jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The system may have overestimated your league based on your placement. I was placed in Gold (even though I'm a low Silver) and had to suffer through about 30 games before I was demoted to Silver.

Since then, however, I discovered that it's only league adjustment that happens at around 30 games. The system ALWAYS tries to keep you at a 50% win ratio... so even though you're placed in gold, and it says you're in gold, if you're really a bronze then the system will eventually have you playing against bronze. It just needs more data to figure out your skill level.

TL;DR: Don't worry! Keep playing and eventually you'll have some wins under your belt.

If you want, you can send me a replay and I'll give you some feedback. (I'm a Silver Zerg.)
> The new Proton interface is much easier on the eye the original interface.

It looks almost exactly the same to me, just a couple things shuffled around.

Anyway, I think it's perfect exactly how it is.
You can study something somewhere, say at a trade school, or night school, but not at a university and we are talking about university education. We are not talking about secondary education or vocational trade schools. Telling a kid who wants to go to university that they can't do that because their test scores are too low but there is a great refrigeration maintenance vocational school that will accept them does not mean that university education is available to them.

In the US if you have a checkbook and pulse there will be a university that will accept you regardless of your test scores. Not every university, not MIT, but Joe Bob State will take you. Universities even offer remedial education programs so those who are barely literate and innumerate can still enroll, stay longer, and graduate from the university. In Germany you would have been routed out of the system and rerouted to a vocational school, which you are lumping in with a university education by using the vague word "study". "Anyone can study". Well, anyone can study at a library in the US, too, but we are talking about admission to university.
I though it would just lead to more heat, but reading this[1] from Seagate it seems indeed possible that the drive will not function if too much air gets in:

Furthermore, the use of a higher number of thinner disks is not possible because the windage induces turbulence and makes 7200-RPM tracking impossible at the desired TPIs. The only way to reduce windage in air-filled HDDs is to significantly lower the spindle speed (RPM). However, the largest part of the business-critical market is not willing to accept lower RPMs due to the performance and throughput loss. This means that helium HDD technology is the only viable path forward for delivering higher capacities because it will allow for an increased number of thinner disks.

That said, they also go into the efforts they do to seal the helium, so hopefully the helium stays put...

[1]: https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/product-content/en...
I'd say this is the mantra humanity has used for over 2,000 years and part of the issue.

It's not so much that I'm saying technological development is bad. Obviously we won't stop making new tech. It's that the larger context in which that tech development is happening is toxic, is not oriented towards health or wellbeing for everyone. The incentives are all perverted.
I disagree, if anything, it just escalates the resulting conflict when it inevitably goes hot again.

Conflict never stops, it just becomes indiscernable from diplomacy.
I too find light switches in large and unfamiliar houses to be confusing. Of all the things Trump could be criticized for, I agree that this one is not fair.
In all honesty though if you started using BTC as your main currency*, replacing your national currency, one day you'd have your money in BTC, the next day their value would be wiped out. We're not talking about a slow and steady decline, halving of the value in a decade. We're talking "no money to buy food for the next few months". Many people in countries with unstable currencies are particularly vulnerable to this kind of fluctuations because in general they have nothing to absorb the shock, no assets, no savings, etc. Unlike traders these people can't just wait for the rebound, by that time they're bankrupt.

BTC is useful for exactly the scenarios it's almost exclusively used in now: speculative transactions (buy low, sell high), or transactions for less than legal stuff and the overwhelming majority of proponents are in these 2 camps. There's a much smaller group of proponents made up of people who don't understand currencies in general (besides the basics, like spending them), or cryptocurrencies in particular.

I'm sure some form of electronic tender would fill this role you're describing but it's not BTC and probably none of the major cryptocurrencies on the market now.

* (putting aside the network capacity, number of transactions/sec, the cost of producing a BTC and of a transaction, etc. which make it completely unsuitable for the purpose of using the currency instead of just storing and trading it, which is probably the only significant purpose of BTC today)
Fuchsia's not a real thing and it's never going to be. You don't have to worry about it, it's just a make-work project for some people at google to feel cool.
> I often handle Either (and Option) using pattern matching when I feel it's important to give both code paths equal importance and equal visibility in the code, but people change it because flatMap is supposedly more idiomatic, and they believe that eliminating pattern matching from their code is a sign of sophistication.

Isn't this the same as letting exceptions bubble up in a non-FP language?
yes but are they not re-using the MS put it a container strategy of how they handle the differences between their specific kernel and hoe Linux kernel and Unix POSIX standards are implemented?
It will only revert if people sell. What if nobody sells because they equate selling with giving up on their dreams of fighting climate change?
> Sure, now you have 10 mln dollars in BTC at all tine high, and 2 mln after price drops but in day to day purchases it doesn't matter.

