skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scrimba is awesome. I was really intrigued by it for a while.

For me, I reached a point where I started to feel the limitations of the code editor provided. It became apparent that I was stuck in a learning tool, not a full text editor or IDE. There were just enough of these things that made it unappealing to me. I have been writing software for several years so I do have certain tools that I have become accustomed to using over time. Perhaps for people that don't have affinities for certain debugging tools or code editors this will be less of an issue but it would still be great to have some sort of seamless transition from tutorial to a real project, without just having to copy/paste code.

One other thought I had about it is that to me the usage of Imba to build it was a turn off. I can't remember if there was a specific reason for this or not. It might have been because I was considering what it would be like to contribute to Scrimba and when I found out that JS knowledge wouldn't come in handy I was kind of let down. I can't remember for sure though to be honest.

Last thought here, I found and started to contribute to a VS Code extension that I felt achieved a similar goal to this, called Codio (https://github.com/wix-incubator/codio). Ultimately there was some bug that prevented me from even recording any audio with it, basically making it useless, but I'd love to see something like these things take off.
In theory i believe if regeneration of cells is involved it should work with congenital but i guess there might be other complexities that might be involved (not a medical professional).
Illinois Facebook users tagged in photos can now submit class action claims
https://xkcd.com/1260/
Belief != Good enough in court, otherwise creationists would have had their beliefs enshrined to law.
Whats your view of the Phonak aids? As a user, would you say they are worth the money?
Good argument! But logically doesn't line up. The sense of community itself is opposite of selfishness. If a person is selfish they don't think about community. Capitalism mixed with right amount of socialism (or vice versa) thrives! IMHO, being greedy for doing good to others & self (community) - is great! But greedy for only self growth at the cost of anything is dangerous & the success from it is short term. Then the person next to you doesn't think about any morale - thereby destroying the concept of community.
Original article title was edited to fit: "Illinois Facebook users tagged in photos can now submit claims as part of $650 million settlement"
There are 2 sides of analogies. I can also argue by saying Epic is analogous to a renter who doesn’t want to pay rent. It’s mostly because they can’t find any other point but to find something similar.
Ring made a security drone that flies around inside your home
> I don't see the relevance? Microsoft does not allow any other company to distribute digital games for Microsoft consoles. You, nor anyone else, may create an Xbox store and sell digital games that will run on Xbox consoles.

While I would even argue for openness there but you are comparing a specific use platform to a general computing platform.

> Is that not what we have? If you don't like Apple then you can go buy an Android phone. If you don't like macOS you can go run Windows or Linux. Who has the monopoly here?

I was talking about few companies owning everything in different verticals. I would want a independent music platform like Spotify to flourish and not just Apple Music. I would want an independent movie platform like Netflix to flourish and not just iTunes. You can see where I am going with this.

> If smartphones are computing platforms, then Apple doesn't have a monopoly, because then you can choose another computing platform. Apple products as computing platforms are an extreme minority.

Apple is not a minority by any stretch. They own half of the smartphones sold in US and a significant share in the world. If I am a platform like Spotify I have to be on it, otherwise I lose a significant userbase. Adding to this, a service like Hey saw 90% of the revenue come from iPhones. They were signing up users on the web, just turns out that 90% of their paying users had iPhones.

Adding to that, Spotify has to compete with Apple Music which doesn't pay the 30% tax, gets free placement on the phone and store and deep integrations with their product.

As a developer does this seem fair to you?
> Historically this is pretty standard, I think 28 times there has been a vacancy in the SCOTUS in an election year. It has (almost?) always followed the pattern of:

Do you have a citation?

NYTimes says that there have been only 16 [1], and for the 9 of them since the civil war, there has been no such unified-appoint/divided-no-appoint "tradition" [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/19/us/politics/s...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/09/24/mcconnells-...
I have never experienced that, and I use it since it was purely for the unreal engine, could you provide more details? I'm curious.

For what its worth, the game store sucks and the ue4 assets store works better, which probably shows where their attention is on
I was surprised to see how clearly the FDA recommends against black licorice consumption.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/black-licoric...

> If you’re 40 or older, eating 2 ounces of black licorice a day for at least two weeks could land you in the hospital with an irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia.

I love black licorice but as far as I'm concerned that's enough of a reason to do without. Just because the damage is visible after two weeks doesn't mean that it doesn't occur in quantities below that amount.
Routines of Substitution: John von Neumann’s Work on Software Development,1945–8
> So nuclear is never cheaper than solar

The price of solar doesn't include energy storage, so the two can't be easily compared.

> if the state is covering the insurance cost

Yes, though I'd be interested to know what those costs actually are.

