skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was working on my MFA thesis, I came to a realization that feels like it might overlap with what you're describing.

It's a little hard to put a bow on the idea (and why it isn't trite...) at this length, but basically: I felt a connection between the experience of trying to parse some intentionally difficult/impenetrable ~modernist texts, and the experience of trying to parse older texts where the phrasing is dated.

They're too unfamiliar to parse with fluent ease, and the experience of fluent reading is just fundamentally different. In one case, the text is like a Rubik's cube, and in the other it's hard to even realize it exists separately from your instantaneous understanding of it.
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People finally forced to move off Python 2.7?
I am not misunderstanding anything. Let's terminate this conversation, I can see that it will not get anywhere.

It's amusing that you actually believe that you can 'check the logs' to detect all DoH being performed on the machine. Would you be willing to disclose your employer? "I can check the logs" sounds like something a naive systems administrator would say.

I'm glad that 'security' is your thing. The best thing about the internet is that you never know who you are talking to... Even when you meet people that wrote the parts of the operating system you're currently using.
It doesn't seem that great of a pathway to me. It's designed to solve a perceived problem with Markdown, without considering the problem that Markdown itself was created to solve (an easier way than HTML to write rich text in a plain text editor). What's the set of people who both have that problem and have symbols vs keywords as their only barrier to fixing it?

Plus to me brackets, asterisks and other symbols are not an obscure tech thing. It's literally how tons of sites and apps do their rich text formatting - Reddit and many other forums for one, messaging apps like Whatsapp and Discord for another. From observation on e.g. Reddit, picking it up is a fairly straightforward process:

- someone does fancy formatting trick
- "whoa how did you get your comment to come out like that?"
- "it's easy, you put blah blah [in front of/around] your text and it does blah"
- [tries it out] "neat! thanks"

I don't really see how having people type out "paragraph", "title", "list", etc helps with that process.
> It's also unneeded: it's nearly impossible to start a modern car without the key.

> But, as Roger Morris at the National Insurance Crime Bureau explained to me, guys will "break in, roll the car to a vacant lot, and strip it for parts. Breaking into cars is a billion-dollar business."

In Brazil they rob the sound system, and other things, in place. Maybe that's more common with older cars, that only had a CD player, but it happens.

With my sister's car, they just broke down the door (like, folded it down a bit), stole the stereo, the CDs, and other stuff that was inside.

You know those car stereos that you could take the front off? A friend of my parents did that. They keyed the car, screwed with the door, and wrote that the stereo would have been cheaper...

So yeah, I would say that an alarm might have helped in those cases.
> My toddler daughter once “ruined” a Mathew Barney work on a wall - it was a smear of black jelly that she smeared some more.

That's a great story and gave me a good laugh. But with a lot of these pieces, there is a strong sense that the object isn't really the artwork, in the same way that a program isn't really the exact bits on my machine.

Recently SFMOMA put up a Sol LeWitt, one of his "Wall Drawing" pieces, which involved some employee of the museum carefully painting it on the wall. At the end of the exhibit, the whole wall got painted back over. In my opinion (and that of the curators of SFMOMA), they weren't actually destroying a Sol LeWitt; the actual piece is something more abstract, including but not limited to the instructions used to paint it onto the wall.

In the same way, most of the wall drawings of Matther Barney are about the act of drawing, not really the artifact that is the result: https://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/Matthew-Barney...
Going off of my friend circle here in Seattle, a city not exactly known for winning awards for exposure to sunlight, nobody I talked to has had bloodwork done that included vitamin deficiency panels in recent memory, so I don't know about "a large fraction of people in the developed world."
"Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge."

This answers my question! One iPhone for each Beeper user, no wonder the $10 monthly fee!
The code included in the GitHub repository downloads the closed source Electron binaries. Just for comparison, the full source would look something more like what's accessible here: https://github.com/electron/electron
Way better -> https://pypi.org/project/q/
Pretty difficult for streaming to compete with cable services for entertainment
There is an entire Numberphile video dedicated to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7jfHM-mMC4
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Usually that means there are too many comments in ratio to votes. I'm sure there are other triggers that can drop a story's rank too.
With respect to IPFS and Merkle Search Trees, can anyone "in the know" comment on how they're materially different than Probabilistic B-Trees as defined by Noms[1] and Dolt[2]? I've been playing a lot with the Noms variant (Prolly Trees) lately and have often wondered where they differ from IPFS-ish Merkle Search Trees. If at all.

[1]: https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/intro.md#...
[2]: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-04-01-how-dolt-stores-tabl...
I have no idea why GNOME is the default DE for the big distros (Redhat et al, Ubuntu). Technically it's evidently inferior, it had substandard ergonomics and features like accesibility services. I really dont get it.
Bookmarking that. Thank you!