This doesn't track at all, unless it is a safe assumption that the general trend of Bitcoin will always be up, and you are able to time the market to do any major withdrawals at higher prices. Or, you don't have any major withdrawals, and you luck out in that your many small withdrawals average out at a higher price.

None of that is guaranteed, and with Bitcoin's volatility, you're in for a bit of a ride every step of the way.

For people who have big Bitcoin hoards due to (say) mining back when mining was cheap, maybe they won't mind the swings so much since all of it is "free surprise money", but this doesn't really work for people who bought into Bitcoin in the last 5 years or so (either by buying coins with fiat currency, or by building expensive mining rigs and burning electricity).

(If you're solely talking about the first kind of person, then: apologies! In that case I think you're pretty much on the nose.)
As this method doesn’t teach your body as well... could it be that the higher dose could increase the longevity of protection?

My understanding is the mRNA based vaccines already aren’t as effective at long-term protection. But happy to be corrected if someone had insight.
> It also can't catch trivial stuff like misspelling a struct field on a variable of known type.

The default definition is

`getproperty(x, f::Symbol) = getfield(x, f)`

and `getproperty` can be overridden for a type, so `foo.a` can succeed even if `getfield(foo, :a)` fails. (`getfield` cannot be overridden).

So it's not trivial to determine, given the the of `foo`, from the syntax `foo.a` whether that code errors.
Not all bacteria is bad
Sounds to me like the way the law is enforced should change then. There should be a fine for not following the law if the content is removed or not updated. If the fine is sufficiently high, then there will be no incentive to just remove the content. There will still be a disincentive to create it in the first place, but at least existing content won't disappear.
Hyatt anecdote at https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6855&v=krB0enBeSiE&feature=y....

The point is not about Silicon Valley, commercialization of the Web (although as Dorothy Denning observed, the pre-Web Academic Internet was a more secure world only because not many attackers yet), or academic pressure. WiB applies to biology. I have friends at a synth-bio startup, one tweeted humorously the other month about how bad a hack evolution is!
> their low cost and efficiency has enabled a huge expansion of outdoor lighting.

This is exactly it. Leaving half a dozen LEDs on all night long is far cheaper than doing the same with traditional lighting. Then you have those stupid strings of warm white LEDs that I assume are intended to look like candles and are apparently all the rage right now. To say nothing of the couple of houses across the valley that have motion lights--at the end of their driveway--activated either by a brisk breeze or errant skunk.

What worries me isn't so much whether light pollution is contributing to mass insect deaths (that seems debatable); it's that light pollution is getting so much worse that appreciating the night sky is going to become increasingly harder for more and more of the population.
The actual paper: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~myding/papers/baking_paper_final....
Yes, because if Richard Stallman was wget'ing his daily webpages, he would have a lot of trouble interpreting that site without going into xwindows.
I hear what you are saying, but I'm talking about a headless system, accessed via the browser, that could handle most of these syncing and upgrade tasks over my LAN.

The idea is to move "the cloud" to my LAN. I have an always on, 12mbps/ 2mbps connection, which is plenty; and, I connect to it daily anyway. I already do this with an off-the-shelf NAS (4TB Raid), but it is too difficult to configure securely for most people (lots of SSH/ ip tables/ port forwarding).

Bonus points for a full RoR stack that would allow me to buy and install gems with minimal configuration.
Privileged? Ha. What a odd way of putting it. In what way is going to school a privilege? It's almost expected for everyone to go to a college/university nowadays.

You're right, but what I meant is that, in terms of recourse and tolerance of misbehavior, college students are privileged in a way they won't be in 10 years. Here's a case of clear wrongdoing by the students (if they can be called that) in which the wrongdoers hold the cards. You're simply not going to see that in any workplace. Give most people 12 months in a real-world work environment, and they'll see people getting fired for a lot less than that.

If you get caught cheating in a class, fail him or her in THAT CLASS. Mention it in their academic report, so that other teachers in the university are aware, and they the teachers themselves can decide whether or not they want that particular individual in their classroom.

What I suggest is more forgiving. The 12-month suspension is harsh, but after the student has completed that obligation, he or she can return as a student in full status. I don't think people should have damaged "permanent records" for cheating, but I do think the punishments should be decisive and severe enough to encourage the person to think differently about the actions that created the problem.
I experienced all those same issues. I don't really care about my sleep score as I'm just in it to abuse my body into giving me more coding hours. Autosuggesting tags is but a feature request and some developer attention away. As far as tagging data, I thought the whole point was so that you could keep your own metrics not that you had to. The only thing they can monitor is how well you slept. It's up to the users to correlate that with pre- and post- sleep variables. They have general comments about how to improve sleep scores, but it'd be nice if they offered suggestions based on apparent symptoms in your data.

