skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a lot of teachers and have heard some pretty dire reports about trends in reading skills in students. Even the "advanced" kids are tripped up by sentences as complex as the sort that were common in juvenile literature of the postwar 20th century. This wasn't the case 15 years ago, but books that would have been unremarkable assignments back then are now very difficult for kids in the same grades. This isn't a problem with outdated vocabulary or anything like that—the trouble seems to be that they just can't follow sentences that have more than a couple simple clauses.

I dunno if that's fallout from some of the terser Moderns and their effects on popular preferences for prose structure, finally hitting in full force. Maybe? Seems like a long delay, though. I do suspect (relevantly to TFA, kind of!) some of it comes from publishers realizing how much of an advantage it is to make books hyper-palatable to their target markets, cutting anything that might be difficult. Sustained over decades, I'd expect that to gradually reduce reading skill levels. Maybe some of it's because people read way, way more amateur and otherwise very poor writing than they did before the Web and before smartphones—that actually lines up fairly well with the observations, since having home Internet access didn't break the 50% mark in the US until after 2000.
^^ THIS ^^

In the absence of the truth, there will ever only be theories.
Planned and managed operational characteristics are not sudden-onset, unanticipated, and highly-disruptive catastrophes. They're fully-anticipated side-effects.

Your comment really doesn't speak to the nature of the phenomenon.
You might be fine now, but what if you want to open a physical store/restaurant/etc next year? If you're banned from Google, you'd have no control over your business profile on Google, can't respond to reviews, can't update your store hours and other details, can't advertise on maps, etc.
Every service does this. If you chargeback usually you will get banned. You should always get a refund by talking to support. Chargebacks cost the company extra fees and can lead to problems if they get too many.
WeWork’s once robust cash reserves have dwindled, raising chances of default
>When I emerge from these "Linux evenings", I wonder if the real problem is my attitude

Put another way, "after I'm done being abused, I wonder if it's my fault".
I've had trouble accessing Ubuntu over Gnome RDP sharing, except from a Windows machine. I can access Windows machines via RDP using e.g. Remmina, but accessing an Ubuntu host only seems to work for me from Windows regardless of the client I use.
Would love to get the story on the last company you started, and whether you were able to beat the grim statistics!
What they reviewed is a normal process of a moderation group. There’s nothing explosive in them.

Interesting how you moved on from “government involvement” when everyone realizes Biden campaign wasn’t the government and it was dick picks they were trying to remove.

Shadowban was literally talked about earlier this year. https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/5/23012046/twitter-prisoner-...
I'm not a hardcore CS, I'm just the guy that wrote SpinCAD Designer on top of ElmGen. You could start with an existing graphical editor. I'm all in favor of not reinventing stuff if possible. I think Teensy Audio Tool forked node-red. I spent an hour maybe looking at it and it would take more time than that to figure out what they did. Notably, node-red blocks have 1 input and 1 output. Teensy audio blocks have multiple inputs and outputs possible. Although not necessary, I like the "audio in one dimension and control in the other" aspect of SpinCAD Designer.

Then you gotta have code templates for each target and then also some per-target means of stitching it all together. I only know SpinCAD Designer but that involves doing a topological sort of the model and then walking down it, allocating FV-1 registers and RAM as you go. My recollection of the Teensy audio tool is that it generates function calls for C or C++, which obviously wouldn't work for chips like fxCore or FV-1.
Does this indicate the the infosec fork of Mastodon was less secure than the core?
> But why do you think that teens will be magically be safer on Snapchat or other such apps?

Because they're not full of men explicitly looking for hookups.

> This really seems to just be based on an excessive fear of 'gay' apps.

Yes, it's not that Roth was making an argument indistinguishable from what a paedophile might write, nor that if he'd said it about heterosexual children and Tinder the same logic would apply, it must be that everyone against him is bigoted!

You already tried that earlier on in the thread and it sounded just as desperately idiotic then given that it required completely missing the example given of the headteacher, or just noticing what is obvious.

Rather than seeing bigotry where it's convenient - or claiming you see it - try reading the arguments put to you and coming up with something that is cogent.

> > Why are you being so strange about a normal word?

> In general he's obviously tweeted both before and after joining twitter. So if a 'pronouncement' is just anything he said on twitter, the answer to your question is obvious.

It's not, but again, if it's inconvenient to answer then don't.

> Err, the fact that none of them offer a way to find other queer users in the same area as you.

Users on all those apps have bios and can share their preferences and location, all the apps have search. You managed to meet people with less apps, less people on the internet, worse search etc. If there's a real need for this, someone can build it. As Roth himself points out, there probably isn't, but then he skips on to letting children into Grindr formally. Is noticing non sequiturs also bigotry? Do let me know.
To me, the issue with Google's products and services is that they're not willing to provide any human customer service to resolve the real issues.

