skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reads like an example of the classic genre of writing "nostalgia for how a place used to be which is really nostalgia for the life the author used to have"

You grow up; you stop going out to bars; you stop bouncing between different groups of friends who introduce you to interesting new experiences and start hanging around with parents; you spend your life in nicer restaurants and nicer neighborhoods and you wonder 'how did the city get so boring?'

The only way you can reach a conclusion like "Boston ... which used to be a city of a thousand nooks and crannies, back-alley restaurants and shops, dive bars and ice cream parlors ... is now one long, monotonous wall of modern skyscraper" is if the last time you visited Boston you visited a college friend who lived in Allston, but now whenever you visit the city it's to stop in at a client's office in the seaport.
Ah! OK, I saw his name too and figured that was also potentially the person. Oh, he was a founder of ArenaNet?!! Very cool! I met a lot of their staff last year at PAX. Great group of ppl IMO and those I spoke to were proud to work there. I guess Pat would be one of the founders they spoke of! :)
This is adopting the Jedi "I Have The High Ground" doctrine as seen in that space documentary.
That's far too simplistic. Naive people with no bias to start with can and do go down bizarre YouTube rabbit-holes and end up becoming flat-earthers or something else crazy.

In fact, most of today's flat-earthers seem to be primarily driven by the arguments from flat-earth claims and nothing more: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/may/27/is-the-earth-...
> San Francisco is overrun by tech conjurers who are rapidly annihilating its remarkable diversity; they swarm in and out of the metropolis in specially chartered buses to work in Silicon Valley

Swarm?

According to this SF Examiner article in 2017, there are 9,800 commuters every day from the shuttle program. That's barely over 1% of the city's population.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/tech-workers-voice-support-commute...
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Not the best book I've ever read. Not even my favorite book I've read. But it's the one I've read the most, and the one I always go back to. It reminds me of my childhood home, my time growing up there, as well as helps diminish my wanderlust when I'm feeling restless.

It also helped me through times of depression and encouraged a love of reading.
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Or we could not let companies murder people with shitty half baked hardware and software combinations.
Same. When I visited SF I was told that the restriction was due to earthquakes.

When I then pointed out the skyscrapers in the city center I was met with shrugs...
Vintage Early Antique Shower Designs
Not to mention, but most in flight entertainment systems DO run Linux.
False positive should be easy to avoid by looking at the sensors of people around the stadium...
I'm not buying the cheaper argument. Which part of transacting on the Bitcoin network is cheaper exactly? Mining is cost-intensive, and transaction fees are at least an order of magnitude higher than Visa. Equating SWIFT to Visa is also disingenuous as the former is meant for cross border settlements where the restrictions are regulatory (AML), not technology. Switching to Bitcoin doesn't mean Square or any other institution can simply ignore AML laws.

I see this mainly as a service they wish to provide to a segment of their customer. I also expect it to be a loss leader and shut down over time.
The wounds of the drone warrior
I wonder why nobody ever says, "she happens to have a good sense of humor, that's half the battle right there"
From the bottom of the page:

"There are in fact airports on Antarctica, but they are not classed as medium or large, and do not have scheduled services according to this dataset."
Is Bill Gates self-made? Or was it the fact that his father could cut a $25,000 check on a whim?

Having lots of ready liquid cash gets you the ability to make deals that normal people do not have access to.

You don't even have to be that rich. Take a look at Craigslist at the end of the month before rent is due.
Statements like this seem to be trying to make the point that any amount of increased public risk is unacceptable unless everyone opts in to accept it.

I find this argument entirely uncompelling. There are an inordinate amount of risks imposed upon me while operating in society which I neither agreed to nor would I given the choice, aside from in a hand-wavy “social contract” sense.

However as a member of society I am in fact compelled to accept myriad risks on a daily basis imposed on me for the benefit of others, or the benefit of potential scientific advancement.

This concept that a society cannot morally make risk-reward decisions in the course of technological advancement is entire bunk IMO. Government can absolutely morally make these trade offs and does so constantly.

I feel pretty good about the current legal and regulatory frameworks and the technical chops of the NTSB to monitor developments in self-driving R&D adequately.

One thing I am certain of is that we absolutely must succeed in developing, productizing, deploying, and ultimately mandating self-driving technology. Millions of lives and trillions of dollars are at stake, and yes, society as a whole will incur individual loss of life in the pursuit of this goal. An attempt to develop the technology with zero risk of collateral damage would in fact cost many more lives overall.
This has not been my experience. Last month I called 911 after getting hit by a car and I was speaking with someone within 10 seconds.
not much happens when such a small earthquake happens....
Does the President's authority as Commander in Chief extend to creating a new branch of the armed forces? The US Air Force was created by an act of Congress (the National Security Act of 1947), not by a Presidential order.
Totally agree.

