jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
On mobile, some sites refuse to show anything other than their "Go ahead, download our app!" page. In many cases, switching to desktop view doesn't work.
I’m not a race car driver but I do track my car pretty often

There are people out there who use simulators and very detailed data logging in their track cars to try and experiment with things like braking habits.

Saying it’s “nothing alike” honestly feels like gate keeping.

Obviously a video game played from your couch is not going to feel like hurtling thousands of pounds of metal around a track, but if you can’t drive in a sim, you’re probably not going to make it around the track.

And before you scoff at such a low bar, there are plenty of people who enter a realistic sim, try and go full throttle with 0 counter steering, and immediately lose control

Likewise, if you’re one of the best players in the world on a sim, you can probably hack it at commonly accessible levels of racing

After all, why is everyone in this thread acting like F1 is the only kind of racing? There’s stuff like SCCA Road Racing series that won’t require you to withstand 5gs of braking force...

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This is kind of like saying “nothing from a flight sim translates to flying” because the risk of dropping out of the sky to a horrible death isn’t there
Your criticism of Computer Modern as "spindly" makes sense only digitally, not in print (or, at least, print of the era Computer Modern was designed for).

Optimized for printers of a different era (and relying heavily on ink bleed), Computer Modern's default configuration looks less than great on today's printed page. However, if you make some small adjustments (as METAFONT was designed to do), it suddenly becomes rather pleasant. Here's a page with an example of how it looked initially compared to how it looks on modern printers, and a modification of the METAFONT parameters that looks pleasant on screens:

https://www.typografie.info/3/topic/22238-ist-die-computer-m...

Most modern digital adaptions are done poorly, and without considering this.

METAFONT is really simple, and more people should consider playing around with it. It's really fantastic.
That said if the simulations are good enough for real F1 drivers to train with them, and for the skills of sim racers to pretty quickly translate into the real world once they get some seat time, they must be more than superficially similar.
> The response is altered as the trafic goes out of China.

By locating their network inside China, Baidu is allowing a malicious actor to leverage their network traffic - which indeed is a 'use' of Baidu's network.

> The only thing they can do is hosting http://hm.baidu.com in another country.

Most likely, yes. And until they do so, or come to another solution, their traffic should be blocked.
Might be worth-while making the search case-insensitive - looks good, though!

EDIT: Hmm. I tried logging in with the token emailed to me using Safari - that worked. I then tried logging in using Chrome with the same token, and got this error: http://i.imgur.com/D4j45c3.jpg. I then tried going back to notello.com, but seem to constantly get re-directed back to the error page.
It was just an example, but I admit it might sound as if Hacker News had something to do with all this.
1) I consider Apple and Android to be the future of phones. Nokia, Microsoft, RIM and all other phone OS's are treated more or less the same, relative to Apple and Android. The fact that it's pleasant to write apps for Nokia doesn't matter when you can write better apps for Apple or Android.

2) As you pointed out Hacker news is US centric. Historically, Nokia has had a smaller presence in the US. There are many factors which contributed to this, off the top of my head -
* Motorola was based in the US, and took market share from Nokia.
* Nokia was slow to make flip phones, and the US went through a flip phone craze.
* Nokia is a strong brand, and US carriers favored no name phones that they could brand themselves, companies like HTC or LG were amenable to this. Also, European carriers were slower to do this.
* Apple went for the (relative) mass market, they forced AT&T into offering the iPhone for a cheap initial price, and a cheap data plan (again, relatively, starting with the 3G). Contrast this with Nokia's somewhat lackadaisical approach to launching a new high end phone - announce a couple of new phones, release them months later, sometimes not on any carrier, often with different os's.
* Nokia took a break from making progress, roughly around 2003. They started making very different phones, as if attempting to start or catch fads. They started treating phones as fashion accessories. The 2 year gap between their "professional" phones (the 6310 and the 6230) was horrendous.

