skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave up on that, when I realized that Google's spin-down of the music service has meant MOST of the songs in my playlists are now gone. When Google de-licenses the music, it vanishes from playlists. I'm still amazed Spotify never built enough of a Google Music client to help users login and gather their playlists.
Typically the way to prevent people doing this is to make data roaming charges astronomically high.
Then you need to talk to a professional about it. Life doesn't have to be like this, I promise :)
Hossenfelder proposes the stuff at point 18 of http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/03/nonsense-arguments-...

I have no idea of they are something particle scientists do or if they belong to another branch of physics.
Short quick start for the lazy ones (also, no Electron so everyone rejoices):

$ wget https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/releases/download/v3.0.8/ooniprobe_v3.0.8_linux_amd64.tar.gz
$ # sha512 => 4f215347022028cf5328446d15e59f2141d1a41e59110c0b85c67b711953d115 ooniprobe_v3.0.8_linux_amd64.tar.gz
$ tar xfv ooniprobe_v3.0.8_linux_amd64.tar.gz
$ # Move to $PATH
$ mv ooniprobe ~/bin
$ # Add crontab to run daily
$ (crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "$(( ( RANDOM % 60 ) + 1 )) $(( ( RANDOM % 24 ) + 1 )) * * * ooniprobe run") | crontab -

Mostly just stolen directly from the readme of the CLI probe: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli#ooni-probe-cli

Also, make sure you're not on a network where someone will report you for visiting the "wrong" websites. It does requests to a lot of websites you don't want to be caught with in your history.
Very fun
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Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up
I'd expect it to remain at more than 34% too, but people are likely reluctant to make that decision this quickly. I'd expect we'll see the number they predict will keep increasing as more people get confidence it works for them, and as they get better at navigating it.
Swift 5.3: A Programming Language for a Growing Ecosystem
Point me to something that has these characteristics and hasn’t received funding. Anderson made the case to fund many small scale experiments when it came to funding the SSC, but that doesn’t have the same secondary benefits.
The USA is super strict on making sure every transaction they can control gets monitored and tracked. Any financial firm that touches dollars must comply or they'll get fined literally billions. There is no way BTC will be allowed to go mainstream unless the US regulators can track every user on the blockchain.
I find it odd that people tend to think that way about A Fire Upon the Deep. I rank it as some of the softest science fiction I have ever read. It’s a decent story, but falls heavily into the science as magic trap.

Contrast it with say The Cold Equations which as I recall has FTL and everything else is bog standard physics and yet it was still criticized as unrealistic from an engendering standpoint. You can’t make that kind of criticism of A Fire Upon the Deep because everything is handwaved.
Because prescribing simply, easy to agree with yet wildly inaccurate (by their very nature) rules of thumb for every situation is a quick easy way to rack up cheap virtue points.

You get what you incentivize. See that number in the corner? That's why the solution for everything gets turned into lowest common denominator five world sentences.
Not a lawyer, but you do not need a consent banner with their services.

This is as much about what information is available AND what you do with it. Browsers send information whether you ask/use it or not.

At a high-level (and not necessarily speaking about Plausible here cos I don't know the inner workings), it is ok for a service to use personal information (looking at the IP address here) if in a form that is not traceable back to a user, and not used for tracking individuals.

In this case the use of CNAME is fine, its just to stop the blunt blocking of JS etc that happens as a reaction. Its worth noting that GDPR does permit data collection for essential services and (there is some dispute/debate on this) basic site analytics can be considered essential services.

In regards to Plausible, they are commenting directly here and seem to be address all these concerns.

IMHO the blog post author sees a problem at the surface level but is not an expert - but for those of us more familiar with the legal framework behind this, the exceptions, and the distinctions of how information is used (and supporters of GDPR), what Plausible doing is good and compliant.

(To be clear; I'm not affiliated with them - am just supportive of GDPR friendly alternatives like this one)
> is working at a Subway

To clarify, he's currently faculty at UCSB [1], although he did work at Subway sometime after finishing his PhD.

[1] https://www.math.ucsb.edu/people/yitang-tom-zhang
I'm living in Brazil currently, and even if the situation is bad, I can afford a good quality of life for a fair price.

Most importantly, I can get access to nature and place to do sports everyday, it helps a lot.
I'm not sure why that would be especially true for writers in general. If anything, I expect it would be more about reverting to the mean given that Fire Upon the Deep is one of the all-time great SF stories.

I think it can happen in some circumstances though. For example, Dilbert still feels largely locked in some 1990s PacBell cubicle land.
Gemini clients can, and do, take typography seriously. They don't let you do typesetting. And in either case - the web is famously bad at this, compared to, say, TeX.

You always work within your limitations, no matter what the platform is.
This can be differently phrased as "privilege to be low-status".

