skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nebula is trying to compete, they seem like a good alternative to support.
I'm happy for Mozilla to keep shuffling UI components around - if it gets them more users then that's good, and it's vital that Mozilla be willing and permitted to take risks, instead of always being a step behind in every aspect.

For instance, FirefoxOS seems to have been a failure, but most longshots are a failure, and if you scrimp on long shots then you end up like Microsoft, realizing that some kids these days don't even have a laptop and their phone sure as hell isn't running Windows. So I'm fine with more FirefoxOS-like projects.
But the article claims it applies to SQL databases as well.

> Are these rules specific to a particular database?
>
> No. These rules apply to almost any SQL or NoSQL database. The rules even apply to the so-called "schemaless" databases.
Space: 1999 was made in the 1970s, and it's remarkable how optimistic they were about what could be achieved in a little over 20 years. 2099 may have been a more realistic date.
OP insinuated that these laws were a result of some small minority of racist people. That's complete BS. The laws were the result of much of society being racist.

Go talk to your grandparents about how racist people were in those days.
I am sometimes amazed how perfectly Art can sometime predict future and mimic reality.

In the movie Surrogates(2009), people use electro-shock hookah called jacker to enjoy themselves.

POUNDING MUSIC. BODIES SLAM together in a brutal mosh
pit, MEN and WOMEN. All are young, some beautiful,
others extremely decorated and pierced. They tear at
each other brutally, trying to do real damage. On the
edges of the pit, individual FISTFIGHTS go on. An
incongruous CHANDELIER overhead, gilt-edged MIRRORS on
the walls-- the FIGHTERS SLAM INTO and SHATTER them.
A HARD-CORE BAND plays on an elevated stage. The
MUSICIANS are heavily punked out, in outlandish clothes,
with pierced faces, tattoos and body make-up.
IN A VIP AREA, a balcony elevated above the stage,
numerous BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE at tables.
TUXEDO sits by himself. He raises a GLASS TUBE attached
to a CORD, one of a few leading into an ELECTRONIC DEVICE
on the table. As he brings the tube close to his own
neck, an ARC of electricity jumps to his skin. His
features go slack, a shudder goes through him. Then he
lowers the tube with a smile. He's using a JACKER-- a
sort of electro-shock hookah. A SHOUT over the MUSIC:

Here's the exact movie scene, https://youtu.be/jX71XvnMDys?t=42
"raytracing" is quite an overloaded term these days unfortunately, but conventionally:

"raycasting" is sending a virtual ray out from a start position to find the next solid surface (ignoring volumes/volumestacks for the moment). (Occlusion/shadow rays can just check for occlusion without finding the closest intersection).

"raytracing" is doing multiple series of "raycasting" events, either in "traditional" Whitted raytracing where you bounce off reflections and through transparent materials recursively, or using BSDFs for outgoing directions in pathtracing for integration. Essentially after one "raycast" event, you do something with the result, and then based off that result, you do another "raycast" even to find the next "intersection" in the scene, starting from the new position you just found.

"raymarching" sort of depends whether you're doing Signed Distant Field intersection or volumetric integration, but to an approximate description, you're basically repeatedly running the intersection test ("raycasting") from multiple "virtual" 3D positions in scene space to evaluate the presence of something which can not necessarily be exactly evaluated with a single intersection: i.e. a fractal's limit surface, or a heterogeneous (different values per voxel) volume.
I don't get it: what did he get 3 strikes for ? Which guidelines did he violate ?
of course there are. Instagram made a special feature so that people who wanted to just browse ads could do that. It was very very popular with a certain group of people.
Have you tried stress testing triggering notifications over D-Bus or something? Might be a DE problem.
A reminder that NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day exists; each day's picture is at:

* https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

* https://apod.com/feed.rss

With the archive of past pictures:

* Back to 2015 at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

* Back to 1995: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepixFull.html
Heard that yesterday in comments too. I don't have any particular insight. But this kind of first order viewpoint feels reductionist.

Steel & other construction suppliers have been ongoing investments, distributed wide & far across the world. Many of these suppliers & adjunct industries might not make it demand dries up too quickly. It's hard to predict what higher order effects really are.
I wish the US would get its act together on stuff like this but it’s too busy getting campaign funds from such schemes
Don't build a mine before you struck gold
Obviously, he's promoting 3rd-party client competitors to YouTube's official app, and that can't be tolerated.
What science contradicts internal moral guidance?
> The alternative is never being able to be forgiven.

No it isn't, there is a whole spectrum between "forgiving everything" and "forgiving nothing".
I donno, I know I'm in the minority but I agree with the parent. Facebook isn't going to people's homes and rifling through drawers. They're using information people willigly share in their profiles.

They're not selling personally identifiable information. They're selling generalized group info on categories people fall into for targeted ads.

