skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's $99 per year for regular membership, or $198 per year to get access to all the journal archives etc. There are special rates for students and for those living in developing countries.

I honestly joined because of the O'Reilly Learning membership, but since joining I've found value in the magazine and community.
I have learned scheme before camllight (the ancestor of ocaml). The syntax was a pleasure compared to scheme.
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If that depresses you, don’t look up what they dumped in the North Sea after WW2.
See? This is why we don't need environmental regulations. The market will regulate itself if externalities are properly priced in!

(Just pay no mind to how those externalities might be systematically priced and how penalties might be retroactively enforced. If you do you're a freedom-hating socialist!)
Interesting links, thanks. I like the "encourage resiliency"mindset.

You seem to have in mind people who experienced something traumatic in the past, and/or are fearful of sth. I wonder if things like bipolar or borderline or OCD or depression or schizophrenia didn't occur to you? Then there's not always any past trauma to be resilient against?

> should also be told that, in the end, it's just data, and how they react to other people becoming privy to it is something they can exert control over

This data can in some cases get them fired from a job, or bullied, and more,

I think it's not true that it's just data -- it's more like a threat.
Yes I love it. It used to be one of my go to reads on long train trips together with C'T magazine.
Wales is the only place in the UK where English is an official language.
You are trying to replace in-person meetings without using cameras? It scales pretty well to a reasonable amount of people. How many people do you need in a meeting? If you have meetings with more than 12 people, then you are probably holding a conference and your meetings suck anyway. A written announcement would work better.
This is awesome! Anything you can tell me/us about how you made it?
Somewhat related: has anyone tried out NotCurses, the library for advanced graphics on the Unix terminal? Looks very impressive.

https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses

Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23402470
I had the best results from mit ocw https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Or more likely, there was a network error one week and they had to manually input all the citations during the day, so the creation date is simply wrong.
I was waiting for the DDT acronym to be explained, but no. IMHO no matter how obvious an acronym may be, it should be explained, something like "DDT (D... D... T...) is highly dangerous".

Apparently: "Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochlorine."

edit: added explanation
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Not to mention more susceptible to advertising.

If someone is willing to overpay for an inferior product, they likely will also impulse buy more often than someone who shops and researches phones..
Good one for a starting point!

However the books I read are not in it lol...
We have the strange situation in the UK where local councils simultaneously a) complain that the high street is "dying" due to out of town supermarkets and ecommrce and b) enforce draconian parking policies on the high street they are getting people to use.
Next stable version of GNOME will be called GNOME 40
I'm making youtube videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafIamqsRUHoRT4496jgvMQ

And I'm also working on a website that has a fair bit of the foundations:

https://treena.org/

Admittedly, we don't have a huge amount of the higher stuff yet. But we are making our way through steadily :) Hopefully it's of some help to you
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It was me on Friday. The emails were the mandatory stuff I couldn't escape, then I took time off.
No one is saying everything is fine. It's not.

What we're arguing is why everything is not fine.

SGIs ran VR, multiple displays, and very demanding apps in the nineties too. They did all sorts of wonky, complex, 3d input devices too. So did DEC Alphas. This is the stuff Unix was built for.

My claim is that nineties Linux was much closer to having the right architecture for it than 2020 Linux for this sort of stuff. The reinventions and onion layers didn't help; they hurt.

I think the only piece nineties Linux didn't anticipate was the level of hot-swapping hardware (USB, Bluetooth, displays, etc.), and the level of power management. Modern Linux never got that architected or integrated quite right, because it was built with hack upon hack upon kludge. It's split up in bizarre ways between kernel and user space which would be really tough to clean up right now.
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this is a good point, but I would not be surprised if the more recently someone hears a piece of information, the more impactful it is on their decisions. I would attribute this to not only individuals memory but also the amount of distractions within the 10 weeks (in your example) that would take away peoples focus.

Just an inclination, not sure how much of this would be supported by the literature if there is any
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Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane.

DDT.
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There seems to be milage in the idea that if you give someone a home you reduce homelessness

https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-to-fix-homelessness-give-...
Too simplistic. yo generator or npm init for example having selections, dropdowns and things like that (I just referenced them out of my head).
This is a great argument for an absurdly high estate tax. You can’t inherit ill-gotten gains if you don’t inherit anything at all!
Did your in-person meetings ever had this many participants? If this many people needs to be involved, then I'll argue a meeting is a nonsense anyway. It would be extremely hard even in-person.
> Meanwhile, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford, and UVA all have affirmative action and are doing fine. Decades of supposedly different standards haven’t hurt their standing. They continue to graduate a diverse class of high achievers that are well-represented in just about every field imaginable. How does that square with your claims?

