skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare and Apple made a new DNS protocol to protect your data from ISPs
There are at least 13 ways to think about correlation

Rodgers & Nicewander 1988 "Thirteen ways to look at the correlation coefficient"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2685263.pdf
From the Google summary:

> Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.

Like medium, it's a way for writers to get paid. There seems to be popular tech and business writing there. HN's own patio11 is a fan.
Yep, this is actually one of those things Stallman has been saying for decades and people like to ignore: the GPL doesn’t mean all code must be in the public domain, only that users of a given program should be able to modify it. There are a number of ways to allow for that while still keeping distribution restricted.
What+Does+It+Mean+to+Be+Blessed+by+God?+-+Gospel+Of+GOD
yeah there are many options but if 99.99% uses gms on android. Its majority rule as a app developer i would push other services way back down in priority.
Demand for air travel has collapsed. Prices have not, because airline have correctly figured out that the few people still flying (particularly internationally) are doing so because they have to and will pay top dollar if they need to.
Is it possible to start passerine scripts with

#!/usr/bin/env passerine

and use it as any other scripting language?
That must have been XSL-FO, a W3C standard. There are several implementations, like Apache FOP, that turn XSL-FO into PDF.
I have a DonkeyCar [1] with a Jetson Nano 4GB. Is it possible to follow the course with that hardware platform?

[1] https://www.donkeycar.com/
Is there an option for custom line width/bytecount?
The more integration, the less competition.

The software competitive scene is fairly good at the moment, and the open web remains an escape hatch, but the risk of too tight integration is that startups become impossible.
GitHub Gets a Dark Mode
It's totally individual though. Back when we finally got terminals with white background I was very pleased. A co-worker was completely unable to use them though - he had to set the terminal to reverse mode. We talked about it and it was clear his eyesight was completely different from mine. There's no "one size fits all" here, and I for one have problems with dark mode - I see "flares".
I think maybe they meant for an ellipse drawing function which, like the one depicted in the webpage, only allows ellipses with both axis either horizontal or vertical, and was suggesting that the "size" argument would have 2 numbers to it.
User experience for example. The Amazon online store looks like a large supermarket and it's full of (very) crappy products. A online store focusing on high-quality products with a nice presentation may have a small market.
> There is a pure functional programming language waiting to be resurrected from the ashes of XSLT

That's XQuery. Version 3.1 handles JSON elegantly.

At NLnet, we use it as a static site generator.
So by your estimate (~1%), a gram of deuterium can provide power equivalent to a year of intense sunshine?
Just finished and submitted a 295 page Ph.D. dissertation written in LaTex. The only real downside, as I see it, is that «normal» people are used to giving feedback in Word documents.
This comment completely misses the point. The article's title is "Learnable Programming: Designing a programming system for understanding programs"

This is not an article about how to teach or learn programming, this is about creating an environment inside of which learning is made easier.

Try giving a freshman a binary search program with an interactive visualization like the ones shown in this article that they can play with, and see if they still struggle with it. Same goes for the permutations. You don't have to teach anything when you can let someone experiment and teach themselves how something works. At the end of the day, true learning always hinges on personal insight, and the best teaching methods are those that make it easiest for a person to extract insight.
There is always something, like Samba and whatnot - some build system you claim copyright to, or some utility with a different license etc etc. It doesn’t need to be a slam dunk, it doesn’t need to win at all, it just has to be enough to keep a lawsuit running for a year or so. The legal system can be used as a DDOS in many, many situations, even when the defendant is spotless.
I'm not sure the things you find missing are Ubuntu's fault. For example, while it's true that there is no ifconfig by default in Ubuntu (it's provided by a package called net-tools), one can read this:

> In 2009, Red Hat decided to deprecate ifconfig as the default command line network interface management utility, because the “net-tools” package (which provides ifconfig) did not support InfiniBand addresses (commonly used interconnect in high-performance computing applications).

So, many of the things that make Ubuntu look like a new OS to you, were actually decisions made by RedHat years ago, and they will also be present in newer RHEL versions.
Red Hat ends support for CentOS 8 eight years earlier
Screw planes. I want zeppelins to come back. And let's make them nuclear, baby. And maybe add sails to take advantage of the wind if it's going our way. A properly zero emissions way to travel. Plus, with the huge surface area of the zeppelin coated in solar collectors, you heat the passenger compartment and turn every surface into a wireless charger.
What is the revenue split between YouTube ad revenue, donations and affiliate links if I may ask?
Excellent point, that’s automatically easier on Mars and luna.
Correlations are a profound part of our universe.

When observing the universe, humans can never prove any facts about the universe. We can only establish correlations. Correlations between events that occur in our universe is the furthest "truth" we can establish about the universe short of a full on proof.

