skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they lost because they were too easily hacked.

Most people I knew had one, but nobody payed for games because you could just use a boot cd and play pirated games endlessly.

One of my friends had hundreds upon hundreds of games. More than any of us could ever play.
I don't think people are more susceptible now, at least in the sense that the probability that an average person would fall for a given scam given the same amount of information about the scam has gone up.

I think it is just that people are exposed to a lot more scams now. You see more scams in a month now than you would have seen in years 40-50 years ago.

Exposing people to a lot more scams increases the number of successful scam attempts, even if people are as skeptical or gullible as they were in the past, for several reasons:

1. If you fall for 1/N of the scams you are exposed to, multiplying the number of scams by K means you fall for on average K times as many scams.

2. Debunking scams is more work than promoting them. With much faster spreading of information nowadays, a new scam can reach a large number of people before the debunking is available.

3. Acting on a scam is faster now. In the '70s I wasn't just a few clicks away from being able to transfer irreversibly and untraceably a large amount of money to a scammer.

4. Many people now get most of their information via the same channels that the scammers use. Even if the debunking information is available there by the time they see the scam, many will miss it.

Even if a person sees as many debunking items as scam items, they won't necessarily see the right debunking items. They might see current scams 2, 4, 5, and 7, but see the debunking items for scams 1, 2, 4, and 5.
Like the parent said, Postgres supports unstructured data with json fields. The syntax is "clean enough" and you can easily migrate to a full column with a single query.
A popular blogging couple were fined for making blogs in national parks. I link to a different website for the short version.

https://drivinvibin.com/2020/10/23/rv-couple-fined/
Thanks. I looked for it at the library online and couldn’t find it. I got ‘24 hours in Ancient Rome ’ (looks like it’s part of a series) instead. The author is Philip Matyszak. Will review once i am done with it. Will keep an eye out for your title.
> As a developer what I like even more than thank yous are thank yous that explain how my code helped you in some specific way.

i'll second this.

post some screenshots of the thing you've made with my thing, or how it's improved the user experience or performance improvement metrics. what has my project unlocked for you, e.g. new use cases that were not possible before. compare it to what was there previously. i build open source stuff to scratch my own itches. knowing that it scratches the itches of 10k people instead of just 1 is the best outcome -- maximized impact.

just a thanks is nice but ultimately lowest effort and not that gratifying.
Yes. Organic too.
Maybe it’s just how I’m targeted but I rarely see “big” companies in my ad feed on Instagram. I would say it’s 95% Shopify stores from small brands.
The retail price of LFP batteries outside of China is a grand ripoff given that automotive sector, allegedly, already gets automotive grade cells (which are superior to storage grade) for $50-$60 kWh.

But even this way, I don't see battery storage becoming a thing economics wise, except in places where electricity supply itself is unreliable.

Grid scale storage can be made incomparably cheaper with things other than batteries, especially if storage periods are just few hours.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii), there are signs that it was a wealthy town, signs like public buildings and houses with fancy decorations and art. Enough so that, not long after the disaster, people dug into it to remove items of value.

So I would imagine many of the residents had disposable income for dining out.
I guess Zuckerberg was right when he said "advertisers will be back to Facebook soon enough".

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-53262860
I really liked the recent book by Eliezer Yudkowsky:

Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck

Unfortunately there isn't a direct solution (if I remember right), as much as an excellent assessment of where things go wrong and why they are hard to fix (and thus a direction in which we can push to improve things).

https://www.amazon.com/Inadequate-Equilibria-Where-Civilizat...
My wife significantly reduced my Home-Office productivity by forbidding me to walk around while calling or designing things. She has problems concentrating when I do it so I understand, it's a major reason to move to a larger house next month.
Two points: 1) Japan does not presently hunt blue whales and hasn't for some years. 2) For the past few years Norwegians have killed more whales than the Japanese, yet the Japanese receive the lion's share of criticism for it.

https://iwc.int/total-catches
True, but it’s not perfect. Learners of English often don’t realize that they’re missing certain distinctions that their native language doesn’t make. Pig/pork is a common example. English has a lot of those.
I wonder if fairly standard reviews might be helpful here. 1-5 stars, with text, and perhaps also links to issues if there are problems and an opportunity to share "used at $company" for endorsement.

Or perhaps just a built-in "endorsement" feature, which companies can use to indicate that they use a project and find it valuable, perhaps listed on the sidebar. Could also segue into paid sponsorship and support.

Insofar as GitHub provides package management, they could also prompt companies to endorse the packages they use.

All of this might get annoying, nasty, or inauthentic, of course. Would need to be careful...
What reason would there be to give up British citizenship?

