skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I implemented such a version in Scratch back in 2016! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/117304786/

Here’s a gif of that if the project player doesn’t work for you: https://github.com/kach/gifblocks/blob/master/gallery/fourie...
Get ready for the 'tech alt-right' to gain influence in Silicon Valley (2017)
It will be interesting to see how consumer welfare standard will evolve to accommodate people paying more for IAP because of app store fees. It's likely that it will.

Probably 100% of congress uses an iPhone. 100% of judges. Every lawyer. It's right in their face. 100% of them use Google, 0% use Bing. I don't think I know a single non-engineering professional, English as a first language adult who uses an Android device.

It's not some abstract situation the consumer welfare standard didn't anticipate; it's the now. Nobody is going to sympathize with arguments about choice because that hasn't been true for a while - nobody makes the choice, not among these people, for alternatives, so is there really a choice?
IIRC Lua has the same issue as Python btw, it includes the current directory in the import path list by default.
I suggest using brave instead others because it doesn’t advertise and blocks a lot of trackers and ads !
"It that a big deal? From the testing we've done so far, it looks like this is a pretty tight cluster - so I would say, no," she said."
Sorry to ruin your fun.
How does it compare to recombee or AWS personalize? I'm in the market for this but I guess I'm a bit more technical than the people you're selling to and so can use stuff that's a tad lower level?
Thank goodness! I finally understand Douglas Adams' mention of "the second worst poet in the English language" in the Hitchhiker's series, which I first read (Restaurant, anyway) around age six or so. I finally get it!
Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe
> The world is more complex than that. China is not "bad" because it is not a democracy. China is "bad" because it competes with the USA.

China is bad because it is a horrific human rights abuser without democratic elections. You march to the beat of the CCP drum or you're removed. You're also severely disadvantaged if you aren't Han Chinese. The Uighurs are being systematically exterminated, and they're not the only ones that suffer.

The US isn't perfect. Our immigration laws and history of racism, sexism, and homophobia leave much to be desired. But we're not a dictatorship and we're a net force for good. I'd rather be a US citizen than a Chinese one.

Most of the world recognizes that China is becoming worrisomely powerful, and we've collectively decided that we need to put them back in check. Thankfully Xi is flexing all of China's muscles in an early show of strength, which has gotten the world's attention. Nobody wants totalitarian China to be the dominant superpower. Xi played his hand early, and now the walls are about to cave in.

As impressive as China's domestic capabilities look, they have an aging population with a huge gender imbalance that will bite them in a few short decades. If the world decouples manufacturing and supply chains from China over this same time period, China is going to have significant problems. They're not as self-sufficient as they look. They're an importer of energy and food, and without exports they won't be able to sustain their growth internally.

The world is trying to knee-cap China, and it makes sense.
The Fractal-Summary Method: How to Fully Digest Great Books
France, like most other countries, has not been able to successfully build new nuclear, so there is no other option as their current fleet ages out. Renewables will be far cheaper than trying to have a second construction miracle.
The rationale behind that statements leads to the attitude of not even attempting to be objective. So while you are correct the statement on its own does not state that. I believe it will lead many to believe it isn't worth the attempt. I believe that to be dangerous because it then allows you to engage in sophistry.
That's true, but how much earlier might it have occurred if the oxygen catastrophe had not occurred and caused a mass extinction? Hard to say...
It is never too late to change a language's default import paths. Perl removed . from @INC a couple of years ago.
Another coronavirus inequity: Those who can stay put and those who must move
They did not say that it was as bad; only that it was as pervasive.
For me the most important thing has been recognizing that I respond better to some boundaries than others.

Time boundaries are notoriously difficult to use well without a coercive force dragging you forward. For folks with executive function difficulties that often turns into the procrastination/anxiety brew that makes them seek out pharmacutical help. But time is often sought after first because it has a seductive simplicity: First you do this for an hour, then you do that...except that you overrun one and have oodles of time leftover for the other.

Place boundaries, on the other hand, work relatively well for me. In that instance the work literally is wherever you left it, and going about your day means checking off a visit to different places. The places can be small: Absolute distance and volume aren't really the issue so much as the perception of travel, and organization emerges from this as a matter of ergonomics. Computers actually make place organization harder because they tend to cram everything together. It takes active resistance.