Now, of course, I understand that even Google can't reasonably be expected to provide free 24/7 customer support for the entire Internet. If they had a normal phone number available where anybody could reach a human at any time, every confused person would call them with issues that are completely unrelated to Google's actual products and even Google would be overwhelmed.

The solution is to figure out some payment level for support that dissuades casual abuse of customer service, but is still reasonable for people to use in an emergency to save their business or communication accounts.

I'm convinced that at least some people have lost jobs and companies, had their lives ruined, or even committed suicide over being completely unable to salvage everything they've worked for all of their lives. This should be horrifying to every Google employee.
Uhhh, the meaning of conservative in a political context is much closer to "agrees with the status quo at some point in (past)U(present)"
Oracle offers some integrations that are not found in other DBMS products.

If a software product uses those integrations it may be difficult to migrate.

Bear in mind that DB code is often not unit tested or integration tested outside of manual tests.

This makes moving off of Oracle a huge tech debt burden.

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Ask me how I know this
What if you are not an official sanctioned "journalist", with a stamp of approval from the powers that be? Do mere mortals like me get a right to free expression?
How do we get the ball rolling on nationalizing PG&E now?
I think I have a taste for absurdist humor, because a lot of these read like openings to fantastically funny satire. At least to me.

With the exception of the Sci-Fi category -- those all read like high school pornographic fan fic. Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed in the sci-fi category. Seems like low hanging fruit. Surely they could have done better!
What country? What bank???
Loaded firearm at home among birth parents experiencing postpartum depression
Aren't those both cloud only products that require you to send your data to third party servers (quite possibly in another country)? In some cases that is a hard no.
Pope orders return of Parthenon sculptures to Greece
Amazon ending Kindle Subscription program in 2023
Mazars cuts ties with crypto clients, deletes Binance “proof of reserves” report
That was my first thought. Maybe it’s not “books are getting shorter,” but “publishers are getting cheaper.” Decreasing margins, decreasing font size, etc could all explain a diminishing page count to save on printing costs.

That said, from looking into publishing, it seems like consensus is anything over 100k words (approx 400 pages) is basically unsellable unless you’re Stephen King or something. It’s not clear to me if this has always been the case.
Autodesk has been looking for a Product person to lead their implementation team for USD for the past few weeks. Looks like it is solidly on their biz plan for the next few years.
So, "the right" has latched on to Free Speech being like a major pillar of their worldview. Musk has shifted himself to be more allied with the right. He also proclaimed that he was taking over Twitter in order to free it from censorship (ie - Twitter is the place for free speech).

Now it turns out that Musk doesn't really care about free speech. He just wants to control what the content of the speech is. This is an example that affirms the suspicions of the left: that the right's proclamations about speech are disingenuous.

As I understand it, this is why people are calling him out.
That's beautiful. I'm going to watch the whole video. My main interest is the sealing problem between the individual panels which seems to be an issue with almost any dome build except for the inflatables.

I've built on with hubs and it worked ok, we used thin plastic to cover it overlapping two panels on the horizontal seams but that is rather wasteful in material and allows less light in.
Aren't these very different vehicles?
Take it as you will. It's nothing more than anecdotal hearsay, naturally. But it doesn't take a lot of digging either to find that it jives with the much of what has been revealed over the decades.
That's an awful lot of money for such a niche tool. I can see it happening regularly and the numbers penciling out if a company regularly worked on say, large commercial projects on large lots. Similar to how the very large trucking companies getting a yard truck for their big trailer yards, for example.

Personally, I'd have to be convinced that these amounts of capex could be amortized over a commensurately longer time period to balance out more traditional solutions.
I appreciate you pointing out that both sides are disingenuous about assassination attempts.

My attacks on you are consequence culture. Your attacks on me are stochastic terrorism.
> He specifically said that @elonjet was ok and then reversed course on that

Why did he reverse course? This part is missing from your appeal so I'm wondering if you know the answer, but just find it irrelevant.
Yeah, that's why I was asking. Why do we even care about efficiency? All I care about is dollars per watt/hour.
I'm curious, what is the simple google search that will find this apology? And what's with accusing me of being a bot? That seems strange and off topic, and not a little unkind.
Backwards compatibility — GCP started enough later that their hardware could do this at close to zero cost but by then AWS had many large customers who had made decisions based on the performance delta.

By now that's moot so I'd assume they'll set it by default for new accounts at some point but there's a regional option which you can turn on by default:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSEncry...

If you use tools like Security Hub with the Amazon Foundational Security Best Practices suite of controls enabled there's a specific check for that setting:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/sec...
Some of the early testimony given to the dallas police was never released.
Everything is the hard part.
He supports the rights of oligarchs, anyway... but that's not really "standing up to the regime," is it?
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Your Google Store account IS the some account as your email account.
There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests.
I use this on a current project as well. I have a (python) scraper that scrapes some data, and the PHP queries the database and displays the data. No JS, even.

