skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also say that Google docs took the a traditional desktop word processor like Microsoft Word and put in a browser tab. Supporting multiple user edit sessions simultaneously was brand new, but not sure it was transformational in terms of expanding the word processor into something else.
I saw this and the related Veritasium video, but am still scratching my head about something. Does this mean that away from all gravity a body does not experience any time? ie a person on a spacecraft stopped in intergalactic space would not age relative to persons on planets?
> Regular people, or even journalists or judges won't even understand what cookie clearing on exit means.

It's been almost 30 years since the Cypherpunks. When billions of dollars or existential business threats are at stake, regular people are motivated to find a technically-knowledgeable peer for advice. There have now been several generations of financially successful tech entrepreneurs, some of whom move in non-tech circles.
What twitter is accused of is of applying its rules unfairly and with bias.

Section 230 protect the right to moderate within bounds.
> ... big picture view of how things actually work and fit together instead of the twisted ways I may have come up with.

I can seldom find anyone with this answer at work. It requires that I read up on the tech/product being used, then exploring the repository for the configuration and code, asking six or seven people who have committed recently for their perspectives on why we're not doing what's in the docs (they don't know, they just followed the pattern and have no idea where other parts of a system rely on this particular thing...) Ultimately I discover that the diagrams on the wiki are outdated by several years, so, in text on that page, I note the differences. Then I discover that one of the first people I talked to were indeed The Subject Matter Expert who just can't be bothered to explain (or can't admit they don't know...)
I use Firefox since 2005 as my main browser (I had a brief affair with Chrome between 2009 and 2012), and never experienced broken sites and poor support. Firefox works just fine.
That's 20 pounds worth, roughly the weight of a sledgehammer. How do you carry a sledgehammer out of a secure facility every day for a decade?
What point is invalid? That it's a prepackaged setup for all users to avoid having these kinds of problems? It's pointed out right at the beginning and then a longer description is linked to about how the writer hit exactly this kind of problem because mac has different basic utilities and their sed worked differently.

> I really don't see how having to get Docker going is alleviating any of the above headaches

Because it is a single thing to get working that then leaves all users of your tutorial on all major platforms dealing with the exact same environment. Have you ever tried to work with getting end users up to speed only to discover that one is using python2.7, another has anaconda but pip is pointing to the wrong place, pip3 is required for someone else and one user has mac so needs to install brew then replace every standard call to sort with gsort. Then dateutils appears as some conflicted dependency...

> Setting up virtualization to run a process on my local machine which I can run without virtualization or containerization the very same way seems crazy to me

Then don't, you don't have to. Go and setup an identical environment. For those that have docker this becomes a single command to run, and those that don't can get setup quickly. If they're heading into data science they're likely to benefit from having at least a basic understanding of docker.

> It seems like an awful amount of complexity to push onto beginners for what is likely to be zero benefit and gives them only what they had at the start...

It doesn't give zero benefit, it removes a whole bunch of differences in setup that are entirely irrelevant to the tutorial.

> Docker offers most literally nothing but opaque complexity.

It offers a standard environment that puts all users in the same place.

> but all them sweet utilities are already there save the weird csv too

No they are not, not on a mac and not on windows.

> I don't think the complexity of Docker is warranted for simply handling a CSV tool

What complexity? 'docker run --rm -it X bash' is literally all I need to do.
I really love this idea. There's a part of me that wants to take this idea of biochar seedballs to support reforestation elsewhere. I live in the PNW, and it would be really interesting to see what it would take to convert lumber scrap/timber waste into biochar/syngas, produce energy from the syngas, and use the biochar to support planting trees (and possibly sequester some of it as well.)
How do you get away from all gravity? Aren't you subject to gravity from all other matter in the universe at all times?
The customers are part of the grift.

I have a friend who used to run cash operations for a midsize bank. When they outsourced the operation, she basically laid out her idea where the money savings came from, which boiled down to eliminating internal controls necessary to operate... if you’re a bank. Compartmentalized physical security operations don’t scale up quickly.

End of the day, it’s the usual story of corporate incompetence and regulators looking the other way. At the end of the day, FDIC is insuring all of this bullshit.
I believe (from my limited knowledge from Interstellar) that it’s the opposite: higher gravity environments move slower relative to lower gravity environments, which enabled the “go down to high gravity planet for a couple hours and come back and it’s ten years later” plot point in the movie. So if you’re in intergalactic space, time is actually passing very quickly in the higher gravity environment of a galaxy.

But a person’s experience should always be the same, no matter what reference they are in. They will perceive time as passing at the same rate in all environments, but it will be different from people in other environments.