The only one I can think of, is to aquire a different citizenship that doesn't allow dual citizens (like China). Although even then, the guidance on the British government site suggests they will go along with whatever crap China wants (like destroying a British passport) but allow keeping British citizenship, issuing a new passport afterwards, if requested to.
It may be a minor quibble, but I found the DC controller to be rather hard on the hands. The edges were just sharp enough to be uncomfortable after a good round of Marvel vs. Capcom.
Yeah, lot of nostalgia. We did a lot of random shenanigans that might be less viable in the real world. Firewalling all outbound TCP connections, moving IIS-served webpages to Apache on a Linux server, moving everything off the Solaris box and just turning it off. The fact that we even had a backup to restore after we noticed the defacement I mentioned earlier was a fluke.
"Citations of Dunning-Kruger are usually examples of it."
As another commenter mentioned, diesel fuel and fertilizer are ubiquitous. Tannerite, as you specifically mentioned, can be purchased in bulk by tens-of-lbs at single stores. In fact, you're likely to save a good chunk of change doing so.

I'm not being sarcastic when I say that the US is awash in explosive materials.
Notably Soul Reaver 2 was aiming for a Dreamcast release but then moved to be a PS2 exclusive, and there was a fully playable port of Half-Life that never saw an official release.

https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life_(Dreamcast_port)
Seeing the Sega Dreamcast for the first time gave a true feeling of the "next-gen".

I bought my Hong Kong launch console with Pen Pen TriIcelon, Virtua Fighter 3tb, and a Godzilla VMS... great times. I remember the Windows CE logo printed on the console, but besides that, it didn't mean much as an end-user.

Here's the intro animation remade with D3.js! https://datacrayon.com/posts/visualisation/visualisation-wit...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/02/06/kayaker-s...
>Those keep coming around.

BAA HAHAHAHA
I don't think anybody will downvote you just for making a point in favor of MongoDB, as long as it's valid.

If you are starting with things that are impossible to define (like the infamous phrase "internet scale") or are plain wrong, then you still don't have to shut up but maybe make sure you like your db of choice for the right reasons.

There are people who love mysql because they use PHP and others who love Mongo because they use nodejs. It's understandable: Those stacks have a lot of users and it's easier to get support. Nevertheless, it's not strictly a strong starting point when people are just discussing databases.

So, don't feel oppressed, just be clear with your reasoning.
A lot of the last decade can be summed up as "other people being stupid is a problem for you even if you're not stupid". Applies to social media and fake news and financial scams and COVID-19 and Sex Ed and now this.
That’s the life of an immigrant. You lose the concept of “home”. You can try to build one for the next generation but for you it’s most likely gone forever. It’s very strange because I don’t feel at home in my new country but I’ve also been gone for so long that my old country feels just as alien.
Did you have hotel cubes/offices? If every employee doing blended still has to have their own space in the office, the company loses one of the big advantages of having people work from home. Obviously there are other advantages for WFH that can make it worthwhile for both sides, but reducing real estate costs is one most companies will want to reap.
Does this mean you get double taxed on everything over 107?
But you need to differentiate what people outwardly project is their ability and what they actual think is their ability.

And then there is also the reaction in the moment vs the reaction after sometime of thinking about it.
Oh, but that’s an “API” for a Database. So that’s a fine exception to “you should offer cursors”, since that’s what you actually intend to present. A more generic API that happens to be backed by a database with a list of things in it, should not reflect the underlying database decisions if it can help it.
Assuming you think the public equity markets have the backing of the US federal government, why would you ever bet against an index fund?

I consider a broad market equity index fund to be a risk free asset on a 5+ year timeframe. State and local government defined benefit pension obligations are invested in them, individuals' 401k and IRA accounts are invested in them, and the most influential members of society are invested in them. There is no political will to let the price of stocks fall (or even stagnate), and so either the US government keeps stock prices chugging along, or the USD has lost its buying power, in which case you have a bigger problem than your stock market holdings (if you're American).
Here I am naming my machines like a chump when I could be memorizing their numbers like oh yeah, I went to MIT
It is a grey area, but if the FAA goes after drone pilots for this, then they should also go after the many student and private pilots who monetize their training and flight videos.
You're so deep in the BS yourself you can't even see it anymore? Office politics BS is commonplace and it's part of human nature in a place where humans interact socially, but that becomes a lot harder when you're working remotely (no references to give you about this statement, but I believe a lot of people have been saying this in the past few months). Can you really not believe that people can do work without a manager telling them to? I think that if that's all you know, yeah, can be difficult to adjust... but I am fairly certain most people would adjust just fine to a situation where they are their own manager: they have a job to do, a target to achieve, and they have to figure out how to get there. Some level of administration is always needed, but that doesn't require a manager as we normally have them. Just another worker whose focus is on metrics/people.
Well, humans are quite an invasive species, we're not lacking in them
Triangulation with 5g's more synchronized backend is advertised to allow precise positioning without gps, at least.
Sci-Hub and Libgen Face ISP Blocking in India After High Court Complaint
I don't know how to express to you how unfunny this comment is
The Covid/cancer angle got the most attention in the mainstream press, but among some of the theorists I follow on Twitter, the general take is that 5G does not really have much application as a consumer technology (do people really need to be able to download 4K movies in 2 minutes on their mobile phones?). It does, however, have numerous applications in ubiquitous high-res video surveillance, autonomous weaponry, and the like.