I think I was starting to draw that conclusion.

If a claim is in the Lancet, NEMJ, Nature, etc; its probably pretty credible.

If a claim is in another journal; it shouldn't have much bearing on my decision (positive or negative) since I don't have the expertise to evaluate it.
I learned this nice syntax from a tweet yesterday:

>>> import datetime
>>> now = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> f"Today is {now:%m/%d/%Y}."
'Today is 01/20/2021.'

No need for now.strftime() in simple string output!

https://twitter.com/mariatta/status/1351359518316216321
The site is not making any such request, it is simply using a browser feature. The browser, on demand, downloads a known and trusted binary.
Interesting, thanks. When I made that statement I thought to myself the only other reason that makes sense would be if pigmentation was somehow expensive, which is what the article concludes if I understand correctly -

"a pigmented skin barrier, which is metabolically expensive to produce, became less important"

As for the latter comment, I've read numerous times that black adults in the US have lower vitamin d levels. I guess back to the GP's point, is there proof that is a detrimental thing?
Treasury nominee Yellen is looking to curtail use of cryptocurrency
This seems more and more to be the reality we are moving towards. Been dabbling with FreeBSD lately and it just works. Also, ports are updated or new submitted quite often making it feel less out of date.
My take-away from the post here is that to build a good browser you'll need to include some licensed bits. You might have a hard time incorporating those licensed bits into an open source project. Which sort of brings things back around to a business problem.
I quite like the idea of using double-quotes for format strings and single-quotes for normal strings.

This isn’t sufficient on its own, though - what about raw strings? Perhaps use “” for format strings, ‘’ for raw strings and get rid of normal strings altogether?
I give it a year before desktop and laptop computers are deemed instruments of white supremacy due to their ability to get to sites like Parler.
Who else was like Sam Beckett? Of Quantum Leap?
This is a little off the point, but thinking about games I find that the “8 kinds of fun” is a really useful lens, especially for deciding whether someone else might like a particular game. Definitely more so than the spectrum of good/mediocre/bad that reviews generally sort games into.

The idea is that broadly there are eight basic ways that people get enjoyment out of games: challenge, narrative, sensation, fantasy, discovery, fellowship, expression, and submission. They’re basically self-explanatory except the last, which is “turn your brain off and unwind” games candy crush or a slot machine.

Everyone has preferences in these categories to different degrees, and they go a long way to predicting what we’ll enjoy. Into challenge and discovery? You’ve probably already beaten dark souls. Expression and discovery, and can do without narrative? Minecraft. If I was running a game review site, I’d break games down by which categories they hit, and how well.

And for my fellow (former) EVE Online players, this explains why different portions of the player base find each other totally incomprehensible.
It's not clear whether this is cause or effect. The insatiable demand for silicon fabbing has arguably made a $20B plant today more economical than a $1B plant 25 years ago.
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> Or you know, because they disallow dynamic code execution of arbitrary downloaded code in apps, and JIT JS compilers do just that.

What would you call a webview? Is it that much different if it is webkit or gecko or blink doing it? If I used a webview to run js-linux, xfce and firefox should that be disallowed too?
I'm sure we all remember the "Obamacare for the internet" comment.
I grew up in a nearby English seaside town around the time the photographs were taken and as a child I was taken to the places in the photos by my family. These were once bustling places full of holidaying industrial workers but as the UK's industrial base declined so did these resorts; better service and weather was available overseas for not much more in terms of real cost. My hometown is now a standard English costal town, renovated 50 years too late by private developers to whom the local authorities have sold or leased land at rock bottom prices, a heady mix of drug addicts, tracksuited iPhone Facebook addicts and old dears struggling with their trolley bags. Still a lovely place to be when the weather is fine, but basically, purgatory.
According to Need: What are we doing to get people into housing?
> Any hosting platform will sooner or later have to comply with such a request.

Gitlab so far has a history of not responding to bogus requests
They're using LED right? Shouldn't be that bad
I’ve never experienced the wake issue, but I always use usb-c to DP or HDMI and apparently those aren’t affected? Assuming it’s the same issue, a little googling shows the problem was fixed a year ago.

What phone are you having issues with? Every android phone I’ve used will communicate with adb. iPhone has never used USB mass storage, and support for that has nothing to do with MacOS.

Can’t comment on the daisy chain issue, I just learned that was a thing.
Oh, I definitely think the comparison would be unfair if price weren't part of the comparison. I'm just arguing that for me, the price premium of the AirPods Max is worth it, because they have things about them that make them more valuable to me. I'm by no means arguing that Sony's are bad. I've been very happy with them.
That's just so cool.
I take Vitamin D because my levels are low without it. A study like this sure isn't changing anything I do. There are reasons beyond covid to have a proper Vitamin D level in your body.
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It's probably written in FOCAL, a DEC dialect of BASIC (sometimes told as "BASIC on stereoids"). The terminal looks like a vector terminal, so you basically drew line commands, as if you would plot on an oscilloscope.

