skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK 100% back to school now. Hope it will continue that way as life is a lot easier for us and them at the moment and they seem a lot happier and will learn more effectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain - TLD is first level[1]. Domain directly on root. Domains like co.uk and so on are second level domains.

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[1] - or second, then again counting root as level 0 seems reasonable.
It's pretty obvious. If you don't know many people who are less wealthy than you then you have no frame of reference to consider yourself wealthy.
Continental Europe during the post world period until the late 80’s had terrorist bombings, political assassination, dictatorships and plenty of other crap going around, I’m really not sure what level of understanding people have of history these days.

70 years ago was just after Europe decided to murder millions of Jews, Roma, Gays and a bunch of other groups.
Given those tools, and especially Webflow, is Wordpress mostly on the way out for new sites, and only be used in maintenance mode ?
Now on Medium: How to Get Trending Tweets in Any Country with Python and Tweepy
A tutorial about using Tweepy, an API wrapper for twitter, to get trends.
I also explain the difference between authentication and authorization when using Twitter API and some best practices
I never realized I would want this so much.
It's up to the developers whether they want to sign an exclusive-deal with Epic (and of course up to Epic to offer one, because it turns out this is a very sweet deal which takes a lot of risk out of a game project, and especially independent developers would be foolish not to accept it).

Apart from Epic there are many other distribution opportunities on the PC platform. This is not the case on iOS. You either make a deal with Apple - and a very lousy deal at that, or you're not on iOS (the same problem exists on game consoles).
As it's infrastructure as code it would go through code review. So in that case I wouldn't be worried.
'...unheard of to most people internationally.'

Taking this point further, I note there's a huge Anglo-Saxon bias in the prestige of Universities.

I don't know why this is.

I say this having studied at Oxford and Cambridge and noticed how 'unfair' it was that many French and German universities had undergraduate bodies with even higher selection standards, yet few people internationally would have heard of them.

It seems odd to me that Harvard and Oxbridge are well known, but an elite German university like TUM is not.
> Anyway, if you, dear reader, are suffering from depression, I recommend you to visit a therapist with an open mind.

I would add on top of this, try out different therapists if current one is not working for you, rather than saying 'this is not working, i am done with therapy'.
One thing that has yet to occur but will one day, is one of these platforms disappearing and then a whole host of game libraries disappearing completely. We've all seen how some tech companies shut down, and supplying downloads and updates for downloads costs a lot of money. There's zero incentive for someone like Epic, Valve or Origin to keep their platforms working if the company goes bust.
The motto of the billionaire french family/dynasty Mulliez: Everyone in everything (Tous dans tout).
Oh but you're going to miss that pretty screensaver... You know, the one that says (<sarcasm> "Do you like what you see?" </sarcasm>) ... NO, I LIKED THE WORK I WAS DOING

I bought a new computer. I bought the Flight Simulator 2020. The flight simulator wouldn't work. MS Support said to update Windows, which I did. FS2020 worked... for a week. Then MS Support said to update Windows to 2004. The whole update took about 6 hours, time I would like to have spent flying.

Of the 3 weeks I had FS2020, a FULL DAY was spent on the phone with MS Support, with the ONLY change being a new, updated Windows. 24 hours of "support" spread over 3 weeks. 3 work days I could have flown.

FS202 is an amazing program. But it won't run if (a) the remote license check fails (b) the operating system isn't up to date, (c) the wifi is down, or (d) FS updates aren't applied.

Would you keep a great car if (a) it wouldn't start if the owner's manual wasn't up to date? or (b) it wouldn't start because your lease isn't up to date? or (c) the onboard computers weren't the latest update? or (d) the wifi was down? I'd get rid of the car, no matter how good it was.

I got rid of FS2020. I now have a sweet Linux install.

If you value your time, your work, or your money... Don't use Windows.
Its a huge benefit, with competition the "taxes" would compete and developers would try to favor those with lower taxes, plus Apple store and Play Store both forbid adult apps because they want to be "family friendly", if the user wants to install the pornhub app on their iPhone they should have an easy and straightforward way to do so.
> But if the US won't sign it it's already badly damaged.

The USdid sign it .. under Obama. So Trump pulled out of it.

> a real agreement on climate between the EU, China, India and others

That is* the Paris accords.
I don't think I have a motto, and I don't particularly want a single one. Instead I rely on a broad set of ideas and rules which guide my decisions. Here is one quote that guides my thinking about science and philosophy:

“Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. "I think I have finally worked out what you were trying to tell me, years ago, about being intelligent," she said.

The Constable brightened all at once. "Pleased to hear it."

