skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Redmond, WA. Frankly, if someone asked to meet for a meal at eighteen, I would assume they would like to get together in a Microsoft cafeteria closest to the (what I believe to be non-existent) Building 18. My backup option would be to assume that they have received a hard blow to the head at some point in their life.

Again, whether I would understand them or not, no one to my knowledge speaks like that in U. S. English. It is a great example to use to show the quirks of language. It is a bad example to use to show that Siri "doesn't even support 24 hour time - at least in English".
There's nothing wrong with it being privately controlled. It was privately invented and developed, after all.
The keyword not being exercised here is "uniformly"
Unless Twitter has changed something recently, there are follow buttons on the account pages for @cnn, @cnni, @reuters, @ap, @bbcworld, @cbcnews, @dwnews, etc. Provided you're using chronological mode (which you should for many, many reasons), tweets from these sources will appear in your timeline.

If you do not consider those news outlets adequately centerist, that may be an indication that your personal Overton window is somewhat skewed.
v1 was an experiment. v2 is not.
Not only are utilities regulated fairly closely by the government as a result of being common infrastructure, the NY Post has its own newspaper and website and drives plenty of traffic that way.
I wish ZimWiki would be Markdown based instead of Wiki markup based.
Thanks for the feedback, glad you like it. For production I use combination of software: Keynote, Notability, Good notes, Camtasia, and live editing on iPad.
ahhh, you are only thinking of a 2D diagram. Take your circle with a line splitting through the middle. Now, rotate it so that it is a sphere. Tilt it at 23 degress, and you'll have a center leaning image.
And the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a democracy.
Admittedly, it's been a couple of months since I've been to Iran, so I just asked a friend in Mashad. He confirmed to me that my websites, running on a Kubernetes cluster on EC2 in the eu-west-1 are accessible without a VPN.

Maybe your issue was due to use of GCP?

I moved all my stuff to AWS specifically because Google Cloud does have this kind of block. I care about this a lot, so if your friends in Iran have different things to report, let's look into it to figure out what is going on.
"Touchy-feely" doesn't really explain to me what potion you hold that would be criticized. What is it you usually read? Why would your comments on the emotional content on a book ostracize you?
If you're using JavaScript for scraping, you should go straight to the logical conclusion and run your scraper inside a real browser (potentially headless) - using Puppeteer or Selenium or Playwright.

My current favourite stack for this is Selenium + Python - it lets me write most of my scraper in JavaScript that I run inside of the browser, but having Python to control it means I can really easily write the results to a SQLite database while the scraper is running.

I wrote a bit about this here: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/16/weeknotes-evernote-dat...
Maybe we’ll have to get some Asian honey bees.
I have to say that the term "lurkers" to describe the 90% who don't participate rubs me a little the wrong way. I know this point is somewhat trivial, but it has a negative connotation that seems to promote the assumption that the only "correct" way to use social media is for all to participate.

On the flip side, I wonder if everyone on social media were to comment on most items they had interest in, if it wouldn't completely drown out all of the extreme viewpoints. It may actually make social media extremely boring, as compared to the current standard. One can dream...
There's no particular reason that small fragments should rebuild. Multicellular organisms (beyond biofilms) were kind of a quirk of nature in the first place. (Not that I think all multicellular organisms are likely to die off – but if they did, why would they re-emerge?)
Of course not, specifically because electrical utilities are granted de facto monopolies, and for that reason are either heavily regulated, or else publicly owned and operated, and because electricity is a modern safety requirement.

That is wildly, incomparably different than a single social media website.
Migrations: The sole scalable fix to tech debt (2018)
That may be true for ecommerce.

But for physical card-present EMV transactions the rates are typically under 1% in Finland, see comparison: http://www.maksupaatevertailu.fi/ (in Finnish)

Nets is the most common physical merchant services provider here, I believe, which has 0.41% for Visa/MC debit and 0.91% for Visa/MC credit (though there are surcharges for foreign cards etc.).
That presumes the story about the laptop is true. And a lot of details in the story don’t quite make sense.

But still, how is Twitter even supposed to judge whether a story is trustworthy? No clue.
#1

IBM's contract for CANVAS is $180m. How?! Why?! Why is this more than a FileMakerPro app and a staff of minions? I know, I know. Cliche about programmers trivializing complex problems...

But bog standard govt systems like this really demonstrate the need for citizen owned software.

#2

Chicago issues ~2.5m tickets per year. Let's say $250m of revenue. Chicago's yearly budget is almost $4b. But $250m ain't nothing.
wow that looks really cool! any idea who's behind it?
So for my last question, did you have to know someone to get into this field. I'm in fintech right now, and I'm well compensated, I love my job but if I can reach the Pinnacle programming, IE pulling 400 or 500k a year. That would be simply awesome.