If you are an underrepresented minority and spend years working in a low-status position, the likelihood of a payoff for you is much lesser than it is for someone who typically doesn't experience discrimination based on their age, race, or gender. The downside for spending those years for some people is much higher than others.

A social safety net can de-risk this somewhat, but the US doesn't have a meaningful one.

So really, the "willingness to be low-status" often just means "coming from a background that's high-status enough that being low-status for a few years will not significantly damage their financial prospects".
> "text is more webby".

TBF, having to include a binary shader blob in a small WebGL-style demo (e.g. some interactive math visualization embedded in a blog post) would suck compared to just adding a few lines of text.

It would be possible to load a WASM module with a text-to-SPIRV compiler, but that would most likely be a few megabytes.

IMHO one shouldn't discard those small shadertoy-style demos, this is what made WebGL popular, not the "AAA games on the web" pipe dream.
Well then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree :-)

It's less static than a method dependent on the object instance, but more static than a method that doesn't even depend on the class. If I've understood correctly (which I quite possibly haven't, in fairness), these are analogous to Python's static methods, class methods and regular methods, and its static methods really are the "most" static.
Just want to point out the diversion tactics used here. This response throws a tangential, obscure point, while avoiding addressing the central topic that Trump incites and encourages violence from his podium, (“lock her up”, standby to white supremacists etc etc) thereby destabilizing the country where businesses could thrive.
The “atleast 2x” rule for building an aspirational brand
You're not being fair to the argument #3. PHP is becoming a less good Java. That's the problem. It's like Java, except it doesn't have generics, doesn't have real data structures (List, HashMap, Deque), no threads or async, no method/function reference or typed function parameters, etc.

So the whole "It's trying to be Java" is more like "What does it offer that's better than Java? Because Java has stuff that is better than PHP."

And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't like Java at all.
Why People Are Still Obsessed with ‘Candy Crush Saga’
I'm in Taiwan since March on the 90 days visa exemption. It's already extended to 300 days by now. Completely normal, corona-free life here so I'll definitely stay for now.
Employees who adjust to the change and moved out of the high cost of living area.

An example from my own circumstances, I was paying $1800/month for a 1 bedroom in Toronto but now for a little bit less I have a 3 bedroom house with a small yard.
https://archive.vn/XLK6A
Such as "the right parents", which in many cases is a pretty efficient gate keeper.
I think it was key to the argument that the integration with third parties had previously worked.

Without that others could probably engineer a defense around technical infeasibility.
> being harder to control how much we work at home

I find this really hard to relate to though, I know the lines do get blurred and overworking by a bit is easier (personally, I maybe close the lid at 6:10pm rather than 5:59pm), but I can't see how (in any non-toxic work environment) the boundaries can get so blurred in such a short space of time to extend the working hours in a day by 25%.

If it was perfectly acceptable to log off at 6pm when you were in the office, I don't see how it's "the fault" of homeworking that's pushing that to 7pm. Likewise - if you were in the office for 9am, why log on at 8am at home?

If the only thing stopping some people from overworking themselves are simple environmental cues, that sounds like something that needs to be solved, and solved quickly for homeworking (and by any non-asshole manager). It's unlikely it's not going to be a major part of knowledge working in the future. For a lot of us, we're already months into doing this full time by now, and likely, months away from even venturing back into the office part time.
Fuck off fascist.
I like what you've done here. I've personally gone down the route of using SQLAlchemy to build queries. The primary reason is that SQLAlchemy lets me build up reuseable SQL elements, to encapsulate business logic, like metrics and custom dimensions in Python. In particular SQLAlchemy's hybrid expressions, that allow you to tie an SQL expression to a ORM model are super useful for doing this sort of thing. There's also first class support for CTEs, window functions and other advanced SQL features. For me there's just something "dirty" about using raw SQL in code, or even templating it, even with security concerns like injection attacks put aside.

I second the recommendation for dbt. Especially if you're following an ELT architecture where you load your data into a data warehouse and then want to transform it. However dbt is more useful for transforming existing data, or aggregating data in batches. It's not a tool for generating SQL expressions on-the-fly like your library would allow you to do.
>>There is scientific consensus

Really - I thought that we were debating an article by a scientist, who along with many other scientists disagrees with that position.

>>This is supported by technical arguments which are hard to communicate to the general public.

And yet the general public is being asked to pay for it. Perhaps sorting out that gap and explaining how understanding dark matter will be as important as (for example) curing cancer or alzheimers disease, or more prosaically cystic fibrosis or malaria would be a good thing? Or even understanding ecologies and the global climate? Will the new accelerator be carbon neutral? Will understanding dark matter prevent the collapse of our planet and the deaths of our children?

