skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I read it many years ago probably soon after it was first published and had the same experience. I don't draw on a regular basis but I still do from time to time and I still am reaping the benefits of going through the book over 30 years later. Highly recommend.
Every time I see one I go to the options to refuse all, if they do not allow me this option, I leave the page and add their domain name to my no cookie blacklist.
It's strenuous, but I prefer to do so.
That is not what the sentence says at all. It simply says that "dark pattern" is a euphemism/harmless wording for what is done.
The funding problem is because of the safety problem. There are high regulatory costs associated with building new (fission) nuclear power plants, because:

* If you don't regulate the materials and fuels used for fission nuclear power plants, most countries could easily build nuclear weapons, and

* If you build fission power plants badly, or maintain them poorly, everyone and everything around them dies in a large radius, and in an even larger radius gets severely sickened. And this radius is poisoned effectively forever.

If there weren't safety problems inherent to fission nuclear reactors, they would be much cheaper to build as well as being much cheaper to operate — and thus easier to fund. That's part of why fusion reactors are interesting: theoretically they should work just as well if not better than fission reactors at converting fuels to energy; the fuel is more prevalent and cheaper; and there should be lower costs associated with building and operating them since the risks are lower.

We just don't know how to build them yet, and figuring that out is expensive.
Depends on the funding. The standard response to the 20 years away for 50 years quip is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._historical_fusi...
I have been following electric garden tools for a little while. The biggest issue I have is the up front cost, mostly related to batteries. Stihl and Husqvarna recently released options where I could replace my $400 chainsaw with a battery option, but it would be $600 to run for 30 minutes, and another $150/battery to add another 30 minutes of run time.

I don't often run it for a long time, but when I get the chance I don't want to have to cut my work time short or spend an extra $300 to cut down trees and not have to worry about the running time.

There is also a company that offers a stand on mower comparable to what I use at home, but it would be about $18k to replace my $4k mower with an electric option.

I am interested in the responsible, environmentally friendly, option, but it is hard to swallow.
Much of the audience benefits from this sort of manipulation and tracking, so it's normal they would be hostile to any cookie law
What absolutely infuriates me is this "legitimate interest" crap that is almost always hidden away, and often you have to scroll through literally hundreds of opt-outs with no way to disable them all in a single click.

If I'm so damn "legimately interested", why is it on by default and basically impossible to turn off? Find me one person on this earth who is legitimately interested in being tracked by marketing companies who sell their information on to whatever giant collections. This should be illegal.
I have an 8-year-old child. Over the years she has already been in school in Finland (public), UK (somewhat fancy private), and USA (good public in Manhattan).

The American school is striking in its emphasis on externally managed curricula, state-wide tests, etc. It feels like the teachers are competent but nobody trusts them. Other parents seem more demanding and aggressive than at the expensive private school in London.

Any solution to America’s school woes probably isn’t going to include even more top-down control and parental involvement, as the system seems to be already overflowing with those.
> It only took two years to go from "it's okay for Big Tech to boot Alex Jones off all their platforms" from "it's okay for Big Tech to decide which books we're allowed to read to our children". How much more power are we going to let these private enterprises accumulate?

The line is still where it was the entire time: private individuals and entities are allowed to decide for themselves with whom they want to associate. You seem to have made a huge leap from "eBay decides to stop selling a book on their platform" to "Big Tech is deciding which books we're allowed to read to our children". That simply isn't what is happening here. As always you are free to read whatever you want to your children, and you're free to listen to Alex Jones all day every day. eBay is free to decide what they want to host on their platform. Everyone is free to exercise their own individual freedoms.

This is the marketplace of ideas at work. In the marketplace of ideas, some ideas float to the top, others sink to the bottom. The sinkers and swimmers change over time as the buyers and sellers in the marketplace change. These books had their time, now they are sinking. The same goes for Alex Jones. He got his shot in the marketplace, and his ideas found a home, but they aren't for everyone and that's the choice of individuals in the marketplace.
If what you are looking for is a kind of wild west (legalize white collar crime), you honestly may as well legalize murder, and let victims of white collar crime practice vigilantism
YouTuber Builds Working 3D-Printed Turbojet Engine and Tests It in His Attic
looks like a great resource for the developer community. Where do you expect the developers to move from, and move to?
A more significant development, I think, would be if online services let you keep your various accounts permanently in synch. That way you could write a post on one platform and know that your followers on another platform would be able to see it.

