skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> shit that supposedly work correctly at the time.

I do love me a well-formed customer query.

Yeah, it's supposed to work. I get paid more it if does. But in exceptional circumstances, it won't. And in more exceptional circumstances your alerts will fail too.

As an admin what do you do with the 90% of your time that isn't actively fixing something if not planning for how to fix the next thing? We did this years before cloud meant anything other than prepare for floods.
I'm incredibly greatful for Bedrock on Windows - I have friends that play it on PS4 and I play on PC on Bedrock and we all play together with cross play.
To many people, myself included, the point of cooking isn't about producing a particular end result as consistently as possible.

It's a unique form of expression, like painting or writing.

Of course, it's useful to see what other people are doing so you can expand your own skillset and create your own twist on what they were doing, and this is where recipes come in handy. But I don't _want_ to be told exactly how to create my next meal. I just want some pointers in the right direction. Too much information destroys my creative input and just makes the recipe not fun to follow.

I'm not sure if it made sense - it's difficult to explain why you enjoy something. But please understand that there are people who neither need nor want a perfectly reproducible "food production algorithm".
I actually started my own project for domain parkers. I hated all the domain parking tools.

https://www.newsy.co

I had ~30 unused domains. I didn't have time to make use of them, but I didn't want them sitting doing nothing.

Newsy converts my unused domains into a content aggregator. I pull in contents from various sources. I built membership features, automated newsletters, comments, adding widgets, analytics etc (and plus a way to monetize by adding your own ads).
How does that work with new ideas? Expecting a startup to have a trademark is a little heavy handed, and obv you won't have anything trading with that name.
What might be a solution is enforcing tld policies to the effect that a domain owner has to put up a non-generic website or make other reasonable use of a domain within a set amount of time.
> If you're disappointed by how the general population behaves here, I suspect you'd be horrified/stupefied by what's going on in the rest of the world

You definitely have a point there (and that's not to say you don't have a point in the rest of what you wrote, some very interesting stuff, before I get lost on a tangent…) as I've not left Japan during the pandemic, making a good comparison is that bit more difficult.

I certainly wouldn't deny there are many factors at play, though if I were going to bet on the major factors and their order of importance (which is hugely simplistic but lists are fun):

1. age (obviously)

2. weight

3. vitamin D levels

4. hand hygiene

5. limiting contact / social distance

I can't say that I'd be impressed at Japan's attack on (4) and (5) but (2) and (3) seem like very strong buffers for the virus and/or disease. I'll be interested to see what comes out in the wash but I'm expecting it to take years, at least, if only because of political considerations.

> BTW, your argument on flu outbreaks actually lends credence that the mask mitigations have been extremely effective.

I do wonder if it's more the case that people feeling sick are sent home or don't come to work at all? Certainly it's happening far more often than in the past (as an aside, my wife's friend had a stroke while at work, continued working, and the next morning still rang into work to excuse herself, while partly paralysed and increasingly losing motor function… and wasn't believed and told to come in!). That and all the temperature checking could improve matters from other years. Again, it needs research.

The part of me that likes dark humour would muse that bringing real sick days to Japan and the end of the hanko might justify releasing the virus from the lab it was created in…
String doesn’t make sense either. But that’s how words acquire new meanings.
Nice! I just discovered the same. I have kids but I love to go on long hikes alone, so I just started to go on long walks after they go to bed. I discovered similar things that this article mentions: amazing star gazing, and also moon rises. I cannot recommend it enough.

If you are scared, start with an area where you don’t have to walk through forested areas, like a large open field. You’d be surprised how much light there is. Then work up to walking through darker areas.
There is fundamental difference of how people think about www.

For some, it is execution environment for Web Apps, where backend-frontend split and communication over network is accidental, basically internal for App. Either run in latest version of one-three of top browsers or go away.
Logic and security checks can be implemented in frontend in order to save server's electricity, because it will be run in browser anyway.

For some, it is Protocol which is implemented by User Agents to fetch resources exposed by Servers and display it to them. User Agent can be unmodified or heavily customized top browser, lynx, dillo, curl, telnet, specialized tools[1]. JS should be optional nearly always. It is them who is controlling what his computer is executing.
From this thinking goes aversion to 30-seconds loading sites, lack of Progressive enhancement[2] going to the point of requiring JS to load blog post, emphasis on server-side validation.

From this difference come many misunderstanding and sometimes conflicts.

[1] https://weboob.org
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
If you want to be snobbishly criticised about arbitrary food choices by strangers Italy is the place.

I've worked for a client in Italy, a short guy trying to aggressively assert superiority because of how he drinks coffee is a uniquely Italian experience. Oh and the hands and feet mime English is equally entertaining.
> If a photon follows a curve around a large mass, it does so because that curve is the shortest path through spacetime, if I am not mistaken.