As an aside, I too have noticed our coffee improve over the last ten years.

I'd bet money that has to do with the Aussie work visa program that went into effect sometime around 2009. Quid pro quo for Howard supporting the Iraq War.

Our subways are fucked and something needs to be done about the empty storefronts in high rent neighborhoods.
If you're mesmerized by the "Game of Life" like I am your going to enjoy the Continuously Domain versions like smooth life.
Check out the video[0], and an implementation in python[1] on HN.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17152481
I still hear the Marathon rocket launcher from time to time (rare now) and that alien cackle was so great.
I support a lot of your goals, but I think increasing taxation is a bad way to do it. Do you think the government spends money efficiently now? I don't think even the most left-leaning person could argue that.

I would rather see the current welfare system made more efficient before we start giving more money to it. Our healthcare system already spends 1.5-2x more than other developed countries for similar outcomes. Addressing that would be a good place to start.
How to change your company culture: a four-step framework
The Supreme Court isn’t ruling on if the App Store is legal, they’re ruling on if the class has grounds to sue correct?
ContentID isn't learning because it doesn't train to make inferences; it looks for exact signature matches on the audio, normalizing for alterations like pitch changes and equalization.

All sorts of computer applications that are not considered AI have replaced humans. For instance, databases replace clerks having to shuffle papers to and from filing cabinets.
> just the same pattern as you've always used

What's the "pattern I've always used"?

Anyway, the problem is one of call/return in general, whether expressed in an FP language or not. It really wants to return something. With a real dataflow approach, that just goes away. And nothing is simpler than something.
I met a friend, who I am still friends with today by lending them my Diablo 1 manual in class. That was an amazing manual.
I believe China is too unbalanced in their IP protection in order to 'win the tech race'. They either have a monopoly that controls the market via Chinese gov, or there are no rules at all and everyone will backstab you. I believe that these conditions are unfavorable for true technological innovation.
It’s so expensive that only Google can afford.
As strongly as I advocate measures to combat real estate hyperinflation, I've come to think that building more real estate is only a small part of the solution.

Why does everyone have to be in New York? San Francisco? LA? Boston? Seattle? Why does everything upwardly mobile, creative, interesting, or otherwise productive need to super-concentrate in a small list of super-dense cities?

The US has dozens of medium sized cities with affordable rents, affordable housing, and interesting history, and hundreds to thousands of smaller cities and towns depending on where you stop looking. Why can't interesting stuff happen in these places?

Indeed it did once. The Altair, widely regarded as the first quasi-PC, came from Albaquerque, New Mexico. The IBM PC was designed in Boca Raton, Florida. Commodore, one of the best selling PC lines in the 80s, came from Philadelphia by way of Toronto. Texas Instruments in Dallas was once a leader in the semiconductor industry (they still lead in some ares like DSPs but have fallen quite a bit.) Apple came from the Bay Area, so that's one out of quite a few. The rest of the early PC industry came from elsewhere.

Today that list of cities would be San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco, and maybe Seattle.

What happened? It's very paradoxical. The Internet was supposed to make it easier to compete from geographically diverse locales by making access to information easier and breaking gatekeepers, but it seems to have had the opposite effect. Either that or the decentralizing effect of the net has been swamped by some other much more powerful centralizing effect that has simultaneously been in operation.
You are right, but my plane is taking off an I need to be brief:

These all check:

- iran

- TTIP

- NAFTA

- Paris accord

And more
Ink x86, ALL synchronization primitives are "LOCK" prefixed. That is: for the FULL Read-modify-write, the cache line is held in exclusive mode (or equivalent). Its just how the assembly code works.

Furthermore, ALL loads / stores are almost strictly ordered on x86.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410-f10/doc/Intel_Reordering_318147.p...

> Intel 64 memory ordering obeys the following principles:

> 1. Loads are not reordered with other loads.

> 2. Stores are not reordered with other stores.

> 3. Stores are not reordered with older loads.

> 4. Loads may be reordered with older stores to different locations but not with older stores to the same location.

> 5. In a multiprocessor system, memory ordering obeys causality (memory ordering respects transitive visibility).

> 6. In a multiprocessor system, stores to the same location have a total order.

> 7. In a multiprocessor system, locked instructions have a total order.

> 8. Loads and stores are not reordered with locked instructions.

As such, "relaxed atomics" DO NOT EXIST on x86. Almost everything on x86 is innately an acquire / release semantics (even non-locked stuff).

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As such, the optimal spinlock-unlock implementation on x86 doesn't use the LOCK prefix at all! You rely upon the memory-ordering consistently guaranteed by the x86 processor, and let the cache-coherence mechanism handle everything for you.

You'll still need the "lock" to obtain the lock (writing 1 into the memory location AND reading the old value). But unlocking the lock (writing 0 into the memory location) can be done x86-LOCK-prefix free.