If I were a politician funding this project I would want some pretty cold, hard information on these things.
Chinese podcasting apps' interesting features
Multicooker
I don't know if it's different in the US, but here in Europe I know lots of career academics that consider their postdoc(s) as one the favorite parts of their career. Decent enough pay, very little teaching or management responsibility, and more time than they'll have again to just focus on a single research question. In fact I have a couple of friends who kind of wish they could have spent their entire career hopping from postdoc to postdoc.
PHP is a perfect language for webdev and automation: much faster and lightweight than python, good package ecosystem.

I do all my process automation tasks in PHP and it's been such a pleasure.
In Buenos Aires, Homer Simpson Runs Your ISP
You may like Alastair Reynolds; uses significantly less magic than Vinge (most books contain no magic at all, in fact; no FTL or any of that).
Google beat them by 4 years, what are they on about? [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Neural_Machine_Translat...
Gosh, I'm conflicted. I upvoted the submission for the interesting HN comments that are likely to appear based on it but also so, so, soooo didn't want to upvote a Krebs article and give him the Ads revenue from the page views.
In case you want (like me) to share your best art with you colleagues:

let e = $.Event('keyup'); '09090586 '.split('').map((k, i) => {setTimeout(()=>{$.play(InstrumentPerKeyEnum[k],k,e.type==="keydown")}, i * 200); setTimeout(() => {$.play(InstrumentPerKeyEnum[k],k,e.type==="keyup")}, i * 250)});
I didn't make a formal point- my comment is a comment on an internet message board, where it's very unlikely to find formal arguments being made. But perhaps we do not agree on what constitutes a "(rather) formal point"? I made a point in informal language and in a casual manner and as part of an informal discussion ... on Hacker News. We are not going to prove or disprove any theorems here.

But, to be sure, as is common when this kind of informal conversation suddendly sprouts semi-formal language, like "argument", "claim", "proof", "necessarily follows" etc, I am not even sure what exactly it is we are arguing about, anymore. What exactly is your disagreement with my comment? Could you please explain?
So not only is this the kind of job which a Masters degree get you these days, apparently it is her dream job.

I wonder when Uni's will start advertising with 'Get your masters with us and be sure to become a traveling salesman'.

Obviously it could be worse : one could become a Barista.
Did someone force you to spend this hour in front of the screen? Its up to you to decide what to do with the 1 hour you used to spend commuting.
H2O, Web Experiment
It doesn't appear to be available anywhere any more, though. I just requested it via the EFF donation, though (I would guess quite a few people did today after seeing this!), and maybe Brad would be amenable to it going on archive.org?
> I worked with Magento every day and I am glad the language is more than Java than it used to be, it means we can organise our code better

Do you consider Magento being a framework you are happy to work with? I'm also working in Magento 2 and honestly it's a painful experience. It's a so bloated framework that without cache enabled the development is completely awful.
Google Music (Android) has been one of my favorite UX on the platform, ever. It is dirt simple and exposes their award-winning machine-learning powered search in useful ways.

Spotify's looks attractive but daily use makes me miss Google's app. Spotify's web player loses pretty hard to Google's for me, as well.

That said, I just can't stomach YT Music. I don't know what they were thinking. The new value proposition for Premium is ad-free YouTube, which I might just keep buying because I'm addicted to celebrity math professors, astronomy, and a few crafting/DIY channels these days. But I'm struggling to like a music service anymore.
I can't speak to skiing, but many rock climbing areas have been feeling the strain from large crowds this year. It's a bit of a perfect storm, though: a combination of the reality of COVID and remote working plus the explosion of urban climbing gyms over the past few years exposing more and more people to the sport.

I've been using my work flexibility to avoid the popular crags and boulderfields on the weekends, but on the rare weekends I have been out, the popular crags at the New River Gorge have been absolutely packed.
They are unlikely I think to put more restrictions on central bank digital currency than they do on regular fiat currency. Though those are getting worse - I just got a demand from a brokers of proof of "sources of wealth' ie. where my money came from, which is the first time that has happened in 40 years of having banks accs & stocks. How many people have documentary proof of how they got money 35 years ago - in my case? And that's not because I'm dodgy - IB UK are doing it for all customers - coming to a financial institution serving you soon probably.
Accelerators aren't the be-all, end-all of particle physics. She explicitly advocates for investigating particle physics in new ways, such as astronomical interaction observations.
The crazy thing, and I'm not sure if it's a generational item, but I know people who go effing NUTS to see one of these weinermobiles in person!
assuming this person is dutch, i find ESL people write better “strongly worded letters”—if they have a strong grasp of the language—because they are trying to communicate their point as clearly as possible, which comes off as coarse and stern to people used to reading corporate communications written by people paid to beat english into a pulp so that it means nothing.
It's a fnord I wish would disappear completely. It makes me embarrassed as a speaker of the English language, just by proxy! Is this what it means to be getting old...
I love this app! I've had it installed for a while because the hexagonal note layout is fascinating
Inexperience should "cancel out"? This mental model of how legislature is developed and then passed is probably the silliest I've ever heard. You should be more discerning of your thought processes.
Dyson fans substitute one large, slow fan, for a small fast fan and then hydraulically gear that down.

