skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love to joke that cloud functions are just PHP shared hosts that support node, go, etc as opposed to PHP, Perl etc. It is a bit of an exaggeration, of course, but fun to joke about.

I agree completely. The tranactional nature of that shared hosting era made hosting an application or website orders of magnitude cheaper and easier and led to an absolute boom of open source solutions like Wordpress. I hope to see some standardization across the serverless ecosystem to allow a similar situation as opposed to the lock-in approach taken by AWS and other cloud platforms.
Only three of the nine execs of Walgreen Boots Alliance have wikipedia pages.

http://www.walgreensbootsalliance.com/about/senior-managemen...
Completely agree, it's surprising more games don't reward alternative outcomes to melees.

I've been fascinated by the consumption of violent content in general over the last few years, but I struggle to find good reading on the topic, and my usual internet hangouts haven't been super helpful (I suspect some redditors think I'm an anti-gamer by asking about research into violent content consumption).
No, you got things in reverse order.

First, you make the determination that people should be assessed based on objective metrics.
Second, you then try to correct (unconscious) bias with necessary metric-correcting, like gender balance.

If you put gender balance as the underlying truth, and then to optimize your process to make it work, you will see various issues that eventually sabotage your goals.
> the new government was in a really better position to try "the revival". They started reinvesting and giving the appearance that we are growing (and some things are, but also government spending). And it seems to be working so far...

This statement is very far from the truth.

The current acting government actually cut investment spending to record levels as part of their renewed austerity effort, both with higher taxes and slending cuts, that resulted in record low deficit spending.

While the previous goveremt of Portugal focused on higher income taxes focused on the middle/upper class and public sector workers, the current acting government forced increases in gas prices mixed with off-the-bool spending cuts in the form of captivation of expenditures.

The key factor in Portugal's economic turnaround is the fact that the austerity program was actually surprisingly effective at fixing Portugal's problem, as is demonstrated by the fact that the portuguese recession that started way back in 2008 ended in 2014, right before the end of the austerity program.
He’s not mad, he’s actually laughing.
If there are no consequences to lying and lying gets you power and influence you are at a disadvantage to not lie.
In a lot of cases, US roads are wider than needed because the fire department wants to continue riding the 30s style fire engines you know from the kids books to their missions, 99.9% of which do not involve fire. And the tradeoff is that a lot more people die from vehicular crashes than ever would to fires.

It's stupidity at work, and government committees are the environment that fosters it.
You could easily restrict access to different mutations and queries using standard JWT. I'd say restricting parts of a query is a bit trickier because you would have to make explicit checks for the user context when extracting the data you want to be restricted. Other than that, you could pretty much use all kinds of standard authentication as you would use with REST, I've used JWT the most.
Explaining Online US Political Advertising [video]
As an American living in Munich now: even regular neighborhood streets are far friendlier to walking and biking (and thus children) in Germany compared to America. They're much narrower, lower speed limits, more nearby cut-throughs and trails and protected bike lanes.

Your average US street prioritizes cars to the exclusion of anything else. Walking is pointless, it feels terrible and nothing is within walking distance except maybe a neighborhood park or elementary school. Biking is uncomfortable and unsafe, especially for kids with dubious levels of focus/traffic awareness; the city will slap a strip of paint on the ground and brag about how bike-friendly it is. It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.
Marvin Camras
"I’m proud of the progress we’ve made" somehow became "'proud' of how Facebook handled its scandals this year".