Would it be easier to target bigger firms and then get into or start my own firm ?
I second this so much! I have the feeling that the ASF tries to be so enterprisy with Java. I have no idea.

(Note that there are a lot of very high quality Apache java projects.)
Why don't they use fixed size arrays like in embedded systems and not allocate memory dynamically?
Ouch ok haha :) I'll think of a better way of explaining how the app works. Maybe a little video demo?
> Karl Marx WAS a great economist.

He really was not. He was great at politics. He was great at taping into things that workers cared about.

But his actual economics that he laid out, in Das Kapital? The actual mathmatical equations in it, and falsifiable predictions in that book? The labor theory of value?

All pretty worthless. Basically no serious academic takes the labor theory of value seriously. It is non-sense.

Heterodox economic theories are heterodox for a reason. That reason being that they are not reflective of reality.
> The Google trends for "black lives matter" searches peak in 2016 and 2020. The media only brings it up in election years, even though police brutality happens every year.

That's correlation, not causation. Even if there's a connection to election years, the causality could very well be reversed (e.g. activists increase their efforts to get attention when it matters most). However, I'm inclined to think your observation is just coincidence or misses a critical factor.
> I moved here very specifically to set down roots and raise my family in the SFBA.

To a raise a family, you moved to a city with more dogs than children[1] and more drug addicts than high school students? [2] Or are you planning on moving to Marin County (close, very expensive, very nice), one of the southern suburbs (close, expensive, not nice), or Dublin/Pleasanton (far, less expensive, nice) once the kids are born?

Seriously asking. (About me: I prefer dogs; If I have a kid I prefer my kid hang out with dogs; my extended family is spread out in the SFBA from Daly City to Dublin; I grew up there; I left; I miss the weather).

[1] https://www.kqed.org/news/11669269/are-there-really-more-dog...
[2] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-F...
Would you do it again? Coming from C/C++ first, Java then and coming to C# it just feels so much more pragmatic with f.ex. struct(s), slices and stackalloc (and unsafe blocks with pointers in a pinch) allowing for GC less programming w/o resorting to turning pointers to integers and using function calls for memory access all around. (Noticed that you do i guess query compilation via the ASM toolkit?)
Is the "time to publication" a useful metric, when the cost is accuracy? Once something incorrect is published, it has a lot more weight than a retraction/correction.
I went from an X to a 12 Pro and love it for the camera upgrade. I’m trying to force myself to take more video/live photos than stills, and the 12 Pro’s HDR video is a major improvement so far.

I’m considering getting rid of my Nikon Z6 since I rarely actually use it due to the size and weight. Its still image quality is still noticeably better than the phone, especially with my Nikon f1.8 50 mm lens, but the iPhone wins for video and Live Photo’s.
At Narration Box we use Tailscale with Caddy's Cloudflare Let's Encrypt DNS-01 for internal DNS resolution + TLS for the apps that need it. In essence you get something like Google's internal "go/ links" except everything's hosted on the external DNS server and automatically protected by default by Tailscale since the IPs pointed to cannot be accessed publicly.
If that's allowed under the credit card processing merchant agreements it's a new development.

If I had to guess, it's still forbidden, but small shops don't know/care until the CC company actually asks them to stop.

If people could get a 5% discount everywhere with their debit card, the gig would be up, and the CC companies know it.
Power companies are regulated monopolies. There are no competitors.

Twitter is in no way even close to the only way to publish something. It is no where near as difficult to publish on a different platform than it is to generate your own power.

If an ISP was cutting off the NyPost, I would have issues with that. If they had their domain name seized, I would have an issue with that. If other ISPs blocked network routes to their site, I would have issues with that.

I don't have an issue with Twitter blocking them. It just isn't the same.
I don't think that owning the hardware means you own or can publish personal data contained on the hardware.
> So I went through the hiring process. There's an online proprietary aptitude test that's required of all candidates, and it's apparently such a big deal, that you can only take it once per 6 months.

Is it at least a technical test?

"Aptitudes and psychometric tests" are, to me, a red flag at tech companies, that it's HR and not engineering that's in charge of hiring.
>My life can begin to go back to normal potentially months before it otherwise would.

Howso? Socialization is a multi-party dynamic. Folks might not care/believe you if you state 'I'm vaccinated' until it's widely accepted.
Congrats, and hope this makes building of your parser easy and fun!

This course covers a lot of parsing theory as well, and if you're interested in pure practical (manual) parser, there will be also "Building a Recursive descent parser from scratch", which is mainly coding class and is an extension for the "Parsing Algorithms".
Haha sorry, used the wrong word. We're of course pro-actively acquiring new users. What I meant is that we're not pressured by time or so.
This is pretty insane to me that we were just letting ddt get dumped in the deep (and shallow) ocean. Outside of the environmental impacts - I feel like there’s a parallel to the push in geoengineering and carbon capture and storage in the future in that it’s the ‘let’s just do this now and hope there aren’t bad repercussions in the future’ thought process.
It may be privately owned, but regulatory control still exists, and prevents the scenario you're talking about.