> if you have enough Uranium available. Where do you buy your Uranium? How long will the Uranium reserves last?

Australia and Canada, both allied countries (to France/Germany), have megatons of the stuff [0]. Current reserves are enough to last about 90 years [0] but exploration is limited, more deposits likely exist.

Spent fuel rods can also be reprocessed [1].

> And where will you deposit the nuclear waste?

First, reprocess it [1]. When it's finally done for good, bury it deep in the ground [2].

Remember, nuclear isn't a new technology. It's been around for decades and solutions to these problems exist.

[0]: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...

[1]: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...

[2]: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
> Almost any decision FB makes is by definition political. The top 10 most interacted pages on Facebook are political. COVID-19, in the US, is political.

While this makes sense and I agree with you, I still think that some dev ops employee shouldn't be forced to engage in political debate because their company is politically involved. While the company may be, there are many positions that can be politically agnostic to the company. Provisioning servers or working on internal work flows shouldn't require my political engagement.
While the President himself may have been chosen democratically, there is a reasonable position one can hold that says his actions in office are not democratic. And THOSE are not democratically chosen. We don't have to vote as a group on every word or policy Trump wants to pass. We don't get to vote against him blocking access to relevant people required to finish a DoJ investigation.

So, if their objection was that Facebook should alter the results of the election, yes that would be crazy.

But thats not the perspective afaik. You're throwing out basically all the actual context just to post this fairly narrow and worthless sentence that misses what they are actually protesting.

How many lies or simply misleading information has come out of Trumps admin and by extension the news sites/commentators that are widely shared as fact on Facebook? It seems reasonable that people working on the platform aren't super stoked they are contributing to poor COVID responses and fake/deadly "cures" among the myriad of other pieces of misinformation spread across the platform which heavily leans towards Trump.

So...yeah I think you're appropriating what they are saying so you can say something entirely unrelated.
> The big complaint is about lack of snacks!

Free food, including meals. If Facebook is anything like Google, some single people were literally using that for every meal and snack 5/7 days per week. It's tasty, nutritious food, and you don't have to prepare it or do dishes. Sure, an adult should be able to take care of this on their own, but this is a major perk, not just a box of granola bars on a shelf. It might cost them $100 per week (~$5,000 per year) to match their food intake via cooking at home. Much more if they start ordering a lot of take-out. That's a fair chunk of compensation they're not getting anymore. This absence is not at the top of my list of pandemic or employer complaints but I can see how it might be near the top of someone else's.
I'm familiar with Sia but know little about Filecoin, can you elaborate on the tradeoffs between the two?
That would be a cigarette every 1.4 minutes, for the entire 24 hours, by the way :)
You can already buy cheap amplifiers like this on Amazon.
If I had to guess it's because facebook has a larger portion of older conservative folks than other social media platforms?

If you look at /r/politics on reddit you see the opposite problem (over-representation - nearly 100% - liberal news sources) which is probably because older conservatives don't use reddit?

It can't be healthy for entire social media platforms to be completely dominated by one party or the other.
Honestly what is needed is a cheap secondary device like a mobile phone which contains a custom designed chip to do Machine learning fast on sound and transmit it to the ear. Even if this costs 500 $ i would reckon the benefit would be worth it. I guess battery technology has advanced to a level that the said device can easily be recharged daily or probably swapped with batteries if needed.
Hey hey. You're opposing loyalty, authority and sanctity to fairness. This is already a caricature of ideological positions different from yours.

Most people you violently disagree with have probably a different view of fairness than you do, and think that your opinions and goals are plainly unfair, as much as you think the same about them.
Bush Did North Dakota
I don't know why this is downvoted.

Honestly, I bet a lot of employees were fine with living in apartments with minimal kitchens (most studios have the kitchen be a single long counter in a corridor of the apartment) since they would be getting their meals at the office anyways.
Which laws apply that would compel Perceptics or DHS to notify the travellers? I would like to know if my information got leaked there.
Yep, humans are not bots (no emotional properties). Moral standard applies to humans because of their EQ.
I always knew the Dutch Apekoppen or 'banana monkeys' were the perfect way to enjoy the dangerous black stuff. The mix of high potassium banana with the lethal liquorice makes it both delicious and safe

https://www.mrsbeightons.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ba...

PS not endorsed by any kind of real science...
How to Raise Capital During a Pandemic:Gautam Tambay on Springboard's $31m Round
I used to have a program that'd take eight arbitrary tokens and output a programming language using those as its commands, just as a reskin of Brainfuck (such as Ook).

My copy is long gone, but it's an easy project if you want to make one for yourself.
I think black licorice must be genetic. Some people actually enjoy that flavor.
Store multiple types in a single std:map in C++ with std:any, just like a pyt
> Well said. Reliance is the bane of India.