I wonder if journalists have any self awareness when they criticize facebook.
I believe code design is ultimately subjective. Unlike other metrics like performance which can be easily and definitively measured, you can't easily measure 'good' code. The definition of 'good' changes based on the context of the code base and function the code is trying to achieve. In this case, choices like having giant functions and files is definitely subjective.
I distinctly recall speaking at length to a Buddhist monk about the "dharma" potential of games, in the early 90s. This monk was quite literate in religious teachings, and also a good desktop publisher with his Mac. Guess what - lots of "death" in Buddhism !
New Horizons set for humanity’s first ever Kuiper Belt rendezvous
If roads were 20x wider I guarantee traffic would be reduced or damn near eliminated. They just want an excuse to charge people and/or enable the rich to get special transport privileges. Also where do they get off claiming these people are getting this for free? They bought it with their taxes, so to double charge them and exclude the poor is pretty messed up.
https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all

Php still runs a majority of the web.
It is a discussion just by its setting. Into it you can read clues on how the author or the community perceive some stuff. But it is not meant in any specific way to communicate a point, or to be a critique or prisons, or even to just make you think.

It does not make you feel bad when you slaughter inmates, it does not try to portray them as people; not even as dehumanized people, this kind of analysis is just not in the game.

(Disclaimer: I played it a while back, maybe it changed from the last time I saw it)
"support his opponents who want to restrict guns in a very serious way."

Is that accurate? Sounds more like NRA propaganda to me to keep people in line.
How about going back to and forking C++98 (or whatever version preceded the first syntacical horrors such as reinterpret_cast<>) and start over with more C-like additions.
Many thanks for your great feedback Steve!

I had some issues with running unit tests and at the time I figured if I add lib.rs I can make my unit tests to run. I did not like logmap::logmap::foo and definitely need to revisit that.
> Wait until you see Boston. I live in this street in Cambridge, its not quite wide enough for buses so occasionally they cross the lane of the opposite direction, especially if some asshole parked a little off

Have you been to a European city? This is the norm in any city I've driven in. Meanwhile, driving in the US, even in a city normally involved roads which are wide enough for multiple Lanes of traffic each way. It's perfectly safe, it just required drivers to pay attention.
I think vi mode suffers because it's a relatively niche feature - none of the current committers use it as far as I know, and pull requests to improve it are fairly infrequent. It gained t/T/;/,/d{f,F,t,T} in 3.0 in two different pull requests, which represents about 1% of all PRs in the 3.0 cycle.

I don't think it helps that it's this huge target area which (the small number of?) users use a slightly different 10% of, and it can be quite complex to integrate new features into existing editor state.
what he said: “I’m proud of the progress we’ve made,”

what the tittle of the article said:
Mark Zuckerberg is ‘proud’ of how Facebook handled its scandals this year
> AMD already implements 256bit operations in terms of 2 128bit operations.

Current Zen has actual 256-bit registers, it just doesn't have the execution units to process the whole register at once. It's not really the same thing.
I don't game a lot, but I enjoy the occasional AoE II. I first got into it with a CD version of Conquerors on an old iBook G3, and now I run the HD version using Crossover.

I drew a real-world map of Taiwan for AoE II using Peter Olson's map maker [1].

I'd like to recreate the history of the island and make a video, using AoE II HD to stage some battle scenes. For example, Koxinga's pirates burning the Dutch fort in Tainan. I've already written the script of the 5-minute video, which should be YouTube-ready.

The trouble is, making that scene would need multiplayer, which requires Steam. The non-HD version wouldn't look as good.

Would OpenAge be a better platform for trying to make this video? I'm not much of a movie producer, just a programmer geek who'd like to do this as a hobby project. I actually thought of the idea about a year ago, but never followed it up because I've been too busy trying to find a job.

[1] https://github.com/peterolson/AOE2-Real-Map-Creator
Their LAN support was broken.
From the researchgate paper:

> Thus, it did not exceed the stick free neutral point and it is static stable for the entire operating envelope of the aircraft.

It looks like the canard design in the paper is stable, and the blanket statement that canards are unstable is, as yet, unsupported.
CDs do have superior dynamic range, but when modern mastering squashes everything within a few dB of full scale it hardly matters. But I disagree that vinyl releases[0] typically have lower dynamic range than CD releases (most often it's the same, sometimes it's higher, and only very rarely it's lower), and I disagree that lower dynamic range sounds better on good equipment.

