jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This was really fun! Addictive enough to have me spend 20 minutes completing all 5 levels.

Suggested areas to work on:
1 - The FPS reduces significantly when battling the tanks and shooting the officers - almost to the point of wondering if the game will crash.
2 - There was 1 prisoner on level 4 who I'm sure was unreachable.
3 - Improved sound effects i.e. different level music, mood music when facing the tanks etc

Looking forward to the next installment.
Some wealthy jerk will probably register all of these.
The last block that will generate coins will be block #6,929,999. This should be generated around year 2140.

Isn't that entirely dependent on the rate of technical progress? Furthermore, what happens when the crypto algorithms are broken?
Why I posted it here instead of WealthyJerks.com. Go find something you like and tell anyone you know looking now before they see it.
Whenever some player doesn't buy a property and it goes up for auction, the players' bids are interestingly strategic. The optimal strategy at that point is not to "buy the property if you can", at least in a game of more than two players — two players using that strategy will bankrupt each other quickly, paying $3000 for Vermont Avenue and the like, and someone else will win. (It's probably not the optimal strategy in a two-player game either, but that's not as obvious.)

If the other players will bid less than the sticker price, then it's a better strategy to decline the sticker price and pick the property up in the ensuing auction. Under some circumstances (e.g. all the other players are broke) you can pick it up for a song in this case.

For those who are fuzzy on the rules: http://richard_wilding.tripod.com/monorules.htm
c) Hahah - great response and true! But it's engineered cronyism which in and of itself is brilliant.
It's not calendar software, it's NASA. It's a ridiculously fragmented organization. The various space centers all operate as their own little (or big, really) entities, and compete for influence.

Then, in parallel with the space centers there are massive projects (think Hubble Space Telescope or International Space Station) that operate separately from each other, but across multiple centers.

Now, throw in that NASA does almost none of its own work. They hire the Lockheeds and Boeings of the world to do that for them. They, in turn hire the likes of Orbital and Swales (and other medium to tiny firms you've never heard of) to do their work. They, in turn, well, you get the point...

On top of that, every pork loving congressman (or sometimes a dimwitted vice president - look up Triana for that story[1]) comes poking around, causing budgets to shift, vendors to be changed, and generally making asses of themselves in the name of their constituents.

It's really amazing that it works at all. And not so amazing that it costs what it does to launch a space shuttle.

Can you imagine the software that would be required to put all of NASA on the same page? Yikes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory
I worked on this project back in the day. The wikipedia article is very kind to the project's worth and to Al Gore. He literally dreamt up the idea that we should have a continual view of the sunlit side of the earth because it was inspiring or some such nonsense (I was told you could easily piece together that image from available data and nobody would know the difference). He woke up the next day, called the NASA head, and the project was born. We spent millions (I think it had a budget of about $75 million, but don't quote me on that), until finally someone called it out for being utterly worthless and devoid of scientific value. Nobody really had an argument against that.
I love beer. Instant download, Very interested too see how you "check in" for beer , and if the model actually works for this.
I was thinking something like:

Googol ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
If all sites had proper favicons for branding we could start dropping site name from page titles and focus just on the content.
The standard equality operators (== and !=) compare two operands without regard to their type. The strict equality operators (=== and !==) perform equality comparisons on operands of the same type. Use strict equality operators if the operands must be of a specific type as well as value or if the exact type of the operands is important. Otherwise, use the standard equality operators, which allow you to compare the identity of two operands even if they are not of the same type.

So: (1 == '1') is true;(1 === '1') is false.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Operat...
This was pointed out in the previous thread, but I'd like to remind people that the photos of gorgeous, 100-story spires in the heart of Manhattan are pure pipe dreams by architects and designers.

However, if you look at vertical farming as a series of low-rise greenhouse warehouses ringing a city, like a lightly stacked up Thanet Earth, then I think there's a strong case for them.

http://www.thanetearth.com/
there's lots of China company/sites, you can't block all of them.
> I'm going to use what I already know.

Using what you already know may not always be the best approach, because of "When your only tool is a hammer every problem looks like a nail" phenomenon. I would do my research and use what makes sense and what is best in the long run, despite of me being experienced or not in the technology. When you're a software engineer with years of experience under your belt, picking up the next one will not be a big challenge.
>Dunno. History matters and historians would probably strongly disagree.

People don't live or structure their lives to satisfy historians...
You can write a C compiler relatively easily. In fact there have been numerous articles submitted to HN about someone who did. I don't think anyone has done the same with C++, because of its immense complexity.

and some decent libraries to help you out with what you're not writing yourself.