Caveat: IANA physicist, and this is not physics advice.
Hypermobile (and hEDS) population and related connective tissue disorders.
Any education before college is training, not teaching. They train you, like a dog, to pass a set of exams. Learning something in the process is irrelevant for the "teachers".
Literally the only thing people knew about Stockdale is that he had been a POW and cared about POWs, and the problem that people had with him is that they couldn't recognize any other qualifications that he had for the office. He started a debate by asking a question that everybody had, and didn't answer it in a way that convinced anyone.
Wrote my Bachelors dissertation in LyX, and my Masters thesis in LaTeX with vim. In my experience, while LyX has a lower learning curve, it could be difficult to make it behave in exactly the way I wanted, and once I put in the effort to learn LaTeX, I found it easier to get my documents formatted exactly the way I wanted.

This was over ten years ago, and YMMV.
You can run your own instance and invite your friends to share it. This does require you have some friends, of course.
If you have a decent income you should consider getting your news from magazines and history books. I subscribe to Australian Geographic which covers issues I actually care about. Another good source for global news is Delayed Gratification [0]. Aside from the coronavirus pandemic, if you live in a stable developed country (not the USA) there is pretty much no piece of news you can't wait a while to become informed about.

I have found I know much more about politics now that I read history books and biographies rather than Sydney Morning Herald headlines.

0. https://www.slow-journalism.com/
Event Data at Scale
> You can also just not use social media.

And use what instead?

> No one forces you to use Facebook.

What are your choices, exactly, if all your friends use it? So you're either on Facebook, or you're missing out and inconveniencing your friends. There's currently no third option.
>"The lawsuit said that Crétier, Garda’s founder and chief executive officer, told a meeting full of executives that he ran one of the world’s largest investigative operations and if anyone leaked how bad the company’s finances were, he’d find out. According to the lawsuit, he added: “I will kill you, and I will kill your family.”

In a deposition, Crétier admitted he threatened to kill any executives who leaked information. But he testified that he was joking and denied threatening to kill family members."

Holy shit. Things that are not appropriate for managers to joke about: Protected class, firing people, killing people.
In the left-hand image, an orbit would be a horizontal line, because it's a constant distance. So it's a mirror of the time axis, but translated upwards in space. It would be exactly the same axis-mirroring translation in the other images. So, importantly, it would not be a line in the right-hand image.
Whatever anyone else says here, you're on the money. In the UK we overreact to almost any issue and no longer just in the red top newspapers, but also on radio and TV. It's been like this for decades and it's messed up.
Somewhere I read that a free fall parabola does not even take into account earth's curvature. Although I cannot remember, what kind of function describes the reference system specific ``path, as a function of time''.

Could this be named more correctly:
Gravity is not a force – free-fall hyperbolas are straight lines in spacetime (timhutton.github.io)
?
You do however now need to tell all the users of your tutorial to go and install brew, then install coreutils and then to replace every use of "sort" with "gsort", etc.

Running a docker container, regardless of what it does under the hood, is extremely easy on a mac. You install a program then do "docker run ...".
Love the idea. Also let's put "do no evil" back as part of the company mission
"If you and a friend started walking straight north, both at the equator but a long distance apart, you would gradually get closer to each other until you collided at the north pole."

I always thought that was a nice way to drop one dimension down to get the intuition. To the metaphorical 2D ant they see two friends attracted to/falling towards each other, but they are going in a straight line on a curved surface and there are no forces at play.
Oh, and `aws-vault` from Segment.io.
Very simply: monetary policy works by getting banks/private sector to do things they wouldn't otherwise do. Digital currency removes banks from the equation. Instead of banks creating money by lending, central banks would create money.

This is, however, a simplification. Central bankers like this idea because it gives them more control. Most people should be suspicious of this idea for the same reason.
checkout the actual forest in Google Maps[1]. If you check the historical imagery in Google Earth Pro, you'll see that sometimes between the end of 2017 and the start of 2018 most of the trees kinda disappeared. I dunno if the forest was cut down or if they just stopped watering it, but its pretty much gone now

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/7mtZYS1v5588fdeYA
So it turns out that factor is just over 2.5x: https://gist.github.com/saagarjha/00faa1963023206a8ccd987798.... You can split hairs about it being POSIX and inefficient or not checking all the errors, but it works and isn't really all that massive.
I am not too sure you can have that cake AND eat it (historical datapoints suggest otherwise I think)
ClearContext does some if not all of this
I'm sure the implicit question was "why are these articles always about Rust".
CPAP machine. If you think you may have sleep apnea then get it checked out.

In-line water filter. Reduce the barrier-of-entry to drinking water however you can. Started with one of those gravity filters but having to refill it all the time was a barrier. One that's tied into mains pressure just works.

Ceiling fans. We have an evaporative cooling system which is good, but adding ceiling fans in the bedrooms and office really allow good air circulation on those hot days.