That’s the entire point of comparing CUNY and Berkeley. You can maintain prestige while having different standards for different ethnic groups. You can’t while having no standards. Eliminating entrance exams is how CUNY did it. Different standards is how Berkeley and Harvard etc. do it. That’s not what is being proposed for the gifted school in question. It’s the elimination of standards.
Harsh lockdowns are the last-ditch effort when everything is out of control. The places that didn't do them didn't need them because they had a good initial response or have very favorable demographics or culture
This is awesome. Simple, open-source, clearly documented... FTW! Bravo!
> A pilot experiment more than a decade ago to bury the DDT [at the Palos Verdes superfund site] under a thick cap of clean sand showed mixed results. Then sampling in 2009 suggested that most of the DDT had mysteriously vanished — prompting a burst of headlines and more internal paralysis. The longtime project manager unexpectedly retired, and many of the scientists who had dedicated decades of their careers to the chemical have also either retired or moved on.

The fact that DDT outlasted the scientists' careers is another strike (among many) against untrammeled libertarian free market thinking.
I'll give you Venezuela and Argentina, but can you clarify how Spain matches your argument?
Fascinating story. The detector used in this case appears to be a Polimaster PM1208.

Photo source:

https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/zvysenou-radiaci-v-praze-...

Manufacturer page:

https://www.pce-instruments.com/english/measuring-instrument...
And to add to that, not all of those 12% take hyper-polarizing stances
Fair. But Skype rendered itself irrelevant in the years because of this BS ;)

But I agree. Never underestimate politics vs. reality. Oh 2020.
One more thing to know about Co-60: its half-life of 5.27 years, combined with the radiation it emits, makes it particularly dangerous. The half life being so long means it's a 30 year problem (after 5 half lives you're at about 3% of original activity), while its being so short (many metals are thousands of years) means that a small mass can have a high activity. Its gammas that it radiates are fairly energetic compared to most (a problem not encapsulated by the Ci unit) and it bioaccumulates so that small amounts inhaled or ingested can provide huge doses over the subsequent decades.
Sure, most american businesses are delusional that reputation is not an asset, maybe Epic Games aren't that stupid.
The United States has unemployment benefits [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits_in_the_U...
This article reinforces that herd immunity between young healthy people would have been the best solution.

Our old are going to get sick from vaccines, so the young are going to get it anyway. Next year under 50 year olds will line up for their vaccine.

Meanwhile 1.5 years worth of old, obese, and sick people will have died from coronavirus.

Wouldn't it have been better if healthy kids and adults caught it in q2 2020?

(Please no ancedotes of a sick 5 year old child dying from "coronavirus", statistics are necessary when discussing billions)
The main advantage of European honeybees is that they can pollinate introduced European crops efficiently, and native pollinators can't.

The flip side is that European honeybees can not pollinate native crops very well. For that, the native pollinators are very efficient. Native pollinators are threatened by the feral colonies of European honeybees and their introduced diseases like nosema, varroa, mites, and foulbrood. It's like smallpox blankets all over again as infected honeybee colonies are trucked all over the country to spread pollen and disease on various introduced European cops.
I ran Enlightement for maybe a month or two to try it. I mostly ran twm, fvwm, and similar at the time. Those are obviously not satisfactory for a typical user.

I gave it as an example of something which ran rather sophisticated theming/compositing/effects on hardware at least 2 orders of magnitude slower than today, and something which modern Ubuntu/Fedora struggle with.

I'd encourage you to compare the specs of the 3dfx Voodoo (the "magic dust") to even bottom-barrel integrated graphics of 2020.
No, I do not. If my grandfather left my father $X, my father left me $Y, at the very most the maximum would have to be the lesser of $X and $Y, decremented by the full cost of answering the lawsuit.

This is problematic from a variety of practical angles, though, not just mathematical ones. It seems like something the forensic accounting lobby would salivate over.

Should I be forced to defend a lawsuit because my great^6 grandfather owned slaves? (As far as I know, none did.) That’s more abhorrent than legally dumping chemicals that today’s common sense says should have been done differently.
Side conversation: I'm interested in being pretty good at this sort of thing: setting up servers, making them connect, understand the protocols enough to put them to practice. I believe this is in the realm of IT. What are some good resources to read to get to my goal? Thanks!
The text of the article clearly states that clone time was reduced by 99%.

