skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is an excellent point. You're absolutely right, oppressive rules can definitely backfire. We thought this through early on, and we seem to have successfully threaded the needle. My kids are now teen and tween-aged, with no signs of rebellion (so far!)

The sugary soda pop rule is fucking law-- completely set in stone. Believe it or not, neither of my kids has ever consumed a significant amount of sugary soda pop in their entire lives. However, they're allowed to drink diet soda, and my younger kid does so fairly regularly. My older kid doesn't really like sweet drinks.

The sugary breakfast rule is never broken at home, but I've always allowed sugary breakfasts as a treat when on vacation or when the grandparents take us to breakfast, which happens once or twice a month. The only requirement on these mornings is that they eat their protein first-- usually eggs. This ordering is an important life skill.

The kid's menu is strictly forbidden, whether or not the grandparents are buying. This was a bit of a fight with my younger kid, but we figured out how to negotiate using desert. This made desert a treat that could be earned, which seems to have bred some discipline in her.

At home, I keep the kitchen stocked with sugar substitutes. For years we used Truvia-type erythritol/stevia sweetener, but we've recently started using erythritol and monk fruit (Lakanto brand), which is nearly indistinguishable from sugar in taste. I also keep a jar of the stuff mixed with cinnamon, which we cryptically call cinnamon-sugar.

We make a lot of sweet stuff at home using the sugar subs, and I encourage the kids to cook. Mostly what they make is toast with butter and cinnamon-sugar, but sometimes we get into some crepes, pies, brownies, etc.

We still eat quite a bit of starchy and fruity stuff. Lots of pasta in particular. But I really treat sugar as poison, especially "naked" sugars like sodas. There's research coming out continually about the the deadly effects of the high glycemic load and high glycemic "velocity" of the Standard American Diet.

I know there's debate about the health of sugar substitutes, but it's a tool that I've chosen to use to keep our diet less sugary to the extent possible, while hopefully minimizing the possibility of the rebellion you speak of.

We'll see if it works.

EDIT:

Fuck pizza. If I had my way we'd never eat pizza, but my wife allows it occasionally. I complain about it, and make a big show of refusing to eat it, and the wife and kids all side-eye me while they talk about how good it is. Fucking traitors.

But, to your point, maybe my wife is smarter than me.
There's more to it -- there's a considerable delay between your stomach being full to your brain telling you you're full.

I can eat one pound of icecream in one go before I feel that I'm done, or 1/3 of that, tell myself I can eat the rest in 15 minutes IF I still feel the need to at that future time, and I usually don't -- sort of like the reverse of telling myself I'll only work 5 minutes on that boring task I don't want to, but usually I work through it all.

My unscientific point being, there's no way the brain can tell I've eaten 1/3 meat and 2/3 salad vs 3/3 meat in the span of 15 minutes; sure, it will digest the salad much faster, but by that time I'm already doing other things that don't involve me stuffing my face with food; I've found that with food, if you can resist the urge to eat more for 15 minutes, and don't have snacks just laying around you, you actually solved 90% of your overeating problem. SO in my experience, eating broccoli/salad, or just drinking water, absolutely do work to make you full/less hungry, for a short while at least, but that short duration should not be underestimated, because a lot of times is all that is required for one to stick to a caloric limit.
This just sounds like hacktoberfest blended with eternal September...
240w should take a pretty thick cable, and serious connectors.