Correct!

> Maybe I am missing something, but how could a quantum theory of gravity explain curvature of spacetime? […] how would a theoretical graviton explain this effect?

Note that a quantum theory of gravity need not involve gravitons. The latter only appear in approaches that assume that gravity is a more or less ordinary [string] quantum field theory (QFT). Personally, I've never found this very convincing. Neither did Hawking by the way, who once wrote

> It would be rather boring if this were the case. Gravity would be just like any other field. But I believe it is distinctively different, because it shapes the arena in which it acts, unlike other fields which act in a fixed spacetime background.[0]

Anyway, assuming we're indeed looking at a quantum theory of gravity that involves gravitons, let's tackle your other questions:

> Would it interact with the photon to carry over a force?

Yes, the graviton would interact (very weakly) with all particles we know, including itself.

> And if so, how would it "know" the direction of said force (wouldn't it be itself subject to gravity?).

My first, rather theoretical answer would be: This is not a well-defined question. After all, gravity as a force is a Newtonian concept which does not exist in General Relativity. As you already said, in Relativity matter is "guided" by the curvature of spacetime, not by a force. Moreover, in quantum mechanics Newtonian forces don't (really) exist, either, and while people often speak of "forces" as if they were Newtonian, these forces are really mediated by bosons.

My second, more direct answer would be: In two-particle interactions in quantum field theory, the outgoing particles usually leave the scenery at a different angle (and momentum) than their initial one. So the photon might get deflected by interacting with the graviton.

> Or would [the graviton] interact with space itself?

As already mentioned, the graviton would interact with itself in the same way as gravitational waves can interact with one another. As for space(-time) itself, however, note that the aforementioned "theories involving gravitons" usually assume that spacetime itself is flat (i.e., it is your run-of-the-mill Minkowski spacetime) and that gravitons are just another quantum field on that (so-called) background spacetime. As I personally don't like this idea a lot (see above), I can only guess as to whether its proponents really think spacetime is flat or whether they only assume this to simplify things. After all, we have no idea how to do QFT on curved spacetime in a mathematically precise way. (In fact, we don't know how to do QFT on a flat Minkowski background in a mathematically precise way, either.)

[0]: Hawking: The Nature of Space and Time, https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409195v1
> thousands of engineers worked on the 737 Max. Not a single engineer raised issues with the engineering of the aircraft.

It's entirely realistic that most engineers by far were not aware of it.

I work (not at Boeing) on an aircraft system. On the aircraft I work on, I have no idea if the flight controls architecture is fully safe, I don't know nearly enough about it to judge. I don't know how many sensor they use and how. That's not the system I work on.

> Boeing made an unstable plane which it then stablized with a dangerous MCAS to get it to market fast. They then topped it off by making the MCAS rely on a single sensor. They then made the dual-sensor an upgrade. An undergraduate engineering student with a basic course on probability can see that this is tailor-made for disaster.

It's really not that straightforward. Again, without knowing a lot of details about the implementation of the MCAS you couldn't say it was so obviously dangerous.

For instance, I understand that the use of a single sensor was justified by the fact that the MCAS was supposed to be possible to activate only once, which wouldn't give it enough authority to reach a catastrophic condition. This literally gives you the justification to use a single sensor. However the implementation of the MCAS software combined with the flight crew procedures ended up activating it several times.

The point is, you need to know an awful lot about a system to judge whether it's dangerous or not. And there are lots of systems. It's not something that any engineer not working on that particular part could do, and it's certainly not in the reach of any external undergraduate student.

> Strong regulation is necessary to ensure the safety of Boeing Products.

Right, and the only thing any engineer on the program could have been concerned about is the apparent lack of oversight from the authorities, although I don't know enough about how it went in practice to say if it was really apparent to lower level engineers.
Where money can be made, money will be made.

(DDG didn't return anything with this quote, I think I should coin it!!)

With that said, a friend called me one day suggesting that we buy the a domain similar to "cocacola.it" (Italy), as it was available. His idea is that we put ads on that site, and a link to forward to the original "cocacola.com". This way we would collect $$$ from the ads, and perhaps we could sell the domain to CocaCola if/when they discover us.

I prompted him to read what is "domain hijacking" and also suggested that if CocaCola (or any other company) sends their lawyers our way, we're f-ed (financially).

I like the suggestion some people have already made.. don't google, don't 'test'. If you search the domain name you want, BUY the word then & there.
It's something teenagers say, or used to say, so i wouldn't judge the author just yet.

It _may_ become something only far right nuts say, same as with frogs and other 4chan stuff -- young people invent something, culture drifts, dumber or isolated people are least likely to drift with it and most likely to have violent views, eventually mostly violent people say something and the rest stops saying it because they don't want to be taken for one of the violent group -- but i don't think it has happened already.