[0] Talking about popular music only. I don't know enough about classical to say how it's done there.
How about this: the first hour of gameplay is fighting the terrorists, the next 100 is learning how to get food from your plate to your mouth again.
How does Oracle treat their clients badly? Honestly curious, never worked with them.
How does this extension to disable javascript relate to bypassing paywalls via outline.com?
Scala is slower to compile than C++ in large scale enterprise development. (The exception that proves the rule?)
I wouldn't say so. It felt more accidental to me than anything else. Like they just took a place designed for cars, shut the cars out, and yeah it's busy because it's in NYC and there's plenty of density and shops, but the actual urban design itself still felt largely bad and dumb.

Maybe it's changed since I've been, though.
The irony is that the current headline will perform better when shared on Facebook than a fully accurate headline.

Facebook sets the incentives for every media producer today.
He should be. Despite the attacks, Facebook is still going strong.
Maybe, I'm not sure. But I know I don't trust his idea of "good for the human beings inside Tesla cars, and the human beings on the road with Tesla cars."
> I convinced her to contact ComEd about it...

the power companies accurately assume that most people calling them don't know anything about electricity.

have a trustworthy electrician inspect the situation, and then they can figure out what the problem is, where the problem is, and convey said problem to the power company if it is actually their fault.
With a new projected cost of 25 billion USD the cost overruns of the Vogtle Plant are worse than I thought. There is a reason why nuclear is losing to natural gas and coal. It's too damn expensive and takes too long. If this money was instead spent on building more storage capacity we'd have solved our energy problems a long time ago and even if we started today we'd be done long before the nuclear plant is online.

The nuclear plant consists of two units each with 1200MW production capacity. Let's be pessimistic and assume that we need 24 hours of storage or roughly 57600MWh. A modern redox flow or lithium ion battery can cost as little as $100 per kWh but Tesla's grid battery with 129MWh cost 66 million which is around $500 per kWh so we will use that.

Well it turns out 57600MWh * 500$/kWH is exactly 28.8 billion USD. No power grid on earth needs a 24 hour battery but even with this crazy assumption grid storage isn't significantly more expensive than nuclear power.
IIRC, it is intended to replace both Android and Chrome OS. And as shown by the Android Open Source Project, they don't need to close-source it to engage in worrisome behavior.
I had a math prodigy friend who went to college at age 13, graduated by 16. Because he was so young he needed a chaperone at college and he had to live at home so he went to a local college. He was a local news story as a teenager, but once he hit his 20's no one cared anymore...everyone has a college degree by then. He suffered through a number of years of depression but came through it ok. Last I checked he was a realtor.
True, but on the flip side the contractor gets paid per hour (unless they're daily), whereas the salaried employee has no idea how many hours he/she will work. It's not said in interviews (although "this is not a 9 to 5 shop" is common here in NYC). It's also not written in the employment contract. It's a wildcard, and gets worse due to instability in the environment or team competitive culture or crazy upper management or a million other things.
The proper place for dynamic range compression is basically upstream of anything that requires it or benefits from it.

In the case of a phonograph player (which unconditionally qualifies as "poor equipment"), we have to prevent the needle from jumping out of the groove. This is downstream from the record itself, and so the signal that is on the record is manipulated.
One theory I read (for good quality USB cables to a DAC) is that reduced packet loss reduces jitter, which means that the clock rate of the DAC doesn't have to adjust in order to keep the buffer populated, but not overflowing. Sounds plausible, but I'm not sure that packet loss is high enough to actually cause this.
That is a bad excuse, USA is denser than Sweden yet Sweden still has enough trains that you don't have to take cars between basically all cities with more than 10k inhabitants, even those in the mostly depopulated Swedish north.
I was interested in your statement, and a brief search on wikipedia says that Japan has slowly been restarting their nuclear power plants and is planning on growing nuclear power as a total percentage of power over the next several decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan

I don't think the sentiment on nuclear power, even after Fukushima, is as clear cut as you're presenting.
clickbait doesn't only work because of facebook. Headlines that twist the truth to sound more compelling than the story actually is are not a recent invention.
A Look at Apple's Business Strategy for the Coming Years
Sure. Keep in mind, the idea isn't "no cars around at all", it's about balance and prioritization.