12mm flashing red LED and a magnetic switch. Stuck the magnetic switch on the garage door and the LED in the ceiling by the front door. Can now easily see if the garage door was left open.
Let S be the original specification.

Let F(S) be the specification with steganography applied. The steganography ensures that there is a Finv that can be induced from F(S) and such that Finv(F(S)) = S.

You print F(S).

The receiver scans the object F(S) and computes S.

From there you can repeat the process.
Instant pot. It's a preasure cooker you can program

Robo vaccum. Many hours saved

Bose noise canceling. Especially useful on the plane or in a busy office

Dishwasher. Many hours saved

Adidas Bluetooth headset. Really got addicted to it. Has a joystick with 4 directions and great battery life and sound

Products that should have improved my life by barely did:

Nest thermostat. For the price, disappointing. Didn't seem to learned my preferences
Woman Drinks Water from Squat Toilet to Show Her Proud Work of Cleaning It
E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75
It can pay to be a job-hopping engineer
I have no way of knowing whether or not he was really joking (and obviously it's not okay to joke about that), but why would you trust him that he was joking? He hardly seems like a trustworthy guy.
Because alternatives are either not mature or too old and not C-like enough to be cool ig
> If you are interested in platform independence, why even bother with the Unix utilities? You can accomplish the same with Python,

Because then you're also looking at getting people using the same version of python and your dependencies - and it's likely slower.

> That being said, it is in environments where everyone used some version of Unix (typically Linux, Solaris, or Mac OS X).

If only there was a technology aimed at sharing an exact same version for easy use ;)
But it's not like that, you don't need to create a separate account on every single one. You can follow any account on any server/community from just one account. That's the big difference/selling point. It's the "local timeline", an optional discovery feature, that adds the incentive to create more accounts; but there are definitely ways to circumvent it. Many communities expose their timeline publicly and there's almost always a public profile directory so you can see who's on that server/community to follow them.
Not, it isn't. It is 915 EUR (before VAT) here, which makes it 1072 USD today. Makes it somewhat more than $1000 :-/.

On the other hand, my spending on Apple Stands in the last years was very similar to your personal spending on Russian nuclear fuel as used in US nuclear plants. That being $0. Turnips leads this one :).
What do YOU think "objective" means?

None of the properties you're talking about are objective. Objective doesn't mean Crockford wrote a book about it or "lots of people agree with me".

Objective means factual. You're putting the word "objective" in front of your own and others opinions to arrogate the credibility of objectivity onto statements that are not based in observation of material reality.

More people holding an opinion doesn't make it a fact. "Terribleness" or "justifiableness" are not matters of fact, they are both matters of opinion.

Do you understand? You keep repeating your opinion and then using the word "objective" to claim that your opinion is fact. You think I am disagreeing with your opinion, rather I am disagreeing with you stating your opinion is a fact. No matter how many people agree with you it will never be a fact, it will always be an opinion because "terribleness" is not a matter of fact! "Terribleness" is the result of a value judgement.

There are no such things as "objective conclusions", objectivity is not a manner of reasoning. You're looking for something more like "observations", "measurements", hard facts.. none of which apply to "terribleness" because it can't be materially observed--only judged.

"Objectively" isn't an intensifier unless used in the form "Objectively [something that isn't objective]." Why would actual facts need to be intensified? What kind of insane argument would anyone have where facts and opinions are compared directly?

I know it sounds stronger to say your opinions are facts but it is okay to have opinions. Just remember that the difference between opinions and facts is a difference of kind rather than a difference of degree. You can argue an opinion, you can attempt to persuade me to your way of thinking if you show your reasoning.
> And this is what makes audio such a great category in 2020 – it’s not just growing faster than it has in decades, it’s diversifying and changing faster too. The cause: technology

And funnily enough, the word technology means the study of art and crafts. From the Greek techkne that means art/craft.

I love technology and am a technologist in nature, and I think people understimate how impactful technology is, it literally defines our specie. From discovering ways to make fire, knifes, arrows, all the way to the digital transfer of data. Changes in technology always makes history.
The "Penny Whistle" modem came out in 1976, but hobbyists had been building their own for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennywhistle_modem

People had been connecting mechanical Teletypes via modems since the 1950's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem
I agree. "Hurt" was written by a young addict (Reznor) but Cash's cover coming from a much older ex-addict was really quite moving.
> > Is D ever a better choice? When?
>
> Probably not, very small community, few resources, etc. …

Have you used both? Not seriously, I'm going to say, or else you wouldn't say something like that.

As one example - one reason you'd be looking for a C++ alternative is to interact with existing scientific computing codebase written in C. Good chance you won't care about all the stuff that gives Rust the steep learning curve, and you don't want to mix weird symbols all over your code. I used Rust first, then moved to D. There's no way someone used to programming in C is going to feel more comfortable with Rust than with D. (They might still choose Rust, but there's just no way they'd do it because of comfort.)
> Can I migrate my account to another server?

