skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't particularly profound, but when I find myself getting distracted, I say "One thing at a time." to myself to reset my focus on the task at hand. Pretty simple, but it seems to help.
I want to meet the people who had a problem with this comment that they downvoted it.
There's a difference between a list of pairs, which is the one that is equivalent to a dictionary, and a list of lists that all happen to have length 2; and between an unordered multiset and an ordered list.
Long-Awaited Update Arrives for Radiocarbon Dating
In the US and Canada, records from the late 1970's and into the 80's were usually pretty poor quality. Oil was expensive and so vinyl was often recycled and tracks were sometimes pushed together to make longer records. I would guess reprints of those records would fix those shortcomings.
Who Was the Falling Man from 9/11? – (2016)
What? How about make a product that actually works? Epic Games Store is a slog to operate, with weird UX decisions across the board.

People hated Ubisoft trying to cram their platform down their throats because it was a buggy mess. People are disgusted with the EGS because, likewise, it is a disaster.

You don't need a Steam Workshop (a bonus, for sure,) to distribute games. You don't need the Marketplace for Game Economy stuff (a bonus, sure.) You need a way to buy and launch games quickly, which even EGS struggles at.
I will admit to being wrong on this one, as Egypt seems to have an NSA as well. A mistake, not a fabrication.

Personally, I agree with the other poster and view the NSA's collaboration as enough evidence, but had remembered seeing the Egypt thing last year.
Don’t forget that at some point, you’ll want to generate the yaml from code, because otherwise it becomes impossible to maintain. And quickly you’ll find yourself back at square 1. :)
I wasn't technically a diplomat brat, but I went to diplomat brat schools and lived in 6 countries before my high school graduation. I agree with everything in your post.
> The hackers said they found Trump's password because of a LinkedIn data breach involving a database of 117 million username and passwords.

> The password 'yourefired' - the catch phrase for Trump's reality show The Apprentice - turned out to also work on his Twitter account.
Climate Change Increases Threat of Fire to U.S. West
The app is really calming. It's what I imagine it would be like to interact with software that was designed by Alan Watts.
You don't get sms notifications/reminders from your doctors / hospitals? about appointments

In the UK sms messaging is a key part of a lot of taxi films work flow - who needs UBER
>The natural progression of this is to create large plastic bootle/container deposits. Again this will never happen because it obviously stops the current externalization of costs in the plastic business.

We already have that in a lot of EU countries. Every soda bottle has an additional deposit cost
(10 cents) on top of the soda itself. You pay that when you purchase it and get the 10 cents back when you take the bottle to a collection point for plastic bottles.
"Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?" - in 20-dimensional space I may still be moving forward, even though I'm changing direction with each step ;)
What’s in Wildfire Smoke, and Why Is It So Bad for Your Lungs?
"All happiness depends on courage and work."

-Honoré de Balzac
https://www.mydiplomaticlife.com/feed/
Put a deposit on the bottle that it comes in, similar to how states like Michigan have a bottle deposit. Make it large enough that the consumer would be incentivized to return the bottle, even if they themselves don't actually re-use it. This way they could simply return the empty bottle, even if they don't plan on refilling it.
High-fidelity record of Earth's climate history puts current changes in context
Sometimes. Often we don't. Putting linters on code is doing it right. But unless the language is opinionated and requires the linter there will be people who don't use it.
No the baseline wage is what the market will bear. Employment is subjected to market forces just like the goods and services those employees produce. The common example is underwater welders: high demand, low supply (high danger factor) results in $300k/yr salary. Welders at the local muffler shop in my area pay around $20/hr, highly skilled welders get between $75-$100/hr depending on if their independent or work for a large shop, and experience.
Nuclear (and everything else) has the same problem, demand is not constant. You want to cover the yearly peak even if its a 1 in a hundred year snowstorm or heatwave thats causing it.

So you can either build 10x as many nuclear plants and run them at .1 capacity most of the time or build 5x as many and use some of the surplus energy to create stored power like hydrogen.