USB-C already carries rather complex wires for high-speed data transfers. Combined with 48v insulation, the cables are going to become even thicker and stiffer.
Oracle isn't really monolithic though. If you dig into it, it is all a really ancient aggregation of various tools and components from different eras. All of it has some Oracle branding on it, but usage-wise and functionality-wise it is inconsistent as hell, overlapping, downright weird and sometimes even dangerous to the non-wizard. Imagine the ancient font-installation dialogue in windows, times a thousand.
I agree with your point of view, it does seem to shift some of the teaching burden from instructors to project maintainers. I generally like the way student performance is assessed, with more emphasis on the technical quality and presentation rather than the binary "was this contribution accepted or not?". However I still think that, depending on the initial choice of the project and the issue to work on, some students may receive a lower grade through no fault of their own, e.g. a PR not getting accepted by deadline, changes required at the last minute, etc. These problems are not present with traditional assignments isolated from the "real world", and I believe those can teach the student just as much as open-source participation, if done right. Take group projects, for instance, where students are expected to collaborate using project management tools, set up unit tests themselves, etc.
The remaindered paperbacks I bought may have been higher quality trade paperback versions rather than the regular mass market ones which get pulped.
I've mixed feelings.

On one side, I like seeing something different to the crap that is Jira. Every single large company out there seems to use it and it's terrible.

OTOH, not sure if I'm happy that the only new competition is a Microsoft product.
Nah, reading the ipcc reports and predictions, the worst case is a bunch of poor people in poor countries will suffer, and a refugee crisis on the scale of 100-300M will happen, which in turn will trigger wars and diseases that actually kill people. Syria being a good example of what this looks like as it already happened there (exactly as predicted by the ipc almost a decade earlier btw), and according to them, pakistan is next. As for the rich countries, there will be significant infrastructure costs, a nasty realization about border control, but most will be fine. Even countries like the netherlands that are at exceptional risk solved a problem like this in the 15th century.

If by screwed you mean 2% of the population dying due to climate change, and roughly the same amount of total infrastructure damage then sure, were screwed, but its not a civilizational threat.

Not to say it isnt bad, the loss of biosphere and the unique and irreplaceable information it contains is an absolute tragedy.
I would not consider "inflicting" this on an open source project, unless I had discussed it with the maintainers in advance.

Some of my colleagues do something similar to this, where the students work on an open source project which is maintained by academics. They do get some amazing patches which add significant new features, but there are also some students who need help. It's a valuable learning experience for the students (which it should be, they are at University!), and at the end they are much more ready to usefully contribute to open source projects.

However, I wouldn't feel it was fair to impose that on another open source project, as almost all projects are "reviewer time poor".
No, it's not; I never intended to imply it was. Like I said: "I would love to see something better". Making a syntax file right now that's 1) truly fully correct, and 2) fast is often quite hard to create and maintain.

Most Vim defaults are fairly timid in comparison to what I've seen of tree-sitter. Right now the limitations often prevent too much "shizzle" from being added, which is useful in a kind of perverse sort of way.

> Anyway - one can always create a perfect scheme for them to use.

It requires making my own syntax files for every language I use, and starting or opening a new language now needs to begin with configuring this. Not really looking forward to such a future.
(Mentioned xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/)
Coincidence?

"Vitamin D is currently the only Essential Vitamin or Mineral which appears to have deficiency rates at a similar level to Magnesium"

https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/research/#nutrient...

Dai (2018): Magnesium status and supplementation influence vitamin D status and metabolism: results from a randomized trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30541089/ "Our findings suggest that optimal magnesium status may be important for optimizing 25(OH)D status. "

So it might well be that general deficiency in Vitamin D is caused by the deficiency in magnesium status. This would also be an explanation why we see Vitamin D deficiency in sunny Africa: https://theconversation.com/think-vitamin-d-deficiency-is-no...
Funny story about that: For quite a while the US government considered cryptography, that was too secure, a "controlled munition" [0].

It took a lot of activism to change that and it's something that's still under attack to this day in the form of governments demanding backdoors into all kinds of encrypted communication.

[0] http://www.geekytattoos.com/illegal-tattoos-rsa-tattoos/
A Point of View – The Culture War [audio]
These are good points. Also don’t obsess with learning the “dance”, what is useful first is knowing how a sale cycle works and what is expected at each step, so it shows you are a professional that has seen others.

If you know a bit of the formalism then just showing you are competent and have a solution to solve the customer problem is enough to start making deals. The rest is optimization.
This is the biggest complaint I've heard from company, and the reason why most reject using GitLab or GitHub for issues.