There is a github issue discussing using a custom domain and pointing DNS records to whichever instance you like but it has been dormant for 2 years

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/2668
New Windows 10 Remote Hacking Threat Confirmed–Homeland Security Says Update Now
From https://scienceandsociety.duke.edu/learn/ma/ & https://scienceandsociety.duke.edu/learn/ma/jdma-program/

> Many of the most important challenges confronting the legal profession lie at the intersection of science, technology, law, and policy. Emerging science and technologies, such as AI, big data, social media, genomics, and neuroscience, demand an interdisciplinary approach and visionary leadership. Students in the JD/MA in Bioethics and Science Policy program spend their three years at Duke focusing on these intersectional problems and preparing themselves for a seat at the table in these discussions for decades to come and earn an additional degree while doing so.
Came here to reply with exactly this. I think I've had my set over 15 years now. For awhile I was going to the gym just for fun and to mix it up, but now with the pandemic, I just reverted back to my home equipment with no service interruption. I've probably paid for the equipment 6x over vs. yearly gym fees, and I never have to wait for a squat rack to be open (because I'm the only one in the gym)!
I guess my tone and mentality were not apparent from my comment, because holy shit yes that's the problem.
I heard an interesting question at one point: "how come, when you throw a ball up on Earth, the parabola is so strongly curved? Spacetime is nearly flat, so how can a straight line become such a steep parabola?"

I'll answer this question as I understand it, but I only took four lectures of General Relativity before I gave it up in favour of computability and logic, so if there is a more intuitive and/or less wrong answer out there, please correct me.

Intuitive answer: the curve is indeed very gentle, and (e.g.) light will be deflected only very slightly by the curvature; but the ball is moving for a couple of seconds, and that's an eternity. On human scales, the time dimension is much "bigger" than the space dimensions (we're quite big in the time dimension and quite small in the spatial dimensions); the ball moves only a small distance through space but a very large distance through time, amounting to a big distance in spacetime, and so the slight curvature has a bigger effect than you might expect.
California Anti-Spam Law (2004)
I wrote a sizeable chunk of documentation for astronomical software with LyX about 15 years ago. The concept is excellent and in general I like it. There were some rough edges - especially with table & image handling, but in general it's pretty neat. I should probably give it another go some day.
My wife and I both work, but our lifestyle does not require two incomes. So we've tried to find trustworthy charities to entrust my salary to. It's harder than it sounds, and we're only about 60% of the way there, but it has measurably improved the quality of life of many people - not just us.

I also "purchased" a 4-day work week, which has had a substantial impact on my own quality of life.
I do all of them too. And sometimes, I crack whatever joints or bones are there in my neck and spine - every now and then, one of them locks up and makes the same kind of sound as knuckles when forced.
Live Life Like the World Is a Dojo
>software updates for a UI that no one asked for.

No one ever asks for these things even if they are needed. People complain at every single youtube redesign but when you look back at the past designs they look ugly compared to the current design.
I've always just thought it was ridiculous that I should have to wear ear plugs to sleep in my own home. Why do people tolerate that? (I know, that's apartment living for you, etc., but not all apartments are that way.)
Are you actually trying to [hammer a nail]?
If so, you shouldn’t use a [screwdriver], you
should use a [hammer] instead.

EDIT code formatting now wraps on mobile!
Nothing saves you in that situation. For example, some authoritarian ex-mediocre-programmer-turned-middle-manager who cares more about growing the team than shipping robust software could be the one choosing what language to write it in.
See, you don't even know why they're voting for Trump. You just assume the worst and that they're all incoherent morons. Did you know that the moral high ground doesn't mean you're superior to these people. It affects your life in a minuscule way.
Not being informed enough to be politically involved is often the worst possible thing for your wellbeing in the long term. If you don't fight for your wellbeing, someone who is fighting for theirs might do so at your expense.

But of course, news is a pretty questionable source for this goal, because its always filtered through an ideology that might not really have your wellbeing in mind.
Yishan Wong (ex Reddit CEO) is working on desalination via solar power that sounds promising: https://www.terraformation.com/blog/our-project-in-hawaii
> Mastodon, instead, has an extra layer between your network and the whole world: messages from people on your server. This is called the local timeline

This is oddly phrased and does not correspond to technical reality. Mastodon is a system of accounts that post messages that are delivered directly to followers, be they on your or other servers. Everything else is basically cosmetic. The local timeline is just a way to have a look into all public posts that originated on your server, the federated timeline is a look into all public posts that your server has received.
I should really get a good sleeping mask, the ones I'm using are from air travel and they aren't very confortable in the long run