The charger thing is super annoying, especially that they offered no avenue to recycle them instead of just chucking them in the garbage.
Up until now for all of those seizures that I've checked the registrar has always been located in the US. In such a case I understand that the domain name falls under US laws.

However, in this case it is a little bit unclear: The "ub.com" domain itself has been registered with an UK based registrar, but the nameservers point to a US company (UltraDNS). Still, from the evidence available it seems that the US directly tampered with the data at the registry (VeriSign):

* According to the UK registrar's WHOIS information the responsible nameserver for the domain is at UltraDNS.

* UltraDNS seems to return the 'correct' results.

* When asking the .com nameservers for the ub.com nameservers, they return two nameservers at cirfu.net.

* cirfu.net leads to the web page with the seizure information.

So yes, it seems that the FBI can indeed size any .com domain, even though it has been registered with a registrar outside of the US. If I'd be a company not based in the US now would be the time where I'd think about migrating to another TLD - I guess for online gamling sites even .ly domains would be a better bet than .com.
Um, no, US citizens don't know that.

If they did, smart professional players like Durrr and Ivey wouldn't keep multi-million dollar bankrolls online that are subject to loss at any time.

That's just common sense.
LivingSocial just did a similar $1 sale today in DC to launch their new Instant Deals, which are location based paid coupons. They advertised on the front page of the free commuter newspaper, the radio, even had people walking around Chinatown with distinct orange shirts.

Needless to say, their servers were having a rough time keeping up. The main web page served up timeouts every few page requests and the member creation system didn't work for a coworker. However, it seemed like the order processing system seemed pretty snappy, and the iPhone app stayed solid too (I'm referring to the server-side parts of course).
At the end of the day you have you deliver value, and being in debt for a lifetime isn't value. My fear is that the higher end schools won't change their ways and that only the very rich will be able to get a degree from a name school. I really see this as hurting the middle class in a huge way...
Top level observation - the linked post was made on a blog and was shared via Hacker News. "Facebook" only features as a word in this whole multi-log.

That means, to me, that there is a really solid and significant world outside of Facebook.
The invention of the internet and related technologies has had a devastating impact on religion.

Really? The internet is a communication tool and as much as it enables atheists to communicate and be vocal, it is enabling religious people to do the same.
I guess he could mean that you could find a plaintext that had the same hash value through use of a collision ... but that's just finding a preimage.
Great choice, forget about that Nobel Peace prize guy who is locked up for freedom of thought and speech or something about democracy... It's a hard name to remember anyway.
This would kill their business as TV news programs would show counting the money before it went into the machine and how much the machine claimed was counted. The fees that Coinstar rakes in are enough to ensure a great profit margin without actually stooping to miscounting coins.
What has changed with the Wikileaks prior to the last set?

Wikileaks is also not just a 2010 phenom.
"he stopped the effort dead in its tracks, because it would mean "having to learn something new," and that statement pretty much sums up the prevalent mentality in the .NET community."

This is an over the top and even somewhat offending generalization. I don't know if all companies in Scottsdale are like this, but I can promise you that it's most definitely not the prevalent mentality in the .NET community nor in most .NET shops I know of.
I wish news articles would stop conflating segregation with racial imbalance. The former is but one possible cause for the latter.

"Racial imbalance is not segregation. Although presently observed racial imbalance might result from de jure segregation, racial imbalance can also result from any number of innocent private decisions, including voluntary housing choices." -- Clarence Thomas
If you can freely change the meaning of words then they may as well have no meaning at all.
Could you tell us how you worked?
so TL;DR of this gist...

> > what is the point of Unity, now?

> Unity was good for prototyping. Access to Unreal engine source is great.

Doesn't sound they are making much of an argument to redeem Unity.
A lot of electricity in the US is charged differently during "off-peak hours". I know some EV owners who take advantage of this by scheduling when they charge their cars.
Unreal licensing is crazy compared to Unity. A % of revenue is millions of dollars potentially. You cant compare that to the fixed opex per developer seat with unity.
It’s a strategic design for a company to use one or the other. So far in all companies I’ve worked for and have consulted for attribute their choice to cost and ease of hiring.
This POV needs to shove it, because even those institutions can have their resources revoked by people waking up and accepting capital allocation is their responsibility.

This is the toxicity that has younger people rightfully angry at how the system works, and how it is "rigged". People just haven't had the info bandwidth previously to even contemplate these problems.

So no. WalterBright should absolutely do with his shares as he wilt, as should everyone else. Frankly, I wish institutional investment was deconstructed to at least get people coordinating with each other from the ground up to accept what it is their institution's manager was actually perpetuating.
Candidate for alt HN tagline :)
I just wanted to clarify that these are the main points extracted from the PowerPoint linked. I actually do write for a living, but most of what I write is proprietary for closed distribution.
C++'s complexity does not arise from its power. With the exception of templates, C is just as powerful but far more orthogonal and simple.