I don't understand how this is a privacy violation or unethical. Especially given Facebook isn't hiding what it's doing, they're open about what they're doing. I assume the customers are informed and are consenting to this in exchange for free use of Facebook's services.

I think it was wrong for Ubuntu to sell user data to Amazon because their users weren't informed. Some people choose Linux for privacy reasons and that trust was violated.

No one who values privacy would willingly use Facebook. Facebook doesn't hide what it does, it's a consensual sharing of information. They even have a big button on their site inviting their users to try targeted ads. Everything they do is in the open.
Sounds like it could be a DE or graphics driver problem. Have you checked the kernel and system logs when that happens?
Running away from the problem will only make it worse.
Thay doesnt work on patent trolls becausr all they do is sue people. They have no products of their own to build their own patent liability risk so they arent kept in line. The solution to patent trolls is pretty simple yet impossible. Make having a patent contingent on having a product in the market that uses the patent with a short grace period of a few years. If you have no product for sale you can point to after the grace period you lose the patent. Also make patent holder at least 50% liable for any licensor product abuse. Then they will be stopped from patent trolling by their own exposure, as it should be if you are giing to have a patent system like this.
hmmmm when you think about, everything is an ad. Put more simply, everything is "content" and all content has an agenda.

I guess an ad is just a particular type of content with a particular type of agenda.
Venus had Earth-like plate tectonics billions of years ago, study suggests
Private schools have higher success rates because the kids are of a higher socioeconomic class. The teachers don't have to do the job of a social worker/parent. In other words private schools don't need to hire the best teachers, therefore they don't have to pay the best salaries.
Humanity was mostly illiterate and sheltered to a small community. Going back isn't always a win.
There has been a general vibe that America's infrastructure is old and decrepit. An alternative way to look at it is the USA doesn't build something until it's needed, and you don't know it's needed until people are complaining that the existing situation is bad. Additionally, every piece of infrastructure that is built needs to be maintained or it will decay.

Sure, not every airport in America is shiny and new, but if you can land there safely then it is in good working order. Why build a new one just to one-up a communist dictatorship, wasting tax dollars?

In China there are giant airports with barely any traffic to justify their existence https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-11/china-s-h...

This is the fundamental problem with centrally planned economies. The malinvestment is insanely high, and while building new airports and high-speed rail gooses the GDP for a bit and makes for great politician PR, if no one actually needs this stuff then it's simply a huge waste of money. White Elephants will be stampeding all over China in the coming years.
> Assuming it remains legal.

How exactly do you legally enforce "each link must not be a unique UUID generated per-user or per-page-view"? Do you mandate how "generic" a link has to be, such that a visit to that link exposes less than a certain amount of information about that visit? What about things like order-specific links on a shopping website, that will naturally identify an account if all orders share the same namespace?
The date, I would imagine, wasn't chosen because it was a reasonable technical projection, but because 1999 is a high-value “pending-odometer-turnover” year.
Get your own .ing top-level domain
" . . . The new version - it's not there to fix bugs. That's not the reason we come up with a new version. " - Bill Gates

http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html
Makes sense to me.

Decades of bloated, backwards-compatible hacks in CSS, HTML, and Javascript makes a purpose-built, clean, bloat-free UI system feels pretty good actually.

This is what happens when you move the web "forward" for advertisers and exploitive data brokers instead of users.
Biomass is practically free (minus harvesting costs).
That's every LWT. The whole infotainment genre does it but IMO that show is one of the worst in terms of fairness despite being very well made. It's hard to make a funny video about how obvious a complex issue is while not being very one sided.
> Could also be that you have to sue Meta in an EU country were they have an office. (Ireland? Luxembourg? Dunno).

One could probably sue them in the country the behavior was documented.

The equivalent case would be if A assaulted B in Norway and flee to Chicago. B could report the crime and sue in the UK, get a legal ruling, and the Norway legal branch would then deal with the US branch to bring something out of the situation (compensation, equivalent punishment in the US, extradition etc.)
That's not my experience at all. The main non-agnostic atheism I've seen has been pretty hard to the "deities don't exist, full stop" side of the spectrum.

Also you don't need to be agnostic or non-agnostic, or even an atheist, to believe that the current religions are bullshit.
Guy, this is a made up problem.
Exactly, and the facility with real conference rooms that we switched to had nice solo workspaces as well. The decor was a little more corporate, true, but we somehow struggled through that.
I think the neatest part is fluid floating, and having to time the light physically because there is STILL too much data to convolve it in real time.
They gave GTA2 away for free officially at some point, which might have reduced a desire for it. That's my only guess.
Guys, it’s chapter 11 bankruptcy. Wework is not going out of business. One of the top uses of chapter 11 is to renegotiate/break commercial leases. Wework is going to continue as a company though it may shut down some locations. It is absolutely going to use chapter 11 to pressure landlords to renegotiate leases.
>"methanol is toxic"

>makes formate
> I don’t blame my toothpaste for not caffeinating me enough.