Sadly that still wouldn't fix the problem that you have to visit each platform to see responses from users that don't similarly syndicate their own posts. That might lessen those platform's concerns about implementing this automatic synching feature, though, and take them a step closer to being properly federated.
Actually, you are technically wrong, to be pedantic about it with an anecdote. Borrowed a plug in leaf bower that is from maybe the 90s or 2000s. That thing easily blows around 1 to 1.5in crushed granite. Leaves smeaves, real blowers do granite and I’m not talking pea gravel. Oh but it sounds like a jet engine and is as loud as or maybe louder than a gas one.

Anyway you’re right about the average *current* battery powered ones.
When I rented a single family dwelling in the Central Valley in CA, I simply let the weeds / grass mixture take over while using a push-reel mower to keep it as a lawn, then let the lawn die during the summer and fall.

Virtually no noise, no pollution, and even a brown lawn after being well kept didn't look terrible.
The noise from a blower only partially comes from the engine. The rush of air through the nozzle produces lots of noise as well.
What stinks is the Baltimore public school system. Inner city public schools are, in most cases, corrupt (you can tell because the employees quoted here feared retaliation), worthless, dangerous, and too expensive (because of the corruption).

There's unfortunately not a deeper conspiracy here than a public school system which advances students whether or not they learn literally anything.

Also: I sympathize with a single working mother, but "notification process" aside, the fact is, this means she didn't look at her kid's report card in 4 years. She might otherwise be a perfectly great parent, but she was 0% engaged with his education.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1956 Mile-High Skyscraper (2020)
Second this - it's an incredible resource and I have seen many people go through this book go from zero to competent. My old private art instructor 100% openly admitted to her classes being heavily influenced by the book to the point she considered it "required reading". Betty Edwards' methodology works!

Once I got to college I took two drawing courses at two separate institutions. They both ended up being a total "class-version" rip-off of the book. We progressed through the exercises in the exact same order. It makes me incredibly unhappy that my college professors didn't credit Betty Edwards like my private art instructor did.
Bigger equipment lasts longer. When weight is an advantage you don't feel bad about putting in bracing to make things last longer.

We are talking about hand held stuff here though. While pros need equipment to last longer than home owners, there is a limit to how much mass they can deal with for something that is hand held.
This is kinda an analog for doing the uncomfortable thing. There's a certain amount of security in doing what's comfortable, and if you can find happiness in that I think that's great. It's all relative. I think it's less "be cool at dinner parties" and more being happy with the path you've taken through life.
I think the explanation in the article is incorrect. This looks more like a false horizon caused by reflection of the fog on the water, rather than a mirage.

There is fog out past the ship. The water close to the viewer is reflecting the sky, and is blue, while water further out is reflecting the fog. The fog above the horizon blends in with the water reflecting the fog making it hard to see the true horizon line (but it is there in the picture if you look closely). The line where this reflection changes stands out much more strongly and the eye mistakes it for the horizon line.

This page has more examples of cases where these two different effects were confused:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-fata-morgana-or-mi...
Yeah I’m still trying to figure out how people even met pre dating apps.

Introduced by a mutual friend is the traditional way.
https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/09...

https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/...

https://www.amazon.com/Predictable-Prospecting-Radically-Inc...
When I read the title I assumed it meant something like a hovercraft.
"Without breaking any SEC rules" seems like a perfectly good reason not to indict.
Amazon at WSDM: How the scale of the web makes old problems new
Which is how these things usually go. You tokenize with regex then parse the token stream.
ITER, like many oversized government programs where funding and structure are almost entirely political, has had delays. First plasma (not full power) was originally scheduled for 2016, and is now 2025.
There are gas stations that sell ethanol free gas.
Not only Proton, but Wine, DXVK and other important projects.

There are unofficial forks of Proton doing important work too.
You haven't already? I thought we had plenty of practice most teenagers do so until turn eighteen, many answer recruiting personality surveys with what they think the employer wants, etc.

Heck one of the middle school career day quiz suggestions recommended looking at what is listed with and without the plan on going to college option check.
Big no.

On the open source projects I supervise which have a fairly big reach, it's simply impossible to do that, especially since I work on it a few times at night each week.

Having office hours would mean dedicate even more time to them, which I can't.

It would mean speaking in a common language, probably English. Writing in English is one thing - talking in English is another. It's super tough for some foreigners (including myself).

It would also mean much more organization. Calendar invites, Zoom or whatever tools, etc...
The Baltimore city-wide graduation rate is 70%[1]. Its not at all unbelievable that this single school would be below 50%. Public education in the US is a failed system, and we have rewarded it by throwing more money at the problem.

1. https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/02/25/baltimore-city-sch...
Look again. Battery powered equipment is advancing very quick right now. The market of 2 years ago was different from 4 years ago, which is different from today.

Though I will admit to not being sure exactly what you will find.
Thank you for the thought provoking responses.

>I know quite a lot of people who are required by their employer to maintain a facebook presence because that's how they get into contact with a lot of clients.