From my perspective, the most stunning things about PDPs is the processor's console. Every fucking bit in this processor state has a light bulb (not even an LED). And this array of switches? That's how you can load some address/value into the CPU register. It's purely amazing that you can steer the machine on such a level but also use it for high level programming.
Can’t say I’m a fan. Blatant governmental power grab.

Yellen is 74 years old. I wonder if she even understands what crypto is and what it brings to the world of finance.
Eh the problem with resources is not using systems that are a closed loop for the whole cycle. e.g. Currently most vert farms or greenhouses buy in all their seed and nutrient and alot of the time grow medium too. Its wasteful just in the nature of it, you can't recycle those parts, your not producing them so you drain them from somewhere else. What I would love to see is hybrid broad acre/high density greenhouse farms.

I'm leaning towards productions suited for my region for this example, it would require tailoring to each regions climates/capacities if you were to do this everywhere. On the broad acre you essentially would do native grasses/root vegetables/shrub crops and runs of more traditional mono crops in dispersed amongst heavily Wooded paddocks. like 30-40% tree cover,30-40% perennial natives, 20-30% rotated mono-crop runs. You need to not stress the land too much where I am, and work with the droughts that come through (Australia). The whole goal of the broad acre is to produce a little food buffer but mostly material for nutrient creation.

So maybe you harvest/cut your native grasses a few times a year, bail it, inoculate it with fungi to eat it and convert it to a higher nutrient product for fertilizer if your running soil greenhouses. Or you could use mulched grasses to run a snail farm, that in turn feeds a aquaculture setup which you can strip the fish shit out of for nutes to supply your high density vert farm. Having the broad acre allows you to do other things too like maintain bee hives which can be brought into the greenhouse for pollinating.

Huge amounts of resources/capital required to set closed loops like this up...but on the plus side...once their setup, if you do things right like use high grade materials(e.g stainless for all your greenhouse piping/water setup) it can last for near infinite time with correct maintenance. Just good luck getting a investor who gets profit @ 10-20 year mark rather than 6-12 months. Market doesn't seem to like long games these days even if it is whats probably best for environment/long term sustainable high density farming.

Oh and also we need a robot that can pick fruit/veg and do maintenance that requires dexterity (think unscrewing a nozzle or pipe fitting). Bad. Labor is a killer for broad acre tree crops and stuff that requires a bit of dexterity for harvest (see Australia's current farm labor shortage).
Going to the Irish Atlantic Coast with my family made me want to visit Wales. I studied in Swansea in 2005, and took one trip up to North Wales. The Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland is extremely tourist friendly, and it would have been interesting to contrast it with Wales. From my memory, it's sparser, less catered to visitors, and more rugged and dramatic.
I hate someone so much I shoot him with an arrow now, he's having trouble moving so I realizing I'm out of arrows walk up yank out the arrow (smiling as he screams while trying to crawl away) and shoot him again at point blank range for the lulz.

EDIT: Not trying to endorse this kind of viewpoint at all, or support it but it is an explanation for how you can hate someone so much that you'd shoot them with an arrow twice.
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>If the experience is so much better why are Apple scared to let other browsers into the app store?

Well, the weasel word "scared" kind of begs the question.

Who said it's "scared"?

Apple spearheaded the modern browser with Safari. Chrome wasn't even a thing then (it forked off of Apple's work on Safari/Webkit later, just like v8 came after Apple's own JSC JIT work).

As for Mobile Safari, it took several years for Android browsers to come close: Android Browser in particular was a piece of crap, slower, and lacking more features, than Mobile Safari. Was Google also "scared" of web apps?

Also note that, when Apple suggested to developers they make their own web apps in lack of a native SDK, most dissed those and wanted, nay, demanded a native SDK.

And Mobile Safari is not exactly some bad browser holding those apps back. You can watch Netflix on mobile safari, on the web, if you so want. Why would you though?

And here's the 1000 pound argument: do you see many people watching Netflix on Android Chrome, as opposed to using the Android Netflix app?

Didn't think so.

Why would they do it on the iPhone then, if Chrome was available in the App Store?

>Phones are general purpose computers for the majority of the world's population

Not even close.
In the US, at least, I've experienced that the well-meaning progressive left pursues these laws in the legislature, but then they are (ab)used by those who don't actually care about the left causes, they are just looking for any means to obstruct construction that they don't want.

I sometimes joke that the right is "NIMBY" but the left is "NIYBY" (not in your backyard).
> There is no easy way to stop the Bitcoin network so if they really wanted to kill Bitcoin they would make it illegal to exchange Bitcoin. But then people would exchange it and just not report it anywhere, and they’d lose tax revenue.