In contrast, a CAS-atomic on x86 needs to "LOCK" the memory bus, which under x86 is specified as:

> Causes the processor’s LOCK# signal to be asserted during execution of the accompanying instruction (turns the
instruction into an atomic instruction). In a multiprocessor environment, the LOCK# signal ensures that the
processor has exclusive use of any shared memory while the signal is asserted.

So when you do a CAS-atomic on x86, in REALITY, the LOCK-prefix will be asserted, locking out all other cores from interacting with your cache line.

------------

So the cache-coherence mechanism on x86 seems sufficiently robust and well optimized by Intel / AMD, at least with our current 28-core Xeons and 32-core EPYCS. Future scaling may be an issue for Intel/AMD, and ARM / Power9 (which have true relaxed memory) may scale better eventually.
The government's creepy obsession with your face
Develop scalable GraphQL services on your desktop using the AWS AppSync Emulator
It's simple:

* No mentoring from more experienced developers
* Refactoring (techniques and reason) isn't a course
* No real-world, e.g., practical, exercises (depends on school)

CS classes teach the basics, and theory. These are both important. They tend to fall over on teaching practical applications of both.

Most development takes place far outside the realm of "theory". I haven't implemented my own data structures since a decade out of college (in those days I still did because I did a lot of embedded work, and there wasn't much of an internet). Only rarely do I need to consider time complexity (although I do).

This is just my experience; I did embedded/firmware for a decade, then web development. For the first half of that I used math more than CS. For the past twenty years nothing I've done even existed when I was in college.

The solution? Continue to teach the basics and theory: IMO you must have a strong background. But mix it in with real-world applications, with code reviews, with revisions, etc.

The best example of this we had back in my day was the final senior project, but even that had no code review or critique.
So instead of using ACH which uses a currency with a fairly stable value and has a resolution process, they should use the blockchain instead, hope there are no major security issues in the near future, and hope their transaction eventually settles?

> Square creating a liquidity solution

How is putting transactions across the blockchain instead of ACH or Swift "more liquid"? I mean, I suppose if you want to evade taxes maybe, but I'm not clear how that actually helps the payment processor. Square doesn't benefit from "liquidity".
I haven't done the research but if you look at the kinds of groups that are settled above the Arctic Circle and how they got there, vs how a group would have got to Antarctica, it may just boil down to accessibility. Whalers eventually patrolled Antarctica's seas but, if they tried to farm its shores they didn't get very far. The Polynesian settlers of the South Seas are hard to beat for navigation ability, but one imagines that either the seas were not worth crossing, or the lands were not worth populating, to those navigators. On the other hand, Greenland and Iceland have at times supported Europeans and their agriculture.

Antarctica was not well bounded on maps until the Wilkes expedition and others in the 1830's.
I had the exact same experience. That was also my first true adolescent introduction to the female form with the full page rogue showing some rather PG-13 characteristics.
I agree. Eventually, the market should figure out that excessive goals lead to bad actors reducing long term value. So losing money on investments is as good of a feedback mechanism as any I can think of.
Could you provide some more detail on what made it a drag? Was it just the Amazon API issues? Cost? Security? Governance? Your experiences here seem like they could be valuable to other folks in the same situation.
What a fantastic bunch of games those were, right? We eventually had such a blast playing Descent: Freespace at LAN's.. great game.. anyway.. the Descent devs are at it again!

https://playoverload.com/
This idiot decries the building boom in Seattle while blaming high rents for the problems in New York. Get on one side of the "build more housing" argument or the other.
That's the line that made me give up on the article. The author twists the truth to fit his narrative.
You must not have paid attention in history class. When the colonies, primarily the US, started doing better than the old European countries ... what happened ? And yes, immigrants in the US beat quite a few traditional industries at their own game, under rules set by people trying to sabotage them. Well done, right ? So what happened ...

Peace, love and prosperity ? Or something else ?
I’m not willfully ignorant. The regulation you want to exist (brand gating) does not exist in US law. You must not seek brand approval to sell their goods. You’re attempting to spread misinformation because (it appears) you have an axe to grind.
Focus on discipline over motivation.

Here's a quote from Jim Wendler (5/3/1 workout program) I like quite a bit

"Discipline always trumps motivation. Motivation is about emotion and too many times, we rely on emotion to raise our performance. Unfortunately, this can quickly wear you down and if you aren't motivated, lead to lackluster or missed training sessions.

Discipline doesn't care how you feel, what the weather is or if you've had a bad day. Discipline will carry the strong. Discipline will drive success. Discipline doesn't need a "hype" video or loud music."

If you are having trouble, start small. I got into the habit of making my bed every single day before anything else. Once I built that habit I started applying that to other things, and now I hardly think about it at all.