Being compelled to mix business with personal life like this seems quite objectionable indeed.
Sheeeeit boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70eU840lc38
"you'd at least be fun at dinner parties." could also be read as "you'd be laughed at at dinner parties" (well, maybe not even invited anymore). But I don't like to end my posting on such a sour note... The more often you take risks the less sensitive you are to failing. That's good.
All we did was evolve from apes, but for much of that we were telling ourselves that we were in fact diving beings of light temporarily ensconed in corporeal flesh. History suggests that it's a winning formula.
What an interesting article! I learned a couple of very useful things from it for a project I am starting, so thank you. I wonder, OP, if you looked into TeX4ht (https://www.tug.org/tex4ht/) at all?
The whole idea of public school created a new breed of parents who think their child's education is no longer their responsibility, that it is now the government's responsibility.

Of course many parents--maybe even the majority of them--don't believe this but way too many do.

This poor woman obviously has a lot on her plate but if your child is failing all his classes for 3 years, why would you assume everything is fine?
Feel bad for this poor kid and all of these kids.

Their lives are significantly hurt by crappy parenting and a crappy school system.

It's like they never had a chance.
I have a different issue myself. Despite having opted-in to marketing e-mails I never have obtained a marketing e-mail from Nintendo since then. Nintendo's website shows that I have agreed to "receive promotional e-mails". At one point I did in fact unsubscribe, but later I resubscribed. I think that there is a bug that sometimes causes promotional e-mail setting to not be updated in newsletter database (maybe the server was down when I tried to change the setting, and Nintendo Account website quietly ignored the error).
The school mentioned in the article seems to have a huge lack of top-down control and parental involvement.
Yes don’t even get me started on plastic lawns.
I think it will happen. I mean, Duke Nukem’ Forever actually did eventually get released. Anything is possible!
> Privateer is the basis of EVE online, Star Citizen and countless other modern titles. In terms of influence it is up there with SimCity and Civilization.

Surely Elite and Elite II deserve more of the credit there?
The electric ones also move significantly less air. I say this as the owner of a top of the line electric blower that will never in a million years own a gas one. The gas ones are far superior for actually blowing large amounts of leaves or large areas, but I'm totally content to pick up most leaves on the lawn when I mow and use the blower just for hard-to rake areas. That works very well.
In the article she admits she knew he was failing classes, but since he was still being advanced she thought it was fine.
Him, Hans Reiser, Ugueth Urbina are somehow all the same person in my memory. I get their details mixed up a lot.
Maintainer here – Happy to answer any questions!
We know incest increases the likelihood of genetic disease. I wonder if a dating app could make a "faces too similar" filter to reduce chances of genetic disease in offspring based on just faces.
Actually, in this case, I don't think it is any type of mirage. Rather it is a false horizon [1] caused by reflection of fog.

[1] https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-fata-morgana-or-mi...
Spaceflight
Ahh, that is a great example. Zynga (when I was a game player) did this a lot. But they also strike me as materially different in behavior than the massive tech companies that often are labeled as manipulative.

No disagreement from me that games, like gambling, use this technique a ton. I’m just not sure this menta mode applies to the decisions made by big tech.
I found that practicing pairs of opposites was one way for me to expand my vocabulary in a somewhat methodical way when I was working to improve my Spanish.

Pairing opposites in this fashion amounts to reducing the recall effort (At least for me). It is somewhat like getting recall of two words for the effort of one.

I also tried to identify common recited listings of words such as" "Who, What, When, Where, Why and How" and then learn them by rote in the second language.
It does, via GraalVM. Babashka, for example, leverages this: https://github.com/babashka/babashka
Good point. Actually we thought about adding this info to vacancy pages. However, as our experience shows, many companies are not ready to disclose salary info to the public.
At least partly due to lack of feedback on accuracy. I don’t know about you but I don’t necessarily ask everyone I meet their political leanings, so it’s hard to train yourself other than through stereotype.
It is worth pointing out that Iter started in 1985, I think before REBCO was discovered (and it was a little bit after that they acheived superconductivity at 77K, liquid nitrogen temp). Sturdy and flexible tape form from ion beam-assisted deposition I think was later but I can't find the date.