But that would be good enough to kill it for almost all purposes. Unlike illicit drugs, there's very little natural demand for Bitcoin to motivate people to risk it if it were illegal, which cuts it off from deriving value from the legit economy. It's also not very stealthy, so it would not be very desirable for the illicit economy, either [1]. A network that only has die-hard ideological cryptocurrency dead-enders on it is dead for all practical purposes.

[1] Right now, it has some marginal use at the interface between the legit and illicit economies (e.g. dark net markets), but if it itself became illicit, I think that would stop.
So much so that a Language Designer is part of the standard toolchain https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/
Ah, you're right - I thought Samsung was only on 8nm, from Nvidia GPUs
This is so well named.

And the subheading is crystal clear in its perfect accuracy.

Unclear why we need any comments when that’s so well synthesized already.

Kaufman is still alive!
> 'Practical' would to buy it from a 'farmer'.

And if the nearest one is 400 miles away? Then my produce is STILL optimized for transport and storage over taste and freshness.

> The entire premise of this is 'hipster tech'

I agree. It annoys me when they tout this as "volume" or "scale". However, you can't get VC funding unless you promise that so that's the price of your marketing. Shrug.

Nevertheless, I do hope one of these catches on somehow. Several of my favorite restaurants had their own gardens. However, they are limited by the weather and season to certain crops.

If someone can slap a steel container down and use these technologies to grow out of area/out of season vegetables and fruits I'm all for it. It would also have the side benefit of breaking up some of the gigantic monocultures we currently have in agriculture.
The weird thing here is the consistent recommendation of corporate backed distributions. Debian has existed for quite some time without any need for a corporation. Are there problems? Yes, but Debian isn't going to suddenly announce that it's going to kill itself either. I would suggest getting involved in the Debian community (without trying to take it over), and making meaningful contributions.

If you don't like Debian, pick an open source distribution that is not backed by a business and begin sending the money you would've dumped into subscriptions as donations.
This is equivalent of "if you don't have enough muscle fibers of specific type in your legs - you'll never win the Olympics". While it is probably true, it doesn't mean you can't run just for fun with friends or play football with colleagues or do a ton of other physical activities.

Taste can be trained, and to surprising extent. Any person without tasting apparatus injuries may learn to evaluate wine and distinguish good $10 bottle from bad $50 one in a blind tasting.
I have one word for you: IRC. Check it out. Start with freenode. You will like the freedom, as it was back in 1990x.
Yup, crap is inextricable from greatness. A diamond only forms in the rough, it doesnt form inside other diamonds, it doesnt have the right conditions.
The issue comes when an auto update regresses something that the user relied upon. As long as the automatic update has a 'downgrade' option that's tenable but most of the solutions out there make downgrading difficult.

I prefer automatic updates that are presented to the user for action, sadly feature update/release notes are often hidden or content-free (cf. Google's apps' updates on the Play Store) and downgrading path varies heavily with OS (easy on Linux, impossible on iOS).
Beautiful idea, app, and page, but from the Privacy Policy:

>We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
With Service Providers, For business transfers, With Affiliates, With business partners

I can't get down with that.
You should have shared you wisdom with Boeing in 2010 ...
One of the wonderful things reading Buck Danny [1] comics in my youth taught me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Danny
I actually started writing a comment about that. Teaching VHDL (my experience) to most programmers is an entertaining experience because they expect effects to be immediate, not executed collectively and simultaneously but mediated by a clock or other mechanism. So in an HDL:

x <= y;
y <= y * 20;

These two effects actually occur simultaneously, which is different again from what mathematically inclined learners might expect since there is still mutation. It is more akin to the common notation:

x' = y
y' = y * 20

Where the ' indicates the next value of x or y (as opposed to the derivative). Or perhaps:

x_n = y_{n-1}
y_n = y_{n-1} * 20

And many programming languages don't even have a good notion for similar parallel evaluation and assignment. Python does, with:

x, y = y, y * 20

Common Lisp has psetf which permits this:

(psetf x y
y (* y 20))

Languages with pattern matching/destructuring bind are your best bet for writing this directly without needing temporary variables.
I always wonder why more politicians aren't like "We need to tear down the Comcasts of the world, not because of my left/right wing ideology, but because they're crap".

Ideologically I like the free market as much as the next Capitalist, but I wouldn't shed many tears over that kind of intervention.
Geography is important for those cities too. Nobody "builds up" in the US unless there's no place for the sprawl to go. Compare Atlanta and Houston to New York and San Francisco.
How many watch web-based Netflix on their Android phone, where Chrome is available, and "Safari" doesn't hold the marvel of web apps back?

How many care to use web based apps over native apps in Android?
"New buyers" == immigrants.
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I'll take that bet. What stakes you looking at?