If you're writing a shell you are probably already somewhere on the "bootstrap pilgrimage". Using something someone else has written is the exact opposite of what you want to do in that case. (Why not just use a shell that someone else has written then...?)
They do at least have almost-mandatory 2FA through SMS or Android app. So it's not quite as insecure as someone reading your email or snooping your WiFi getting the keys to the kingdom.
This is literally what I spent my last two weekends doing. Not as something I wanted to sell, but for one of my own personal spreadsheet use cases. Thought I could build a web app to suit my needs better, but after some 30+ hours working on it, I'd rather just go back to the spreadsheet.
A VP has to approve it. There are many VPs at Amazon. There's a VP for FireTVs and a VP for AWS Sales in China.
In case you want to host your own Clubhouse or get a feeling for Clubhouse (or Twitter Spaces) without access to an iPhone and/or invite:

"Jam" is an open source implementation of the "audio space" concept that I built over the last few days w/ @DoubleMalt and @mitschabaude

There is still a lot to do but for now you can create rooms and moderate them (stage, audience, mic-flashing, …), powered by WebRTC and should work in any modern browser.

Any feedback, suggestions, thoughts welcome, might do a Show HN in the next days

https://jam.systems
Using -C with scp will result is drastic speedups most of the time anyway, it's possible any slowdown due to a nicer cipher suite can be counteracted with that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but seems like the idea of "time being converted into space" is itself pretty meaningless because it implies conversion happening over time.
He called Apple the greatest company in the world. Anyone else immediately flinch?
(Aside: I'm sure that tptacek could give a significantly better answer here than I can, but I'll give it a shot. (And then whenever he answers trust him more than me.))

Assume you have a perfect cryptographic hash function H(X). No matter how many of N bits of X you change (0 < N <= len(X)), on average 50% of the bits of H(X) will change. So, let's consider the case of just H(salt || H(salt || password)) versus H(salt || H(password)).

Let A = H(salt||password), and let B = H(password). A and B are now, for all practical purposes, two different random integers. Each of which has the same entropy. This is because adding the salt should make no impact on the quality of these random numbers. It should now be fairly easy to see that there is no difference between H(salt||A) and H(salt||B), other than the fact that they produce different outputs.

This is all based on the assumption that the hash function is a perfect one -- however this assumption is reasonable for strong hash functions.
They mention that in the linked article. They have balloons that can provide cellular service in a 40 mile radius. Also, places like Afghanistan actually have workable cellular service.
> I don't care to defend Engels early middle or late, ...

> The language Engels is employing is indeed ugly.

You agree that Engels was a philosopher, and his philosophy is not defensible.

But here's where we probably disagree: I believe that philosophy is something that does have an impact on the world. A vast number of people (both powerful and not) read Engels (and Marx - and Kant), and this played a major role in the decisions they made in their lives. There's definitely a trickle-down effect here: learned people get the ideas first, and apply those ideas to their own fields. Less-educated people don't read philosophy, but they get the gist of it this way. (And, of course, there are shades in between.) This is consistent also with the fact tha philosophical ideas take a relatively long time to permeate the culture. Summary: in a sense, philosophy determines the course of history.

Kant originated the ideas that Marx and Engels applied to politics, which influenced Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao. (It is true that many other politicians were also influenced by Marx and Engels, but they were either not running big countries, or had countries that were behind the philosophical forefront of the era, such as the USA.)

Is it any surprise that blood-soaked ideas lead to mass death? I don't think that Kant, Hegel, Marx and Engels were idiots that didn't know what they were doing or what their ideas actually meant.
Really? I hope that's not true. Friend != follow. :-(
Duplication of effort in government? In the intelligence community, no less?

Outrageous, who ever heard of such a thing ;)
Ah yes, Europe and button copyrights all over again...
(this plays big into USA's history)
More nerdy. Spend less time working out, being outside. Socially not as adaptable. Overly focusing on inane technical details just to show that they know a lot. Obv these are all generalizations.
I'd never thought about this before. How do property rights apply to enclaves? If I own all the land encircling another piece of land, what prevents me from barring access to the encircled piece of land? Are there laws forbidding this?
College Board should have punted the tests back to the fall. The tests are missing quite a bit of content[0], for example, Calculus BC has little to no more required content than Calculus AB (no parametrics/polars, nothing much with series other than identification). Since the kids will most likely have to retake these classes once they get into college due to the content deficit, I don't really see the point of it this year.