On the contrary, recent events imply that it has been a boon for India. Jio is the single reason why mobile data rates came down in India and they are one of the few entities that have brought in billions of dollars in the country amidst a pandemic. Saying that many Indians from the lower end of the economic strata have access to Internet just because of Jio will not be an overstatement.[1]

And it's not just about Jio. Many middle class people who hold Reliance shares have benefited over the decades and it's one of the few companies that is known to protect the interest of retail investors.[1]

> It is going to drag India down to the pits and make India into a banana republic of sorts

I am not sure how Reliance is going to do that. Would you explain that a bit?

1. https://yourstory.com/2020/06/mukesh-ambani-bridged-india-di...

2. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/goo...

3. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/master-move-how-dhirubh...
Your original statement can be casually read to seem like your disagreeing with OP’s message (that Facebook did not quell extremist groups), due to the structure of your message (a lead statement followed by a delayed contradiction). You could make it clearer with better emphasis that you are stating “agree and” instead of “no because”.
This highlights the power and voice that individuals in a company have to hold leadership accountable and make more ethical decisions. Well done.
For the first version we used Mermaid, but in order to make it more interactive it’s now custom d3 code. It uses many of the same dependencies as Mermaid, for example graph layout.
I think this article is a good example of conflating cause and effect. But not in a fallacious way or value-negative way: it more highlights well, I think, that there is a difficult gray area where "cause" and "effect" both are related and separated from each other, but not in an obviously clear cut way.

So he died from hypokalemia and other reasons, but the main (or only) reason for his hypokalemia was the licorice habit. I think this is a good example when it's both correct and not correct to say that the licorice "caused" the death.

Contrast with two examples on the two extremes:

Consider a situation when he had instead of licorice had ingested some obviously known poison: then I think it's a much more valid statement to say that "man dies from eating poison", because the idea of the poison and the idea of death are very close together.

Consider a different situation where the man was smoking one pack of cigarettes _per month_ or _per year_. Then it's not as obvious to say "man dies from smoking". The smoking probably contributed to the death in various complex ways.

So you could say that "man dies due from hypokalemia due to excessive licorice consumption not counterbalanced by having an otherwise healthy diet" which is possibly more nuanced, and possibly more (or less) helpful depending on what your purpose is to clarify or simplify things.

Thanks for sharing this article, I find this a good and fairly apolitical educational example that I can use when talking about complex causal relations in the future: how cause and effect can be conflated in both positive and negative ways depending on who you are talking to, what you are talking about, and what the purpose of the discussion is.
This is common. Vegetarian diets are much harder for sexually mature aged women than men, because of monthly blood and therefore iron loss.
The 68K had no MMU or even segment registers, so the 68K machines that can run UNIX had, at the very least, some kind of external memory offset adder. I did not know the Apple Lisa had this- it's interesting because Macs didn't have it and could not run UNIX.
Right but the federal migratory bird act covers a ton of birds that aren't what you or I would consider migratory

For whatever reason, basically every species of woodpecker in the US is classified as migratory non-game, and thus it's federally illegal to hunt them

The only way you can legally shoot a woodpecker is with a depredation permit by the USFWS
I like red licorice, but probably because it's just sugary and has some generic 'red' flavor to it.

Edit I got curious and looked it up. It is indeed not really licorice: http://archive.boston.com/business/articles/2011/08/29/whats...
You can't build a functioning society that embraces people who reject the humanity of its other members. Or rather, you can build a society that way, but the moment that opinion is accepted you are on the road to terrible persecution of that out-group, whoever they are.

A pluralistic society can handle many different viewpoints, but it cannot give them equal value or acceptance.
argument by analogy is something like A -> B, C is similar to A in all ways that matter, thus (A -> B) -> (C -> D). analogies are powerful when the other person already agrees that (A -> B) and doesn't notice any important differences between A and C. if you use an analogy where the other person doesn't agree that A -> B in the first place, you'll never get anywhere. if they are really stubborn, they will come up with an endless list of reasons why A isn't quite like C, but at least you have a chance of refuting these.

analogies are not very good in arguments where the other person is resisting the conclusion you want to draw. they can be great when you are trying to teach/explain something to someone who trusts you though.
It used to support just generating Puppeteer scripts. They added support to also generate Playwright scripts.