It works great for FLOSS, but not so good when the people opening issues don't access repositories.
Billionaires, just like everyone else, love making money.
This makes me think about the explosion in ice cream startups in the 2010s (the second time it happened after the 1980s). Ice cream is particularly hard to distribute but several companies made the cut and found themselves in nationwide supermarket aisles. I think there's always a consumer appetite to try the next new thing. I don't buy the idea that there's a moat around any of it.
> often with no UX/UI design at all or copying from Windows/OSX at best.

This might be correct but also misleading.

Since Ubuntu 6.06 the time to productivity and intermittance factor of Linux compared to Windows has been heavily in favour of Linux for many of us.

Also UX has become one of the strong points of Gnome 2, later Mate and KDE 5/Plasma: reliable, no nonsense, just works, no designers using you as lab rats for their next great idea.

I remember installing Windows back then and it was 4 hours solid work from starting what should be configuration of a "pre-installed" OS through one or two hours of waiting for actual installation to finally removing the last McAfee scareware.

Windows keeps getting better in some ways but still struggles with confusing control panels (yep, plural) and a mix of old, reliable menus, that Office "menu" thing and the newer "cleaner" approaches without menus.

Yes, this is one sided, but this is my view.

PS: I use Windows at the moment and I have used it on and off since 1995 so I know it all too well.
> Bitcoin is the greatest store of value ever conceived
> Indians understand that fiat is a failure, Gold was better, and now Bitcoin will make both obsolete as a store of value.

This is propagandistic, hyped up drivel.

Utterances like this are a big part of why Cryptocurrency is hard to take seriously.
The problem is not speculation or market risk, but leverage.

Say you covert 1000 USD into BTC, and you can convert back without costs. If BTC goes up 100%, you should be able to get back 2000 USD. If BTC goes to 0, you get zero. Leverage is 1 as your return relates 1:1 to the return on BTC.

Now let's look at leverage, say we take a leverage of 100 (not a crazy amount). This means that your return in USD goes 100x the return in BTC, so if BTC goes up 1% you earn 100% (and walk away with 2000 USD). It also means that if BTC goes down 1%, you lose everything.

The other thing is that if you have insufficient margin, the venue close down your position by putting it on the market. If BTC has a short dip and quickly recovers, the venue will have closed down your position at the point where you lost your margin (all your money). This can be exactly the -1%, but depends on the market and the liquidity. If BTC will go up 10% but does so in a noisy way, you might be right but the venue could have closed down your position the moment BTC touched -1% during the random movements.

Eveb worse, say that BTC drops 10% in a very rapid move because of some tough news and panic. The venue puts the orders to sell your position at the -1% mark but because of lack of liquidity these orders get filled at -10% and your loss becomes 10.000 USD. Even if BTC recovers quickly, you keep your loss because the position is closed. That is the problem.

So, in a nutshell, with unleveraged investing you can lose everything, but with leveraged investing you can end up in serious debt.
Instead, venture capital backed firms devised systems of corporate surveillance and propaganda delivery that would've made the Stasi proud.

What a pity.

Still, at least Sci-Hub and Libgen exist.
Not exactly a site, but should suffice. Curated list of projects that are open for contributions from beginner… contributors:

https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners
You could daisy-chain the old Thunderbolt Display, was that using a different technology?
I'm pretty sure a billionaire does not need to worry about being unbanked even in Mexico. There are many other types of assets he could hold that would bring as much inflation protection as bitcoins with a fraction of the volatility. Now obviously in his particular case he's done pretty well with his hodlings because the price went up so much, but that is not guaranteed to happen again in the future and may in fact reverse. As long as it stays so incredibly volatile, holding bitcoin should be regarded as speculation first and an inflation hedge second.
Remember that in Palo Alto, CA, most homes were built without A/C like Portland too. The summers were sweltering in PA in recent memory (2012-2018).