Personally, I think Nokia made the best phones, of the last generation.
Indeed! Plate scanning, or face scanning, is a different matter as it targets the entire population not convicted criminals.
Worst apple product is still far ahead of most non-apple alternatives. At least laptops wise.
Funny, all the binaries in my UserLAnd are aarch64, not x86.

I'm not sure how they do it -- faking syscalls? -- but recently, changes in Android filesystem access policies made it impossible to move files between UserLAnd and the outside Android environment.
Perhaps it's because the M1 is not just a random ARM chipset.

For those wondering why Apple has a market cap of $2T this may be a good reason.

They have the ability to stage, time and deliver something like the M1 Mac whereas other massive corporations like Microsoft, Google, Intel, etc simply can't.
Two Big Reasons

1. Bad Software design. Nokia needs to pick up some solid software talent. Nokia isn't used to having to compete on software yet while U.S. companies have been doing that for years. That doesn't mean Nokia has to acquire a U.S. co, just get aggressive about some great hacker talent.
2. Carrier deals. Even when Nokia does come out with a decent phone, it rarely gets any share gain in the U.S. because of inadequate carrier deals. Usually the few people that know about them acquire them from Europe, or by the time it does land in the U.S. somebody has already launched something better.
Considering the embarrassing way that the NY Times has attempted to transition into the digital age, this is not really a surprise. Consider:

- The Times has tried twice to create paywall models that have utterly failed. The idea was to charge to read Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman. Utter disaster b/c nobody really values them all that much even though they get a lot of web traffic when free.

- The Times does very little investigative journalism of significance.

- The Times has strong pretensions, as evidenced by its coverage of socialite weddings, etc.

- In the buildup to the Iraq war it was the Times' sloppy fact checking that sold the war to many, many people who had been skeptical prior to reading its coverage.

- The Times attack on the Pulse news reader turned what should have been superb publicity into a petty attack on a small startup that obviously loves the Times.

For all its flaws, it's still a great paper, but far less great than it once was or than it could be if it had more sense and guts and had to fight harder to maintain its position.

Banning a word like "tweet" suggests an annoying sort of editorial rectitude that is at least as unbecoming as any of the foibles mentioned above, especially in light of the Iraq war fact checking fiasco. We have wars going on and all sorts of corporate fraud and the Times is wasting ink (or pixels) on why it banned a silly sounding word?
https://medium.com/@laurenceb/my-remarks-at-the-town-hall-on... for a personal account by one of the ousted engineers. Not sure who is right but it presents the other side.
This is an excellent reference, thanks a lot. Have you tried this for meal planning, out of interest?
I've always viewed my employers as a means to support myself and my family. I keep political activites separate. (The same way I keep recreational, religious, etc. activities separate. No use in telling my coworkers everything about me!)

I think such a housecleaning is understandable. I don't force my politics on others, I wouldn't want theirs forced on me. My colleagues do not speak for me in this regard.
Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12371463
Also FWIW, i signed up and am playing around and kind of enjoying it. will give it a serious try tomorrow
Where do I begin :)

My favorite quote from the book is...

"I didn't mean to cut off your hands, but I had no choice when you reached for my chips."
This is his argument for DEMANDING a contract for every business deal, especially with friends or people you trust. (I admit I am not great at this...)

He opens with a theory that most successful people who claim "hard work and a positive attitude" drive success are lying. They are either too embarrassed to admit how easy it was for them...or they can't see the forest from the trees and really have no idea why they are successful.

He has a few key points that really stand out for me...

"The results you get from a negotiation are inversely proportionate to how intimidated you are."

"With every deal...The key is to hope for a good result, but expect a negative one. (otherwise you will get discouraged way too quickly and give up.)

Image is everything...
"It’s Not What You Say Or Do That Counts, But What Your Posture Is When You Say Or Do it."

I wrote a few blog posts over the years about his book...
http://www.davidmelamed.com/2012/11/19/robert-ringers-theory...

http://www.davidmelamed.com/2012/11/20/i-really-didnt-mean-t...