Doing either of those things with renewables will be massively cheaper than nuclear.

There doesn't seem to be anyone who is actually enthusiastic about nuclear, only people who are misinformed about renewables because their news sources have been trying to prop up fossil fuel interests for the last two decades.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur
His arguments seems to be completely rhetorical and absolutist.

"If it's in principle possible to offer an alternative regardless of any cost, even if it's not practical, then there is no monopoly."
Finally understanding the appeal of static typed languages after doing a project in Go using Goland.

I always thought I loved the freedom of python and JavaScript (and I still do to some extent, you’ll have to take Django from my cold dead hands). But the power of static type becomes super clear when you’re using a great IDE.

I can hit a hot key when hovering over any function and it’ll show me the docs and take me to the full page if I want. Hitting another hotkey it’ll auto fill parameter options. It’ll auto import the libraries I need. It’ll complain if I’m using the wrong type.

It gives me so much more confidence that the code I’m writing will actually work. It’s slightly more of a pain to write, no doubt about that, but the payoff is huge.

I was burnt by java in the past and can’t stand how every project seems to end up like this https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris.... But Go has shown it doesn’t have to be like that.
So it's simply worse, since the friction has gone up appreciably, to no benefit of the customer.
New Hubble data suggests there is an ingredient missing from current dark matter
I absolutely agree that ad networks are spying on users, and violating their privacy to an unacceptable degree — hence my point 1, because I prefer the EU approach.

However, that is not a botnet.

Those systems cannot, at least not to my knowledge, turn on the microphone in the background and listen for useful blackmail-worthy phrases without alerting the user (like Siri et al are presumably capable of); They cannot subvert the WiFi chip to be a wall-penetrating radar capable of pose detection, heart rate monitoring, etc [0]; They cannot snap random photos, finding out who has anything worth stealing, nor also revealing the shape of their keys for 3D printed replication (ditto audio, at least for the keys) [1][2]; They cannot read your email and SMS messages and take over your bank accounts [3].

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/household-radar-c...

[1] https://kottke.org/20/08/researchers-can-duplicate-keys-from...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2015/08/this-app-lets-anyone-3-d-print... (not state of the art, but ICBA to go through all the irrelevant links)

[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-malware-can-steal-goog... (old Android example, but even Google stamped down on this kind of thing because it is a threat to the value proposition of a smartphone)
Top Travel Trends After Covid-19 Pandemic
In 80s, the french electricity network was mostly in 220v. There is no perceptible difference between 220 and 230.
One project/team out of how many? Any of the FAANG companies will already have code in dozens of languages. Rust has probably been in the mix for years, as has Go, as has Erlang, as has Haskell, and so on. It's great that there are job postings for this, but not sure if it's really news.
Oh, this is a fun game.

Miles Davis You Should Listen To, Kind of In Order

(This is interesting because, in large part, it's the development of jazz from immediately postwar through fusion)

1. Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1957 -- but recorded in 1949)

2. Round About Midnight (Columbia, 1957; recorded 1955-6)

3. Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959). If you listen to nothing else, listen to this.

4. Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960).

5. In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969). Fusion/electric jazz starts here..

6. Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970). GIANT of the genre. You're either gonna love this or hate it.

Jazz You Should Listen To That Isn't Miles Davis:

John Coltrane:

- Blue Train (Prestige/Blue Note, 1958)

- Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1959)

- My Favorite Things (Atlantic, 1961)

- Live at Birdland (Impulse, 1964)

- A Love Supreme (Impulse, 1965)

Charles Mingus:

- Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959)

Dave Brubeck

- Time Out (Columbia, 1959)

Ornette Coleman

- The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic, 1959)

Not for nothing, but pay attention to what an outstanding year 1959 was.
I don't actually know if I read this quote somewhere or made it up somehow, but I've been using:

"Privacy/Security is getting better but it's getting worse faster".