Social boundaries hold a kind of cross between time and place: Checking in with a person can be challenging if you have to actively enter their space, but easy if you agreed to show up at a common place and time.
The source you're citing doesn't even address the assertion you're making, so that's a bit misleading to post. Looking for a source for your claim I found this, which adds some detail: https://youtu.be/lfzJzAm-OV0?t=63
Amazon has indeed made collecting music and books rather pointless.
Umm - a large group of most popular productivity apps are cross platform and look nothing like native - from dev tools like IDEA, VSCode over Slack, MS Office, to multimedia tools like Adobe tools, almost all 3D modeling software like maya, max, audio software like Ableton, FL. None of the apps I use on a day to day basis look native (ie. like the apps provided by Apple)

You are confusing cross platform UI with frameworks that have programmer art widgets and no cross platform polish - eg. GTK+, FLTK, and even to some extent QT widgets (and many more). When people say widgets don't look native they usually mean "the widgets suck", you can create beautiful cross platform apps - Electron has quite a few because it allows standard designer tools from web dev.

Flutter is another promising development, but the desktop port seems underwhelming - it's obvious the widgets were intended for mobile apps, they will probably need a custom widget set to cover desktop UI - but the approach is sound.
Homesteading the Noosphere (2002)
You asked me how to avoid the overhead of Electron and I suggested you try αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε since the distributables are 10,000x smaller. If it's not possible to meet your requirements using a command line c program, or a web application that runs in the browser, then could you help me understand why you need electron?
rm -rf on root will query for confirmation. Not sure if this happens on all systems or even all top level directories.
Absolutely agreed. LEI are using both systems. But still, given the tech works (and current efficiencies aside), surely it shouldn't be written off so early in the game? Also on anecdotal evidence the hydro panel water tastes a bit better than the desal!
I’m pretty sure the parent is pointing out that the chemical combustion in eg a caveman’s campfire required many millions of years of stars performing nuclear fusion to create any elements with higher atomic numbers than 2, oxygen included.
That’s only a temporary stopgap before they convince a court or change the law so that being part of that chain with intent to infringe copyright is enough to get you sued.
Thanks for building this service, never knew it was that old.
> Even an unusual edition of an well known book can be unique in various valuable ways.

Absolutely! I had a paperback copy of Dune when I was younger, that disappeared after being loaned to someone. It was printed on very fine grained paper (think bible paper), maybe ~2cm thick, despite being 700+ pages long, and the fine grain of the paper made the text very crisp. Modern paperback copies are 4.9cm thick, and the text isn't as crisp. The only way I'll ever find a replacement for the higher quality paperback copy is to find an old one at a used bookstore sometime. This doesn't make it valuable in a monetary sense, but it still matters to me.
How a discussion about "second-hand bookstores are closing" become a "god doesn't exist" discussion?!? I love HN comments :))
It seems they are on the right direction. But, the number of parameters hit the physical barrier of silicon-based device.

To make the neuron network be a strong AI, we may need the parameters in scales of 10^19~10^44 (uncertainty limit and Planck time) estimated from how many frames per second in real world.

I personally got a feeling that this is bound to how nature calculate the physical phenomenon. For simulation, there are lots of "for loop" in our code/machine. But, in real world, we could not observe any "for loop". It is fast and continuous in the macro scale.

In order to reach strong AI, it is time to focus on quantum computing.
Or create a file _named_ —dry-run and save it everywhere...
Yeah, none of that matters. What matters is the harm FB is doing to the country.

Only companies that do shitty things need to have that much "training". Think about that.
The symbolic time is 8 minutes and 46 seconds. The actual time was 9 and a half minutes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_minutes_46_seconds
The USA emits about 15% of global CO2 [1]. Even if it adopted highly aggressive emissions mitigation and became carbon-neutral within a few years, the rest of the world's major emitters (China, India, Russia, etc.) would have to curb their own emissions similarly aggressively for it to make a meaningful global difference.

How long until civilization as a whole becomes carbon-neutral? What would happen if all future emissions were magically cancelled? Even in that unrealistic scenario, climate change would continue for decades due to the damage we've already done, before stabilizing at a higher temperature than before we started raising atmospheric CO2 levels [2].

It's absolutely worth fighting for environmentally conscious platforms, but it's also a fact that no one country will realistically put a dent in the problem without widespread international cooperation.

[1] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...

[2] https://theconversation.com/if-we-stopped-emitting-greenhous...
That’s unlikely to ever happen; if it’s that cheap to produce electricity the utilities will have long since switched over and cut rates.
Given that python 0.9.0 was released in 1991, it's kind of astonishing (in a good way) that issues like these take nearly 30 years to creep into our collective consciousness.