This illustrates why I like the question!

An office environment that includes even slightly private conference rooms is literally unthinkable.

I’m assuming maybe they have luxuries like that in the Pentagon and Cheyenne Mountain, but to picture a conference room that doesn’t require huddles and whispers in the same building as desk space is exactly the same as picturing tooth paste that serves the function of coffee. At worst it doesn’t exist at all or at best it’s a silly curio borne from a mad man’s flight of fancy.
Google is the only way I land on Reddit these days.

I don’t know how representative that is.
long live MilkDrop!
You're not buying NY times from NY times directy, but from one of the thousands/millions of newspaper sales points, and getting fully banned (no where to buy it within reason) is for most people unimaginable.

On the other hand, everyone knows someone who got banned from one platfor or another, and if not in person, there have been many articles of people getting banned from random platforms for random stupid reasons, even just saying a foreign word ( https://news.yahoo.com/japanese-apex-legends-players-being-2... )

I live in a non-english speaking country, and a word exchange of "Is Marko there?" - "He's not" would here be: "Je marko tam?" - "Ni ga" ... guess how the last sentance is pronounced, and how that could get misinterpreted if used in a video uploaded to eg. twitter/facebook/whatever.
My experience with this extends to private offices as well. Maybe I just drew the short straw with my neighbors but, if I'm managing people, I want to give them the courtesy of a noise-free call where they don't feel like they're being spied on (or like I'm being distracted).

I tried maybe 3 or 4 private office solutions during the pandemic's height, and each suffered from this. The "phone booths" are the best solution, imo, but they eat up credits and/or are always occupied.

I'd unironically like a huge warehouse of phone booths (like 3x3 offices) I can hole myself in all day. Why does that not exist? Is that just a cubicle farm with extra steps? I joke to my partner about setting up shop in our closet because it's quiet and distraction free.
> then they even sell this to third parties

do they? isn't this the secret sauce?
> Why are people so vehemently oppose to being shown ads that are actually relevant to them on ad-supported platforms?

speaking only for myself, two reasons:

1. they don't show me relevant ads. I would honestly fill out surveys for them to show me relevant ads, but they still won't, just like Netflix and Amazon won't restrain themselves from showing me the same screens full of movies and TV that I will never watch. If they find out that I don't want to drink sugarwater, I swear they will only show me ads for Pepsi, Sprite, etc.

2. They're addicted to hot javascript and flashing lights. If they'd just give me a short text blurb that says "this podcast that you love is brought to you by X ice cream brand", I'd buy that ice cream as thanks. But when they take over my screen and kill my right click menu, no.

In a related way, some vlogger/podcasters that I listen to who touch on controversial subjects have this elaborate "we only advertise products that we ourselves use" speech they give, and I'm thinking, hey, what about an advertiser that would say, "we support free speech on both sides of this issue". I'd buy their product in a second.
Erg, I ran into this on my mac twice when I upgraded. I have two bootable OSX partitions and it hit on both upgrades. I'm not really a mac guy and it took a _lot_ of messing around (and learning that DFU exists and what it does) to sort out. Just lucky that my daughter has a mac so that I could even use DFU without having to take the thing into an apple store.
The commercial real estate portion of my portfolio agrees with you.

The person that loves not having to go to an office does not ;)
i heard these new fangled jibjabs don't even have audible POST beeps.
But the money stayed owned by the company the entire time. He bet it on behalf of the company.

Companies are allowed to make bets on things. And he was high up enough to be able to make that decision.

It went in his pocket, but it would have gone in his pocket if he was going to the office supply store too. That's not an issue.

But none of this explains why it's sociopathic. Most crimes don't rise to that bar. For example, embezzling money from a company that's already guaranteed to collapse and unable to make payroll is generally not sociopathic. Especially if it's some kind of technical embezzlement where you have no personal gain whatsoever.
I worked as a guest of a friend from a wework in SF. Took a meeting from a phone booth and then came back to one of the desks.

Later, another person went into the phone booth and I could hear everything. What's the purpose of the phone booth if it can isolate sound?
You should add the fact that you can search with ⌘P to the help.
Do you dual boot? I've got two bootable OSX partitions on my mac and this hit me when I updated.
What you did is CQRS architect ure pattern and is the recommended path. It separates command writes from query reads.
> But even if I wasn't, I would know what's right and what's wrong.

Is it right or wrong to act on homosexual urges? Is it right or wrong to use abortion as a form of birth control?