Houten, the Dutch suburb that's really built for bikes, even by Dutch standards: https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2015/06/a-case-study-in-bi...

"Superblocks" in Barcelona: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/08/inside-a-pede...
I work in the audio industry, and I can say two things: 1) most everything they do is audio mysticism (i.e. complete BS), and 2) they are very profitable customers.
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Wow so even with show dead I can. Barely even read the comments that the HN community has deemed improper.
The examples you linked are crazy. It is possible, especially with the Ethernet, to just check the packet error rate, and see if there is a problem.

There's something to be said for a bit of extra effort in filtering, but most of what audiophiles pursue has no basis in electrical engineering reality.
From the paper

> There are three specific limitations to multiplexing,
at present. First, the benefits of multiplexing are limited to a predetermined set of applications
combined together, unlike either shared libraries or Slinky, both of which share code across arbitrary
applications on an end-user’s system. As noted earlier, combining multiplexing with Slinky would
get both kinds of benefits. As a direct consequence, sets of applications to multiplex must be
predetermined, cannot be varied from one end-user to another, and adding new applications to
an existing set is difficult (short of replacing the entire multiplexed binary for the set). Second,
multiplexing makes it difficult or more cumbersome to update software by upgrading or patching
dynamic libraries. Third, the current design of multiplexing disallows introspection techniques like
the use of dlopen and dlsym.

So yeah, this is not something the distros could use, you would have to ship libs in allexe format(essentially llvm IR). It seems their motivation is systems running a fixed set of binaries on production server allowing some nice memory/disk usage reduction.
But interactive mediums and games are different. It is hard to define a line, but in my experience you get the best of both world when proper games (those that are more natural to call games that interactive mediums) have deep messages.

For me the perfect example was (the particular run I had in) Undertale. Where if you never watched the trailer you only learn the truth at the very end.

For what I have tried of "interactive mediums" they are harder to build an emotional connection than books, movies, and games.
I think “every expert” may be stretching the truth, unless you are proclaiming that Tesla has no experts working on this.
We have regional commute rail in the SF Bay Area and in the NYC Metropolitan Region. It doesn't seem to have done much except drive up housing prices near rail stations and create silliness like 5-yr waiting lists for parking at them.

It seems clear that commuter rail is not a silver bullet. Housing density is probably what we really need.
Sure, that works for one or two instances. But what about 100+? That's where a tool like this is indispensable. You don't have to try to populate your SSH config with the IPs and hostnames and try to keep that updated. It queries the hosts each time so the list will always be fresh and accurate.
Drink the cocktail and then the sound will be more perfect.
Saudi Arabia has made significant investments in STEM[1], so I am not sure it is an ideal counterexample, but a corroborating piece of evidence would be Turkey's higher ranking in STEM graduates than the US[2].

1: https://www.usnews.com/education/arab-region-universities/en...

2: https://www.businessinsider.com/most-technological-countries...
A meta-analysis (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584580/) of 269 studies found it for depression to be roughly equal to medication treatment and that when combined with medication was more effective than one or the other:

> Compared to pharmacological approaches, CBT and medication treatments had similar effects on chronic depressive symptoms, with effect sizes in the medium-large range (Vos, Haby, Barendregt, Kruijshaar, Corry, & Andrews, 2004). Other studies indicated that pharmacotherapy could be a useful addition to CBT; specifically, combination therapy of CBT with pharmacotherapy was more effective in comparison to CBT alone (Chan, 2006).