“The Vickys have an elaborate code of morals and conduct. It grew out of the moral squalor of an earlier generation, just as the original Victorians were preceded by the Georgians and the Regency. The old guard believe in that code because they came to it the hard way. They raise their children to believe in that code– but their children believe it for entirely different reasons."

They believe it," the Constable said, "because they have been indoctrinated to believe it."

Yes. Some of them never challenge it– they grow up to be smallminded people, who can tell you what they believe but not why they believe it. Others become disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the society and rebel– as did Elizabeth Finkle-McGraw."

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?" said the Constable, sounding very interested. "Conformity or rebellion?"

“Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded– they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.” - Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age
I've seen people say WordPress is the devil, but honestly, I have found if you want a simple blog, it works extremely well. I selfhost two WordPress instances with a LAMP stack on Debian (the hardware is literally in my basement), and the maintaince I do is log in maybe once a week to make sure that Debian/WordPress auto updated. Most of the time I don't even do that because Debian/WordPress email me to tell me it's updated.

I think one of WordPress' biggest issue is that I have not really found a good how to to really set it up (they advertise their "5 minute deploy", but it leaves a lot of things lacking). If I set it up, I have a series of articles I used to set it up.

The other issue I've anecdotally seen is when someone installs a bunch of plug ins then gets into a dependency hell when trying to update.
english was not the language of the internet prior to the internet existing, which is the period of time this article is primarily concerned with.
now that's a better argument to make.
Ever price a sailboat? Tens of thousands is still entry level. The modifications done to cars run just as much if you do most of the work yourself.
There's actually a compiler that does all these things and allows debugging of optimised code whilst seeing the unoptimised form - Sulong.

Sulong is an LLVM JIT-compiling engine that runs on GraalVM. So it uses the same infrastructure of the JVM, but without JVM bytecode getting into the picture. Instead the JVM runs LLVM bitcode directly. But it does so in the standard way which gives many benefits:

• Splitting of hot/cold paths, as in this work.

• Cross-function optimisation and inlining regardless of visibility, as requested above.

• Ability to debug an optimised program, because the JVM can 'deoptimize' the parts being inspected or debugged.

• Run the Linux version of the bitcode cross-platform.

• In "Managed Sulong" (which is an enhanced payware version), all allocations are garbage collected and bounds checked. Yes even for C/C++ programs, just needing a recompile. It's just about possible to do this within the rules of well defined C/C++, as long as the program doesn't try to do non-portable or non-defined things like pass stack pointers between threads. Managed Sulong can also sandbox LLVM code modules, and redirect IO back into the JVM for mapping via the pluggable socket/filesystem layers.

• Cross-language interop, including recent experimental support for e.g. casting Java or Ruby or Python objects to C++ objects and calling methods on them.

• All the same compiler optimisations as LLVM does still apply.

It's a pretty amazing and under-appreciated project. On the other hand the code being run inherits the limits of the JVM, e.g. you shouldn't try and fork the process (of course, lots of runtimes don't like being forked and on Windows you can't do it at all).
Whom was me and others in the physics department I was associated with. You can find more discussions on the prize on the not even wrong blog https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8958
"Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything." Chris Hadfield -- Canadian astronaut

"A person becomes a person through other people." -- philosophy of Ubuntu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy)
> That claim is incorrect - it is obviously possible to release tritium water without causing damage.

Seems like you somehow misunderstood what I was saying then? You are basically restating my point.

The specifics of what's going on at Fukushima have nothing to do with it. Yes, if they can release contaminated water in a way that a maximal safe concentration is never exceeded, that would be safe.

I did not comment on whether nuclear plants are better or worse than coal plants or anything like that, I just pointed out that the argument about release of radioactive material by coal plants must be made in a different way (if that is possible) if it is to be effective.

NB: Please don't take this personally, but this looks like another example of interpreting a statement based on whether it superficially seems to fit into one's preferred narrative rather than looking at what was actually said. What I actually wrote is simply correct based on basic physics and biology.
For one, it appears to handle punycode internally.

Punycode is a method for encoding international unicode into ascii prefixed with XN--. So this will correctly associate cookies for either the unicode term or its punycode ascii equivalent.

As exanples, wikipedia indicates the international domains with the most name registrations as being the russia's "рф", taiwan's "台灣" and china's "中国", which are represented in DNS as "xn--p1ai", "xn--kpry57d", and "xn--fiqs8s", respectively.

The data appears to indicate hosting sites where users can register their own names against a providers domain ( username.example.com ) as well as exceptions to this where the host's own site then uses subdomains ( www.example.com, admin.example.com, cdn.example.com ) and the host's cookies should still be used.

It lists specific tlds, wildcards where appropriate with *, and notes exceptions to wildcarding by prefixing with !.