Have your answers to those questions remained consistent your entire life or did they change at exactly the same time they changed for the rest of western society ~20 years ago? If your moral stance has been unwavering, kudos. Otherwise, I would argue you don't actually know what's right and wrong; at least not on the "corner" (aka controversial) cases. For those you simply synchronize your moral compass to society's, which itself is not fixed or absolute (stances on abortion, LGBTQ, euthanasia, capital punishment, etc. have shifted a lot in the past few decades).
I'm not saying I'd do it, but it's certainly not exorbitant.

Streaming subscriptions is a great comparison point. For many people, Facebook and Instagram together occupy a bigger role in their lives than Netflix does. This subscription cost is less than Netflix"s
I have a hard time taking self reports seriously particularly because identity politics are in vogue and that means a lot of people are eager to portray themselves as oppressed characters. I've spent time in clinics, hospitals, and ICUs, and have experienced condescension, not being taken seriously, being kept in the dark about my own health, etc., likely because I'm not very assertive by nature (as a male of course). "Just believe women!" is another example of bullshit identity politics and I don't think it's proven to be a good attitude since it became a catchphrase with #MeToo. Sorry if this comes off as blunt/rude and of course I sympathize with anyone getting mistreated by physicians but I really don't believe that women are disadvantaged in health care today, however if you have evidence that women have worse health outcomes due to mistreatment then I'd like to see it. Otherwise I'd rather trust my own experience and the data that I'm familiar with (e.g. life expectancy).
You're still supposed to read it, like you hopefully wouldn't blindly paste a big code block from SO. A useless/unused line or variable doesn't seem that hard to spot?
Did the ancient tribe used standard or waxed floss?

Any particular flavor work better (eg - cinnamon, mint)?
There's a bit in one of the early episodes of the TV series "The Good Place", where one of the afterlife people points out that pretty much every religion only gets a few percent right about what's going on (except for one random guy who somehow got 90-something % of it).

But yes, this is the thing that always gets me. It takes a mind-blowing amount of arrogance to believe that your religion -- out of all the thousands that currently or used to be practiced -- is the right one, and everyone else -- billions of people -- just absolutely must be wrong.

And if you don't have that arrogance (but are nonetheless religious), the only reasonable stance to take is that you believe there is a god, or many gods, or perhaps some sort of supernatural universal force; and that there is maybe (but maybe not) some kind of afterlife, or reincarnation system, or... who knows. But I meet precious few religious people who think like this; I guess most people who fall into this category would tick the "spiritual, but not affiliated with a religion" box.
Google this week seems to be going through a similar bug on their flagship Android 14 release, affecting users who have multiple accounts set up. They also seem to be favoring a "minimal" strategy when it comes to PR communication surrounding this issue.
Content-based ads generally seem relevant to me. If I'm browsing small tech blogs, independent sex toy review sites, or mad scientist forums, I tend to get good static advertisements which aren't targeted to me, but rather are just the ads that everyone who visits that site see. Those always seem to be relevant.

The modern personally targeted ads are fucking terrible, excuse my language. They have a relevancy rate of <1% and usually just suggest things that I've searched google for and already bought. The amount of fucking data collection that goes into something that boils down to "advertise me things I've already bought or did a google search for in the past 2 weeks" is insane. You could get rid of 99.9% of the data collection and still serve the exact same ads based only on my Google searches.
It’s not rational to believe in free will either, so nothing is rational.
How is this against community guidelines?
Make it relevant to the content presented, not the person that was tracked and followed around with cookies.
Nice way to get me to look up your docs on how to search files! My first attempt managed to hardlock the game:

for(let i=0; i<=8; i++)
for(let j=0; j<=8; j++)
for(let k=0; k<=8; k++)
for(let l=0; l<=8; l++)
ls ${i}/${j}/${k}/${l}
Putting everything inside a canvas is exactly what advertisers and data brokers want. It basically turns your browser into a television. It destroys structure which significantly complicates ad blocking. Might also be illegal due to accessibility laws.
Excellent idea and I encourage all who've not seen the moonless stars on a clear summer night, do it at least once. It affected me much more than like seeing Vienna or Paris for the first time, and I love those cities.
90% had absent fathers.

Statistically, the only communities with positive demographics are religious.
Because living in the era of being psychologically manipulated from every direction for every second of our lives fucking sucks.

Because they should show fewer ads that don't fuck with our heads and make less money in the process, and regulation hasn't caught up yet, and in the meantime they have an approximate monopoly so we have to deal with it.

Because they stay in power not by doing the best job or providing the best service, not even a good one really, but by manipulating markets, governments, and people in their favor, and by destroying competition, which means they've earned no respect and deserve nothing.
Fair. But I'm not sure it's fair to necessarily characterize all beliefs as "religious beliefs". To use your example, morality need have nothing to do with religion. Granted, I'm sure my morality was influenced by my religious upbringing. I've certainly re-examined a lot of my moral stances throughout my life (after deciding I was an atheist), but I'm sure I still have some biases because of the religious teaching I was forced to endure when I was young.