skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember trying to use this when I did an undergrad math course. My tutor went on about latex and such, I remember being very confused about the whole thing. Thus was prior to any knowledge on my part about markup languages or programming. I simply couldn't use it, I ended up using libreoffice with its equation editor. It worked for me at the time.

Now if I was doing something math related I'd probably try a combination of pandoc markdown with mathjax.
> or a package manager (I assume people have done this already),

Conan, the C/C++ Package Manager [1]

[1] https://conan.io/
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Gravity is not a force. The surface of the Earth is moving up to the object in free-fall at an acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2. The force pushing the surface, and the pressurized atmospheric shell, upward is a result of the processes occurring within the Earth (likely, in particular, those within the the core).
For me - multimarkdown[0], as an alternative to pandoc.

Multimarkdown syntax definition manages to be conservative with respect to original markdown and at the same time provide several needed updates, like image attributes, references within document, footnotes, complex tables, etc. All done in a style that fits original markdown quite naturally.

The program itself does everything well - reads from stdin or file, prints to stdout, very fast, reliable, doesn't have a hundred flags.

[0]: https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6
As a counter to that the issue people have with doing dishes is postponing it. Try only having 1-2 plates 1-2 sets of ustencils 1 pan etc. You have to clean it every time you use it which makes it more viable and natural than taking a chunk of your day to do last week's dishes. Plus you stop wasting plates and learn to reuse things.
The funny thing is that in the 1950s, the Soviets definitely worked to project images of modernity, and people were shot for trying to smuggle such images out. These days, if you only look at the images concretely, without making use of political abstractions to understand the deep Stalinist repression those people were living under, it seems nostalgic.

Am I looking at Russian propaganda? Why or why not?
Despite both being conic sections, cutting up an ellipse won't yield you parabolas. An ellipse has two focal points to which the sum of the distances is constant, while a parabola has a focal point and a directrix line to which the difference of the distances is constantly 0. Two different things.
> if the democracy there has eroded why he doesn't have the means to do so? What is blocking him to takeover?

That his lies have been exposed.

Especially regarding the unlawful exclusion of Lua from presidential elections.

But he will try again, that's for sure.

Do you really think that previous dictatorship happened overnight?
Here's a study from the original SARS epidemic showing that people who had known contact with infected people there was a 70% lower chance of infection when they wore masks[1]. At this point, arguing that masks don't work is absolutely taking the piss -- you only need to look at countries like Japan (which made the political decision to not do widespread lockdowns unlike many other countries in Asia) to see that widespread mask usage clearly works.

> Supporting the validity of this finding, there was a dose-response effect: by multivariable analysis, persons who always wore masks had a 70% lower risk of being diagnosed with clinical SARS compared with those who never wore masks, and persons with intermittent mask use had a 60% lower risk. Many persons who wore masks in the community did not use N-95 or similar highly efficient filtration devices, which have been recommended for use in the hospital setting.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322931/
If you watch a bit more, there's another term that is added.
there used to be a google provided extension to do this, personal blocklist

they stopped providing it for some reason...

I liked it for blocking quora/pintrest/w3schools/...
You can just look up some dictionary definitions, like "not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts." I've explained how that applies in this case - we can use comparative analysis to draw factual conclusions.

Focusing on the specific word "terrible" is a bit silly. Sure, it's hyperbolic, but I used it as a way to capture the idea that Javascript has many features that are comparatively worse at achieving their goals than equivalent features in many other languages. This is something that can be analyzed and measured, producing facts.

Crockford's book title is simply an example of how even a strong advocate of Javascript recognizes its weaknesses. You may not understand how it's possible for it to objectively have weaknesses, but that doesn't mean it doesn't. In this case an objectively bad feature would be one that has negative consequences for programmers, and can be replaced by a features that can achieve the same goals more effectively, without those negative consequences.

If there's anyone who'll argue in favor of such features on technical rather than historical grounds, then it would certainly undermine the objectivity claim. But the point is that there are (mis)features in Javascript which no-one defends on technical grounds. That is a reflection of underlying objective facts.

I'm also not making some sort of ad populum argument. As I pointed out, any claim of objective fact has to be made in some context that provides it with semantics. In some languages, the expression "1"+"1" is a type error, in others it produces "11". Both of those outcomes are objective facts in some context. What your objection really amounts to is saying that there's no semantic context in which my claim could be true. That's clearly not the case.

Perhaps a different example would help: people don't write programs any more by toggling binary codes into machines via switches. That's because we've come up with approaches that are objectively more effective. We can factually measure the improvements in question. The features I was referring to fall into the same category.