Certainly far from something that would be impossible to write your own parser for, but getting everything right on your first go would be harder than one might expect, and getting things wrong here would be likely to leak the user's information between various sites.
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If anyone thinks for one second that this guy actually cares about any of this (beyond the extra 30% he could pull) I have a bridge to sell you.
> Several second level domains are missing.

Second level domains are by definition not top level domains.

-edit- Ha–I thought this was a top-level comment. I think that counts as irony.
Does anyone know if panpsychism is an anthropic argument?
"With great power comes great responsibility"

Spiderman's Uncle :)
I've read all of your comments and think that it couldn't be more right! This, this, this! Thank you.
I’ve been mildly vocal in my support for not altering how iOS works. I bought into it explicitly because of how it works.

Your comment is my preferred outcome as well. It would at least be a sign of good faith that they’re in it for the values they’re professing rather than only diverting money into their pockets.
“To be a better programmer, you must fu***ng code;)”
Ah, Interesting memories.

I worked on Beltel for a while, which was a South African copy of the UK version of this.

As in, South Africa got a copy of the code, and developed from there.

Ran over ordinary telephone lines using mostly 2400 baud modems to a client which was normally a terminal program running on a PC.

The code itself was VAX Pascal running on a set of DEC VAX VMS boxes (5 front-end boxes, and a dual-VAX backend cluster).
They’ve been giving awards to failed ideas since the start.
Apple wouldn't want to be responsible for something not in their store. They have all the downsides of verifying an app is safe but none of the upsides, worse they will inevitably be the ones who have to handle support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article." -- Nathan Poe
Isn't this just a form of "survivor bias"? I don't get why anthropic arguments are considered "weak".

The article seems to just be complaining that anthropic arguments cannot explain the precise _value_ of the fine structure constant. Well, nor can Occam's Razor, but we don't seem to have a problem quoting that!
Exactly. He's just using keywords like monopoly and stuff to gather support.

And overall I don't understand why people take sides in corporate battles like any of those mega corporations stand for morals or the greater good or anything like that.
Whole point of publicsuffix.org is list second or third level domains, which are public. Otherwise we are back to IANA list, which is indeed TLD list.
I don't think many services allow pasting HTML to any fields.
But it's not a software, it's a service that depends on a server farm, and a constantly evolving set of hundreds of third-party integrations.

It literally will break if left unmaintained if not funded properly, unlike a traditional software.

I do agree with other subscription-based models that sells software like Adobe Creative Cloud, where I'd be perfectly okay with having a non-updating version for a fixed cost.
Maybe the FreeBSD Foundation is something for you, they Sponsor you so you can implement wanted stuff into FreeBSD (just an option not opinionated)
70 AmazonBasics products reported as burning or melting still being sold
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I think its a bit of a chicken/egg problem here.
If there is no apps/appstore the OS will be a flop, but if there is no free OS there will probably not be a free app-ecosystem.

Used to have a Nokia N9, awesome phone, great OS, but there weren't any apps to speak of which I think is a large part of why MeeGo died.

Honestly the one way I see out of this is if web-apps largely replace native apps, which means that a new OS only needs to support a standards compliant web-browser.

That or get the existing actors to agree on and support an open 'app-container' format ...
There's clearly a difference between a company having exclusive control over how people access a particular game on a particular platform (eg Fortnite on Windows) and a company having control over how people access all software on a platform (eg everything on iOS and Apple).
Have you tried buying a game from Epic on Windows?

The "Epic Client" asks you for payment details, collects all kinds of private information and doesn't let you do anything unless it's up to date and connected to the internet. (DRM hello?)

Then you go to the Windows Store to buy that candy crush ad that's been sitting in your Start Menu for no reason and oh surprise, they are asking for payment details again!

Doesn't sound like a win for consumers to me.
Ha. I was just playing around with EWW a few weeks ago.

In the old times, the 1980s, I would use Emacs to read email. So convenient and fast. I should set that up again for the fun of it.

I am using Emacs less now because I use VSCode more often now just because it is easier. The thing that keeps me using Emacs is how well it works with mosh and tmux for doing development in fast remote servers. This is also getting easier with VSCode.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice ...
Have you looked into type-driven development? This lets you put your domain model into the type system, potentially add logic if you have dependent types (Idris), and helps a lot with catching issues compared to a dynamic language.
> If you roll your own, it'll be about 10x less efficient than something done properly using SIMD instructions.

Is this really an issue when loading a field from a config file? If it was something happening 1m times per second then maybe I could see your point.
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/589825
It's the "best case scenario" for developers and Epic, but not for me as a customer. I vastly prefer the iPhone model where I can go to a single place to download all the apps that I need with a single payment method. I don't have to go to a specific url in the browser, download an executable, install a separate store for each game I want, and then finally install the game from that separate store. I don't know who would call this as a superior user experience.

