skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite your last sentence, your reply is quite knee-jerk, and rudely rejects what the parent was asked to elaborate on.

> Did you ever consider...

Well, yeah, they probably have given 20 years thinking about this. And the nuance of a reply would probably take time and several more paragraphs.

I am genuinely interested to hear this view of the military, since I've heard that sentiment elsewhere before (that it is effective specifically in ways that corporate entities fail comically), but having no experience (no interest) in joining-up, I haven't understood what's behind it. I would _love_ for the parent to elaborate and welcome more. Sure, a lot of software isn't life or death, but that doesn't mean we can't learn from effective teams and organizations, wherever they are.
Someone whom I know ordered a sizable quantity of 1P-LSD from them and gave a strip to me. I gotta say it was some of the best "acid" I have ever done, maybe even better since on 1P I'm actually able to fall asleep after 8-10 hours of tripping. With LSD-25 if I dose at noon I'll be up until 8am the next day. Other than that there is no discernible difference.

I'm almost positive they operate out of Waterloo's lab or have significant access to their facilities. Otherwise I'm boggled at how they can make sure pure stuff in such quantities.

Hopefully, the psychedelic legalization initiatives in CO and OR will pass and the US can catch up again ;)
You don't need webmaps. OSM data are free to download and render locally. Navigation devices have offline maps, typically.
The difference is that it mixes three different color pigments in real time based on what the camera sees. You'd have to be a professional makeup artist to do that. The poster below you is right -- this is a big deal for men! ('Cause we ain't doin' all that.)

I wonder if that's why both of the CES demos show guys.
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Learn how to use Debugging Tools and understand how to system works (Kernel, libraries, application, C programming) etc...

This is the best advice.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hTgvNsqb9Y I love how that track ended up in Halo, also.
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IMO the reason this rather obvious idea took so long to be implemented was because on one hand the closed source vendors didn't really have a strong incentive to provide something like that (you support your own ecosystem and let the others deal with theirs) and on the other the open source community was spread across many compilers and interpreters which made standardizing difficult. The only project I can think of with enough clout to impose a system unilaterally was GCC, which was notoriously hard to extend and modularize (especially before LLVM started shaking things up a ~10 years ago).

So overall the effort to create a protocol and then getting everybody to accept it was rather huge and the chances of success rather slim. It's great that MS finally decided to do it and the huge popularity of VScode (especially with younger coders) seems to have helped a lot.
I sounded more judging than I really am. The contrast between virtue as perceived by one’s peers and global utility is a fascinating problem. Few people appreciate the virtue of someone like Norman Borlaug, but if you personally abstain from eating meat you can score pretty highly.
Someone didn't read Aldous Huxley to the end.
I've been reading almost daily since probably the beginning. I comment very rarely. Most news in general is garbage, but I do enjoy tech + startup news and enjoy reading comments here before clicking on to the source. It's fast, simple and I use http://hckrnews.com as my portal into ycombinator.com.

I almost left during the year of the US primaries as the news was majority political and simply more garbage, so I'm glad that got cleaned up.

Often I don't have anything "more" to say on top of what has been said, so I wont add noise. That may be a common thread with lurkers. When I do have a unique perspective and I feel adds value and not noise I may comment, keyword is "may".

I couldn't care less about karma, popularity, social scores or the like (just more garbage). As long as this site and it's users continue to provide value to me by filtering and aggregating tech news I will continue to use it.

Just another lurker mooching off of non lurkers. Selfish yes, but it works.
I once read about a clever use of self-modifying x86 code. The 8086 and 8088 are nearly identical chips, with the difference being that the 8086 has 16-bit I/O and the 8088 has 8-bit. The only way for a program to know which chip it's running on is to write a bit of self modifying code that takes advantage of this difference in I/O size. Both chips use prefetch, but they prefetch words, not bytes, and 8086 words are 16-bit, so it fetches twice as many bytes as the 8088. Thus, one can modify a location in RAM just after the current instruction and that change will be seen on the 8088, but not the 8086, which has already prefetched the previous value.

This is all from memory of something I read, probably on Usenet, ages ago. My apologies in advance if I messed up the details.

I wonder if any of the various x86 emulators out there get this difference right.
I gave a talk about this subject in particular. Here are the slides: https://slides.com/elbrujohalcon/deck-2-7
It mixes three colored pigments in real time to match your skin, something that would be impossible unless you're a makeup pro. The Hong Kong website (where it's already available) says the serum is from SK-II, another P&G brand.
You weren’t, but here’s the reason you do:

In an organization where everyone is equal, adding a new person to the org doesn’t benefit the people who are already in it. Let’s say you have a coop bagel shop- is there any particular reason to want to cut your own paychecks until you have saved up enough to open another one? Or let’s say you live in an egalitarian, peaceful country. Is there any reason to want to invade your neighbors and annex territory? No.