If they moved them back to fall / late summer, kids would've had more time to prepare, and the full tests could've been administered so the credits would've been given fairly. I assume the reason they aren't doing this is because it would be impossible to schedule a traditional AP reading for the teachers to grade the tests, but they could do it remotely as they will be doing with this (schedule readings on the weekends to be done remotely? they are only a few days long anyway).

With that being said, if I was still in High School, i'd probably be pleading with my AP coordinator to let me take more tests because of the advantage... but I digress (and I doubt college board would have let me anyway). darn it. one year later and no physics in college.

0: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/cor...
Mentioned in my other comment above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontogeny_and_Phylogeny_(book)
We changed the URL from https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/menelaus/tree/master/README.m... to the article that's linked there, which gives more background.
What a wonderful time to attack the US power grid and cause mass mayhem. Would certainly destabilize the world's leading superpower.
"The problem is that if you are, say, at work and they do a blood drive and you say "I can't. Sorry." that potentially outs you to your coworkers that you are gay or have some other issue that disqualifies your blood."

I never heard about that as a concern, and I have to dismiss that as silly, given the many reasons why you can be disqualified. I mean, you could just have low iron or some other minor health issue.

What I was alluding to is that some people feel it is not acceptable or just to have a blanket exclusion of men who have sex with men. I can't imagine that your answers to the questionaire are allowed to be shared with anyone though.

I've never heard of anyone being offended by the exclusion of people who have spent time in Africa or Europe though.
Yes. Because some people built poor-quality gable roofs, we all pay more for insurance if we have them. Never mind that the pentagonal walls could be made of steel or poured concrete. Insurance companies just don't want that type of roof.
That depends entirely on how long it takes for the pandemic to cease. If, like some studies show, the virus gets stopped by the warmer weather, it could be in May that we return to normalcy.
I would argue that depends on the language. Neither issue you describe is a problem in Erlang.
And, I still don't know if I should turn up to work tomorrow!
Discussed a bit at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8648333
> It's sped up and meant to make it look like the whale is frantically trying to escape while being hemmed in by ships,

When I watched the video at full speed I thought: this whale doesn't give a damn if there are other ships nearby

When I watched the video at 1/10 speed my opinion didn't change. Except the video was boring. You are reading too much into this video.
You misunderstand me. I'm not arguing one should replace Excel with Python, I'm merely talking about VBA and the VBE
Off-topic: Flood myths are in so many religions. Large-scale or global flooding. Mass devastation.

If there is so much smoke there's gotta be fire.

If you look at last glacial maximum, sea-levels were 110-120m below where they are today. They rose from below 100m to 0m in a matter of only about 8000 years (13000 BC to 5000 BC) [0]. Persian gulf region was fertile land, got flooded and turned into a gulf. The sea-level rise was observed/experienced all over the world.

At one point the sea-level rise was so fast it was 2-3m in one lifetime. This much vertical change in coastal regions can change the landscape by 100s of meters horizontally. So you could be living in that time and hearing stories from your grandfather about the vast amount of land that got flooded over his lifetime.

Word-of-mouth "history became legend. Legend became myth" (to quote LOTR).

Written history did not start until much later (Gilgamesh ~2100BC, Herodotus ~450BC, neither considered serious/rigorous historical works. I guess Gilgamesh is considered fiction.).

I think it's a highly valid theory that sea-level rise led to flood myths in so many regions and so many religions all over the world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise
Now it is highly distributed as well, with all the dietary supplements industry feeding people the new craze of the moment... Raspberries lactones, turmeric/curcumin, cbd...
And who is AT&T?
Would love to hear more from Thea Fischer, who the WSJ quotes extensively.
In Chicago especially (where the study was based and where I live), police fairly clearly have an overuse of force in general. They have paid enormous sums over many years in lawsuits for wrongful use of force. There is plenty of research to show that when confronted with complex problems police will respond with force when other tactics may have been better for all (such as cited in this book - https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/681606995/punishment-without-... )
How do you view your govt?

As benevolent with good intentions?
So the problem with all of those oils is the high concentration of PUFA which is more susceptible to oxidation and thus causes inflammation.

Commercial oat milk like that made by Oatly has rapeseed oil added into it and is then pasteurized. Heating vegetable oils is bad. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15371...

Maybe something home made isn't bad.
The CCP has all power over corporate trade in China, and can obtain access to corporate data.

That fact of life is not guiding factor for why corporations create technology, compete for contracts, and make revenue.

And there is a lot of technology there. It is an innovative, high growth, competitive maybe overly competitive, and dense part of the world. Most of which has nothing to do with what's happening on the other side of the Gobi desert. If that is to be your cause, great, because that's going to keep happening, but its a large stretch to make that the sole guiding factor for everyone else that creates or simply uses software from China.

