jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Taking this to its logical conclusion, if you used the “login with X” feature (X being Apple, Google, Facebook), and you suddenly find yourself deplatformed, what are the knock-on consequences?

I don’t have a huge problem deplatforming itself. I do have serious problems when it suddenly cuts you off from other unrelated websites or paid-for assets. These knock-on effects aren’t immediately obvious and can be quite severe at the individual level (eg FB locking you out and now you can’t access the local Oculus content you paid for).
Slightly OT: I would love to see games designed to be scripted by the users. It would be fascinating to see the kinds of strategies and user interfaces that would evolve. RTS user interfaces haven't changed significantly in the last couple of decades. The number of times I've cursed at stupid pathing or unit AI in existing RTS games - I know exactly what I want them to do but I can't communicate my intentions.

There are plenty of AI competitions but I don't know of anything for AI-assisted humans. Perhaps I should start one? Modifying an existing open-source RTS seems like the best route.
from 2008, the Economist:

'This is a black week. Those of us who have supported financial capitalism are open to the charge that the system we championed has merely enabled a few spivs to get rich. But it helped produce healthy economic growth and low inflation for a generation. It would take a very big recession indeed to wipe out those gains. Do not forget that in the debate ahead.'
Any polyglot forums your recommend?
Sadly, this quite thorough and well-sourced response will get buried since it isn't a parent comment.
The concept of censorship is not exclusive to things that violate the first amendment.
https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship
Thanks for the detail you provided. It’s sort of a hobby of mine to learn how people learn languages fluently. I’m your age and I bet either one of us could learn a language as difficult as Japanese if we chose to at this late date.
Can you offer some examples, besides financial accounts, of things that a person would prevent others from accessing while alive and grant access upon death? In sifting through the list of things in my password manager, none of them (besides finances) seem to have this quality. Seems like anything that should be seen by family after death could be seen by them before death as well.
> health clubs are already highly regulated when it comes to memberships

I had thousands of dollars of prepaid training with 24 Hour Fitness in New York City when they potted that LLC into bankruptcy. Class counsel negotiated a $50 gift card for anyone with claims over $200, or something stupid like that. Bought home equipment and work with my trainer over Zoom.

TL; DR Even in highly-regulated markets, the protections are B.S.
The fact that you only get this if you are a resident of a single state is part of my point. The law is good, but having each state exert its own rules is a lot of regulatory friction.
One thing that wasn't mentioned: (realtime) multiplayer. What's the story here for Unity these days?

There's still a lot required in Unreal to implement things like bullet or projectile latency-correction unfortunately, but the base infrastructure they provide here is huge. Last I used Unity, there was essentially nothing. There were some third-party things but nothing you'd ever want to use in a shipping multiplayer game that isn't turn-based.

Has anyone actually shipped a multiplayer (not turn-based) game with Unity that doesn't regret the decision?
OP here, question for those who like the idea:

Which platform do you think I should use for this?

I'm currently thinking Substack, since it has a pretty good commenting system, and many people are already familiar with it. I can host like a weekly/bi-weekly session for people to just tell me things and I get back to them.

It'll also make it easier for people to support financially if they already do that (optional donation of course). I also plan on having a Patreon as another avenue for this.

What do you folks think?
Mmmmm mustardy seafood.....
I was replying to this:

It's probably something they simply didn't do
with putting together the page.

Flash sites are annoying also because they break a lot of simple, but very useful things: copying of text, different URLs to different parts of the site (all-flash sites usually have only one url and now way to share address to some specific content), opening links in new tabs by middle-clicking them, scrolling with mouse wheel.
I know that _now_ some of these are possible to do properly in flash, bet you have to put some effort into that, and that's rarely done.
One the other hand text and links in HTML5 will display and work as expected no matter what browser you use HTML5 capable or not. I can enhance plain navigation with some nifty CSS animations and transitions. If users browser does not support that it will have just the same plain navigation. If I do that in Flash and Flash plugin is not available — too bad.
That's the beauty of progressive enhancement which you don't have in the case of Flash.
>> If I pick "business", are they going to try to rip me off because they figure I'm not spending my own money? If I pick "home", are they only going to show me the cheap stuff?

That's a strawman, considering Apple computers generally cost way more than the PC equivalents, and that Apple can be quite the cheapskate in components also (e.g. when i bought mine, it had a crappy the-sort-of-thing-you'd-see-in-a-HP video card and no upgrade options). Also, if the wizard-style sites bug you, retailer sites are often more "window-shopping" oriented.