Edit: I have a few extra copies. Would be happy to mail one to the first two people who ask. Just find my email on my profile and email me.
Wow, that is amazing. Will definitely have to play with that.
At Stanford in CS107 we had to write an IMDB six degrees of separation, using this same database. Insert the names of 2 actors, and our app will calculate the degrees of separation between them. Kevin Bacon was highly connected :)
Is it in any sense news that people have developed variant forms of chess?

http://www.chessvariants.com/

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FairyChess.html

After all, isn't current Western chess itself a variant of the (possibly Indian) game from which it originated?

http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Chess.htm

http://history.chess.free.fr/history.htm

If you know people from China, Taiwan, or Vietnam, you may have had the opportunity to play Chinese chess,

http://www.clubxiangqi.com/?F=rules

which is definitely related to Western chess, but noticeably different in game play.

After edit: I wonder about the first reply to this comment here, "so you post this, which is hypocritical on the face of it," and how it fits with the HN guideline

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Above in my original comment, I am of course expressing the opinion that a new variant of chess is unremarkable. I am not slamming the eight-year-old girl who invented the variant (and I appreciate the link in the reply that shows her handwritten notes about the rules--putting the rules in writing at her age is impressive to me). It just seems to me that part of the context of the submitted article is a long and well documented history of many people in West and East developing variants of the game of chess--including the variant that has become the dominant international form of the game. And I raise the meta-issues here because of pg's recently expressed concern

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

that HN has a problem with some of the comments submitted. I want my comments to be top-quality (and, thus, appreciate correction from other participants here), and I want to be aware of what generally desired behavior is here.

P.P.S. scott_s posted simultaneously with my editing the first time here, and I appreciate his comment explaining succinctly what was dissatisfying about what the submitted article emphasized. Yes, inventing variants of common games (something I have observed dozens of children do over the years) is part of a young person's process of developing creativity--"rewriting the rules" to dare to try new ways of doing things.
And that's why moral vegetarians like me, don't worry about offending "healthy" vegetarians. They don't have any skin in the game.
is there a reason why copies of the standard contracts haven't been leaked and aggregated online?
Same for StumbleUpon, except the visit time is between 0.3 and 1.0 seconds.
This is not going to happen any time soon. Even within the core, you can't have everything at "register speed" anyway; and as soon as you have multiple sockets NUMA pops up again.
It's great to see how far Podman (and its sister projects) have come. I think it's a reliable tool and I'm a happy user both personally and professionally.

We make heavy use of Podman in our infrastructure and it's mostly a pleasure. My current pet peeves are that:

1) Ansible's podman_container module is not as polished as docker_container. I regularly run into idempotency issues with it (so lots of needlessly restarted containers).

2) Gitlab's Docker executor doesn't support Podman and all our CI agents run on CentOS 8. I ended up writing a custom executor for it and it's working quite well though (we're probably not going back to the container executor even if it supported Podman, since the custom executor offers so much more flexibility).

3) GPU support is easier/more documented on Docker. For this reason, the GPU servers we have are all Ubuntu 20.04 + Docker since it's the more beaten path.

4) Podman-compose just needs more work. Luckily for us, it seems that Podman 3.x will support docker-compose natively [1].

As mentioned, our CI environment is very dependent on Podman. The first step of every Gitlab pipelines is to build the container image in which the rest of the jobs will run. I find that it's simpler to have a shell executor in a unprivileged, restricted environment (i.e. can only run `podman build`) than setting up dind just for building images. All jobs that follow are ran in rootless containers, for that nice added layer of security.

Wishing all the best to the Podman, Buildah and Skopeo teams.

[1]: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose
> Could it be 2% or 3% etc. instead?

Why should forcibly taking money from other people have earned be a good thing ? A perhaps better idea would be just to ban Starbucks from the country and let government run a monopolized coffee shop. That might be a great achievement no ?