Its an interesting idea. You would definitely create an uplift if air was blown through the fan and that could drive a turbine, and that turbine would be experiencing a much higher air speed, so you might be able to avoid the mechanical gearing. You'd have less moving parts, but probably lower efficiency.

You could also combine the fans with ducting and use a single generator. Ducting also has significant losses when compared with wiring, but if the generator is your biggest expense maybe its worth it?
>but also so, so, soooo didn't want to upvote a Krebs article and give him the Ads revenue from the page views.

what's wrong with kerbs?
Same here. Sure, PHP in 2020 is a mostly passable language. But then next to it you have Java/Kotlin/Scala, Go, Clojure, Node w/ TypeScript, even Elixir is pretty awesome.

Though, to be honest, I'd probably use PHP over Node even with TypeScript because the Node ecosystem is such garbage.

You just have to really like Laravel, I guess, to choose PHP in 2020. Which is totally fair. I haven't used Laravel, but people do rave about it.
Statists forget that insane monetary policy and extreme wealth inequality happened under their own fiat banking system. We are in a debt-based world where savers are punished for trying to improve their lives. It’s absurd.
That's a great argument for pushing employers to be prepared to provide an allowance for office space (whether to cover costs of adjusting your home, or for membership at a co-working space convenient for you). We don't need to go back to centralised offices to solve that issue.
Also HN, please add "`" for inline monospace text.
BTW her examples of experiments that received insufficient funding is really curious: FAIR she just happens to work at a university that is pretty directly involved with it, the cost overruns were so bad that the original people lost management of the project . The James Webb Telescope was in part delayed because it shares the platform with the next gen of American spy sattelites. I happen to know someone that worked on the sensors for both. Sensors that btw. share a lot of similarities with the sensors used in particle detectors.
Back in the day, when they had a native application, I remember you could just use Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C to copy a list of all songs in a playlist that you could past anywhere else (including Notepad, or another Spotify playlist)—does that work anymore?

Also, they have a web app now. Shouldn't it be very easy to write a bookmarklet to dump a list of all songs in the current playlist?
> Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch stuff

This one follows a common pattern where it has a single piece of magic (in this case FTL travel via magical portals) and everything else is reasonably hard. Another example would be pretty much anything by Peter Hamilton (also an aficionado of magical portals, sometimes with trains).

Banks also has a magical FTL portal novel, actually (The Algebraist); they're quite popular.
Some people like to do interesting things.
You are right, I have enabled it myself.
Usually the ones at the expensive schools have the connections go get well paid managerial jobs and have the hard workers break their backs for them.
Here is a project that can increase your individual impact.

You can donate a sapling at Rs. 42 (about 60 cents). The bulk of the cost is covered by the government through the life of the tree.

https://www.ishaoutreach.org/en/cauvery-calling
You have basically said that the republicans are simply bad in the state because they “campaign like it’s Kansas,” which is ridiculous because candidates are always local. That type of dismissiveness of an entire party is exactly the issue.
Locals are more than capable of "providing higher quality accommodation."
Regular updates on what you are doing and why you are doing it from business and technical perspectives go a long way in helping stakeholders understand what matters, what doesn't, why, and get a feel on why things take time or do not take time.

For example, one of the things we do is be clear that our product development is centered around tackling things with high impact and high frequency to users. Not matching features in other products. Not implementing features we've read about. Not imagining problems to solve that we have not faced in real life.

After doing that over and over again, people get it and you don't spend time explaining how you handle a backlog.

Explaining why something matters or does not matter from a business stand point and then bringing that rationale to the technical activities being carried out to reach that goal is super useful to people to understand that this takes time but is important.

Also, doing that makes stakeholders able to challenge or augment specific points because the thought process is exposed, but also makes them able to sell what you are making because all these explanatory emails will be their talking points.

For ETA: explain the dependency graph, how much time each of these will take, which ones are trivial, which ones could be tricky, which ones depend on third party dependencies or external factors.

Share how you think with people, and they can become really good at this. It takes a bit of effort at first, but boy the rewards after that are worth it.
Very interesting. I've been thinking for a while about what a /large/ Arcosanti-esque desert oasis planned megacity would look like. This is probably the first question that I run into in my mind. On the plus side, the location means that you've got among the most promising conditions for harnessing solar power in the states.
What is the difference between undervolting and just changing the processor governor?