skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - going to the bookstore or comic shop used to be something really special. Maybe I'll find something new, maybe I won't, but it's and adventure. I remember traveling across the city to that one comic shop that would have that one obscure comic I needed.

Today.. Well I don't even have to leave my desk. On one hand, I get what I want that much easier. It's still a sort of magic, but it's not the same.
Anecdotal, but my child was just invited into a gifted STEM program in suburban Chicago public schools. She was advised not to tell other students about it, pretending her normal math/science periods were on-campus. I don’t think that will work long-term.

Our district has a bazillion expensive programs for kids on the “left side of the curve” but there is so little funding for gifted kids they are forced to keep it on the down-low. Apparently in the past parents have stormed the school board meetings demanding their kid be admitted, threaten to sue for “unequal treatment”, etc.
So its not nice working amongst people who can be even more talented and picked from a wider pool of people?
Wow that's crazy, I have an accountant do my taxes each year and it's only $250. He even reviews my company's books as well.
yikes... been through weather like that in Australia a couple of times. but yeah I can't imagine houses and people (and animals) in Canada are accustomed or designed to handling anywhere near that.
A sizeable portion of Android users are not technology savvy, the "installing apps from unknown sources" message will deter some of them.

>Well, if you're making an app for the sole purpose of making charts go up...

Unless the app is a hobby project, most people would put maximizing their potential revenue stream and marketability of their product as a high priority.
If I may attempt to answer it: Because it works for politicians, and the line of people behind the politicians with their left hands offering $X and their right hands demanding special treatment worth 100x$X.
Only in theory. In practice, the new document paradigm often resulted in users accidentally overwriting their work. It didn't help that Lion was also the buggiest OS Apple has ever released.
I live in BC but I’m from South America and for me it felt like a summer back home, I was surprised to see so many people passed away this weekend
That is correct. An APK is signed with its developer's key. When you first install an app, the system trusts that key. If you later update it (by installing an APK with the same package id on top of the existing one), the key must be exactly the same for the update to succeed. The only way to install an app with the same package ID but a different signature is to uninstall the existing one first. This is done to protect the potentially sensitive data the app stores in its dedicated directory under /data/data/.
> Saturn V cost $5k per kg to LEO. Best case, SpaceX has a ~2x savings over the tech we had in the 1960s

NASA begs to disagree, showing Falcon 9 at $2,720 per kg and Falcon Heavy at $1,400 per kg [1]. This is the cheapest launch platform on the planet, apart from, perhaps, the PSLV [2].

And those are their prices, not costs. The runners up are Proton, Long March 3B and Ariane 5G at $4,320; $4,412; and $9,167 per kg respectively [3]. There simply isn't competitive pressure to push SpaceX's prices down. Particularly in heavy.

Ignoring the tremendous leaps we've made in launch economics over the past two decades, largely as a result of SpaceX, is naïvely dismissive. Yes, they talk a bigger game than they bring. But they're still bringing some big fucking game.

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200001093

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Satellite_Launch_Vehicle

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competitio...
Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?
Natto is none of spicy, bitter, salty, or umami. It also doesn't have the pleasant sharpness of pickled herring or vodka. It is glue, in both texture and taste, but also in function. Based on how firmly it glued my mouth shut, I'm certain it could find more industrial uses. Truly more bizarre than you make it.
I think you missed what the parent poster might be saying, it's not about "Bubbles of Comfort". I too live in one of those countries like you put it, and while I live in the bubble to some extent, I know people who've never used internet or a smartphone/computer in their entire lives and live a decently happy stress-free life. Their lives are not nasty or brutish, they're not leading less-fulfilling lives as a result. On the contrary, I think most of them are happier, more content and wiser than me.

What you might be doing I think... is making the assumption that technology, 'things' like gadgets or better cars and modern medical health is central to human life. Yes, life would objectively improve if you have those, but if I have to work 60 hours a week doing something I don't really care about, then is that really a good trade-off? I think the answer is not the same as yours for everyone.
I was just watching “Reversing Dementia with diet, 2021 update - dr Paul Mason”[1] he makes the quite convincing case that it’s a metabolic disorder not a genetic one, that incidence is increasing due to western diet and lifestyle (as with so many things), and that particularly fructose, and oxidised unsaturated fats and seed oils are implicated in the formation of amyloid plaque, in insulin resistance and therefore starvation of brain tissue, in damage to the blood brain barrier.

And that reducing these things can reduce the chance of developing these diseases, that ketones from a ketogenic diet can bypass insulin resistance and provide brain fuel which improves symptoms in people who have these diseases, and that apoE is about cleaning up plaques and variant 4 most associated with Alzheimers is the most easily damaged one and therefore less effective at cleanup in metabolically unhealthy people - but less necessary in metabolically healthy people who aren’t creating as many tangles to clear up.