Wichita Falls, TX used to be "the tornado capital of the world", but now it's Berkshire, Greater London, UK.

https://www.weather.gov/oun/tornadodata-city-tx-wichita_fall...

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/tornado-capital-w...

France: 15k heatwave deaths in 2003 due its unexpected nature, 1.5k in 2019

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The underlying issue is increasing weather variability. It is a symptom of a lack of latitudinal stability in jet-stream patterns. This is caused by the climate change warming (increased absorbed system energy) of the Arctic. There will be a blue ocean event there very soon since ice is already <5k km^3 in the summers. What this means is wilder weather (and storms) everywhere.
In addition to the autofocus: Use tabindex!

Username should be 1, password 2, login-button 3.
Jesus, here I am thinking I pretty immune to the state propaganda machines. Yet what I read had me 100% convinced stress had tipped Assange had over the edge into paranoid delusional. If even half of what Nils Melzer says is true, Assange is one of the few participants in this saga behaving reasonably.
People eat fries with bahn mi?!?!?
Note that Cognac has a generic name: brandy. You can create brandy anywhere and name it that with no issue.

Same with Champagne which is sparkling wine, we have tons of sparkling wines in France with their own name and no ambiguity regarding Champagne. If you call everything « Champagne », you lose information. And ultimately it’s good only for big corporations.
But there is not just "that one society", there are many of them with often radically different values.

This was an attempt to unify across those differences in a "global society" that doesn't care where you happened to be born or what you look like. Both of which are considered very important qualifiers for a lot of traditional societies.
I love that there's a real-life entity equivalent to DS9's FCA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ousIWGfGJ2E&ab_channel=April...

This whole time I was like, "Wow, people here are talking about the FCA the way Americans talk about the SEC. But... Where have I heard of the FCA before?"

Had no idea it was a real thing. (Or that companies should be as terrified of them as they are in the show.)
Off the Grid Messenger
Linus Torvalds launches Linux 5.13 after just seven release candidates
So a basic computation of the total greenhouse effect using a blackbody assumption and an albedo of 0.7, that of stone and water, shows that the atmosphere i.e. the greenhouse effect lifts the temperature of the earth from -70C to 4C. Details can be changed about a bit, but the size of the earth and the temperature of the sun, and their distance are pretty damned exact. Minor sources like residual heat, radiological warming and lunar gravity stirring are too small and can be ignored.

So if it had been doubled it would have increased to 78 C, which is obvious bullshit.
Really? No idea, none, nada, completely in the dark?

OK then: the OP was belittling the ethics of John Locke because he failed to measure up to the posters 21st century western values. [Its a popular modern past-time].

Hell, slavery was so embedded that slaves thought it was normal. [Much like we treat work today]. Saudi Arabia only came around to the consensus that owning people was bad in 1961. Your great grandparents didn't think women should vote.

So I was pointing out that there are still many edge-cases in the OPs/our own society - from where he/she judges, that are a similar [but, yes, not identical] blind spot.

On which he/she is completely silent. Why EXACTLY, should high-school students not vote?

[But, I suspect you actually did work all this out yourself]
I used to love this, until I saw the profound antidemocratic sentiment behind it. What Barlow is saying is that there will be a world that cannot be reached or governed, where only (rugged) individuals matter. By extension, votes will matter less, and restrictions on the abuses of the powerful will cease to be.

It felt utopian the first time I read it, but now I really do see it as dystopian. After all, democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all the others.
This is true, but the situation was Apple (the computer company) moved into the music business with iTunes; Apple (the record company) was already long established. Apple (the record company) was the plaintiff trying to block Apple (the computer company).

My (limited) knowledge is solely of US law, but different companies with the same trademark can coexist in different industries, e.g. Delta (the airline) and Delta (the faucet company).
and more importantly, it's plastics. We should all avoid plastics as much as possible nowadays (e.g. shower soap plastic bottles → soap bars)
Bit of a nitpick - what's with the "[headline] or [jk, here's the real headline]" pattern? Pick one headline and use it.
FOMO and network effects are a powerful coupling though. And the social media companies have worked hard to ensure they're very hard to quit, too.
I completely agree with both points.