https://tnsr.org/2020/11/the-u-s-navys-loss-of-command-of-th...
Walking absolutely helps and I do that a lot whenever I have a chance i.e. alone, but I'm not sure about talking out loud. In my mind an architectural/software problem is a structural thing, or a puzzle you need to put together mentally. Talking would only distract me from solving it.
A big part is acknowledging that the actions that human operators take is largely a result of the environment in which they operate. Typically there are many issues with that environment that be improved and all human operators will benefit.

To give you a more concrete example, it moves the analysis away from "Bob deleted the production database" into a more productive space of "we really shouldn't have a process that relies on any human logging into the production database and running SQL queries by hand, that's prone to human mistake".
ChuChu Rocket was not a flash game!
Momentum trading is a specific TA approach which I seriously doubt parent knows about. It doesn't sound like identifying "Momentum driven companies" (wut) but specific technical signals. More likely they have $1000 in RobinHood and their "big loss" was $200, so this entire thread is pointless.
The criticisms aren't genuine, they are narratives. Those things didn't matter when they were happening to faraway poor countries.
There are all kind of ads I would be interested in: good clothing, good tools, good software, good food. Or for things that are useful but you never would have thought to use them. I can do without the gazillion different brands selling the same foam mattress and ads for products that I just bought.
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Huh. Is AMD paying licensing fees for the privilege of implementing the AVX and AVX2 instruction sets? It seems weird and anticompetitive that patents are granted for what amounts to an API.

(Do you have links or identifiers for the specific patents, by any chance?)
5G is a military technology. It should not be used by public.
I swa a talk once from one of the facebook game companies who simply stored the player state in a file. There is nothing more simple! They simply loaded the files content into the memory as long as the player was playing and then serialized to file
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I have never heard of Norwegians conducting whaling. Why aren't they being reamed for it too?
It is interesting how much press Facebook constantly gets for 'profiting off of hate', but yet I never see Twitter and others mentioned in this light nearly as often,

Really? I see it all the time. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit. Even Instagram a lot lately. Perhaps your reading selection is a bit narrow?

let alone any media organization.

Sounds like you missed the whole "Fox News is the devil" thing that's been going on for close to 20 years on the internet. That only changed a few months ago when it stopped fawning over Mr. Trump. Now Newsmax (rightly or wrongly) is the internet's media whipping boy.
No company should reach that scale without implementing sufficient moderation for said scale. With great power comes greater responsibility; so on and so forth.
The capacity of these systems seems really tiny by modern standards as well as highly power inefficient. The fastest link demonstrated was around 5Gb/s at ~160W. This is about 3 orders of magnitude worse from an energy per bit perspective than fiber based systems. From that point alone, it’s hard to imagine these systems being cost competitive with existing fiber infrastructure. From a system capacity perspective these systems are about 500x less capacity.

On page 26, it seems the primary application is being able to get more data down to Earth for remote sensing applications.

The most important application of lasercom from LEO is direct-to-ground downlinks since the main point is being able to download to Earth the increasing amount of data that remote-sensing missions require
It actually does have that feature , it's tucked away in the probe panel.
That is not true. It has been debunked so many times.
Sega and there poor decisions during the end of the Genesis era(add-on that cost consumers hundred and then dropping support soon after) and Saturn days(surprise early launch angering developer, consumers and retailers enough for them to never carry the Saturn) lead to the death of the Dreamcast.

Statistical data showed that people were not buying the Dreamcast even though the games were easily pirated. Therefore piracy had no bearing on the console.

The Dreamcast needed sales and Sony's hype machine and SEGA's past reputation lead to consumers avoiding the Dreamcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d2xuRwYUt4
Police Are Solving Fewer Murders During Covid-19 Pandemic
I'm sure it sucks, but I bet it's still better than pretending you're fine. And I'm pretty sure your tribe will understand if you just got injured or sick and need to take it easy for a while.
I only played a few dominion games but could already feel that the Witch card is strong because it forces players to adjust. I also think it has a slightly higher winrate.
So the point is, is that there were many horrific incidents that occurred in Asia, and China sadly. I think it's more useful (and reasonable) to look at all the brutality.
The 1850s civil war in China btw was arguably the worst of the lot. An insane level of brutality there but it seemingly goes unmentioned.

The west did horrific things in Asia. I'm really curious why the Chinese don't have the same level of resentment over the British given how barbaric they treated them in the 1800s.