It is not the first time I’ve seen claims along these lines - dementia as type 3 diabetes, brain function in elderly people improved with diet changes, etc. If insulin resistance of the blood brain barrier in middle age causes brain cells to starve to death, and that’s what causes the brain dysfunction and symptoms it doesn’t bode well for ever finding a “cure” anymore than there could be a drug cure for a missing limb.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muAvJ1y64PA
Is it? R1b is also in Central Africa and Central Asia, while at the same time the weights were coming originally from Mesopotamia/Anatolia where haplogroups J and E are more common.

Also, Kings don't always bring their haplogroups, I come from a place where haplogroup E is crushingly dominant yet we were ruled by kings with groups J and R for over a millennia.
From The Article:

"It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere."

They didn't give up. They got chased out without notice. By fire.
I think you answered the question of "why distribute on the Play store", not the question of "why not distribute on GitHub". Presumably you could do both?
Yep! The stories that really stand out to me are the library of babel, the circular ruins, and the short one about the map (on exactitude in science). His writing style isn't the best, comes across as overdone or clunky sometimes, but the themes he explores are wonderful.
>Free market economics didn't tell people to spend less time with their families and more time consuming entertainment media.

It literally did. I've probably seen tens of thousands of advertisements for games consoles, films and Netflix-style streaming services.

>from the perspective of a white male

Many women would disagree with you on the "male" part.
> I've known a handful of adults who were homeschooled, and most of them have turned out very poorly. They basically are walking time bombs: quiet and obedient through childhood, then they get out of the house and explode.

I don't doubt your account of a handful of adults, but the research seems to point to the opposite conclusion:

> Homeschooled children are taking part in the daily routines of their
communities. They are certainly not isolated, in fact, they associate with—
and feel close to—all sorts of people. Homeschooling parents . . . actively
encourage their children to take advantage of social opportunities outside
the family. Homeschooled children are acquiring the rules of behavior and
systems of beliefs and attitudes they need. They have good self-esteem
and are likely to display fewer behavior problems than other children.
They may be more socially mature and have better leadership skills than
other children as well. And they appear to be functioning effectively as
members of adult society. (Medlin, 2000, p. 119)

https://www.stetson.edu/artsci/psychology/media/medlin-socia...
And considering that this article is about evolution, this change in sound should be mentioned

What is a duck without feathers and quacking like a goose? A penguin?
Sunset is not a manned thing, gives me the impressing of God complex.

Besides, I don't think we need a positive feeling here, "deprecate" is perfectly fine, may be a quoted "sunset" is more appropriate here.
https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/where-is-the-fbis-authority-w...
Unless things have changed recently, 41% of USA inhabitants (58% of white evangelicals) believe the second coming of jesus will happen by 2050 [1] [2]. Such a belief would also seem to cancel voter motivation to combat climate change.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/07/14/jesus-chris...

[2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-study_n_320405...
Any reason to believe APKs will be supported in Android in a few years?
> China's all time high temp record: 50.5 degrees. Australia: 50.7

Those temperatures were, not surprisingly, recorded in desert climates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpan#Climate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oodnadatta#Climate

This is something else entirely…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytton,_British_Columbia#Clima...
Why do you think that conclusion is 'practically certain'? R1b diffusion in most of continental Europe predates these dates by thousands of years and as the paper notes, there's no evidence of conquest or unified governance across this region in this time period.
Tesla follows the Rules of Acquisition (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition).

Rule 1: Once you have their money, you never give it back.

Rule 17: A contract is a contract is a contract… but only between Ferengi.

Rule 239: Never be afraid to mislabel a product.
The binding energy of protons & neutrons into nuclei is less than 1% of their mass, so the energy required to separate a nucleus, like an alpha particle, into all its constituent protons and neutrons, is negligible in comparison with the energies required for interactions so intense that they would generate any other hadrons except protons and neutrons, for example pi mesons, which would expose the inner structure of protons and neutrons.

This is an important feature of nature, whose consequence is that the most convenient way of understanding the world is that the first approximation, which is useful for almost all practical purposes, is to consider everything as composed of protons, neutrons and electrons, which are bound by strong, electromagnetic and gravitational forces and that there are also positrons (antielectrons), which can be generated in sufficiently intense interactions and which will annihilate with electrons.

Only for few purposes it is necessary to go beyond this and take into account that there are many other hadrons composed of quarks, besides protons and neutrons, and that there are also other leptons.