In my view, the focus on low friction and getting new users quickly productive with minimum fuss (shared by many scripting languages) sets the stage for these inevitable discoveries. And I'm not just hand-waving with the vague "these" characterization. Focus on ease-of-use creates roving best-practices factions that wax and wane over the years, with consequences perfectly captured in the famous xkcd "Python Environment" cartoon.[0] The fact that the empty string interpretation in PYTHONPATH hasn't been a bigger deal much earlier raises interesting questions. (Are bad guys not trying as hard as we imagine? Will newbie-friendly languages always end up with these kinds of exploitable surfaces? etc)

[0] https://xkcd.com/1987/
Well if you use google directly, google can track what you are doing. However if you use your own searx instance that is very difficult. I also host my instance publicly (I've not added to the list because I am using the cheapest VPS from vultr) and for some things I get better results than Google, DuckDuckGo etc.

So as with many things it is swings and roundabouts and is determined on what you want to do. I wouldn't call the model flawed, it just seems that the benefits of it aren't what you want. Which is fine.
This is fascinating but you have to wonder how it would work with current harvesting techniques. New harvesting machines would have to be invented to work around the support infrastructure for the panels if they were to be deployed at scale.
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Yes, but do they treat the content as an image? Or do they merely hope that the content is identifiable as an ad through other means?
The 'Chinese junk' meme is pretty tired at this point. I've bought plenty of stuff from China that worked just fine. An electric car without self-driving or pointless infotainment isn't all that hard to make. It's some basic car components, some motors and a battery, more or less. I've got an EE background and I don't see anything that would keep them from making a cheap car with short range. If it passes safety testing and is approved for sale in the US then I'm all in.
Björk's "One day"[1] as well:

"The atmosphere
Will get lighter
And two suns ready
To shine just for you

[...]

An aeroplane
Will curve gracefully
Around the volcano
With the eruption that never lets you down

[...]

And the beautifulness
Fireworks will burn in
In the sky
Ooh just for you"

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nDLfFmEq8
You must be somebody else's VPN. As it were. There are plenty of uses for pwned machines. Since they are free, the uses don't even need to makes sense.
Atwood's Law is here to stay.

I hate it just as much as you do.
I just started renting my own cloud storage space for moments like this.
I cannot get back the time I wasted reading that garbage.
In the late-90's, early 2000's, my high school weekend job was doing computer work for a local bookstore starting to sell online. On the tech side, it was interesting to see online marketplaces taking off, how ordinary people use computers, the sorry state of single-purpose software meant for a small group of paying customers. I also got to learn a lot about books, which ones are more likely to be valuable, which ones have no values (I have no problems throwing books away), and where to find books online.

Now the book business... The best used book marketplace at the time was Abebooks. There's been some consolidation, and they got bought by--who else--Amazon, but I ordered something from them recently, and as far as I could tell, it wasn't just Amazon sellers. Amazon and Ebay looked like huge markets to tap, we we never had much luck on either. Ebay, especially around 2000, was more auction-oriented, and those work great for mid-price, in-demand products. For books, to hit the price range for making a good listing make sense, it would have to be rare, but how many people are in the market for a first edition of "The Jungle." The smaller marketplaces made more sense because that's where the buyers were. It was a hard business, even then. The bookstore closed its storefront and moved everything into a second home because the rent/mortgage was cheaper. The other thing that became clear is that "rare" books weren't as rare as people thought once they started surfacing online, so prices dropped. I have no idea how Amazon sellers selling copies of old, but popular books for $2 can turn a profit. The only reason the owner ran this store was she had a passion for books.
Minor correction: it was not the same police officers, although from the same police department.
Throughout history this has been a recurring concern, ever since the dawn of the textile machines.

While the transition isn't always smooth, new industries always crop up. While driving may be going away, we're seeing many new 'content creation' jobs where people are paid through many platforms (social media, youtube, patreon) to make videos/content about a huge variety of subjects.
If you syncfs every reasonable-unit-of-time, you can get a progress bar.
There's still issues preventing this re-licensing from being valid. https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/9292
Genuine question for Stack overflow users with high points: Aside from the improvement in your own skills, do you find it opens any other doors for you?
That's complete nonsense. We all take on risk. One could argue driving a car or drinking is more risky than skydiving.

When you can't pay for your risk, everyone else does.

Do you think the uninsured should be refused medical care when their life is in danger?

Do you think it's moral that someone who gets hit by a car is suddenly thrust into bankruptcy?
I don't care if China is aghast at American protectionism and xenophobia. I'm aghast, because as an American citizen, I'm interested in fairness and I hate protectionism and xenophobia, and that's what I think America is about.