To the extent that the regulatory scheme fails, that is a problem when and where it happens. But I've never heard of a power company refusing to provide electricity to a customer due to political disagreements. At least not in the U.S.
A utility company, is not a social media platform and they are regulated differently as you would expect.

This reminds me of the time I talked to an engineering manager and he told me twitter was the electricity the internet runs on. I thought that was ridiculous, but this is taking it to a new level, where twitter is equivalent to electricity.
Twitter is an infrastructure on top of which thousands of services are run. It's a notification service, it's a messaging server, it's an authentication/identify verification service, it's a news dissemination and discussion service, etc.

But that actually doesn't even damage the argument: would it be okay if Google decided that they didn't like NyPost's politics, so they disabled the functionality of all of their nest thermostats? What if they used smart locks on their office: could they just disable the "unlock" function on the doors?

Would anybody be supporting this?
If you wait for yourself to be capable, you aren’t growing my friend.
Yes. When you deposit the money you earned from your pre-paid cards in your bank account, once you reach a certain size your bank will certainly start asking how you are making money, and if you say "gift cards/cash equivalents that can be traded online" they will also start to ask you who you are selling these cards to. From the banks point of view, they don't want the FBI to come knocking saying that carders in Russia were using the banks money to launder purchases from stolen credit cards. If the bank can't cough up those records they are in hot water.

PayPal is the middleman that turns Masterbucks into cold hard cash into your bank account. If PayPal didn't enforce it, then in the eyes of the government PayPal is complicit also.
Sure, it's called the Overton Window, and it moves over time.

Generally speaking in America it has moved leftward continually since the American Revolution, which was a left-wing act of protest against a monarchical government (which, on a flatness <--> hierarchy view of the left/right axis, is among the furthest right political systems possible). Each successive major shift in American politics has been a shift towards the left in some way (more egalitarian/equalizing policies, more erosion of authoritative positions on social policies, etc).

Conquest's Second Law is in effect!

At any one time, the "center" is just the point of acceptable shared discourse between the organizations that control the 'poles' at the left and right extents of common discussion; anything past those poles is considered "extreme".

For example, during our lifetimes, discussion of a topic like Gay Marriage has gone from being an extreme leftist social policy you couldn't discuss with people in polite company, to being a hot topic of common debate that even Obama said he would not legalize, to becoming official policy, and then even being accepted by the Republican Party as simply the law of the land and not a subject for discussion any more, pushing the topic as far to the right now as it was to the left 30 years ago. (I hold no judgement on the topic here, merely using it as an example for how the window of what is socially acceptable can shift, and the "center" shifts with it.)
Why not try far infrared, or radio?
I was in the same boat for a long time and mike aben.'s videos on youtube helped a lot for the math to click
Once it did though, it opened a while new level in mission planning gameplay because now the challenge was to build the most efficient rockets & probes..

Seriously, give it a go and you'd probably have the same experience!
> Let me spell it out for you: Pretty much no one advocates this.

Oh I'm well aware (almost) no one will come out explicitly and endorse concentration camps. What they do is almost more insidious, they justify them. They rationalize them. They spin them as something they are not.

I'd rather someone be an open Nazi than to perform their mental gymnastics in public to avoid challenging their world view on something as simple as "mass interment camps are bad." "Well you see they aren't interment camps...they were criminals anyways...how dare you compare a work camp to a death camp?"

It's sickening, all of it. Your spin of "it's not the same as the holocaust" (no one said it is) and "yeah but whatabout the US!" is sadly par for the course.
There are many small businesses who use Amazon as a platform for reaching their customers. If Amazon kicks them out, their business evaporates in an instant.

You may think it's foolish to create such a fragile business. I know I do. But the fact remains that this happens. Ebay and YouTube are to other obvious examples of corporate platforms people use to pay rent, which many cut them off capriciously and without due process. As are mobile appstores, particularly Apple's.
:-) I should say that my college, a SLAC, has kindly supported the work for many years, including tolerating the download traffic.
To that I say: campaign to get Twitter considered a utility, then you can regulate it as one.
How does it matter whether it was developed publicly, or privately? Deregulation in the late 90s led to the Enron scandal, so I think there are clear reasons why not to be privately owned.
Theoretically the % of people needed to reach herd immunity is a function of how infectious the virus is. They use a number R to represent for each person who gets infected how many people they go on to infect. This changes over time as different measures come into place like lockdowns, masks, and social distancing. The basic reproductive number R0 (R-naught) is how infectious the virus is initially without any of those measures in place. The formula for the % of people needed to reach herd immunity is R0-1/R0. So if R0 is 4 then you need 3/4 of the population. If R0 is 3 then you need 2/3.
Ah, that's a great point.