To answer OP's sibling question, I don't do any authentication with projects I consider lightweight.
I would add: delete the slack app, and use it from a browser. Then you'll only get notifications when the browser is in the foreground. (Of course assuming you've disabled browser notifications).

This way you can leave slack running, you will show up as available, but will not be disturbed unless the slack tab is in the foreground. (Or someone makes a call).
Yeah there is no excuse for Google not to make an exception to the policy when Google told the poster to do the chargeback.
World cardiology leaders call for action to reinvent randomized clinical trials
Or the one that modified it, assuming that's not the one that originally built it.
Why do you not want to cook the proteins? Does it break them down to uselessness, or do the become harmful?
Unfortunately, the political climate of the US is not ripe for anti-trust action, at least not with any teeth.
You can notify the CFPB and the FTC, these are US federal consumer protection agencies, they can strongarm companies into your form of compliance.

The EU has some institutions showing muscle too.

Big states like California can also do similar.

But don't forget Delaware, their agencies may not get a lot of attention but they have leverage due to the commonality of companies incorporating there.

Same for Cayman Islands.
Is this intuitive or counterintuitive? I ask this question directly to myself, in search for a human instinct about the intuition of whether it is mentally healthy to have a loaded gun at home.
Have you considered outsourcing? To a cat (or cats) or a pest control company. The pest control company will probably check and close off opportunities for mice to enter the unit, which cats won't do, so you might want to consider retaining both options.

Warehouse cats can be nice warehouse companions too (depending on what happens in the unit).

I've had to do some mouse removal work in my forest adjacent home, and it's not pleasant, but neither is having mice around.
Honey is not sugar/sucrose — honey is an invert sugar which can be used directly by cells as a source of energy, whereas sucrose cannot. Bees also cannot eat sugar.

In the invert form your body, including your digestive lining, can put it directly to work.

I do not know if this is still the case if you dissolve it in tea or another hot beverage. I believe it is not.
I was seriously considering trading my ICE F-150 on a Lightning (even had my house electrical service upgraded), but at this point I can’t justify the price.

The Lightning has quickly gone from the everyman’s electric truck to something unobtainable for most.
> Rajpopat rejects this [later rule precedence], arguing instead that Pāṇini meant that between rules applicable to the left and right sides of a word respectively, Pāṇini wanted us to choose the rule applicable to the right side. Employing this interpretation, Rajpopat found Pāṇini's language machine produced grammatically correct words with almost no exceptions

I feel like if this had been in the hands of CS people, it would have been figured out by 1965.
protects journalists from being censored.*

*Other than the NY Post
Also you're never really supposed to screw into end grain, it has half the strength of a normal screw joint.
I agree fully. There are plenty of competitors to choose from for a service so critical, and you’ll do even better if you buy your own domain and untie your email address from your email provider.
This purported stalking happened to a car, miles away from any airport, on a day when his plane hadn't flown and therefore its location hadn't been updated.
"Free Speech"
Does anyone know if google ban your account but you have email forwarding enabled on gmail, will it continue to forward emails to another external account (even temporarily)?
This is more common than people know I think. Issuing chargeback is a great way to get dropped as a customer.
Sounds like they spend 80% of their CPU cycles checking flags...
Why should we have to work so hard to get decent support?
Musk is not conservative. He's just a democrat stuck in the 1990s like pretty much everyone else.

This is how I see it, the year you identify as the best decade (and you were a democrat in that decade), reveals your new politics:

1980 Democrats are FAR RIGHT today (and clearly now republican).

1990 Democrats are Right today (and now republican).

2000 Democrats are moderate today (and maybe republican, independent or democrat)

2010 Democrats are Left today (and likely still democrat)

2020 Democrats are FAR LEFT.

Conservatives are similar, but you just shift them two sections right, so 1990 Republicans are FAR FAR RIGHT now.

In 50 years we'll have very old trans men and women on the FAR RIGHT complaining that back in their day only natural Human beings could get married after changing genders, and that it should be illegal to marry a human that started as a Frog then a pig then a human through genetic manipulation.

edited to make it more clear, the year + politics of that year => spits out your politics today.
When I saw the headline, my first reaction was "You did a chargeback against a huge company from which you can't afford to be auto-unpersonned?! You crazy!"

Then I skimmed TFA, and they said that a CSR for the company told them to.