The distinction between these 2 level of approximation is important and whoever likes to think that alpha particles as not being made of protons of neutrons fails to get it.

Of course, for many purposes you can ignore the strong nuclear forces and you can consider the surrounding world as being made of electrons and of a little less than 300 kinds of long lived nuclei, which are bound by electromagnetic and gravitational forces.

At this other level of approximation, you should ignore the proton-neutron composition of any nucleus, but when you talk about alpha particles, you normally mean helium nuclei having a kinetic energy high enough to not be negligible in comparison with the binding energies of nuclei, so you are not in a situation when you can ignore the nuclear compositions.

In any physical model, it is important to specify clearly which is the level of approximation at which it works. Mixing randomly various levels of approximation of the structure of things is usually a bad strategy.
If by normalcy you mean opaqueness in governance and a media machine that covers for the ruling class, yes.
From a truly neutral article, you would learn why, on a whole variety of issues, conservatives believe one thing, while progressives believe another thing. And then you would be able to make up your own mind.

If there is widespread consensus among experts (typically academics) that one of the beliefs is idiotic, then it's not 'neutral' to pretend otherwise.
I see - but then you would still not have guaranteed local reasoning within the part of the code that modifies the vector.

Is that really worth it?

Also, creating the second vector should really look like "v2 = v.copy(x = x + 5); return v2.length". Or even just "return v.copy(x = x + 5).length".
They are no longer kids in cages, they are unaccompanied minors in overflow facilities.
>doing something stupid could poison the whole town and so towns are paranoid.

Why not have a backflow preventer at the mains and call it a day? I get electricians in a way, but plumbing... eh.
I believe that is clear, those questions were intended to be read as ones to put to the nuclear engineer who claimed an alpha particle was not made of two nuetrons and two protons.
Yeah what I've learned in this cycle is that irrespective of their views, most Americans are utterly spineless. I would not rely on my fellow citizens to protect or even advocate for me since most seem more interested in not rocking the boat (ie. Upsetting the upper classes).
>People in the 1970s would have killed for smartphones...

Would they? Boomers are famous for being luddites, and a growing minority of millennials now would be more than happy to toss their smartphones if it didn't mean being pushed to the outer of all their social groups.

>Streaming media with access to an entire library of movies and television shows is qualitatively better than three analog tv channels and whatever happens to be showing at the movie theater at the time.

I agree, Netflix has a much better range than the old technology, it is more convenient and the picture/audio quality is fantastic.
The more interesting question, though, is whether or not frictionless access to near-infinite vaults of that tailored entertainment actually makes your quality of life better.

>The 70's were some of the most cynical and violent years in recent American history.

I never said it wasn't violent (nor did I say American, in fact!). But kids in that era would play together in the streets, and families had closer bonds.
Explain things to what end? So that we can use those explanations to make economic decisions which they can explain again.

Even the least prescriptive economist is going to be a part of this cycle.
So high inflation and higher unemployment is working but lowest unemployment ever, first time rise in real wage in almost a decade is not working?

Have you considered that you've been lied to by CNN? You say you went there 'to see what a shitshow the trump admin was' (to paraphrase), but it seems you just went searching for media that already fit your foregone conclusion.
They're actually fairly active in the Kubernetes world. I've watched some conference talks where they've presented on their ArgoCD platform. I could not imagine working for Intuit though. I don't know how they do it.
Phoenix, Arizona’s all-time record is 50.
> How do you know that when you write a simplish function for example, it is not identical to some GPL code somewhere?

I don't, but then I didn't go first look at the GPL code, memorize it completely, do some brain math, and then write it out character by character.
This surely is true for things where insurance company behavior doesn't increase risk. But here the incentives are different because every dollar they pay out to a patent troll is a dollar that can be used against them.

I could believe that they wouldn't be "scorched earth" about it. But I could see them being incredibly difficult to get a dime out of. Insurance companies tend to be like that normally, but here the incentives are even stronger.
I would rank it #2 behind "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder. It's very well written and hard to put down.
What are your arguments that Axios is not neutral?
I've said it before, but if you support the patent system, but say patent trolls should be abolished you are essentially saying that patents are only for big corporations to protect their turf from new incomers.

One argument is often patent trolls don't make anything themselves. So someone who makes a truly groundbreaking invention but for some reason (e.g. it requires huge capital) does not want to create a company for manufacturing it, should not be able to use patents? Also if they would actually make a company to build it and then try to go after a big player who infringes on their patent, if the big player doesn't want to pay the big player would most certainly win. They would just bring out lots of their patents that the small player supposedly infringes and thus make the suit to expensive to win. Essentially, if being an actual "builder" becomes a requirement, only big players will profit, because they have the pockets to kill off any small competitor through costs.