What this means is that nothing in the physical universe can be proven. Proof is the domain of maths and logic, correlations is the domain of science. Science cannot prove anything, it can only establish correlations and causations.

The reason this occurs is because at any time in the future one can observe an event that contradicts a hypothesis. You can hypothesize that all birds have wings and observe 2 trillion birds with wings but you never know when one day you'll observe a bird without wings disproving your entire hypothesis. That is why nothing can be proven, you can only correlate things through observation.

The other interesting part about correlation is what it isn't: Causation. People often talk about how correlation is not causation but people never talk about what causation is and how to establish it. If I can't empirically use correlation to establish causation how on earth is causation ever formally established? People rarely question this disconnect.

The fact is, causation is rarely formally established but a method does exist and it's subtle. If I observe that whenever Bob flicks a switch the light comes on then I established that the light coming on is correlated with Bob flipping the switch. This is as far as I can go with just observation. To establish causation I must make myself both an observer and an entity that is part of the system itself. I have to take control and flip the switch randomly and observe that when I don't flip the switch nothing happens and when I do flip the switch the lights come on.

By doing this I establish causation. To establish causation to higher and higher degrees I need to Cause (keyword) random events and make sure that a cause influences an effect AND absence of a cause and therefore absence of an effect occurs.

Also note that establishing causation is not proof. At any point in time in the future I can flip the switch and the light may not come on which is contradictory evidence for causation. Causation in the statistical sense is like correlation, you establish it to a degree of confidence but you can never Prove that A caused B.
This is in direct contradiction to what Edward Snowden is saying in Permanent Record. He could not find anything.
Fat, slow loading, unresponsive web pages? Maybe it's time again to remember Maciej Ceglowski's "Web Directions 2015 Keynote":

The Website Obesity Crisis
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iYpl0QVCr6U
Benefits of Wearing Copper Jewelry
It is too small (unusable) in my 4K screen - using 225% scaling in Windows 10
- So far me and my wife's family, friends, and myself have survived the pandemic knock on wood. There's some people with risk factors, including myself, so I'm pretty happy about that. I did have a coworker who died of it, though :(. Hopefully we can avoid it until at least getting the vaccine.

- Wrote about 60,000 words in my journal/game design diary this year, although that's down from 123,000 last year, but at least it's better than nothing. Made sure to record observations about the pandemic periodically during it, for reflection on in later years.

- One of my game designs was selected as a finalist for a prestigious board game design contest (this is the third year I tried), and then the same game was selected as a finalist for a sellsheet contest later that year, which allowed me to do a virtual pitch of the game to 20+ publishers. One publisher offered to brainstorm ideas with me for ways in which to add more to the game that it might find a publisher.

- One of my earliest board game designs had been shelved for the past 3+ years and I suddenly realized how to add an interesting hook and make the game more thematic at the same time, which ended up fixing a major problem with the game. Had a productive playtest with other game designers a few weeks ago as well. Currently trying to get it polished up enough to enter into a game design contest in January.

- Finally got over my hesitation to make 3D video games (instead of just 2D) and self-taught myself just enough Blender to make some functional 3D models to include in a game I'm working on, and started again from scratch in 3D, and I think that was a smart move. Looks about the same but nice 3D animations that are easier to get working than 2D (i.e. I don't have to draw them), and handling multiple resolutions is easier.

- Got more into puzzle creation and design. Might have come up with a couple novel pen and paper logic puzzles. Still need to dig into it more.

- Started using monte carlo simulations to help design board games. In particular I used it for one abstract game design to discover what combination of variables I needed so the game wouldn't have a first player advantage and was guaranteed not to have ties, which I wouldn't have been able to tell without a ton of manual playtests otherwise. Didn't even occur to me how I could use code to help me design until this year.

- Came up with about 15 ideas for new game designs, as well as ideas on how to improve or fix the issues with four existing designs.

- Wrote a short story I'm pretty happy with that's getting published in an anthology for a local writer's group, about a broker who protects and manages secrets from corporations (secrets being things like credit card numbers and maiden names and the like).

- We explored a few State Parks we wouldn't have known existed in the area if it weren't for the pandemic. But we ended up cancelling our planned trip to Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks this year, so it's a poor substitute.

Other than that, just about everything else was shitty this year. And most of this stuff would have probably happened without the pandemic anyway.
An easy way around this problem is to run the software in a docker container with a newer glibc.
Sky Drone Joins the Nvidia Inception Accelerator Program
The invoice will be PDF with an embedded XML blob containing the machine-readable data part, signed with a PDF signature: https://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf20/en/zugferd/

pdf.js lacks capabilities to extract the XML or verify signatures, so the usual way will be to use Acrobat Reader or the usual bunch of "industry-standard" invoice-processing crap that now suddenly has to deal with malicious input.