Take the emotion out of getting stuff done. Also keep hydrated and well rested. It's amazing what proper sleep and being hydrated will do for focus.
> How is this bad? It seems like you are implying it is. Also how is diablo 3 mass-market and diablo 2 not?

It's not, it's just a different approach than what most ARPGs (including D1 & 2) take. ARPGs tend to be information heavy, customization heavy, and hard to get into as a result. That's not the way blizz went, which is fine, but it turns off the hardcore ARPG fans.

>Agree, that is how I play it. This is slightly hyperbolic but not that far off. It took me about 2 days of playing to get to T13 (the hardest difficulty). This could be made more interesting but I kind of enjoy tweaking my build and min-maxing :)

Which is perfectly fine :)

Sure, I was simplifying things a bit, but the fact that you (or anyone else) can get to ROFLSTOMP levels of power in a couple of days is a departure from most ARPGs. Min-maxing in D3 is essentially "Is the tooltip green?" You have a handful of stats you care about, defined by your 6 piece (which you were handed) the vast majority of the time, and all you're doing is making incremental improvements to those few stats as you grind rifts. Not much depth there. Paragon levels are too strong and should just go away IMO.

>Which diablo? Diablo 3 is a true sequel, you just don't like it, which is fine.

We're talking about a "spiritual successor" here. In other words, a game that builds upon the core gameplay concepts introduced by Diablo. Diablo 3 is not that. It does not resemble D1 or 2 in tone, setting, or gameplay (aside from running around and killing stuff obviously.)

I have yet to find a single person who would argue that D3 is an evolution of the original design as opposed to a complete re-imagining of the genre. Hell, it's not even a loot focused grind any longer.
Agreed. I believe some of the open source rebuilds of various SimCity titles use the same tactic.
No chargebacks?
Makes sense. That makes it sound like Pulumi only runs the infrastructure declarations when you run "pulumi update", and that those things don't run when your program runs. That's confusing to me, because your examples (like the thumbnailer) seems to have the program and the declarations in the same file.

Is Pulumi stateful, then? If you create resources with "pulumi update", change the declarations without updating, and run "pulumi destroy" or whatever, it will only delete the stuff you created in the first step? (That is what I would expect. I would also expect it to support a dry run mode with a diff showing what operations would be executed.) If so, where is this state stored?
A public-domain alternative to that would be a Geohash[1]. Instead of 3 words, its a string of letters and numbers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
Obligatory mention: John Socha is the author of Peter Norton books as well as Norton Commander.
Literally every OO programmer is on the hook for knowing a huge array of smalltalk-derived patterns. MANY programmers use languages with significant inheritance from Smalltalk.

Common Lisp also isn't coming back despite having some amazing features. Let's both dry our tears and move on.
Please let me know if anyone faces any problem with the tool.
As someone who studied Voronoi diagrams in college, I find this really fascinating. It's a really cool way of visualizing the data.
Then you simply don't like ARPGs, period. ARPGs are loot games. The entire point of these games is literally grinding for loot. Loot makes you strong, not levels. You want a different genre, which is fine, but change the loot part of an ARPG and you're left with an RPG.
Any algorithm that produces a Boolean result is "automated decision making".　You pop in the inputs, let the automaton run, and there is your yes or no.
You do realize that 80% of people worth >$1 million had parents that were not millionaires right?
I'm really surprised you including India in the list. India is as democratic as the USA. The laws were put in place in India at least around Crypto to save people from being scammed.
You can probably prove this one way or another.
If this was so carefully designed why isn’t there an LED ring around the card slot? The first time I used one, the clerk had to explain several times that there was a nearly invisible card slot in front of me.
Web Prolog [pdf]
the byline should be "an author ages and realizes the world has changed around him"
Here is a recent quote from by the Secretary Defense on the topic.

"I believe it is premature to add additional organization and administrative tail to the department at a time I am trying to reduce overhead."
Somebody, please put Google News out of its misery
There is a difference between not including something in a curated channel (like the youtube kids app) and blocking it.
Yeah, the day I bought the game, along with my best friend and PC gaming buddy, after playing for hours, we stayed up really late as I read the manual aloud. Ahh memories.
That includes preventing people from moving in if it comes to that.

I'm not sure people contest that NYC can't do that, I think it's just considered a pretty bad idea that also runs against a lot of American ideals. For example, we usually try to avoid the whole birthright thing. And, what a mess we'd have on our hands if (for example) when Detroit's economy tanked, every other city had closed their doors and Detroit residents effectively weren't allowed to go anywhere else.
I'm not sure that's the case here.
Nothing is too complex to handle, it just depends on how many resources you have at your disposal and perhaps how much interest there is.

Edit: I suppose in this case it would depend on exactly what capability one would have over the original game data which acts as a dependency for this.