Sticking with the old name would make it sound like they only supported Puppeteer.
Judge says U.S. must defend or delay TikTok app store ban by Friday
> While the President himself may have been chosen democratically

The President was chosen lawfully, in an outcome which sits in the space where the lawful process produces results at odds with democratic norms.
But I am a customer too. For example, a couple months ago an, ad got my mom to install an app without her consent. She said she could not escape the page until she clicked okay, and she wasn’t aware the app had installed at all. I noticed because I started receiving charges for a subscription to the app services. A simple chat with Apple support granted me a reimbursement.
As a customer, Apple treats me well. I understand where tons of developers are coming from, but as a customer I haven’t had a better experience.
I did from 2010 to 2015 and while I didn't have a problem, my dad was able to get malware on his. He actually was iOS from 2010 to 2014 then android 2015 to 2018, and then he kept messing his device up so I told him I'm not helping him unless he goes to iOS.

All I know is I needed a 100% guarantee the device won't be tampered with by random people for my business and that other than turning it off and on, there was no tech support needed. To me, this meant going with Apple.
Some decision makers there dislike Apple that much.
I sure am glad the BBC reports on a death by licorice over, say, the Assange hearing. It is indeed vitally important for me to hear such news after all.
read the table of contents of the RDBMS you use. twice. do it again next day first thing.

then read the chapters you didn't understand the title or haven't heard about the concept. this might take a while if you only know about select and join and create index - abstractions SQL provides are more leaky than rusty buckets and the manual is there to tell you everything about these and how to work with them.

then it's 'just' a matter of keeping up with the delta by reading release notes.
No one is forcing them to develop for iOS. I will bet you dollars to donuts developers are very happy about the money they make from iOS otherwise they wouldn't be there.
I see this type of comment a lot in these discussions on the App Store - "no one is forcing you to make an iOS app". No, no one is holding a gun to your head to make an iOS app. But you know what, people need to make money to pay the mortgage and feed their kids.

If you're a programmer who has years of experience, who wants to make money in the field you have years of experience in, the field you likely enjoy doing and are good at, then YES you are forced to make an app on iOS because that's where the majority of the paying customers are.

It's a bogus excuse to say "don't make an iOS app then". That's akin to telling a programmer "just learn to eat a little less".
My understanding is that they want certain episodes removed or edited. This is rather ironic given that Joe Rogan is one of the few interviewers that will talk with anyone and let them get their story out even while vehemently disagreeing with their stance, and then built a rather successful business because of _that_. In many ways he's more journalist than anyone else in the spotlight.
I feel JK Rowling was echoing a common sentiment in many women: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” - Margaret Atwood
Is it not using ammonium chloride? That's usually what is used for salty licorice in Scandinavia.

It takes huge amounts or really low amounts of potassium in your diet for it to be a problem.

Frankly you're likely to notice it on your stools long before you consume enough to be a problem.

If you eat lots of licorice mostly just ensure you get enough potassium from other sources.
I have great hopes for smaller countries trying out UBI. Nowadays the US is far too slow with implementing policies that are proven in other places (e.g. healthcare).
So as an aside - I've had some salted liquorice in Sweden, and the closest I can't compare this experience to is having drain cleaner poured on your tongue, and then rubbed in with some sandpaper. But hey, we eat pickled mushrooms and meat in jelly, so what do I know ;-)
Growing up in very religious environments - like all of the Middle East?

Growing up with a homophobic government and homophobic environment like Russia where it is the norm?

Growing up in countries where there is a very hated "other" tribe like in Israel?

Outside of the "developed" world a lot of non-liberal stances are very alive and practised. But should we condemn a vast fraction of these people who hold racist or homophobic views in environments where they are accepted or even encouraged?

Plenty of people have left those places and adopted more liberal stances. But this times time and acclimatisation. And education. So much education.

But when you write people off or morally judge them, you usually encourage them to dig in their heels because no one likes to be told their life and upbringing is wrong and a lie.

I have seen relatives' views on homophobia soften over the years but I know from experience flat out telling them they are wrong got nowhere. But they came from a time when everyone was supposed to have only one boyfriend/girlfriend into spouse for their whole life, and living was about making sure food was on your table that night. They had society force feed some ideal on them and never given the space to contemplate otherwise.
Some context (edits for completeness & accuracy).

If I understand the situation correctly, Hootsuite employees had been agitating against ICE contracts. As recently as yesterday, using very careful language, a Hootsuite spokesperson denied they had a contract with ICE. A Hootsuite employee blew the whistle on this contract, on Twitter, yesterday. (See comment to my post below.) This morning, an entrepreneur/activist in this space linked to documents showing that Hootsuite had sold licenses to ICE via an intermediary.

https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1309146080962113538

The contract is right here, search the page for "hootsuite".

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD020FR0000270...

More context from Business in Vancouver: https://biv.com/article/2020/09/hootsuite-denies-us-ice-part...