From what I can see the government must strive to achieve as much as possible while taking as little as possible from anyone else. Taxation is theft but has no real alternative but being cognizant of that underlying philosophy would help people find a moral compass.
I would prefer something like file.existedAtSomePointInTheRecentPast
Robco-1 was connected to 8bit computers
I think the best option is to stop the injection and let the natural price inflation (from raises in population and efficiency) catch up.
It's clearly very important to you that nobody ever question public shaming. You must be very invested in publicly shaming people. Do you happen to be a journalist?
Where have you seen real estate get cheaper over time? NYC? SF? Somewhere else?

Also when it comes to setting up an economic system, high net worth individuals are the last people we should be worrying about, not the first.
Another alternative using Rust...

http://blog.skylight.io/bending-the-curve-writing-safe-fast-...
Cool stuff :)
Please disable text-selection on the page. playing with a trackpad is hard!
I've encountered this (or similar) issue on production.

We had C++ system that wrote temporary files to /tmp when printing, /tmp was cleared on system startup, it worked ok for years, but the files accumulated. At some point it started to randomly throw file access errors when trying to create these temporary files. Not for each file - only for some of them.

Disk wasn't full, some files could be created in /tmp, others couldn't, it turned out after a few days of tracking it, that filesystem can be overwhelmed by too many similary named files in one directory - and it can't create file XXXX99999 even if there's is no such file in this directory, but it can create files like YYYYY99999 :)

I just love such bugs where your basic assumptions turn out to be wrong.
If you're not using a framework, you're writing a framework.

Might be a good or bad thing depending on the project.
>(manage as in helping us both help each-other and the business)

what a fantastic description
My elderly parents were both submitted to full body pat downs and my dad had to pull up his pant leg to demonstrate that yes, his leg brace was a medical device.

Neither of them are physically capable of overwhelming my preschooler nephew let alone an air flight attendant.

So much theater for so little security.
Does ZenMate qualify? https://zenmate.com/
Yep, YCombinator is famous. It's been featured in many mainstream publications, it's known around the globe in pretty much every country that has a startup community. I'd call that famous.
I'm a scientific software developer based in Copenhagen working for a Danish startup. If Allan reads this - I wouldn't mind helping out in my spare time on TM2. Seriously.
The GMail exporter is not broken, it just warns you.
Don't forget that "no one has made a compelling case that this will increase overall commercial air travel security" along with "money better spent on inspecting all cargo shipped on commercial flights." After all, that's how the printer cartridges were shipped.

You have to say that, otherwise people will say "if that's what's needed to make flying safe then I'm willing to put up with it."
Thank you for mentioning "Cuil" by name. When I was reading the Blekko article, I was thinking "This reminds me of that search engine founded by former Googler's that bombed." I couldn't remember the name.
Its confusing to say you're quoting from a blog, a pretty public place normally but this quote has the expectation of discretion. but the quote cannot be found on any blog using google. I don't know. Maybe this ain't a quotation as most people understand it, even if secondhand. Is it more accurate to say you are paraphrasing?
I just had this idea... Change your bank passwords. It's so crazy it just might work.
That's a lot more reasonable, thanks.

I've been trying various approaches to this problem myself but haven't converged on the best cross platform solution yet:

* http://www.aerique.net/software/etotp/ (needs a nice index page)

* http://github.com/aerique/okra (see examples)

The Lispbuilder-SDL people have been working on this as well:

* http://code.google.com/p/lispbuilder/wiki/StandAloneExecutab...

If I could spare the money I'd try out LispWorks (you'd have to pay for each seperate platform IIRC).

I partly agree with the size considerations but only for mobile platforms. What's 20mb for a normal machine?
Flagged. Dumb article.
That's an extremely heterodox spin.

I notice you don't cite a single article, but here's one: http://www.salon.com/2014/08/19/canadas_despicable_climate_c...