If you are subject to that system, then you should use discretion on Clubhouse, that would really be the entirety of your message.
Or you could use Ruby where it continues to make the most sense and use Python where that makes the most sense. After all, the languages are so similar that keeping them both in the tool belt has less mental overhead than say Ruby and Scala.
Armed security officers were defending congressmen in a secure area, she tried climbing through a broken side window and they killed her.

This is nothing but a play stupid games win stupid prizes situation.
I concur, I was hoping to see more detail on how they actually train Atlas to do things. Do they use a software simulator? Can it mimic a motion capture of a human? Is it rigged like a video game model?
Probably limb positions at discreet instances in time, and bots know how to move from one position to another.
She did an amazing job and is talented for sure.

I still absolutely hate those robots. This won't end well.
I’d say that you can model conceptually the same way with a time traveling debugger and get really comfortable. A recusing function is just an event loop where you know how the data is being mutated.
I think India's Unified Payments Interface is a better analogy here. From what I understand (as an outsider, so based only on what I've read) it provides a universal API for mobile applications to interface with banks, essentially standardizing the federation of bank transfers. Therefore, your account at bank X can be used to pay an account at bank Y for some service that uses app Z.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
> After executing the nop instruction the PC will be advanced by 1, because that's the size of nop and advancing it by 1 causes it to point to the next instruction

Nit: the IP will be advanced by 1 before the nop is executed. IP always points to the instruction following the one which is currently being executed. Which is important for IP-relative addressing and, as mentioned later, calls.
Well, the point of TCO is to discard stack pressure. Discarding stack frames is just an unfortunate side effect.
Software in real time embedded systems is highly engineered from my perspective.

Closing on the Toyota recall is very interesting, as it highlights the importance and complexity in engineering real time embedded systems.

- Cosmic radiation could cause a bit-flip resulting in a sudden acceleration event. Even though NASA and NHTSA could not find or demonstrate a problem with fly-by-wire, the issue was identified through expert analysis of the source code, which found that it did not follow best practices either. [0]

It also sheds light on the manufacturer's unpopular approach to these issues.

- The sticking accelerator issue discussed in the article only resulted in 3 complaints to Toyota in 2009 [1]

- Toyota sells 10 million cars a year. We can easily estimate that 50 million are on the road, placing this at or above Six Sigma reliability (3.4 dpmo)

Ultimately braking could safely override a stuck accelerator, still stopping in a safe distance in the most tests [1]

One could argue that the recall was more due to the PR backlash than any degrading part.

[0] http://www.sddt.com/Commentary/article.cfm?SourceCode=201311...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_...
An excerpt from the new book In the Plex by Steven Levy, quoted in the Quora post:

"Over the course of that two years Page and Brin had figured out Backrub's applicability to web search, failed to license the technology to Excite or Altavista, and had founded their own company."

I still remember the days when Altavista was the very best at Web search, and Excite had some features that made it worth checking as a plan B. It was near the end of the two years described in the excerpt when I started noticing Backrub regularly crawling my site, which used to rely primarily on Yahoo for online search referrals. I became a Google user as soon as the Web crawling from Google identified a site I could visit to see the sender of the Web crawler in action. I became hooked almost immediately, and started telling my friends about Google in online forums as I discovered more and more pleasantly surprising highly relevant results from searches I did. Too bad for Altavista and Excite that neither company grabbed PageRank and other Google technologies when they had the chance.
What did they switch to after Python wouldn't scale?
Seems like you missed the "/sarcasm" comment, unless I'm being leveled?
Hmm. I'm unethical then. Here's my reason why I would have read the book and passed (and saved money for that class).

Any money borrowed for purposes of education in the United States is unattachable. That debt will stick with you, NO MATTER WHAT. We have Reagan and 98' Republican Congress to thank/blame for this. The only other debts that have this status are ones granted by a judgement for crimes (for example, murder).

As I am reminded by that art student who had 160K in debt that was posted a few days ago, it is fiduciary irresponsible of you to have that kind of situation possibly happen.
>"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

This doesn't mean what you think it means.

It doesn't mean that the government can't take your stuff, full stop. It means that the government can't take your stuff without due cause and process.

Both of which were followed in this case, it appears. The indictment was posted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2451482
Does this mean angel investing is illegal in China. I am not sure what "raising and pooling money outside the official system" really means.
How come news media never talk about profits when it comes to tech startups? Profits should be the key ingredient for valuation. A huge percentage of Living Social's revenue goes back to the businesses.