Maybe HN escalation will work, this time. But we should really figure out how the critical unique huge consumer tech companies can solve their due process problems, and be more consistent with US principles of society.
Germans have diffuse fears of new technology. Many of us are skeptical whenever it comes to new gadgets, especially if the risk of being tracked or spied on plays a role. Eventually most people level out and get it anyway, like the cell phone, the smart phone, credit cards, Google/Apple pay, etc. Not sure if our history has something to do with it so that many feel uneasy about giving away too much control about our personal data, but maybe it does.
My suggestion is to select a solid (non-rolling) distro for your mail server, and look for a suitable tutorial for your distro that involves Postfix and Dovecot software.

You'll need a fixed IP address and the ability to have your ISP / hoster configure a sensible reverse DNS entry for that IP address that matches a forward DNS entry that points to the same IP address.

You should at least configure some DNS records to have a proper MX and SPF configuration, too. Your preferred search engine (e.g. Google / DuckDuckGo) is your friend.

For inbound spam filtering it makes sense to configure Spamassassin as a milter
(=mail filter).

If you are a perfectionist, you should look into setting up DKIM for your mail domain.
Such a "pro freedom of speech" move
Maple syrup has a lower glycemic index than both honey and agave. I think it’a a better choice.
In this article, I break down the key takeaways from my conversation with Noah Bragg about how grew Potion.so to over 150 paying customers in about seven months.
Hey folks – CEO of Posterity here. We're very existed about this one as it's one of our most requested features.

Posterity Passwords is a simple way to make sure your loved ones can access a few essential passwords in the event something happens to you.

We all have a list of passwords we want to make sure our loved ones have access to if the unexpected happens. Most folks discover 3 problems when trying to share it:

1. It's hard to share safely;
2. When it’s safe, it’s not easy to find;
3. By share, we don’t mean immediately.

This is what Posterity Passwords is for. It's a simple way for you to share a small selection of passwords with specific people, and to be certain they won't have access to them unless something happens to you and we can verify your death.

Hope you find it helpful.
I feel like this is treating the symptoms rather than the cause. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to have such a tight grip on a consumer’s digital life such that an account ban is crippling.
A powerwall is only 13.5 kW-h. Less capacity than my Chevy Volt.

A F150 is minimum 98kW-h.
Libs of TikTok literally reposts content made public by the author. LoTT does not create the videos, they do not tell the video creators what to say. LoTT just gives those individuals more of the attention they seek which is the goal of posting said content. If anything LoTT helps normalize the behavior from these creators and gives them a larger bullhorn. LoTT gives publicity to those that are a significant minority.
What's the best email alternative to gmail?
Exactly. Lots HFCS is pretty bad for you. Lots of table sugar is also pretty bad for you. From the evidence I've seen, we should be railing against all quickly absorbed sugars, not specifically HFCS.

Unfortunately, the naturistic fallacy is insanely common.
I think fiction books that aren't extremely light reading are headed the way of classical music: a thing most people find too difficult to get into, and too dull until they've put in that effort, so it's coded as a "smart (and/or pretentious) people thing" and most folks just won't engage with it at all.
Presumably budgets. Over the last decade or so, German politics developed the fetishization of the "Schuldenbremse", an attempt to reduce the national debt (which is already fairly low) no matter what. Unfortunately the way they went about it was not to reduce overheads or make processes more efficient (if you want to do anything here in Germany, there's a decent chance there is a form for it), instead they basically cut down on any investment. Fundamentally this means that there is a massive investment backlog in the digitalization of the government and education, in internet, rail and road infrastructure etc.

And now every project seems to maximum demands, minimum budgets and zero flexibility. To make matters even more absurd, we have a ridiculous amount of federal levels, each with their own responsibilities and "approaches" to digitalization (and responsibility to save money).

For example, my mom is an office worker on a city level. The neighboring city developed a software for some process related to state law and offered it to our city. Our city, being the genius it is, does approach this state mandated process a little bit different. Instead of using the software the neighboring city developed and adjusting to their (almost identical) process, they choose to make their own software. But because they have basically zero development experience and engineering resources, they are looking to outsource. But because they don't have the budgets, they are looking for government support programs (that apparently even exist).

So yeah, even easy things are over complicated here
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I do hope he spent the rest of his life on a big "I told you so" tour to anyone who had uttered 'Cockcroft's Folly' before the accident.
No. I was honestly hoping to get an anecdote from someone with experience in the game industry that would justify what to me seemed like an absurd claim, particularly in regards to a game engine that targets indie development and isn't even competing against AAA engines.

dleslie seems to be the only one here who knows what they're talking about, but I think their assertion that not having a highly paid team of industry experts on call for Godot isn't actually a slight against the engine. I could very well be wrong. It would have been nice to have some actual insightful conversation about the differences in economies of scale between small and large games, to know why that kind of cost is justifiable for a non-proprietary engine.

But it seems like you're just a poser who came into this thread to shit on me for karma. Enjoy your lunch. I'm out.