The idea to do it differently might be nice in theory, but is lacking a smooth way to change over from the old paper-invoice ways. PDF will be the thing for some decades and we will have to deal with it.
This is my experience as well. I have to clean the contacts or pair/unpair to get them to work properly. I’m hoping the max are less finicky
I got 3 ads in the Settings app when upgrading to my new iPhone 12: for Music, Games and TV I think.

Shame on you, Apple.
Considering that hooks are recommended in the hooks-faq, yet the React 1,2,3 Main Concepts talks OO -

I find the statement that OO is obsolete. Maybe that is the intention of the React team, but it is not reflected in their main documentation yet.

As for the style of the React example - I have taken the React example from todoMVC "as is".

I invite you to write any other React implementation of TodoMVC, and will do my best to create the equivalent with Stencil.
I remember the name Philip Glass only due to watching the movie "Hamburger Hill", which started with an opening theme [1] that seemed so unusual that I looked up the composer on wikipdia.

[1] https://youtu.be/YeD4b2L1iNU
The death of UK coal was all to do with economics of importing coal and labour prices and relations, rather than climate change. But also that's why most green parties talk of a "just transition", subsidy to the workers who will lose their jobs.
> But there's really no good reason for mask wearing the be in the mix.

Thats your opinion, but the people whom you want to wear masks obviously feel differently.

> I cannot sympathize with people who are allowing themselves to be talked into making personally and socially unhealthy choices with no upside.

That is your personal decision. For myself, I am quite sympathetic to people who seem to be the victim of confidence artists.
They make it seem like it requires a login, but you can just scroll down to see the paper.
Plotting Patterns in Music with a Fantasy Record Player
Same thing as PHP - most websites today are using JQuery and PHP (like over 50%) compared to modern JS libraries (at most 5% all together)

It only means that we, as the JS community, are continuing to fail with presenting an alternative to PHP and JS.
Isn't your custom player also Cesium? I see a Cesium logo in the top right on both players
You would distribute it anyway as one file, because you're going to pack it into something which does the install. i.e. dmg/pkg file, installer, Linux package, etc.

I don't think I've ever seen a Mac app which consisted of only one file. The whole idea behind .app apps is that they consist of several files.
But we can spend ~$40B per year on our misadventures in Afghanistan. It's maddening.
First, a note: math is one of the specific areas where humans generally peak really quite young. Math (quantitative reasoning/logic) is not the only area of psychometric intelligence testing (e.g., IQ) and not even a majority of it. So, it may be that it really is a bit harder for older mathematicians to make breakthroughs? I don't know. At any rate, citing mathematics as an indicator is probably not ideal, because math ability does indeed generally peak early.

However, as of 2011[1] the mean age of physics Nobel winners at the time of their achievements across the entire period of the award was 37.2 and since 1985 the mean age was 50.3.

According to the same paper, by the year 2000, Nobel-level achievement in physics before age 40 was only 19% of cases. It also appears that awards in chemistry and medicine are similarly increasing in mean age.

Is this dispositive? Certainly not. Maybe the Nobel committee prefers to award old scientists because of some unknown bias?

However, it does indicate that high achievement is both possible and normal in middle age and beyond.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/108/47/18910.full
Thanks! Exporting code is good idea, I'll add it to the todo list.

Also thanks for pointing out the error, should be fixed now. Guess that's what you get when you make a last moment change before going public :/
Most younglings are very enthusiastic, it’s usually the process of not being able to go up in the ladder (only so many can be bosses) nor the opportunity to specialize (with acknowledgment from the bosses) that grinds people down and it usually happens within just a couple of years.

If your bosses are empathetic and proud, you’ll get way better output than grinding people down for a couple of years and then getting fresh blood. That’s at least my experience from working as a consultant. So check your system first and then get the stars.
My imagination fails when I attempt to think of a good reason for using the 'offset' coordinates. If someone knows of one, I'd be open to hearing it, but I suspect that it makes things quite tricky
Your site is wonderful, congrats on the sale!

I'm thinking of setting up a site for selling some prints of photos I've taken. How did you implement the billing/manufacturing/shipping? Thanks!
That's insane. Of those stocks only the growth of AMD is justified because it was starting off from a small base anyway and it is in the process of replacing Intel entirely so creeping up to Intel's market cap is not surprising.

Tesla makes absolutely no sense to me. Etsy is just an online shop and it sells a lot of crap. Pton is probably just a corona fad.

AAPL is slightly encouraging because it obviously has some well justified growth left in it but it's not overhyped to the extreme extent as the other stocks.

All stocks are still growing way too quickly in my opinion though.
Yes, it does change something. I know many people who hate both companies, but choose Apple as a lesser evil. And yes, this is exactly not a 'real' kind of want.