(On a off-topic side note, I just noticed you can search Dell laptops by screen size, by weight and some other parameters. That's pretty cool http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=gen&...)
We're still waiting to see what the Liberals are going to do. At the moment they're maintaining strategic ambiguity on the issue, which means somebody needs to get out there and start convincing them there's more votes in opposing it than supporting it.
Did a bunch of it. Had a blast. But our CS courses were object oriented stuff in Java. Useful, but not very 'mathy' imho.
> In most other Western countries the universities are pretty much the same as American ones, just without the crippling costs.

The sticker price is misleading though. There are scholarships for merit and grants for need. Work study (often in makework jobs with ample downtime for studying) for almost anyone who seeks them out.

Even after that, employers in competitive fields offer loan repayment as a starting bonus, or doled out over time for retention. Work in public service makes some eligible for loan forgiveness.

Even without that, the loan companies have provisions for indefinite deferment during unemployment and automatic forbearance during enrollment in any other academic program. Income based repayment is a standard option. Essentially, if you wanted to break the system, you could pay full price for a ridiculously priced private school degree then probably go work at starbucks and send them $20 a month for a while, then go take four years off to study pottery at a community college to pay $0 a month while the fed pays all your interest.

Oh, then even after that, even if you are actually personally paying interest on a loan, historically the rates have been competitive (though that flipped a few years back), and there are tax credits for education spending, and deductions that kick in even when you're just repaying school loans.

The most surprising feature of the American system to me is not the price, but how hard it works to camouflage all its progressive and meritocratic features.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/college-is-chea...
> DoorDash has a great business, in many ways better than Uber's.

Have you considered what happens to that business if DoorDash is forced to reclassify its workers as employees? A delivery business is particularly sensitive to classification because of all the expenses that drivers incur, namely those associated with the use of their vehicles.

Do a Google search for "delivery driver class action" and look at the Glassdoor reviews for some of the companies in the space, this one included. Instacart has already been sued and it's only a matter of time before all of the major players are forced to defend their models in court too. You don't just get a free pass because you build an app, raise a bunch of money from VCs on Sand Hill Road and try to position a basic delivery service as a technology-based communication platform.
If you are up for a bit of a challenge, that will prove very rewarding, I recommend reading "Madame Bovary". Flaubert writes with such poise that it's like being there, experiencing the emotion of the room. But it's very different from a modern book.
That explains the naming choice.
It would be nice of a "Head of Growth" would know how to be a upfront and honest person when praising his employer online. But then I guess "growth" has seldomly anything to do with those ethics.
To be fair, they have to leave some wiggle room while they investigate the extent of the hack.

With a bit of luck just the hot wallet got compromised, they trace how, fix it and honour any deposits made to the that wallet before the breach was detected. So far this is exactly what they say they are going to do. Time will tell but there's no reason to believe they wont act correctly at this stage.
Actually, I think it's wrong to just replace distracting text with bars, maybe there is something wrong with the text: too much, poor style etc - so leave the text where it has to be.

And for non-Latin lipsum, you can use this website: http://generator.lorem-ipsum.info/
Alternatively, mortality might make us selfless and less prone to flawed notions, as death forces us to eventually pass the baton to the next generation. Does wisdom come from age, or from impending death?
I think most monad tutorials would be quite ok if they didn't use words like "monad", "bind", "return" and so on. It's just stupid to insist on using names which mean nothing or when they mean something (return) it's actually opposite of what they're supposed to do. And no, there are no upsides to this: you math-inclined people may think so because you were trained to think that way, but it's simply not true.

I suspected this for a long time, but recently I saw a talk from Gilad Bracha - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons - which convinced me that I was right. Scroll to ~22 minutes into the talk for relevant section.

Ok, I finally said it. I feel better now, thanks ;)
How is this supposed to work in the real world? Imagine if you had to mail the payment for your electric bill to a different address every month.
With a design like that they're going to completely miss their target audience: the F150 buyers of America.
I really like that there is a focus on being able to deploy in k8s. Nice work!

However, some teams (ours) already run their own k8s clusters and would probably want to deploy gitlab in a namespace in there.

I hoped there would be simple example k8s manifests for doing this, but last time I checked I could only find helm charts. We don't use helm and don't want to use it.

If anyone knows some k8s manifests I can cut and paste to get started I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, it's going be be a job of creating it all myself, which right now is what's stopping us evaluating gitlab properly.
There doesn't seem to be a practical reason for it to look the way it does, so I doubt it looks that way because it's more practical. For one, the roofs angle is counter-intuitive if you intend to put a roof rack or other kinds of utility racks over the roof or roof and tray. The rear tray also has sides that go up to the roof. How are you supposed to put stuff in and out from the side of the tray? That's a pretty common use case, ignored for aesthetics. If the panels are aluminium, it's going to get roughed up pretty quickly in the tray sides and top parts as well.