1) No, universities shouldn't waste too much time preparing people for the job; they should prepare give people the more scientific types of skills that one doesn't really pick up on the job: Data structures, algorithms, paradigms like OOP and FP, etc.

2) Unleashing a horde of yet incompetent newbies on the open source world with a mission to contribute won't be helping FOSS; what's more, if this was the norm, it would cause much more harm than good by spamming projects with low-quality contributions. See Goodharts law.
> But a person having lesser melanin than me criticized my country in a similar way, that would be considered hate speech in Canada.

Did you read the pertinent definition of hate speech in this situation? It doesn't include banning the criticism of a political entity in general, and beyond that I would imagine political arguments are not protected grounds of discrimination regardless of the entity. Most hate speech laws try to limit the criticism of people and groups based on specific characteristics, and this one seems no different.
WhatsApp for Android Removed Online Status for Business Accounts
Compare Bob Dylan's singing voice.
What if I have a friend who, due to timezones, is never online when I am. Or very rarely. Seems a bit ignorant of the wider needs of an internet community to not allow people to talk if they don't share enough of a timezone.
Team Structure Influences Code Quality
Decision Transformer; Transformer for RL partially ditching dynamic programming
The "Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling" : by Chen L. et al explaining how to use transformer to replace dynamic programming for context length reference.
You missed the best part of the struggle: how Phil Zimmerman, author of PGP, had to publish his source code in a book so it'd be protected as speech under the first amendment. His alternative was being thrown in prison for a few decades for illegal export of munitions.
Just ran into the problem again last week. Even though we verify the files availability using the boto3 client...
I think it's user submitted vs mods editing the title
"other than the one that's been given an EU monopoly"

A monopoly is when one company has the exclusive right to sell a product. PDO does not confer monopolies. PDO protects the right to use certain labels.

The USA doesn't respect PDOs. That's fine, if that's what USAians want. That's their business. I want to know what is in my food, and where it comes from; that's my business. I rely on accurate labelling.

This ranting about "EU monopolies" is annoying. It seems to me that it's from people who have never eaten the real thing, can't afford to buy real Roquefort, and resent the europeans for having better food standards than the USA.
Certainly. The Constitution is a guide to what the visionary founders had in their mind for the new nation. It shouldn't be law directly, but a light to help citizens realize what a balance of power looks like.

In the meantime we want to keep our shoes on at the aiport so we actually pay the government and agree to let them perform ongoing, perpetual background searches on us "to maintain eligibility". :)
Universities are of course nowadays also vocational education facilities (with a strong track on research). I'm always flabbergasted where this misconception about higher education as some form of romantic ivory tower comes from.
Google Summer of Code archive is a good starting point. Also think of the free software tools you use. KDE/GNOME/LibreOffice for example.
Nope it doesn't :(
Down to TCP handshake, TLS handshake and ciphers selected, timings, HTTP headers (case, order, whitespace, which ones are sent), HTTP session characteristics (concurrent stream count, behaviour of QUIC windowing, behaviour of closing the underlying connection, does the client read all of the response), etc.

At some point the only way to not be spotted as a spoof is to run the real thing.

If you think people aren't detecting spoofs like this then you are mistaken. From ad-spoofing detection, to e-commerce bot detection, this is very routine for companies to look at, it's not new it's just becoming more available to everyone.

Spoofers would do better running the real things and learning tricks from poker bots by reading the video output and controlling computer inputs. This is fine by a lot of people as it has increased the cost on the spoofer side.
Except hacktoberfest was for some merch; this puts peoples degrees on the line, so they will be much more motivated to find something to "fix".
Best listened to in audio: https://youtu.be/3WS9DhSIWR0
> a website cannot show captcha to mobile devices

Wait, what?