I'm going to repeat the closing from my last comment, because you're still doing the same thing:

You can of course quibble with such claims, based on a rigid application of a simplistic set of definitions. But you'd do better to try to understand the truth conveyed by the claims, and engage with that.
That‘s not different from C++ however.
Unless you want to use them like a currency. Then you probably want ones that trade like a currency. Theres a reason you don't buy sandwiches with fractional google shares.
"No you don't understand: invalid clicks are things that happen on other peoples properties. You definitely meant to click that ad in gmail. We know, we're google, you can definitely trust us about this"

'Unfortunate UX design to 'improve' rendering' is the plausible-deniability they can use to justify this.

> This kind of corporate misbehavior is not unheard of, but I just can't imagine it happening at Google.

I definitely can, I don't think anywhere is immune to this once you reach a certain scale. They have a profit-motive to make money, they will absolutely try and get away with as much as they possibly can.
"All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage." —Lord Byron
I don’t think that’s necessarily a cat.
I'm curious if it's because political news is so messed up. Like, if we read tons of positive articles regarding good things being done, I doubt we'd see the same impact.

Which highlights your point imo. If we change the way politics is done, then we can eliminate this issue. But it requires being politically informed.
the other way to keep extensions away is to use chrome's profile feature

I have one for banking, for example, with zero extensions
Yes, you did. However, it depends on how you define "getting away" from it.

At some point, the effect is so small that it either can't be measured or even if it can, the effect is so small that any impact is irrelevant in practical terms.

If that's the case, you're effectively "getting away" from it.

I guess it's a matter of perspective.
How is it not a force though? Regardless of curvature, a ball starts moving if you let it go without applying any force. Curvature alone can't account for that could it?
Saying Argentina is on lockdown is like saying that Greece is collecting taxes
Light is moving so much faster. In the same two seconds it crosses a much larger distance in space.

The line is only straight in spacetime, not in space.
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> the argument at the moment is the Johnson is being too careful to protect people at the expense of the economy

He failed very hard at both then.
A large, expensive comfortable bed, mattress combo...
> Virtually no one writes plain JavaScript

Which is because plain Javascript is objectively terrible, as I pointed out.
- Read code and emulate the style of code that you find good. In code reviews, pay attention to the comments you get from people you admire and want to learn from in your team. Likewise, perform code review on others' code, and offer constructive suggestions, preferably in the form of concrete examples.

If you work at a large company, read code from subsystems that do not directly touch. Read code written by teams that are admired, and code written by teams that are reviled, and try to figure out why they are so, from their work: the code.

- Develop a good style in the language you program in. Learn its idioms. For instance, if you write Java, there is a book by Joshua Block (Effective Java?); for JavaScript, JS the Good Parts; for Go, The Go Programming Language; for C++, there is the Google C++ style guide, and so on; for Python, try to read and emulate code or advice by Raymond Hettinger/Alex Martelli etc.

- Read most/all of your language's standard library (the documentation and usage examples) APIs, and when performing any programming task, ask yourself: do I really need to add a dependency on this egg/jar/gem/whatever, or can I accomplish this task using the standard library? You will be surprised by the answer quite often. Python, Go and Java all have extremely good standard libraries and documentation (the latter has some iffy parts that are to be avoided, but this advice holds in general).

- Write library code. Lots of it, with a focus on safety (the user should not get any nasty surprises when using your library in a standard way), developing the right level of abstraction, reusability and extensibility, and most important, testability. Volunteer to write Unit Tests for portions of code that aren't covered by adequate Unit Tests at your work. Most people consider this drudgery and will applaud you. By noticing the flaws of your programs, you will get a chance to fix them and you'll get better.
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This is exactly how I decide to watch or read something on the net.

1. Read the headline.
2. Ask - Is the topic likely to be relevant after 2-3 weeks?
3. If yes - Read/Watch it.
4. If no - Ignore.
Position is not an absolute notion: you need to answer "position with respect to what?".

If the thing you're measuring position against is also accelerating, then you need to apply some acceleration of your own to stay still with respect to it.

The terms you want to look up are "proper acceleration" and "coordinate acceleration". The curvature of spacetime means the thing I'm measuring position against is moving relative to me (c.f. the example of two people walking in parallel across the Earth, nevertheless eventually meeting: the curvature means that even though neither of them is measuring an acceleration, nevertheless they are accelerating towards each other), so I need to have some internal ("proper") acceleration of my own to counteract the fact that our geodesics are moving away from each other.
> I would like a stable and reliable system that's guaranteed to work, not a constant game of cat and mouse.