In related news you just found out why many adults treat anything and everything teenagers do is something rude and offensive that needs to be suppressed. Teenagers are loud and annoying so their stuff is something loud and annoying people do. It's something you need to control.

Or i might be wrong, this can change quickly, but then the author can be wrong too.
The fallout is already in effect, if you read the above comments.
The ends of the horseshoe are touching.
There's also a high amount of value added services like free magazines, movies etc. Also you can stream cricket live. And they bought India's most popular streaming service for music called Saavn
Sorry, I read that far too literally! Yeah, that's fair enough. I certainly needed large blocks of staying still, but didn't feel the need to stay anywhere as long as three months - month long blocks were more common for me.
Fun fact: Australia, quite by accident, had iodized milk up to the 80s, because of the sanitisers used in dairy processing which contained iodophors. And now that we have started phasing them out, it turns out that iodine deficiency has started occurring again.
Flask Python: Creating REST APIs and Swagger Documentation
I assume the "fizzy orange mixer" is for the bourbon? Animals.
To be honest if you know C#, Java or ObjectiveC you already know the core 90% of C++.

The main thing left is understanding pointers vs references vs stack vs heap allocation (egthe instance.x vs instance->x difference) because C++ has those explicitly different pointer vs non-pointer intances of "instance", while C# or Java hide that difference (so if you know C# you can slightly think of it as struct vs class in C# difference since struct is copy-by-value while class is always a reference (a pointer).

Moving away from objects doesn't make sense: objects are perfectly fine and usable. It all depends on the context. Anyone who says "don't use objects" is a religous zaelot who does't see the forest for the trees anymore.
For certain extreme performance cases objects can be bad, but in ~95%+ of cases objects are perfectly fine.
We are again starting to enter "it all depends on the context" territory.

IMO C++ got some very bad rep for no reason at all: it got mythologized into a "very difficult arcane language that people makes meme about".
So because of this people think C++ is some boogey man, while it's really not.
Unless you are making life-critical software like avionics it honestly isn't much more difficult than C# or Java.

Ironicaly you already understand the difference between pointer and non-pointer since you know instinctively that an "int" type is will get fully copied while in Java a class object is a reference (pointer). C++ just makes this even more explicity since YOU can decide if a class is a copy-by-value or a reference on the fly (assuming the class doesn't have complex sub-fields inside of it that require their own complex copy-by-value vs reference rules).

Also due to C++ being mythologized as an "super difficult language" you get some extra XP on resumes if you state that you know it.
No, you don't have to, but it definitely helps. If there is no documentation and knowledge sharing in your own language, then you will be constrained to the most basic level of programing. You can't find, invent, or deduce everything that thousands others have created and deployed for decades. Countries like Russia and China have big enough communities that they can maintain knowledge base that is sufficiently large to serve most of the needs of their communities, but even then knowing english helps to not reinvent the wheel at any single step.
Yes, and I suspect that's the aspirational model that is used by most. But ultimately they are at the mercy of Google and Bing's terms when they use their data. Realistically DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Yahoo, Ecosia, Lycos, etc. won't just shut down their businesses if they feel that Bing crosses a privacy line in the sand. And neither will Startpage or Ask if Google do the same. Follow the money and all that.
Seems like a clever solution but not sure how scalable it is for cleaning the ocean.

Cleaning the water would require pumping it which has to be super expensive. Maybe a such a filter at the end of residential waste pipes might be an appropriate application.
Yeah, this is a really bizarre one, in my opinion.

Google indexes and provides results for many sites whose content is inaccessible without an account, yet these results take precedent over actual unrestricted content.

Similarly with Google News, why are they showing me headlines of articles I am not able to access?
Concert ticket scalpers also provide the same value, keeping culture available for people with more money. I just don't get this mentality - it's a negative for the world.
> Who here is going to spend countless hours on that thankless task?

Eh, I assume a lot of people? That's basically what the entire open source space is about! (the person one, not the "corporate open source" that is gaining traction lately)

Don't forget that by "spending countless hours on a thankless task" is how we initially got tools like docker, ansible, bootstrap and more.

I agree with your first part though, that there is probably a better, more efficient solution that carries chance of more sustainable results.
I was told I need to be good a math to be a programmer. Turns out they were totally wrong. Don’t listen to people that say you need x to be y. Most of the time, it’s just someone’s bias opinion.
Much of what you say about "Caste" is either Church propaganda or Caste politics.

Large parts of India was under islamic occupation for 300-700 years followed by 100-300 years of Christian occupation. Both were quite destructive, destroying universities, burning down libraries and destroying/looting temples.

Hindus pray to trees, animals and consider everything divine. The misinterpretation of the Varna is a devious christian evangelical agenda.