The only way build time could have been reduced by 99% is if every part of the build other than cloning is negligible. It is far more plausible to assume that the title is simply wrong.
I do not worry about my particular government unjustly killing or imprisoning me.

The platforms can deny me a voice, can allow lies about me to circulate in my absence, and can cause a mob with pitchforks to metaphorically show up outside my door. Job, career, ability to support my family, place in any community? All gone.

My government owes me constitutional behavior and is answerable for violating it. The platforms owe me nothing and are answerable for nothing.
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Agreed. So if we wanted to go that route (disclaimer: I think it's our best bet) we'd have to somehow confer high status to the best open-source code monks.
I'm having a hard time reading your question as anything other than "But what if I want to not do functional programming?" As stated, functional programs tend to be shallower. There's less "higher" and "lower" to begin with.

I've written plenty -- I'm not interested in responding to potshots every time.
Ah, so the front fell off. In that case the DDT was just transported outside of the environment. There's nothing there, except water, and fish, and birds.

(In case it isn't clear to anyone, this is heavy sarcasm and a reference to a well known satirical skit.)
I don't know how I missed that one. We could call it a tie?
> For example instead of "discriminate minority groups" they say "disadvantage minority groups"

But to intentionally disadvantage a minority group is to discriminate against that minority group.

Are you suggesting that intentionally disadvantaging a group is not discriminating against that group?

Or are you suggesting that unintentionally disadvantaging a group is not only not discriminating against that group, but that also it is is also excusable and needs no correction? i.e. that the consistent, albeit unintentional, disadvantaging shall continue?

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With respect to entrance examinations specifically - while I have zero experience of context with the situation today, I fully appreciate how entrance examinations can be intentionally and unintentionally exclusionary - and yet still be seen as innocuous. A good example is in the (historical) [entrance exams for the UK's Grammar School systems which are sat at age 11[(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven-plus#Controversy); while the grammar-school system was ostensibly universal and open to all, the entrance exams with questions predicated on a familiarity with middle-class culture naturally disadvantaged working-class students.
At tuxedocomputers (equivalent to System76 but in EU) you can choose which components you want. Good RAM and SSD is costlier but worth it IMHO. I prefer a Samsung SSD and highest RAM clocks to whatever the OEM could get for cheap.
Isn't the vertical alignment much more important than the horizontal?

Not that it counters your point, but the left alignment at the top is very minor.
Slight tangent given it's not all about "courses" per se, but my all-time favorite math-related website -- https://betterexplained.com -- is remarkably good at aiding in the development of intuition and deep understanding. Enjoy!
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I didn't buy it. It's a work laptop that I didn't have a choice in. But to that comment, many Linux users assume that ThinkPads are a solid mobile work horse. I certainly would have said so. But I would happily switch to a MacBook Pro from 2016. I would say that having to restart X any time you want to switch between battery saving on-the-go, and multiple monitors when you're at your desk, is a hard fail.
Hands down, Blender. See Ian Hubert’s channel[0] for samples of what can be achieved with Blender by a tiny team.

His examples tend to be specific to VFX, but Blender is quite general-purpose as far as motion design goes with an NLE, support for the familiar “expressions” paradigm, and so on.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxD6H3ri8RI
I was never compelled to say anything at all; however, it did cause me to think more subtly about racism and white supremacy in my life rather than simplifying it to a reactive good/bad:racist/not racist dichotomy. Perhaps this is all more subtle, complicated, and bonding than the fringe culture warriors would like us to believe.
Has it been colorized?
A variable geometry nozzle would help a lot here, by keeping a lower volume of propellant to still be ejected at a high speed. May be a good idea after all.
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no it's not. intent is also taken into account of fair use and the intent of those test cases is to make sure their program gets around a specific counter measures youtube as put into place so people cannot directly download the media and are forced to stream it.

look... i love the project and everything, but philip is just plain in the wrong and doesn't want to admit it.
I'd recommend this book, it explains a few interactions between species of animals / insects / plants and shows how everything is more of less connected in ways we can't imagine

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discove...
> The Statute of Anne was not the first copyright law. Its antecedent was the Licensing of the Press Act[0]

It seems to me that the LPA was more primarily a 'business licensing' system. Sections I to IV are about who is allowed to print:

* https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp428-...

Only one section (V) pertains to what we would nowadays refer to copyright, i.e., ownership of the content.
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I don’t think so. Being able to offload that capital expense is huge. I have to imagine many companies will decide to just keep it that way.
You should consider doing the same thing in production.

It's a trope at this point how the modern slow hashing algorithms are utterly misconfigured. Stopped counting how many times I've seen it.