It also found it to be effective in nicotine cessation and other addictive behaviors:

> Treatments for smoking cessation found that coping skills, which were partially based on CBT techniques, were highly effective in reducing relapse in a community sample of nicotine quitters (Song, Huttunen-Lenz, & Holland, 2010), and another meta-analysis noted superiority of CBT (either alone or in combination with nicotine replacement therapy) over nicotine replacement therapy alone (Garcia-Vera & Sanz, 2006).

In anxiety disorders, studies found them to be effective "first line" approaches, including when the CBT was delivered over the internet:

> In general, CBT is a reliable first-line approach for treatment of this class of disorders (Hofmann & Smits, 2008), with support for significant positive effects of CBT on secondary symptoms such as sleep dysfunction and anxiety sensitivity (Ghahramanlou, 2003). Further, internet-delivered or guided self-help CBT showed some promise in immediate symptom relief as compared to no treatment, but the long-term maintenance with this modality of CBT remains unclear (Öst, 2008; Coull & Morris, 2011).

Also, the meta-analysis also found it to be effective for:

* insomnia

* anger and aggression

* general stress

and many other disorders.
There's plenty of games built around that these days though - look at the 0451 games which heavily reward gameplay that avoids killing (Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Dishonored 1, 2 + their DLCs and excellent masterpiece Prey (2017)).
agreed that state-sponsored surveillance isn’t a great option. but there are companies creating in-car cameras/sensors combined with machine learning to identify distracted driving of all sorts (not just phone use). some insurance companies will lower rates for less distracted driving, for example (not that this is a great solution either). even just posting a distracted driving rating on your car as you drive might provide enough social disincentive not to do it.
I've always wondered whether I could sell audiophile SATA cables for those who listen to music from their hard drives...

Edit: a commenter below has a link to an actual audiophile SATA cable.
Could be lots of things. The first thing to check out is the neutral and ground connections on all related circuits.
I have no actual data about the musical signals present on the discs themselves (be they made of any kind of plastic with grooves or pits), I just mentioned the technological limitations of them. ( see also https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)#My... )

However, as far as I know the loudness wars is coming to an end finally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war#2010s "Analysis suggests that the loudness trend may have peaked around 2005 and subsequently reduced, with a pronounced increase in overall and minimum album DR (crest factor) for albums since 2005."
Those are my exact feelings about PS and Docker.

For working on the Windows command line, I've found CMD with Cygwin tools in path to be the best of all worlds. All the familiar Linux command line tools working in Windows, much smoother than you'd expect.
> for each and every cell tower or group of cell towers, to route the call to the right alternative lines/number

Cell towers have virtually nothing to do with routing calls. That’s all centralized in a region with all the towers back hauling.
hN has decided that my comments are auto dead, IE, my comments are always dead. And this is my first comment.

Awesome sauce!
Splash dialogs asking me for my email address, or to sign up on a site where I've just come to read one article.

Having to dismiss something is an utter pain.
The point of Hardcore mode is to play on the ranked seasonal ladders where you get permanent rewards for high scores, which means raising the difficulty.

"Games aren't hard if you lower the difficulty" is a strange argument to make.
fzf [0] has a history mode included and integrates nicely with fish. You just need to enable the fzf bindings [1], then CTRL-r will give you a (fzf) history searcher.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fzf#fish

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Thx!!!

Yes, I now remember my colleague mentioning a car :)

But well, I wouldn't have enough faith in XXX cashiers.
I'd want a hard receipt (confirmation of submission on paper with some kind of checksum which I could confirm online if I wanted to).
Plugging my own explanation because HN seemed to like it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15360485
I often counter with the idea of transmitting an ebook over the same cable. "Does it become more detailed, in depth with more character development?"

The only thing I can agree is better on a digital cable is increased shielding to avoid ground noise.
Under current policies, residential batteries increase emissions in most cases