(edit: maybe in the lab in 1992? I'm not sure when it scaled production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_wire#cite_note... )
Most local government is parallel rather than serial.
> I think the key line is how much better this system is than humans attempting the same task:

My key issue is: why does that matter, humans should not be doing it in the first place, why do we need a machine that's even better at it?
In what ways did your world view change?
FYI, talked about 3-years ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17574707

Nice to see it's finally landing.
This is thanks to "No Child Left Behind". Schools are incentivized to pass students up to the next grade no matter what. My wife was told by her school administrator that she was forbidden from failing students.
Yes, that was half used to avoid the vulgarity and half because another running gag in Arrested Development involves a boat named “The Seaward.” I’m sure I’ve seen it referred to as such elsewhere, but it’s probably not common. Ain’t the first time I’ve been wrong.
I’ll refute yours. I own an electric. It’s insanely loud. I don’t need hearing protection for my blow dryer but I certainly do for my electric leaf blower.
>They also offer a 2gbps down and up service called gigabit pro, but it requires installation and it's pretty expensive: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/fs6un2/comc.... It's also hard to get because the reps on the phone are not well trained and don't know about it.

This is how you know they arent really concerned about competition. This level of service is probably not quite a profitable because they likely cant oversubscribe their GPON nodes as aggressively with customers on that tier. The only other explanation is they dont care they are leaving money on the table.

In my area comcast is $89 for 200/10. And I live in an area with a significantly lower COL than Palo Alto.

I have to monitor my network for bandwidth usage and recently had to revert back to sneakernet for offsite backups because i was routinely approaching the data cap.

The only other option is CenturyLink DSL at like 5Mbps/768Kbps...

Starlink is available and frankly im considering it out of spite. I canceled cable and have the rare unbundled comcast plan. I could easily run dual ISP's for a while and be around what I was paying for cable TV and if starlink pan's out....i can just axe comcast.

But a 40ms first hop may not be tenable. Not sure.

I definitely dont live in a large city. But its not really the boonies either.
Has anyone implemented WebExtension support for integrating things like AdNauseum into Pihole?
> Serve pages to the EU? You get to follow it.

What can the EU do about it if the company has no physical or legal presence in the EU? Have there been any serious attempts at such enforcement?
I'm pleasantly surprised, any time I see a *spin.com website I immediately fear for my life and grimace as I click on the link.
I am not trying to defend her but she was aware he was failing lots of classes but assumed it was not going to prevent him from graduating since he was promoted to the next class. Spanish 1 -> 2, English 1 -> 2, etc.

How is someone going to pass Spanish 2 after failing Spanish 1?
If their customers can afford them now, they certainly can afford the $1/hr increase it would take to offset new equipment. This impacts home owners more.

Also, just because it's inconvenient, doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
It's still a bit confusing no - that the mother knew he was failing classes but thought everything was fine?
The re-sale of the book is NOT banned. You're free (at least in some cities) to sell that awful book on a filthy blanket on the sidewalk if you want. You're free to put an ad in the newspaper. Just because a single company doesn't want to be associated with something that is hurtful does not mean you are prevented from trading in whatever book you desire.
So a group of people pumping a cryptocurrency by buying it, and then letting the skyrocketing charts in exchanges and news about it bring new people into the mix, and then selling, is totally fine? Even if this group of people coordinates their activities?
Yeah but if the site issues a 404, you simply right click and the extension will show you the archived copy. Sadly many sites fail to provide a decent 404 page if a resource doesn't exist, they just do redirect spamming or in the worst case: 503 error[0]

(But I understand your need for text search on these services)

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/503
Electric mowers and garden tools are limited to small jobs. Being unable to get more that 1.5HP of mechanical work reserve electric tools to small casual jobs. At 5HP to 10HP, now we're talking, but power cords for 240V, as it's translates to 20A to 40A...
> How is someone going to pass Spanish 2 after failing Spanish 1?

Failure is not a barrier to passing evidently.
It Is Costing San Francisco $5k/Month for Each Homeless Tent
On top of air pollutants, they are also obnoxiously loud for what often amounts to a vanity product. I know this isn’t why they were banned, but a little peace and quiet is a nice side effect.
What if EBay is owned and run by Jewish people, who find that offensive? Should they be forced to deal in it?
Definitely interested!

I've wrapped my head around the CL/Clojure sort of macro but never really grasped the essence of Scheme's hygenic system, always happy to read more about Lisp macros.
It is kind of a weird assumption on her part, but also weird behavior on the part of the school.

It all just stinks is what I mean. Basically no one took any kind of responsibility for this kid's education and success.
sure great reasoning dude
Then how do they plan to hide anything above mediocre? Most good+ engineers I know will not waste time on an interview if they do not know upfront that the company pays a sane wage. Else it is a time waste.
the magnet singularity is coming
I forget which country (I think Belize?), but McAfee has previously claimed to have donated malware-infected laptops to a government that was trying to prosecute him so he was able to watch as they were investigating him, and in the process discovered some sort of political corruption crime ring.

He's not a very reliable source, but pretty interesting if true.
When people complain about high school diplomas not being worth anything in the job market, this is part of the reason why. It doesn't indicate even a basic level of skill.