Take a whole second to compute a hash on the production machine because "hashing is supposed to be slow", noting the production server is a low frequency Xeon that has many core but they're half as slow as your development with a 4GHz i7-9999.

Hashing is supposed to take milliseconds, not seconds. If it's taking longer than 100 ms you need to make it faster.

edit: found the problem, this bad stackoverflow answer that's been spreading bad recommendations for years https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/17207/recommend...
OK, someone tell me why this isn't the good news it sounds like
I prefer desktops too, basically. But as I‘m working on multiple locations, I got annoyed by having to update multiple environments. If I install a piece of software on desktop A, I need to do the same thing on desktop B.
America in 1998 had little shared ethnic background by the standards of America in 1898, which had a frankly hilarious lack of shared ethnic background by the standards of 1798.

California and Texas are utterly dominated by Non-Hispanic and Hispanic white people, the two ethnic groups with by far the highest rates of intermarriage in the United States of America.

England 1798 -> Europe 1898 -> Western 1998
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I suspect that a lot of people forget the concept of mens rea (sometimes through lack of critical thinking, sometimes for deliberate conflation). Labels are easy to throw around; unconscious bias gets lumped together with racism. One is culpable behaviour, the other not paying attention. But again if someone wants to push a particular point of view it's just easier to label someone else as "bad" without having to explain exactly what is bad or how bad.

For every problem there is a solution that is simple, neat—and wrong. -- H.L. Mencken

and from a different social issue but highlighting how easy it is to go from "good guy" to "bad guy";

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist. -- Hélder Câmara
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You mean because of the 2 deaths?
The point of double blind isn't to get around your crazy scenario, but to be able to say you evaluated the effect of one factor on your self selected group

Which generally ends up being that lots of studies are about isolating the effect of one factor on young white educated men, but you can at least say you've isolated the factor as opposed to just comparing young white educated men to the general population
Is there any way to install Amiga OS on an 11" MacBook Air 2013? Apparently there's something called Syllable, but the linked site is down.

https://www.howtogeek.com/190217/10-alternative-pc-operating...
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This is happening on top of our day-to-day development activities so bear with us - we'll send out emails with next steps to all people interested soon.

For more info about the process and MuditaOS check out the blog post at https://mudita.com/community/blog/muditaos-goes-open-source-...
I came to this story after several days immersed in reading the ancient history of peoples who migrated east across the Pacific 5,000 years ago to form the island nations that are dotted over thousands of square miles of ocean to the west of California.

What strikes me as strange is that Californians, or Americans, don't see themselves as one nation of people with one overriding interest - to keep their ecosystem pure and habitable so their people can thrive and prosper.

I know that's naive. In America individuals are free to pursue any activity that is permitted by law. Prosperity is measured in dollars, and breaches of the law require a lot of dollars to be exposed and rectified. The national purpose works differently to other countries, particularly smaller nations in which the people are more in contact with nature every day.

Still, I can't help but wonder whether most Americans would be happier if things worked differently, and catastrophes like the DDT dump were able to be rectified in a unified national effort. I'm not sure why that doesn't happen, or what makes it so unlikely.
But git itself is not decentralized, but rather replicated. There's always master repo from which others fork and merge, that master repo will be always the kill spot.
Yes let us just start collective punishment, because we have such a justice boner. Jesus christ, sometimes HN has some wild opinions.

Just to be absolutely clear -- it's not reasonable, and what you're suggesting is literally how North Korea handles crime.

"Oh but you know here it's different" -- you're setting a precedent which, if allowed, would mean your family members could face jail time for crimes YOU commit.
This IS good news.

Now (soon, hopefully) people can acquire immunity through a vaccine, instead of through a virus that leaves long-lasting damage to the body (in particular, but not limited to, the brain).
AstraZeneca has agreements with all governments whereby they don't claim any responsibility for the vaccine. It's the national governments that will deal with any side effects.
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I’m one of those “extremists” who went to TJ and supports the end of the test. What can I do to convince you that I’m a real person and not a lunatic?
Yes, but I have a feeling that's what the GP refers to when they say "trapped forever". I don't feel like our system traps you at all, so I was wondering why the GP feels that people get trapped.
Coursera and MIT OCW are both great.
I would also add edx:
https://www.edx.org
i read it as (the (power of 2) (random choices))...for some reason
It is extremely good news, but they haven't published their data yet. I will get excited when they do, and the data matches the PR (assuming it does).
“The programme is progressing well, (but) we’re not there yet,” Hancock said.

Looking good, but still months away from rolling out.