The other argument is patents are to bogus/general. Which is true, but what is the alternative, make the patent investigation even more elaborate and costly (it already is very expensive), so again only the big players gain.

The problems people point to with patent trolls, are problems inherent in the patent system. Patent trolls are just a convenient boogey man to blame so the big players can keep a system that disproportionately be if its them. There is virtually no benifit to the patent system overall and it should be abolished.
This article is the closest I'll ever come to posting this story on topic. Back in 1983 I was given a copy of a Wizardry prototype written in Applesoft BASIC. I don't know whether it was real, but it was a huge program and very detailed. Floppy disks were expensive, and I was already into the real Pascal-based Wizardry, so I foolishly deleted it a few weeks later.

Was this real? Does a copy still exist anywhere in the world? Andrew or Robert, are you out there?
I mean, I agree in that I'd like such a tool too, but given that we don't have this hypothetical more-scalable kubernetes, how is it such an unimaginably shitty idea to build tooling for declarative configuration of clusters?

As you say, there's still a fundamental amount of complexity involved in operating a system, and the best abstractions limit the amount you need to care about in a given context.

Something I like about declarative configuration specifically is how well it helps you move information from ephemeral human memories and habits into something more-reliable.

Most places I've worked usually had some weird ephemeral things, oral history about what needs to be treated differently, many systems that needed conversations to understand, etc. The more you limit your use of global mutable state (interactively changing things in production), the less room there is for important stuff to live in people's heads.

When I can spin up on a new service just by learning how a tool works and reading their configs, then I have all of the "what" and "how" and "where" there to look up at any time in a consistent way. There's much less room for weird state or needing to do rituals or broken staircases or whatever. When I talk with people, I can focus much more on the "why" questions.

I might be more sensitive to this than some people, because I've got a shitty memory, but the more I'm able to just check a thing the better. Theoretically documentation can fill a lot of the same role, but I've never worked anywhere with consistently up-to-date and comprehensive documentation for what's deployed. When it's the only way to deploy at all, it's no longer optional.

It feels like the same sort of thing as a good static type system to me. You can do local reasoning with just what you see, and limit unexpected action at a distance. The types are mandatory, and machine-checked, so you can't get them wrong in certain ways, and you can't just skip writing them like you do sometimes for unit tests that would cover similar verification otherwise.
What happens if your key is compromised? Is there a way to continue with a new key or does everyone have to reinstall your app?
Legacy software support sounds like a perfectly viable use case.
SoftBank’s $12B Bet on Didi Returns 14%
UWP (Universal Windows Platform). Or namely, the subsystem called WinRT (Windows Runtime_crap).

It's been developed in a vacuum, with no feedback from developers. This bullshit could have bankrupted Microsoft, had it not had so much money (to throw away).

side note: WinRT is what Windows 8/8.1 is based on, and quite a lot of it has persisted to this day (Win10) in one form or another.
This is great stuff - I'm impressed with how far you were able to take things in the browser. I also toyed with a tower concept - one of the things I settled on was what matters is data leading to data; to get to Y, i have to go through X first. So towers are a natural way to do that. I also think you have remained focused on staying true to the method of loci approach, which is admirable.

Additionally, I think having this sharable and on the web opens a lot of possibilities. I hope you keep working on it.

But man, that color change on your blog really messed with me. I have F.lux installed which adds warmth to whites to help with getting to sleep at night or as daylight changes and your site is like a rapid version of that. I'd prefer either not that at all, or at least scroll position based.
I've always (attempted to) live my life as if my words matter to everyone. I dislike speaking for the sake of conversation because it tends to lead me to say things I don't fully mean or intend.

This came about from possibly taking this old saying too seriously:

"90% of what people say is untrue"

My childhood self didn't want to be the sort of person with that kind of pointless conversation. Combine that with something I picked up more recently:

"People don't remember what you said, people remember how you made them feel".

Choose your words carefully. Words are cheap, but their effect can be expensive.
This is certainly not "one of the first artistic impressions of a computer".

For earlier examples, see Boris Artzybasheff's fanciful paintings and drawings from the 1950s and 60s [1]. His Apr 2, 1965 Time magazine cover
has features and a pose remarkably similar to the Kieth Haring picture linked here, including the arms, the brain, and the tiny figures along the bottom margin.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=Boris+Artzybasheff+computer&...
I'm not sure the money always even ends up in the hands of the politicians themselves. It's the unreasonable effectiveness of advertising. Honestly it probably mostly ends up in the hands of SV.
There's been fire in the area for days. Did they have any sprinklers set up? Fire guards being built? No. I don't think they had any resources there until now which is too late obviously.