E.g. the difference between references and pointers. E.g. the phenomenally baroque template syntax. E.g. phenomenally complex rules for multiple inheritance. Slicing problem. Syntax so hard to parse only a couple do it right. Lots of features that just don't carry their weight (operator overloading).
That worked because social computing was still on the fringe and its relatively small user base only intersected one of our social spheres. If our parents had had livejournals, we would have had this problem.
For those skipping right to the comments: basically, this is a consumer of startup financing:

* sticking up for the law of supply and demand because it currently favors him, and

* criticizing producers of startup financing for complaining about supply and demand when it disfavors them.
Could a snailmail/sneakernet gateway to the Web be implemented for prisoners? Email/telnet WWW gateways were used in the early days for people who couldn't install clients, were on intermittent connectivity, etc.

I must admit to fantasising about truckloads of paper rolling in and out of prisons until somebody says "Enough" and gives them Internet access.

The carrier pigeon RFCs could actually be put in to practice here, just think of the potential.
I'm assuming he will keep at least part of his money in a corporation to develop his game.
Me too, for what it is worth. At least three times this year half my brain was screaming "They're going to find out any second now!. Flee, flee!"

It all worked out.
I am a solo founder in a situation where I am pretty much damned if I say "we" or damned if I say "I" since I do have a team. They are all friends and contractors some working for a little equity but others just on contract.

The problem I run into is I want to include them when talking about developments "we" have made on our app, but at the same time, in startup circles people immediately think I am BS'ing them on how big my team is.

If I use "I" and then can't go into every minute detail of our database architecture and API calls, and why we chose that instead of X, Y and Z, I look like a fraud. I trust my developers to help point me in the right direction with regard to languages, API's, development processes and the like. They give me the general details and I make the call.

To solve this issue, among others, I am basically learning everything I can about the developing and by the time this hits V-2.0 I should at least be able to build v-1.0 from scratch on my own.
What??? You're promising them a live performance of "Land of Lisp"???

I didn't authorize this... Oh well, I guess I'll have take a trip to the basement and dust off my acoustic guitar :-)

-Conrad
It is, but the delivery guys careening around the city aren't carrying deep dish pizzas. It's all thin crust, pub cut please.
They have a GSM network too: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Static:GSM
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Thanks for posting this. I've had two friends profoundly affected by the drug. One is now schizophrenic after taking a large dose and will have a lifelong struggle. Thankfully he is supported by his family and his mom is a psychiatrist.

The second took a large dose about a decade ago and after being a very conservative straight guy. Mormon. Straight A's. Didn't take drugs or drink. He immediately dropped out of school, moved in with a prostitute and decided he wanted a sex change. That was 10 years ago. Last year he had sex reassignment surgery in Thailand.

In both cases I suspect the drug opened pathways that were suppressed. I see LSD as a truly mind altering drug. In rare cases it alters minds for the better. In many cases it exposes latent problems that can be debilitating and life-destroying.
Soon: imaginary bombs, weighting sqrt(-1) t :)
Could try jobs.github.com. Coffee script will also be a semi-default in Rails 3.1. A Ruby and good JS person should be able to pickup CoffeeScript in a few hours though.
It’s quite possible that there were way less items in the store on launch, or during testing. Then it could easily be overlooked. Of course no excuse to not fix it later.
Sounds like a great and very creative idea for a game! Shame it never saw the light of day.
> Why can't the applications needed for coding be like any other normal application? You don't need to use esoteric stuff like emacs to be a coder.

What's a "normal application"? How would you classify Xcode?

The complexity comes from the nature of the work. Nobody wants complexity for its own sake, but sometimes you need it, otherwise you can't accomplish anything. That's what the "power" part of the power user means. The power to accomplish your goals. I would contrast "power user" with "powerless user". ;-)
Within the same company, for the same project, working two full-time roles, doing 80+ hour weeks for months on end? I can't think of a games company where that hasn't happened. :)
> Post a source for your examples

My "source" was in the sentence prefacing my bullets: Before becoming a developer I worked in hotels (as a banquet manager)... In response to another comment I went into a little more detail on each bullet[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9249449
That's a pretty stupid reason. The real reason ist that most software doesn't run on a cluster at all and an 8 core Ryzen costs less than $170 and $340 for a full system without a GPU but is significantly faster than a 10 node rasperry pi cluster ( doesnt even include sd card power supply network gear)
That is the beauty of services that are easy to sell. Everything is fairly clear, it is "just" a matter of execution at scale - i know i am oversimplifying the execution bit, but most startups have trouble figuring out the product-market fit, and even if they do, often have markets that are small.