But, if you put one person in charge, then suddenly you have a person in a position of authority with a vested interest in expanding the franchise, since he gets to skim off the labor of everyone underneath him. In a stroke, you’ve invented empire, war, and capitalism. Come back in a hundred years and the organizations that expanded the most are also the most heirarchical.

I don’t think this is a good thing, by the way, just a historical factor to be aware of.
Datapoint: UK family have been looking at such services for a relative with Alzheimer’s. ~£1,000/week, compared to the ~£60/week the government pays in benefits to those looking after relatives.
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Only the good communist children get coal in their stockings! The naughty bourgeoisie children freeze to death.
My response was in reaction to the parent comment brushing aside the level of ambiguity in the statement, and labelling it as "surprisingly reasonable" based on just another subjective interpretation of it.

As for vagueness, the issue has more to do with the scope. To me, as a citizen, the expanse of a given law is over the union of every possible interpretation of it that can be made by a reasonable person.

The more vague the language in a given law, the larger the scope for interpretation; the more specific and descriptive the language, the more restricted the scope.

It seems like an abdication of responsibility by duly elected legislators to leave the interpretation of the bounds of a vague law onto a far-removed, indirectly-elected judiciary, rather than passing specific laws defining those bounds more carefully from the get go. Why not just create a single law "Enforce good. Punish evil.", and leave it to the courts to implement?

As for why this uproar happens specifically on topics regarding the internet, the audience here on HN has a larger interest in everything to do with it compared to other issues. I do think that the same level of caution should be applied w.r.t. any and all vague laws, regardless of the topic.
If I can create a bash script to update my cert, why cant the govt? This is pure laziness and short-sighted.
True, but it's not just an incentive, it's also an enabler. SpaceX was on the verge of going broke, and their first successful launch was do or die. Had Musk been taxed more heavily before that, and had substantially less money to pour into the company, they likely would not have survived to make that launch.
They think a lot of the science is just made up and not rigorously tested at all. They also dislike the way promotion and advancement is done there, not based on the scientist's merit but based on who you know, nepotism, corruption, etc.
also, would using a MVNO carrier prevent the tier-one carrier from having access to location data? either technically or legally? i.e. is it even possible for an MVNO to position themselves as "the carrier that doesn't do this kind of shady stuff"?
Your whole thread is gold. I have come back to the posted article twice so far to read your comments specifically. Thank you, and I'd just generally love to read more about these thoughts. Whether publicly-funded or military (a different thread) or whatever, it's still possible to learn from healthy, effective orgs wherever they are.
Creative Arts and Investing in Systems
Just for the sake of discussion, I'll say that sending anything into space also creates a lot of pollution on Earth (just think about all the energy necessary to build and power our rockets). Mining asteroids would still have an ecological impact - higher, lower, I don't know. But something to keep in mind.
Interesting, we spent the last few days digging into the old Time Warp OS

https://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/reiher/Time_Warp.html
"They broke our made up rules". I don't think after that post anyone is going to claim Improbable was right. But Unity cutting off access sends a we-can-kill-your-access chill which to many isn't "right". A more open platform can't do that.
They aren't actually following the letter of the law, so to me it's unclear how much they actually abuse the law rather than simply pasting the GDPR logo in one corner in a sort of legal phishing attempt.
Is it just me, or is Daymond John especially mean to black entrepreneurs who haven't "made it" yet? Did you see the one with the African fashion company where he told the gal he couldn't be involved because he might be sued? Over clothing?

I have noticed that over the years they've moved from supporting small entrepreneurs who are just starting out to only funding companies that already have proven success. You used to be insane to ask for a $1M valuation (or a $1M investment) on that show; now, it happens every week.
That's not the right way to look at it.

We can probably assume that roughly 20% of the players account for 80% of the PVP combat in the game.

Those players frequently encounter PVP scenarios, while the ones who aren't looking for it don't encounter it as often.

Still, it's ludicrous to think even a timid player only encounters a PVP scenario every 60 hours of gameplay.
Programmers like to plan for every possible state and define things in the most technical, specific way possible.

Legislation is written contrariwise, which can seem baffling to programmers unfamiliar with the system.
> Apple implementing a spec designed by Microsoft!?!?!

Not new at all. They support AJAX in Safari. Macs use SMB for file sharing.
The subjects of the injunction can likely refuse and appeal to the European Court of Justice, which exists precisely to sort out these situations.
Thank you for this. Counter to what one of your detractors said, I actually went and read Atwood's post (again) at the point at which you posted it in your comment here. Then I read Idle Word's post, which Atwood references. Then I came back here and finished reading your post -- that specific order (if for some reason your detractor thinks it matters). That was earlier this morning. Then I came back just now to read your post again. So, thank you. Bravo.
Just use re2c. There's no library.
>the biggest coalition in the game blobbed a smaller alliance

Eh, how do you figure? According to dotlan they're number 11 for space held [1] and number 8 [2] for total number of members.