The rear tray is also looks smaller than the renderings make it out to be. They have a quad in one picture that takes up the full length and then a sleeping fitout in another that also takes up the full length, either it's a really long quad or they are really short people.

I'm sure this will become more fleshed out over time, I doubt this is the final specification for the car.

I can't wait to see all the different renderings people come out with, to show potential aftermarket parts for this thing. I think that will be the real display of whether or not it will make for a good utility vehicle. I can imagine this looking extremely purposeful and rugged with the right equipment on it.
The Tacoma (Japanese) is the best selling mid-size truck in the US. It isn't the lack of Japanese trucks.
I got a speech like that from a co-worker, who has since called me to help him with my truck multiple times. Not so useless, it seems.
> Facts: On average rust is 10% slower on the banchmarkgame

That does not show it's 10% slower on average; it shows that C++ is 0.9917938291x as fast as Rust. They both have some where they win by 30%, most are closer, Rust is just faster on average.

> But they use llvm instead of gcc for c++,

C++ g++
g++ (Ubuntu 9.2.1-9ubuntu2) 9.2.1 20191008

?

> gcc is in average 20% faster than clang.

Extremely citation needed.
Have you looked at Adobe Brackets? It's basically that, open-sourced today. Or look at node-webkit if you only want the app framework without the editor. The biggest downside I see right now is HUGE binaries (100+MB) because you're bundling a browser in your exe.
> Perhaps Alexander's ultimate virtue is epistemic humility: His pieces are long, sometimes inconclusive, and accompanied by diverse commentary because he's committed to his own fallibility and lack of omniscience.

This is good, but the way he does it in respond to actual criticism[1] can be annoying. It reminds me of a squid spraying ink everywhere before escaping.

[1] mostly that they like to make fun of progressives/feminists, but tolerate people doing eugenics in the comment section because the commenters are nicer to them personally
Does C have destructors?
The new Let() function gives you multi row formulas, with local variables.

https://insider.office.com/en-us/blog/let-names-in-formulas-...

And it's a hack, but you can put text comments inside an N() function and add them into your formulas.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/n-function-a624ca...
Probably still C++. Sure, it's got plenty of warts and pitfalls, but at this point I'm sufficiently used to the ones in the subset that I work in that I can just get on with the domain problem and not really have to think too much about the language.
I thought the New York Times was a decent newspaper until their "French police shoot and kill man after a fatal knife attack on the street" title, that replaced later by a not so much better "Man Beheads Teacher on the Street in France and Is Killed by Police".

Even Macron felt the need to tell them they fucked up.
On the flip side, it taught me to be more humble - oftentimes I took things personally or as if any negativity erased put the author in some sort of camp.

I see the same sort of response here, which worries me - the NYT article isn't nearly as negative as I see the in-group worrying about: the only negative part I read is some minor slap of the wrist for staging a cancellation drama because journalists can't ethically agree not to share his name when it's already very public information
Ironically Scott Alexander has a couple of good posts about this topic

a discussion on how big institutions that are telling you the truth are competing both to keep their position and tell you the truth with a focus on medicine

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...

A more poetic version discussing the concept in general.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I don't want to use the web app; I want to read the rules of the game, in a plain HTML or text file (that I might print out if wanted), without scripts (CSS is probably not needed either, but if it isn't too big, it isn't a problem, since it can be disabled if it is problematic).

Many web pages will show nothing if scripts or disabled, or only display "Please enable JavaScripts"; this is a bad idea. Explain what it is. Link to documentation if it is available. I have seen one web page that did this; it did link to documentation when scripts are disabled, so that you can read how it is working. Unfortunately, they didn't do it properly; the documentation itself required scripts to work.
At the time of the creation of the Zionist organization, there was no legitimate way in which the Zionist Jewish diaspora could have claimed sovereignty over the territory known as Eretz Yisrael, a territory that they had lost 1700 years prior.

> after the holocaust there no longer existed the option of staying in Europe'

Today, there are many Jews living in Europe today.

The governments that persecuted Jews during World War II were defeated and ceased to exist. Today, antisemitism, hate speech and any hate related imagery is illegal and frowned upon pretty much everywhere.

> necessitating the creation of a jewish state

There are many Jews living in Europe, the US and Latin America. Therefore, that necessity is debatable. Also, many Jews are not Zionist.

You can live outside Israel and be Jewish and enjoy a religious life, and most people won't have a problem about it. In fact, most people will find it cool.

> As for the arab refugees, a similar number of jews were expelled from arab countries

A sovereign country has sovereignty over their domestic policies, including immigration. If you disagree with the immigration policies of a sovereign country, you can try to address that through diplomatic means.