I'd love if the internet wasn't a neverending cat and mouse game... but what about spam?
To me, this seems similar to training a neural network on 10,000 images and then publishing the weights themselves as a distilled "image" (of course, it's not the weights themselves but a "distillation"). I feel like you could get something similar by taking the trained network and then applying deep-dream techniques for each classification label on a blank canvas.
I loved the discussion with Professor Richard Werner on a podcast lately. He talked about what the European Central Bank is planning and what this means for us as consumers and explains why CBDCs really mean for us.

Here's the full interview

https://youtu.be/OdYmdKUiQNw
It's wonderful. Melvyn is an excellent 'man on the Clapham omnibus' - quietly intellectual, ever inquisitive, but never looking to show off his own knowledge and always more than happy to cede the limelight to the academics whom he hosts.

He did struggle to follow along just a little bit in the P vs NP episode, though :-) Worth a listen for the HN crowd if only to see what trying to get to grips with computational complexity feels like to a true outsider.
Trello[1]?

[1]: https://trello.com
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GNU Emacs is the only active Emacs. Resurrecting one of those old forks like xemacs isn't really an option. Also replacing Elisp with CL isn't a good idea. There's very little actual reward on that investment.

See
https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/26/
(you can skim through the slides to save time)

People have different ideas but I'd like to emphasize the good work being done on GNU Emacs right now. Also lots of new efforts such as Remacs. But there's no reason to try to rewrite emacs in Common Lisp or GNU Guile or whatever.
My impression is Mastodon expects you to join a server oriented towards some particular interest group, then to find and follow individual users from other Mastodon servers who you want to hear from. But it seems to be designed with the expectation that most of your read/write will be inside your chosen server. That doesn't sound well-aligned with common use cases.
I'm super layman in all this, but I think the word force here refers to the Newton's force. Which experimentally was shown to not properly predict the effect of gravity, where as seeing gravity as a distortion of spacetime instead of as a acceleration force applied to the objects, did predict accurately the trajectory in experiments.

You can call both a force in the generic dictionary definition of force. Because obviously it's crazy that something can be so powerful as to distort spacetime itself. But gravity wouldn't be a force in the Newton sense of being something that affects the acceleration of an object.
They both follow straight lines but unless you have a really really really strong arm, the baseball is “moving” across far more time than the ray of light. So if it “experiences” much more gravitational effect from the larger swath of space time it covers.

Using quotes since terms are more metaphorical than exact.
All you've just stated is platitudes. Platitudes are for children.

It will never be better than native because it is always going through a translation layer, that coupled with streaming not actually working particularly well means that it will not be an option for the vast number of people.

What people like yourself don't seem to grok is that a lot of people just want stuff that works and not a work in progress. I wanna relax and blow off some steam when playing games I don't want to have to work out why my game isn't working.

All I am giving is my accurate account of my experiences with this technology.
I have an option in the app's tray menu to temporarily disable clipboard formatting stripping (with a timeout), for those rare cases when I actually need to paste rich text.
>Sure, the bill would need to include a clause that specifies that the API must not be copyrighted, or something to that effect.

I don't believe that would be an issue, since Federal government works are not entitled to copyright and are in the public domain[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_t...
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The anti-monopoly benefits of interoperability can be offset by the regulatory capture of forced interoperability if companies too small are subject to such rules, placing them at a disadvantage relative to largest players and increasing the likelihood that the status quo remains in place. That's the "Can't have your cake and eat it too" that's being referred to above I think—in other words, if you regulate the second-tier like the first-tier, the second-tier will never have a chance at becoming the first tier.
The polar or cylindrical coordinate systems are examples of graphs that can be though of as having a curved x-axis.
"The millennial generation, people born between 1981 and 1996"

WHAT? NO. Millennials are the people who graduated college in 2000. So we're talking about people born 1979-1982 or so.

Fail, Newsweek.
Iago was the original bullshitter. We confront his legacy and its practitioners every damned ruinous day.
Wow this comment is getting downvoted a lot. I think I wasn't clear with what I meant. What I meant is that there's no reason to believe that lurkers have big difference in which browser they use.
Not really. I should have gone to the physics den instead of the math office to show it off, though.

In math, there is no uncertainty. The real world has annoying quirks, however. (When I was in college, they built a new engineering laboratory complex, and everyone moved to it. Some people doing laser experiments had to go back to the old building, though, because the new one vibrated too much.)
So what you're describing is the complete collapse of our current system of government. If the US becomes a failed state like you describe, turning into a totalitarian wasteland where not even the pretense of democracy is maintained, do you really think the secret police are going to let you buy things with gold?