It does seem like it's high time for there to be some kind of RAW-over-time standard, e.g. a single file with 2 hours of exposure that Photoshop would have built-in tools to manage -- and even the ability to handle matrix transformation movement over time, e.g. to photograph stars over 5 minutes.

I wonder how useful it would be to embed gyroscope/accelerometer data with it though? Everything I imagine having to do with long/stacked exposures involves a tripod.

Motion data actually seems like it would be more useful to embed in regular-exposure RAWs, since it could help build a deconvolution kernel to undo motion blur.
Yea D70 is just for pictures. I have Sony a6400 as main camera and to be honest I can turn it on and record a video faster than I can with my iPhone, mainly because the dedicated buttons. I also don't think it's that much of a hassle. It has Wifi to get data off. It's pretty easy actually. It's worth spending and extra 2 minutes to do it so in 30 years I have nice video and pictures of family.
> The Post publishes a lot of disreputable trash that's outright false or unproven

Implying that every other major MSM organization doesn't do the same exact garbage and aren't deserving of the same treatment.

Edit: the point is that rules should not favor one MSM corporation over the other. It should be neutral.
Only on the super wide though. Night mode on normal lens is the same and already very good on 11.
Yes, GLL is a good algorithm and I potentially going to publish it separately as a single public video.
Find and visualize the shortest path between two given AD users (pentest)
java is very easy to troubleshoot compared to c, go, and rust
Of interest, and I really don't know as I've never had a smartphone, if your phone is stolen, what stops it being used to pay for something? The point of the convenience was - I thought - that you just swipe. Couldn't a thief?

Also how do you do anything if your phone is gone - travel, call, let the bank know, buy a new phone, let your partner know you're in trouble, anything?

Also how much is you phone worth? A quick look suggests ~£1000 for an iphone 11, although I guess that's needlessly high, but you're carrying a large cash equivalent, highly attractive? I've never had £500 or the equivalent in my pocket, ever (max ~£350 for 1/2 hour IIRC).

And cash doesn't break if you sit on it. I'm not entirely convinced of your case quite yet.
NASA's Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon
If I'm reading this correctly, at least this repository is about writing applications that run on top of UEFI rather than building the platform itself, in which case the resulting applications should probably work on any normal computer provided secure boot doesn't get in your way.
I have been doing HFT for many years now, so I have an acute appreciation for exactly what is likely to be involved in doing what they claim to be able to do. If you want to put an algorithm in control of large amounts of real money, then some very thorough testing is required to ensure that it's not going to blow up due to some corner case that no one thought of (of which there are typically a surprising number).

I suspect there are some significant caveats to the claim, and even considering that I still think that's a far more impressive accomplishment than just making java fast enough.
In the third paragraph:

> ... technical limitations meant it was impossible to know if this really was H2O (water) or hydroxyl molecules (consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom) in minerals.
> A 50% effective vaccine might be an overall lose - only half are protected but more than that abandon masks and social distancing.

I remember a similar argument being used against face masks. (That they are not perfect, and may cause harm by giving false sense of security.) Perhaps we should be more careful about perfect being the enemy of good.
This is a good point, and often overlooked.

A helluva lot of people joined these networks and got captured by the network effect because we were told or believed that they were open sites, just like the rest of the net. If content (or types of content) came along that folks didn't want? Nerds like us would make and give away (or sell) tools for getting rid of that garbage.

In a big way, what we're going through right now is fraud, plain and simple. It may not meet the legal definition, but to grow and scale using one model and then switch to another once you have a monopoly is a form of bait and switch. There's no way in hell I would have joined either site, and I would have vociferously told my friends and family not to join either, if they had been clear up front that this was what they were planning to do.

NOTE: I am not making a legal claim. I mean fraud in the moral sense. I understand with a zillion corporate lawyers that everything these guys do is wonderfully legal, no matter what the long-term social effects end up being. I am speaking in the vernacular, not legal sense. We were tricked.
From my point of view, PayPal has a reasonable case to want to understand that its business partners are legally compliant if acting as a money service business.

Your example is not really the same. If you started using your merchant terminal to take payments on your own off-brand money transfer service, you can be pretty sure that you're going to get cut off just as soon as your processor finds out.
Well.. that would be a breach of contract (providing NYP paid their utility bills) and they could be sued.

With Twitter et al, their service is free and "you are the product", so.. they can ban you whenever with no recourse at all.
If a faction of society that breeds on lies decides to self-isolate and/or act in a way to get pushed out of the mainstream, that shouldn't be a controversial action. The faction does it to themselves.
Which is why Conan and vcpkg do exist, and for quite long time OS package managers and installers.