There's soooo many people working hard on both security and privacy. They're trying their best to make products that are privacy focused and more secure. But they're up against Facebook, Google, etc... and the fact that many consumers just don't care. We say we care, but in the end, we don't.

*I guess the quote is paraphrased from a Renner book?
P2papptester.com
P2PAppTester's objective is to create an environment where people can get their app tested by other people who are also looking for testers.
Yes, because sales never occurred before when there was only one store.

Oh wait, yes they did. To the same degree, and with a similar frequency.
I get free games from EGS, just like I got free games from Amazon App Store. For the same reason that the Amazon App Store exists, I can also get open source apps from F-Droid, including apps like Newpipe that aren't allowed on the primary app store on the device.

Do you wish that the Mac App Store were the only way to get apps on your Mac?
I have always liked the simple expression "fail to plan, plan to fail". And by extension a modified quote of Eisenhower's: "plans are worthless, but planning is essential."
Thank you bszupnick! Pricing page updated!
Don't take me wrong, that's precisely the point - admitting and accepting your bias is the way to go, and that's fine.

It's just sad that the EU stance seems increasingly naive, the "lead by example" stance doesn't seem to work at all, and we're steam rolled between US and China.

Why isn't the EU stopping monopolies from acting in EU territory if it's in the EU best interest? Why not stop predatory takeovers? It's like we're just bystanders watching US and China... just sad.

Thank you for your honesty
Phone, Text and Email address should work like DNS entries
I wonder if Heinlein knew about these when he used Shasta as the home of the good psychic adepts in Lost Legacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Legacy .

Looking into it now ... almost certainly yes!

"War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17120233-war-over-lemuri... :

> Whatever else the Shaver Mystery was, it became a worldwide sensation between 1945 and 1948, one of the greatest controversies to hit the science fiction genre. Today these stories of the remnants of a sinister ancient civilization living in caverns under the Earth are an all but forgotten sidebar to the historical record.
Brit wins $2.9m prize for maths involved in stirring a cup of tea
That's right. They were cheap and plasticky, often shoved in a cheap plastic liner rather than the old paper liners.

I noticed that the new pressings of records from the 80s are far better now.
The Android app's good, and available from F-Droid. And the features are solid.
There's definitely room for improvement, but no glaring deficiencies in my experience.

To be specific though, their roadmap [1] includes "Import External Mailboxes into TutaNota", and I don't use their desktop client, so I'm not sure what export options are available there.

[1]: https://www.tutanota.com/secure-email/
I disagree with the premise that an experience is inherently more intentional because it's more laborious.

When the last Tool album came out, there was an mp3 redemption code within the box of the physical album that I had preordered. I ended up using the mp3s to listen to the album for the first time (primarily because I have a nicer setup for my computer's audio than any CD player I have lying around), but it was still an "intentional" experience: I poured myself a drink, fired up ProjectM alongside the music player to give myself some graphical visualizations to look at while the album played (to keep myself from getting distracted), and routed the audio through a USB-DAC into my ATH-M50's. So that was 90 minutes of focused, uninterrupted listening, and it was done digitally.

Intentional space is a result of, well...intention. The potential of a medium to allow for less-focused listening does not inherently cheapen that medium, much in the same way that the added labor of having to go open up my vinyl player and drop the needle onto a record does not inherently mean that I'm going to pay more attention to it once it starts going than if I had just clicked a button on an app somewhere.
No, they wear out eventually and need replacing.
Corporations don't have feelings... negative externalities need to be priced or there's no reason to expect a corporation to pay attention to them.
Is London compatible with your idea of an academic life?

A friend rejected a job at Imperial because he didn't want to live in a metropolis. Another friend stays at UCL because she can't bear to leave London.
I am using emacs with OmniSharp which... sort of works. It gives context-sensitive help when it's in the mood. It allows me to stay in emacs a little more )I don't like visual studio).