Given that, and that the OP didn't say they like Apple, you cannot neglect a poosibility of them not wanting Apple.
Very little; the term to look for is "curtailment", and it happens a few days a year.
Containerizing SpringBoot Application with Jib
The grand parent post wasn't commenting about the US, it was commenting about Europe:

> Right now, the pharma/medical industries are all-powerful. Can't do anything significant without them involved, and if your doctors turn out to be idiots with a degree, well you're shit out of luck, especially in Europe, where the holy universal healthcare can not be questioned.

Where such abuses are rarer. The US healthcare system is broken, at least keep an eye on what other countries are doing. If say, Iceland, Germany, Italy, Japan start vaccinating, maybe it's time to get vaccinated ;-)
Would that be the case if open standards were used?
You don't have evidence for this. You are simply viewing others as a reflection of yourself.

If there are people at the tail end of the spectrum there must be people in between people who are centered and people who are extreme. Where and how these groups aggregate is hard to measure experimentally but it is clear that humans can lie and if they are not in the center of the spectrum and more evil than normal than likely they won't reveal it.
As of today, there are no phones running Fuchsia, so it's hard to evaluate if it's going to be useful for any kind of control. Does it have feature parity with Linux?

Forking can be practical without competing for the same use case.
Let's aim for integration on equal footing, then. No special APIs for vendor only, and no ToC clauses prohibiting third-party clients/integrations.

I don't know how to work around the "COM problem", though - IIRC, your product can have just as deep integrations with Outlook & Office as Teams has, if you're willing to throw man-hours at dealing with the clumsiness of COM. This understandably advantages a company with lots of money to spend and direct access to people who develop the platform. Some non-MS products still manage to ship with deep integrations, but in my experience, they tend to be fragile.

That said, I feel it would be a tremendous help for both competition and integration, if some form of "can't restrict access to a service to vendor-owned clients" clause entered the law.

It's kind of my problem with products being turned into services - service providers currently have way too much power over their customers/users.
> I'm sorry that you're offended.

No no, I'm sorry, it was not the best choise of words. It's more that I'm perplexed by your naivety.

You freely admin that the police is the enemy of the people, the very police that's supposed to protect people. Now what makes you think that the organizations whose goal is to protect the state, and not the people would be any more benevolent?
Could this be a potential start for an end to end encrypted microg cloud alternative?

Personally, I would love to see a service like that. Even more if it had payments via crypto, so you can guarantee anonymity.
I've been helping with messaging for somebody looking for demonstration funding for an experimentally proven clean oil recovery technology and it makes me feel hopeless seeing there are so many people struggling to demonstrate potentially game changing technologies, often because people investing or allocating money have little technical competence.

for those curious: http://www.envirotechdme.com

If I could offer you some pointers:

- Separate the Youtube account you use for this technology from the one you use personally.

- Specify in nontechnical language the advantage this tech has over similar fusion technologies. (still working on this myself)

- Seek peer review and then highlight that peer review directly on your website. My intuition is that most people or departments who are capable of funding a demonstration are not capable of validating the science behind your technology.

- I would recommend writing and attaching a succinct summary of your technology distinct from your patent, and devoid of the legalese and cruft that fills up a patent.
>Is this a service you would use?

Sorry, but no. I might if I had small-ish kids, maybe.

As an adult, I would be wary of a service like that, and it would be outside of my comfort level.

I'd need assurances that the other parties who I trust today but maybe shouldn't (or don't trust tomorrow) won't be able to snoop on me, neither my current location nor historical locations the app may have collected, without my knowledge.

I could imagine something like a scheme where the data is double-encrypted. An outer layer of encryption where the key is known only by either the app or the server, and only revealed when the other party requests it, thus leaving an auditable action. The inner layer of encryption would still ensure that only the trusted parties could perform the final decryption step, or something like that. I am just spitballing here and this is surely not a finished, well-thought-out scheme.
Nope. It's Google apps. Users aren't asked for a choice there.

And then maybe "what app a user selects", if the user manages to follow the procedure.
The Import on Interaction Pattern
> To be fair "seeing" doesn't necessarily mean drawing vector graphics, any advance helping reveal hidden structure of a codebase or generate better documentation would also allow us to better "see" the working of the code... I'm all for that!

This is basically what a good debugging environment is. Some of the best tooling out there is the dev-tools of modern browsers: you get a regular debugger where you can step through code and see the state, you also get some performance and memory visualization tools, you get an interactive html editor in which changes are reflected in real time, you get color pickers when modifying css colors, you can visualize the timing of requests, and you get autocomplete propositions all over the place.
Arguably if it's an open interface it's not "integrated". You certainly lose the product improvement and co-design benefits of tight integration when you have to run it past a standard committee.

Or you end up with "open standard with proprietary extension" (bane of everything from HTML to opengl)