The fed introducing a cryptocurrency will not cause the US to become a failed state, and if the US is on the path to becoming a failed state, then the federal reserve not introducing a cryptocurrency isn't going to change anything. You cant eat gold. Buy productive assets. If you think society is going to collapse like that into a totalitarian state, then, I dunno, move to some country that you think is not on the path to giving up democracy, or go full prepper and buy land and guns and stuff. Good luck holding off the US military though. Might be better to defect when you have the chance.
It's a parabola in a uniform gravity field, an ellipse in a circular gravity field coming from a point mass.

So if you want to be really pedantic, it's never an ellipse because the Earth is not a point mass. It would be equivalent to a point mass if the Earth were a perfect sphere of uniform density, but it isn't. In reality it's a potato like mass blob that's approximated by what geodesists call the "geoid". So in order of approximations the path of a ball thrown on earth is a parabola -> ellipse -> numerical integration of 6-dof initial conditions and spherical harmonics approximation of the earth gravity field.
Why not? If you'd rate your happiness or peace of mind on a scale of 1 to 10 every day, and after a donation the rating goes up, that's an empirically measurable improvement to your quality of life, much more so than a product that may make your life more convenient but you're still stressed and unhappy.
> protondb is a community project

And? The information is incorrect and misleading. It doesn't get a pass because it is a community project. I would rather have no information than incomplete information.
Surely the point the Spotify CEO was making is that music has become unbundled and shouldn’t be released as a collection in an album because consumption is at the track level now, and not that you should make more music as a rule.
Nope —

https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages/blob/5c...
When you are at rest on the surface of the earth, you’re actually accelerating. I barely understand it but veritasium explains it in the newest vid

https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU
"Getting bored" is a feature, not a bug. Also a side effect of not having dozens or hundreds of people who have KPIs to optimize for "engagement".
It's really hard to sell innovative audio experiences. That's why the opportunity gets squandered, and innovation usually flows through side channels that don't directly or drastically alter existing audio experiences. This is true from end to end in all audio media.

I've tried to do it, and I'll tell you that no VC in their right mind should give money to a consumer audio (content or tech) startup without asking them how they'll get an ad to consumers without them having their hardware or software stack to recreate the experience exactly while at home. Otherwise you're just another booth at CES and just another box on the shelf at Best Buy. Both of which are next to impossible to demo in, and you're fighting an uphill battle against the recognizable brands.

It's not surprising that the features driving new audio stacks having nothing to do with improving the content itself or fidelity, since neither of which are easy to advertise in meaningful words.

Tangent, I think killing off dumb pipes like TRS connectors on phones could be the next side channel for innovation since it gives an outlet for a smart pipe but we'll see. Audio markets are change averse.
I'll nominate GoPro as case where bootstrapping's quirky virtues helped make everything click. Doug Woodman's basic idea dates back to 2002 or maybe earlier. His early iterations of ultra-mobile cameras were slightly successful but not yet the winning version.

By poking around, subject to the uniquely loose/tight constraints of what he could fund selling beads (!) and early prototypes, he bought himself a lot of time to try to get it right. Perhaps it was a case of available technology needing the better part of a decade to catch up to his vision.

With a big, impatient burst of SV funding at the start, version 1.0 of GoPro might have been a Segway-like flop.
In general, it is convenient to assume that forces exist. However, the model presented here shows that you can instead dispense of the need for there to be a force and show that the apparent acceleration is just the object moving along its curved path in spacetime. You could consider it as if the curvature itself making it look like there are forces.
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And they placed a photo of Trump shaking hands with Putin at the top of the article. I wonder why.
Social media run by Australian national broadcaster proposed to take on Facebook
An electric blanket. I have sensitive lungs with asthma and heated air in the winter makes it difficult for me to breath. Also it is much more efficient than heating the whole house if you live alone.
Why can't we just make it so that only the user requests are allowed to connect to the internet? From the address bar, or from a video game?
An object at rest is still travelling through time. In fact it continues to travel at the same speed through spacetime when you let it go. It's just that spacetime is distorted such that the straight line takes it across space too, as seen in the inertial frame on the right.
Fusing the Physical and the Digital
The actual report is available here. It's worth noting that, unlike the recent news media bargaining code, this is not an official government policy (yet): https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/theausinstitute/pages/...

The director of the Centre for Responsible Technology, which published the report and is part of a progressive think tank called the Australia Institute, also published a Twitter thread summarising it: https://twitter.com/PeterLewisEMC/status/1317927044152373248