Don't forget it was USA that forced open Japan. They didn't ask to be open to the world.
America has not been invaded?
The linked article says: "Whales are thought to come out of the water to communicate with others, and colliding with boats and kayaks is an accidental consequence of this".
> But what about a case where someone 3 or 4 car lengths ahead makes a quick lane change and an accident occurs behind them?

You'd have to be going extremely slowly for 3 or 4 car lengths to be a safe following distance. On a typical 60-70mph freeway you should have a gap of at least 15-20 car lengths, and then accidents like that will happen only when other factors are at play (and if those factors are predictable like water on the road then your distance/speed should be adjusted accordingly).

While I think that example was bad, your point about there existing accidents without single points of blame is still valid.
“No Effective Solution” for Nanoplastics in Our Intestines, Environment
I added Oklab to the Observable notebook. With the current set of palettes, it produces results that are very similar to Lab, but I imagine with some specific color/hue transitions Oklab will outperform Lab.

https://observablehq.com/@mattdesl/perceptually-smooth-multi...
Sega Dreamcast had terrible marketing, at least in the UK...

Here's one of the big ads I often saw on TV... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT1Tbc_PD2k what is a Dreamcast?

Another UK ad... they had the word "Dreamcast" on the Arsenal top... https://nirvanacph.com/welcome/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/dr... what is a Dreamcast?
Therapy.

I realized at some point that my life wasn’t going in a direction where I felt fulfilled, and couldn’t seem to make the changes I needed to get it there. Therapy allowed me to see how I held myself back and the things I didn’t know I was carrying with me from my youth. I’m happier, more focused, have a better understanding of myself and where I’m going, and I think I’m kinder to others as well. I cannot recommend therapy highly enough.
The war of 1812 doesn't really count.
> No company should reach that scale without implementing sufficient moderation for said scale.

It was a huge mistake to not require content filters on the phone network.
Is that so? The designers of toxic recommender systems on social media are stupid? The bundling of thousands of mortgages into "AAA" bonds was done by stupid people? The lab in Wuhan where they were collecting bats was staffed by stupid people? Ok maybe that last one is fair.
That picture of her wearing the jewellery says all.
The US is as corrupt as China Russia and Iran are they just are corrupt in a different way.
It’s important to realize that 300 man engine crew was needed in large part do to the Titanic’s fast 21 knots cruse. A slower vessel of the same size and weight needs dramatically less power. By comparison the last commercial bulk cargo sailing ship Palmer which sank in 1957 needed an 85+ man crew, only had an 8-9 knots cruse, and was vastly smaller. For the titanic to add an extra 200+ crew to possibly save less than 10% on fuel costs was simply not tenable.

Where combined steam and sail ships really benefited wasn’t fuel, it was consistent power. Early steam engines where unreliable as was sail, but they rarely failed at the same time. However with more reliable steam it was just a question of economics.
Get notified about 100 technical indicators (for day trading)
Today I launched a new service: https://metricmonkey.co

It's a tool that notifies traders about 100+ technical indicators.

I would love to know what you think about it!
DevDocs API Documentation got plenty of updates in the past weeks
> Full-employment is very easy to achieve for the government, if that is the government's only goal.

This is a bit black-and-white: full employment may not be the end-goal of stimulus spending and the government generally, but rather simply just getting the ball rolling. Pre-pandemic there wasn't much need of stimulus, and certainly no need of the December 2017 tax cut (TCJA) that was supposed to "pay for itself" per its proponents, given the state of the economy and unemployment rate:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

Now that isn't the only measure of 'success', but if the unemployment rate is (say) >8%, then spending money on 'non-useful value' work, so that people can pay rent and buy food, isn't such a bad thing in the short-term (IMHO).

Some certainly argue for full-employment all the time, but that's a separate discussion than the general idea of raising aggregate demand to 'induce' economic activity.

> Now, that spectrum has a range of answers. Sometimes you don't really care about value, or you take value on faith, e.g. when constructing public infrastructure works. They put people to work, get people spending, and everyone agrees that the country is in dire need of infrastructure improvements right now.

Yeah:

* https://www.npr.org/2018/05/15/611389675/why-its-infrastruct...

* https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/10/21173209/infrastructure-w...

* https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org
Yea, the top comments on this thread read like a bunch of ICs who don’t understand what management does.

Yes, you have more time to be productive from home but since you aren’t sitting with your team all day, your manager has to work harder making sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing and they’re all pushing in the same direction. Culture is the norms of how that happens, so it makes sense to hire people who know how to do that well.
> slight startup delay

On a mac this is a complete deal breaker for anything you need to run frequently. It is more than slight.
Populism is cold and confused and often lacks for internal logic. How else would you describe it, Mr/Ms Supposedly Anti-Populist?