and not make a customer feel like shit is not. It's so bad that archetypes like Comic Book Guy from _The Simpsons_ and the bestselling novel & movie _High Fidelity_ got written and became cultural archetypes.

All of which is a long-winded way to say: bicycle shop employees can be incredible, intolerable jerks.

I'm not sure why clothes seem to be an exception… perhaps because the merchandise is curated by buyers, so rather than hiring experts, they can hire exclusively based on people skills? Or maybe clothes just attract people with more empathy, I'm not sure.

Anyway, when you find a bicycle shop that isn't staffed by troglodytes: make friends. Be loyal. Spend.