Point is, maybe have a look at OmniSharp.
The quote doesn't say insects aren't useful.
How Microsoft built its folding Android phone
CCTLD policies vary, but Canada should be one of the TLDs that this is a reasonable thing to expect: https://www.cira.ca/policy/rules-and-procedures/canadian-pre...
This is an incredibly callous and sad way to think of the well-being of other human beings. Helping another person as they struggle with their mental health shouldn't be an investment, something you expect to extract value from later; you help someone through difficult times because you care about them and love them. It's something you should do out of the goodness of your heart.

Viewing all of your relationships as investments is selfish, hurtful, and will very likely result in a very lonely life for you
Whoa I was with you up to the last line. Static typed languages have been around for decades. Go is a very, very recent addition. It hasn't shown squat.
Yeah, this is spot on. The plethora of great VSTs out there makes it hard as an artist to choose a tool. You can easily get stuck in ‘preset surfing’ mode where you quickly realize you’ve spent an hour not really making anything.

For me it was important to acknowledge this and help myself set boundaries to how I spend my time producing. I also found myself gravitating toward vintage gear because of its limits and how it enforces decision making (e.g. printing synths directly in audio, which was a game changer in terms of process)
Yes, I'm referring to this particular version.
Unlike library version numbers, the properties of a plastic bottle that might be of interest are not one-dimensional and monotonically increasing.
Notes on Grief
"Adapt and overcome."

Motto/mantra from my time in the Marine Corps. I think, officially, it was "Improvise, Adapt and Overcome." but rarely was the first word included in my exposure.

Related to that mantra's concept was:
"Semper Gumby - Always Flexible."

Both are useful in acknowledging that 1) Change is constant and 2) To thrive, you must be able to work with that change.
I've got a similar project that reads your db schema and generates a Go REST API and a TypeScript/React web interface. (The code-generation is language agnostic so at some point I'd like to add at least a Java REST API as well.) It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

Unlike PostgREST/Hasura and some other dynamic tools you can "eject" at this point if you'd like and continue on development without the generator in a language you already know. But I'm working on exposing Lua-based hooks you could carry across whatever backend language you choose to generate and avoid the need to eject.

It has builtin support for paginated bulk GET requests with filtering, sorting, limiting. Built-in support for bcrypt-password authentication and optional SQL filters specified in configuration for authorization of particular endpoints based on session and request metadata.

Still very much a work in progress but the goal is to push the envelope on application boilerplate.

Screenshots are of the example/notes project in the repo.

https://www.dbcore.org/

https://github.com/eatonphil/dbcore
Create a recycling bureau that analyzes source materials and grades recycle-ability, and then in the law require certain grades for certain applications.
Does anyone know why MJD posted this? (Well, probably MJD does. So I guess I mean: Is anyone here in a position to explain why MJD posted it? Just general interest to them?)
"Not my problem"
So I'm of two minds here.

On one mind the app stores do provide a mechanism for security, that is of great value to end users. On the other hand, the amount they collect is way too large.

I'm wondering if there is a middle path. If one wants to use the app store to make your apps discoverable, you pay the higher fee, but if you just use the app store for distribution (and hence don't disrupt the end user security model) you can pay a smaller fee.

so how would users install apps without being able to discover it on the store? via the desktop (and not mobile, if we want to be strict) web. i.e. epic can give users a url that they can use to connect to google' web market (which already allow you to install apps to your device, and apple can do the same).

This would be the only way to install these apps (though updates would proceed as normal). if one searches for the app in the marketplace, it wont come up. And as I said, perhaps even on mobile the direct link to app wont work (though of multiple minds on this as well).

For app developers that need the app store to drive interest and demand, the 30% cut google/apple take is then reasonable. For app developers that can drive their own demand, they would pay a much smaller cut (perhaps 5-10%, with a decent chunk of that being the normal credit card processing fees that they would have anyways).

just a thought
Competition benefits customers. There is no competition for pricing on the AppStore, ergo the pricing is more or less free (A monopoly).