> And up until the 18 century isral was largely a deserted wasteland. The land was made livable by early jewish pioneers.

Doesn't matter. If my neighbor doesn't take care of their yard, it is not legitimate for me to annex my neighbors' yard. That is a common logical fallacy used to justify colonialism.
Seems like no attribution is given to OpenStreetMap? That's not nice.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3a._I_would_lik...
According to Google cache, it is. The size change may be due to rewrite (version 2.0):

> This is the biggest change from Riot 1.0 to 2.0. JavaScript and HTML are now part of the same module.
A single 4K2K RGBD sensor at a high enough refresh could generate something in the 100Gbps range. The device has at least 2 (possibly 4?) forward facing sensors. It's presumably also doing inward facing gaze tracking, audio and IMU.

As a point of reference the Leap Motion Dragonfly has 2 x 3K sensors w/ 225fps color and 720fps tracking.

Presumably the "HPU" is an ASIC that bakes in some sort of SLAM/positional tracking, skeletal tracking, and gaze tracking.
A more accurate analogy would compare it to DNS requests instead of visits. I don't know that there's any scientific research out there correlating percentages of DNS requests to visiting a website. That said, it's not an unreasonable assumption that the overwhelming majority of requests for any given domain hosting a web server are for actual users to fetch the content hosted there.
Here in Sweden we've something called Moible Id and Bank-ID.

You register your mobile phone number on bank website (all Swedish banks offer this service) & download your security certificate on your cell phone or computer.

And from now on you can not only send money to any other mobile phone (via Swish [1]) but you can use your Mobile-ID/Bank-ID to login to every Govt/Private website/app.

Almost every company offers login via Mobile/Bank-ID. Guess what? I can sign off my taxes, parental leaves, sick leaves and whatnot just using the same MobileID. I don't create any logins/password on any Swedish websites at all. Transferring money isn't any exception.

[1] https://www.getswish.se/
The calculator won't use BIDMAS by default, as far as I know. So it may not be a bug.
Maybe you can find the answer from the comparison section:

https://muut.com/riotjs/compare.html
I'd be really interested in the views from people who were much more into JS than I am. I've used Angular for a couple of small cases now and I like it, but have been hearing lots of good stuff about React (and even Om, I'm quite Clojure inclined). How does this stack up against React in terms of power, brevity, etc?
TR would not have said it in better circumstances than now, when man's solemn plight to leave the planet is being pondered in earnest.
To me Quad9 seem a viable alternative for google/cloudflare

- no logging policy, iow adheres to GDPR
- global anycast service with Multiple points of presence around the world
- 99.999% uptime since 2016
- not opinionated: supports blocklist and 'no security blocklist' (9.9.9.10)
- supports ipv6
- support for dns over tls
- support for DNSSEC
- works with systemd-resolver
There are differences between these scenarios. In one case we have an individual who made a personal decision that does not affect anyone else. The contrary examples are of people imposing their will upon others to restrict the rights of others. There is very little one should do about the beliefs of others, regardless of what the evidence supports, unless it affects the rights of others.
>The main reason is that there isn't enough competition. Video Game Companies are pretty much in a monopoly.

I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong.

First, there is immense amounts of competition in video games; the industry is bigger than ever but there are so many companies and even small fry indie shops can make it big with talent and a bit of luck.

Second, there are tons of GTA/Doom/CSGO/sports games clones, licensing notwithstanding, that fail for various reasons that usually boil down to "bad game." Brand popularity matters, sure, but many studios blasted their way to huge sales and fame through having a damn good game, like Minecraft, Terraria, and Rocket League, to name a few.

There's so little barrier to entry in the gaming industry at the moment. If you make a good game, you will generally get tons of sales.
That's really taking it out of context.
facepalm sigh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26266902 ;)

Intel from the ground in Atlanta is that a person in the article is trying to milk it a bit. I cannot confirm myself, though.

I will say after doing a couple phone interviews with them recently, they make it extremely clear they are working heavily on D&I initiatives and creating a "non bro" "no asshole" culture. That is to say, some changes might already be in motion.
Some say the revived clock radio may end up being edged
off many bedside tables by its cousin, the music-playing,
Internet-connected smartphone.

I use both, in case the alarm on one of them malfunctions.
No problem. However several users have contacted us in the past about not only your blog post, but also the skewed benchmark graph on your front page. The skewing makes it appear as if your number is much (2x) higher which people apparently perceive as misleading. We've never made a fuss about this but now that you're mentioning it I might as well tell you.
#4 is a pretty well-populated market; you're going to need to be able to do something special there, if you want to distinguish yourself.