You guys are acting like the existence of the App Store has jacked up the app prices by 200%, whereas in reality there hasn't remotely been such a thing since the inception of the App Store.
Steam is very close to a monopoly though. Not the store itself, but Steamworks integration. Most game developers use it because it's convenient, but it locks you to Steam. Often releases outside of Steam lose multiplayer support because of that, resulting in a crippled experience.
Projectional Editing (2008)
Using Gonum Graphs to Solve Word Ladder Puzzles
"A sucker is born every minute" - Nixon during his famous China visit.
One of those tables triggered my Collatz obsession.
> they cost game devs money in lost sales from me.

I still don't get how the exclusives are a good deal for the creators. They get more publicity and probably some extra money for the contract. But does it really offset the lost sales? There was a large number of times when I went though: this game looks awesome, I'll buy it, oh it's exclusive for whatever-platform-i-don't-have, ... and likely not remember about it ever again. I even bought similar games which are available on platforms I already have instead.
This graph does not answer the question at all. Why is not the ideal level 100? 200? 300? 500? If you have never been at 500 how would you know if the outcome is actually detrimental overall? You can't make models when you don't have historical data outside of your training set, that's a very simple rule that everyone can understand.

Al Gore made ridiculous claims back in 2008 about how bad it would get in just 10 years (making it seem that the trend was linear, which it isn't) and he was completely wrong on most of them - so the question I raise is very much valid.
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The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were your last.
— St. Philip Neri
The problem is exactly those exclusivity contracts and how they were made.

Epic literally bribed devs to do deals that went back on promises, people are not just upset about exclusivity, they are upset about exclusivity of stuff they PAID FOR on other platforms, there were kickstarted games, games pre-sold for Steam, etc... that suddenly became Epic exclusive, and devs went and explicitly said they wouldn't even return the money.

It became an obvious pattern, whenever a game "became" Epic Exclusive, someone would be screwed by it, it is why people are so mad at Epic.

And before someone says that this is their way to compete... well, yes, a crappy one, their store suck, doesn't provide basic features, has no reviews for example, has a ton of dark patterns, it is super hard to get rid of your account or fix your account and so on.
More like "most software is in NP", since "easy to confirm an answer" is the set's defining characteristic.
WhatsApp announced a statically-typed Erlang flavor, open-sourced in November
The never ending cycle of monopoly vs convenience. Let us forget the fact that exclusives make the game devs more money than they would've got otherwise and the games are eventually released on steam anyway.
You need to provide us a way to test it without registering.
Not a monopoly, but they have a captive audience with one of the biggest gaming franchises of the current time.

Many of their current practices with the Epic Store could be potentially seen as being anti-competitive, but they are currently being given the benefit of the doubt because they are nowhere near as big as Steam.
Some links to the games:

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https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2020-champions-showdown-ches...

https://chess24.com/en/embed-tournament/champions-showdown-c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4qCYtkZMnU
> This publisher is operated by a conservative think tank

Ok so I'm glad we're engaging the article on the surface.

> This article furnishes no evidence that being married forces poor people to be good parents

I'm not sure that was ever said. What they're arguing is about how societal institutions like marriage have largely declined and it's happening along with other large changes in society: lack of trust, friends, etc.

And clearly from what you've said, the legal distinctions of marriage are far less important than whether there's two adults in a family raising children.
https://publicsuffix.org/list/ (See the Algorithm)

Is actually hard to implement correctly and interoperably, even among browsers, and there are sharp edge cases along the way (such as holes within domain trees).

The author of the library referenced at least worked with the PSL maintainers and browsers to make sure they were faithfully and correctly implementing things :)
Do you think civil law legislative is exactly unambiguous?
And also:

We do not fix our affections on borrowed goods, because we know that they must soon be returned to the owner. All the goods of this earth are lent to us.
— St. Alphonsus Liguori
Thank you. That significantly changes my understanding of the story.
Epic games exclusives are not the kind of competing I want, and they're not a win/win/win. I'm happy to buy games on GOG or the Humble store for instance, but I will never in a million years install the privacy and security nightmare that is the Epic Game Store on a PC I own. Sure, steam is not perfect but they've not had issues on the scale of Epics software.

I've played thousands of hours of Rocket League, but still out of principle had Psyonix refund me after the switch to Epic. Similarly, I had to ask for a refund for my kickstarter backing of Diabotical, a game I do wish to try one day. I understand why James took the money... but it's upsetting that the cost was exclusivity.