This flies against the face of numerous example of leaders of the Hindu society and authors who are not part of the clergy.
The whole caste system which originates in Europe was transplanted to India to divide and rule.
how many people nowadays will recognize a paper filing box?
Too bad they raised money from VCs, giving them control over the direction of this search engine, now they're on a treadmill.

Going to be acquired by Apple sooner or later for their search engine or (most likely) will shut down in less than 2 years due to pressure by VCs.

Any business that raises money from VCs and touts claims of privacy being a differentiator is almost always suspect.
Eh, I thought of text rather than audio when I read the title.
I also chuckled at the idea of resigning to ramen instead of moving somewhere where $10k will buy you way more than just 3 months of rent with plenty left for proper food.
> socialist entities EVER is a very strong factual argument

But it's false.

Vietnam works for example, it even handled covid much better than other turbo capitalist powers.

And every socialist experiment has been characterized by different approaches and circumstances.

Rather than a factual argument, it's more an uninformed generalization, that sounds too close to the propaganda we are pushed on by media/politicians.

Do you want a strong factual argument?

Despite their claims, not a single capitalist nation has managed to solve poverty. And they won't ever, because without poverty there can't be the hierarchy much needed to force people to behave like cogs into the capitalist machine.
I don't use OctoPrint or similar yet, but it's been on my to-do list since before I got my printer. (Prusa mini.)

It depends what you envisage by 'remotely', I don't imagine ever starting a print while not at home, but I do want to sit at my computer, slice, and send straight to the printer; without faffing about with a USB stick.
I'm starting to think over 50% of google's magic is trying to actually get rid of the spam.

I think a new search engine would have a very hard time getting through challenges google has already, like link spam, authority domain spam (using medium etc for spammy content), and many many other issues about people manipulating results.
Startrader.io – An NFT Space Game
Participants who create and submit a new 3D planet to the StarTrader SolarSystem will receive 3,000,000 game credits and 200 VFC.

This offer only stands for the first 5 qualifying submissions of respectable quality and authentic originality.

Here is a short video demonstrating the games UI:
https://streamable.com/2nczv0

There is a Medium article which goes into a bit more of an elaboration concerning the game concept here:
https://james-william-fletcher.medium.com/startrader-io-a-bl...

The main thread for anyone interested in the former mentioned bounty please refer to and post in the bitcoin talk thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5321057.0
Seems like people may not be aware what "free" or "freedom" means with regards to Free Software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

"Free software means that the software's users have freedom. (The issue is not about price.) We developed the GNU operating system so that users can have freedom in their computing.

Specifically, free software means users have the four essential freedoms:

(0) to run the program,

(1) to study and change the program in source code form,

(2) to redistribute exact copies, and

(3) to distribute modified versions."
Incredibly American - centric view, unless you think the developing or poorer parts of the world (that are majority) shouldn't have access to dot com.
> One of my sous chefs dated an Indian women and despite being a blond, blue eyed German/Polish mixed male from the midwest he was the most vociferous about for Indian cuisine I have ever met, even Indians

Why would somebody's hair/eye color matter when it comes to their culinary preferences?
Exactly, something not regulated for OTC availability doesn't make it legal in WADA realm.
Moreover, many SARMs (if you believe their "advertised" effectiveness) would in the end lead to elevated hormone levels in testing.

There are a lot of available drugs (for asthma more notably) and everyday stimuli (as simple as caffeine) that (miss)used and also monitored by WADA.

In addition there are a lot of stuff undetectable or hard to detect (EPO, HGH,...) and a lot of other drugs not yet on WADA radar, that usually have a side effect of increasing endurance and stamina.

SARMs are almost a nonfactor here. SARMS are more for an everyday gym rats that are looking for the next great thing to help them out, but most of the personal feedback that reached me are - it's crap...
That's interesting.

I was told about a ruby project years ago where they gained a measurable performance boost by converting all the strings without interpolation to single quotes.

That's a vague anecdote so should be taken with a pinch of salt. Even if it was once the case VM often improve to fix these edge cases.

So I was just wondering if there was anything more formal to prove this so that I can avoid this preconception I've been carrying around for years based on nothing more than someone's now dated Lightning Talk.
> As an admin what do you do with the 90% of your time that isn't actively fixing something if not planning for how to fix the next thing?

Not every cloud customer has a dedicated admin team, some even don't have any dedicated developer teams. They simply wanted a website done, contracted someone and they uploaded some HTML to a cloud instance.

Sure, if you're a large company, it makes sense to have redundancy. If you're running a small company with some esoteric webshop to serve AFK customers, it makes less sense.
Slightly related question: Would you trust (And pay for.) a service hosted on a free domain name (Something from Freenom, for an example.)?
More efficient how? Rather than registering the domain name via a registrar there's now another middleman and that's efficient? What are you, a manager?