The store itself is so big as to be it's own market, and as such Apple shouldn't be allowed to use monopolistic practices even though they created the market themselves.
I don't call myself a libertarian, but I am sympathetic to a lot of their arguments. Stossel comes across as a whiny spoiled brat who can't handle being told 'no' to doing things like lighting up a cigarette in a public school, because it's bad enough that it's a public school but I can't smoke either?

The selective arguments he makes can usually be picked apart very easily, too.
Also, what does a tenured professor of mathematics do with such a sum other than spend it on himself? It's not like he's going to build out a lab and hire a bunch of research staff.
The "getting worse faster" part is only likely to get even faster with the growing amount of internet interactions and internet use.
Seems related to the paradox of choice. Creativity is shaped by and can be fueled by limitations. Part of the creative process today, since so many tools are freely or cheaply available, is choosing a set of limitations for yourself.

In a sense, every creative decision imposes a new limitation and narrows the space of what is possible. It’s almost like sculpting: the final product is a result of cutting away potentialities until what’s left is recognizable as what you wanted it to be.
If i had more time, I would have made it shorter
This is a bit depressing, but I sometimes think about r/K selection and how many times the K-strategists might have evolved true, distinct counting, only for that to end up triggering depression.

I watched a video of a duck who, reasons unknown, decided to navigate a waterfall with her six ducklings. Two made it. Does she know that she has fewer babies now? I have seen similar videos where a heron will snap or two or three ducklings while the mother is unable to do anything about it. It occurred to me that zero ducklings might make it per year, and that this would be a normal thing to happen to a mother duck. A continuity of memory and the ability to enumerate loss could result in learned helplessness; would nature end up selecting for creatures that live in the blind optimism of now, with neither past to compare against nor future to dread on either side?
Then this is a perfect case for regulation, to make it cost more to make new glass than re-use existing containers. It worked in the past just fine. But the first world incentivized energy production so much that we drove down the need to be efficient.
I wouldn’t be so quick to trust Epic’s telling of the “facts”

> When reached for comment about yesterday’s news, Apple told The Verge that it was not doing anything to stop “Sign In with Apple” accounts from working with Epic Games. So there’s some kind of discrepancy in who is telling the truth, as Epic is maintaining that Apple was previously enforcing the shutoff (and the way Epic is talking about it, still possibly could). Apple did not immediately reply to a request for comment about today’s development.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/10/21431396/epic-sign-in-wit...
The indiepocalypse happened because Valve made it easier to publish on Steam.

In 2009, 343 games were published on Steam.

In 2010, 308 games.

In 2011, 300 games.

In 2012, 377 games. Valve introduced Greenlight, allowing developers to create a page for their game and selling those that gathered the most interest.

In 2013, 511 games. Valve expanded Greenlight, lowering the threshold to enter the platform

In 2014, 1641 games.

In 2015, 2732 games.

In 2016, 4489 games.

In 2017, 6508 games. Valve introduced Steam Direct, allowing anyone to sell their game once they complete the paperwork.

In 2018, 8237 games.

In 2019, 7950 games.

When Valve was the gatekeeper, only a lucky few indie developers made it onto the platform. However, with less than 1 game being released per day, there was plenty of space for these new games on the front page. With over 21 games released per day, being available on Steam is no longer a competitive advantage.

Valve "killed discoverability" in favor of availability. Epic's store has advantages such as a lower cut, subsidized by Fortnite money. It also has disadvantages (not available in many countries, missing features, reviews, and social functionality). There is definitely a place for a smaller, curated store, where only one or two games are put out per day, which is what Epic is aiming for.
While git isn't ideal for binary assets it is also true that adding random 10Gb images is bad for readers on bad network-links.

I just make sure that my images, and assets, aren't "too big" and add them to git. If they were >1Gb then I might reconsider, but the git-repository which contains my blog goes back to 1st January 2005 and is only ~50Mb in size so it hasn't been a real concern.