"In 2010, three years after Harper first introduced the new communications policy, Environment Canada reported that media coverage of climate change had dropped by more than 80 percent. Meanwhile, the Canadian government’s continued to wage war on science, often at the expense of the environment. In 2013, when NSIDC again reported that summer sea ice was melting, Leona Aglukkaq, Harper’s environment minister, downplayed the findings, explaining in a follow-up conversation that it was “debatable” whether the Arctic was warming. Without free access to the facts, one could argue, that’s a pretty difficult debate to have."

And here's a University of Victoria report: http://www.elc.uvic.ca/2013-muzzlingscientists/

"Yet research done by ELC student Clayton Greenwood demonstrates that the federal government is preventing the media and the Canadian public from speaking to government scientists for news stories – especially when the scientists’ research or point of view runs counter to current Government policies on matters such as environmental protection, oil sands development, and climate change. In sharp contrast to past Canadian practice and current US government practice, the federal government has recently made concerted efforts to prevent the media – and through them, the general public – from speaking to government scientists, and this, in turn, impoverishes the public debate on issues of significant national concern. "

I did some googling and couldn't find a slime mold story, but surely you have a link handy?
That makes me want to create "wordle" for the Z-Machine. Not too many steps
from "wordle" for Bash or Perl.
The industry is also littered with the broken husks of all who believed in the wrong company.
A Veterinarian with reasonable prices is greatly valued. So
valuable, with the right marketing I feel people would leave their estates to your business; I would. That's all I really have to say to
Veterinarians, but I feel a lot of you need to ask for some businees advise. I see a lot of people skipping the trips to the vet because they just can't afford the high priced boutiqe veterinarian practice. I know people are inherintly cheep, but I think most just want to be treated fair. I also
know what happens when vet hospitals offer too much for free.
(SFSPCA offered a "no kill" policy. People started to abandon their animals, and ruined a great organization.)
I will pass along-- I've always had big dogs. A Bullmastiff, and mixed breed American Bulldog/Pit. They
look sturdy, but they are fragile. The purebred Bull Mastiff was
always at the veterinarian. She had multiple problems from
huge paws that attracted Foxtails/grass seeds to Entropian.
I had a great income so going to the vet was no problem. I
now have a low income and thank goodness for the mixed breeds.
They are still fragile, but don't need to go to the vet as often. I still hear vets telling big breed dog owners about
the benefits of exercise. Yes, exercise the dog, but let them choose when and where. All my dogs were over 100lbs, and when I exercized them too much their bodies fell apart.
For the Bull Mastiff, a walk around a small lake was too much
on a summer day with a gallon of water. She just dropped half way around. I sat with her until dusk, and then we just
made it back to the car. My point is they, especially the Bulldog breeds are fragile.
When they realised the one trick pony was growing into a one trick nag complete with tedious and pompous TED-style tones.
Depends on the dick, depends on the storage.

HDFS is a psudeo block interface. If you have a real filesystem like lustre, or GPFS, not only do you have the abilty to use other tools, you can use that storage for other things.

In the case of GPFS, you have configurable redundancy. Sadly with lustre, you need decent hardware, otherwise you're going to loose data.

In all these things, paying bottom dollar for hardware, forgoing support is a false economy. At scales of 1pb+ (which is about 1/2 a rack now) its much much cheaper to use off the shelf parts with 24/7 support than "softwareing" your way out.
all right thanks for the info
I prefer working from the office. And people who code form their laptops from cafés, really? You would spend hours looking at a small 15" screen, straining your neck and back, instead of comfortably using dual-monitor setup and a comfortable chair in the office? Or you like working at home, near your home fridge and playing active kids? Definitely not my cup of tea.
Perhaps he's referring to the expected elasticity of Bitcoin, but you're right, comparing anything to the dollar is perfectly valid, but making comparisons and liquidating assets are two different things.
Keeping up with the Joneses is rarely a good motivation