If you're telling me that neither this nation nor any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure, and that we have to fight unfairness with unfairness, you're telling me that my loyalty to America itself is misplaced.
Unless your ISP employed a very privacy-focused person like me who had set up a daily cronjob that deleted these logs once they were no longer needed.
Sometimes I wake in a panic with something I need to remember to do. Keeping a notebook by the bed really helps me. I jot down whatever it was, which makes me feel like I’ve “dealt” with it, even though that only means it’s on my to do list or just out of my head so I won’t forget it.

I’ve also found making a list of things I want to do tomorrow and writing them down helps me not have those panic wake ups in the first place.
MoMA Services
MoMa is a free budgeting app with a Premium version is under construction.
MoMa connects the dots between budget and finance analysis and actual banking features. Given not only a full 360 view of your finances but complete control of your banking as well.

This product is in Pre-Beta launch, but does require a hit of user testing for UX/UI feedback, general concept understanding and usability.
A few years ago I was at work and was looking up something and the page I landed on had ads that featured a barely dressed lady in them. The funny thing is that I didn’t even notice the ad until one of my coworkers, who was passing by my desk stopped, chuckled and asked me if I was looking at ladies on the computer during working hours lol.

I guess I had developed a kind of builtin ad filter into my brain, from ignoring so many ads over the years.

Thankfully, my place of work had reasonable people working there. But I think if I worked somewhere more strict even that one ad might have prompted a conversation with HR. Nonetheless, I promptly installed an ad-blocker on the browser in case any ads would be shown in the future that would have been more explicit than the one that had been showing this time.
It's one of the old-school breed of "labor of love" informative websites that HN often waxes poetic about. And it's very interesting!
Wow that’s an incredible fix! What an awesome connection to make.
You rightly point out that nutrition is rife with pseudoscience (and obsolete scientific paradigms), and that you can't trust anyone. Here are some sources to add credibility to your claims. As one might expect, reality is more complex than your comment, as well as "cholesterol = bad":

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...

- The biggest influence on blood cholesterol level is the mix of fats and carbohydrates in your diet—not the amount of cholesterol you eat from food.

- For most people, the amount of cholesterol eaten has only a modest impact on the amount of cholesterol circulating in the blood. For some people, though, blood cholesterol levels rise and fall very strongly in relation to the amount of cholesterol eaten. For these “responders,” avoiding cholesterol-rich foods can have a substantial effect on blood cholesterol levels. Unfortunately, at this point there is no way other than by trial and error to identify responders from non-responders to dietary cholesterol.

https://www.cdc.gov/features/cholesterol-myths-facts/index.h...

- Myth: Eating foods with a lot of cholesterol will not make my cholesterol levels go up.

- Fact: It can be complicated. We know that foods with a lot of cholesterol usually also have a lot of saturated fat. Saturated fats can make your cholesterol numbers higher, so it’s best to choose foods that are lower in saturated fats. Foods made from animals, including red meat, butter, and cheese, have a lot of saturated fats.
Yes and no. Teens/young adults will have sex whether you accepts it or not. However, how they do it and how they feel about it definitely depends on education.

1. Sex safety ed needs to be taught, otherwise you get STDs and pregnancies. A couple of hour lecture in school is not enough. Safe sex practices is something that has to be reinforced and encouraged.

2. Respect of consent (and situations where consent cannot happen no matter what either party says) and understanding how to properly express yourself to the opposite sex is extremely important. Our society is full of people who do not treat the opposite gender fairly and do not understand the importance of enthusiastic consent in intimacy.

3. Normalizing sex positive attitude. Many people feel shame from sex/shame others for sexual behavior/repress their own natural desires/etc, this needs to be counterbalanced, especially in a puritanically perverted society like the US.
Some non-fiction books can read very much like novels, even if the term technically doesn't apply to them. These are sometimes called "non-fiction novels".

A great example is Endurance by Alfred Lansing, which tells the story of Shackleton's incredible expedition to Antarctica in 1914. It is apparently a very accurate re-telling, and a book that I highly recommend. Even though I knew the outcome of the expedition, the book was suspenseful to the very end, and surprisingly character-driven.
One common answer for many questions comparing past to present : "More regulations"

This is not necessarily a bad thing, but often it is becoming a nightmare of labyrinthine proportions to navigate, which hinders new entrants.
Oh man you should visit India. Much denser concentration of Audi's, BMWs, etc than anything I've seen in the US. Especially in the past few years.