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/systems

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/memberCount

Or are you just bitter vetting in which case carry on.
The entire article discusses saving money on income taxes not property taxes. According to the chart, property taxes are more expensive in Miami.
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Red Flags
However, if a third party service wants to run the Unity Runtime in the cloud with their additional SDK, we consider this a platform. In these cases, we require the service to be an approved Unity platform partner. These partnerships enable broad and robust platform support so developers can be successful. We enter into these partnerships all the time. This kind of partnership is what we have continuously worked towards with Improbable.

is Improbable the only 'platform' affected by this change, or are there more 'reasons' (companies?) for what this change was made?
> The thing about the arts industries is that they’re very hits-driven; talking about what happens to the median person going into them is always going to massively underestimate the value of the system as a whole. They share this characteristic with pharmaceuticals and, famously, the oil industry (as the wildcatter proverb has it, “part of the cost of a gusher is the dry holes you drilled”). You can’t tell ex ante which spotty undergraduate is going to turn into a claymation genius and retrospectively justify the last decade of investment. Importantly, nor can they. As far as I can see, if you were to set it up without subsidy, you would most likely get too few people going into the creative arts, as they would rationally decide that they were more likely to be one of the ones that didn’t make it than one of the Nick Parks.

> This is really not all that unorthodox; it’s just the application of venture capital thinking to what people are (wrongly in my opinion) analysing as a debt problem. The undergraduate education subsidy system ought to be thought of as one where the government makes loads and loads of smallish VC investments, effectively buying a roughly 30% shareholding for a five figure investment, with diversification across an entire undergraduate cohort every year. If you’re given that sort of an opportunity, then obviously you go for some moonshots, particularly when you’re the government of a country that famously does very well in creative industries compared to its peers[3].
What worked 10,000 years ago? Not being snarky, I'd like to know.
I don’t know if passengers agree. I go out of my way to take a 777 for international travel over a 787. But the latter is a lot more fuel efficient, which is why airlines prefer them.
Ah yes that. That’s an (old) bug about how logind interacts with gdm. A quick workaround is ctrl-alt-fn-F1 to force the screen to lock itself. Makes the flicker go away.
i really like the people's part. even if something ain't earth shattering. you can predict if something will work by measuring those important factors (earnest, energetic, independent minded).
In the UK instead you pay 'stamp duty', whichever you want to think of it is sort of like paying 10 years of property tax upfront.
Why does the final picture not include the Herman Miller chair? I bet it's because the arms extend too far. I bet that idiot bought the chair because it's beautiful and deceptively comfortable, only to realize that it's impossible to pull up to a desk for working. I bet the only purpose the chair serves is to have guests sit in it and demand that they feign interest in it. At least they didn't spring the extra for the upholstered finish. [puts head down, sobs quietly.]
You're confused; the parent comment and the article are primarily about the SALT deduction, not the home mortgage interest deduction. The main reason to mention "homebuyers" is that these taxpayers want to change their state of residence to lower their state income tax.

It's funny how the same "conservatives" that claim to love small and local government enacted tax policy that blocks states from effectively moving tax revenue from the federal government to the state government.
That's just politics. It would be exactly the same at the national level.
It's a concern people have about governments.
That's what I did when I grew to 20 and part of what increased our revenue but decreased our profitability.

The article talks about the challenges of managing managers and my experience lines up with what the author describes.
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Is there any modern game like Myth II?
This isn't the police or the parliament asking for the information. It's the regulatory body that does inspections to companies to see if they respect GDPR.

So the pretext they're using is that they want to see the information to make sure that the news organisation is not selling it or mishandling it to other third parties. In the process, they'll be able to get the information and maybe it will go to the people involved in the corruption charges (which is the head of one part of the Parliament).
Will 5G be reality due to launch of Snapdragon 855?
Can second this. Not a PHP fan, but modern PHP is ok, and very popular. Laravel is pretty awesome, though, and explicitly inspired by Rails.
i was 7 when i programmed on a commodore 64... and walked to school in 1 foot of snow... (kidding on the last one) sorry but he's not little but nice game.
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Yes, that was my experience as well. In my case I think it was a minor pay increase compared to my previous job, but a significant portion of that total compensation came in the form of an annual bonus (so from my perspective it was as though they were basically withholding a big chunk of my income each year).
sorry you can't discriminate against white people, and it's not racism. again i feel like everyone has been very clear with you and i'm sorry you can't understand this.
Walking a lot, fasting (usually unintentionally), occasional higher-intensity work. No easy access to sugar.
There's a fairly obvious reason to expand your corporation or territory. To increase the resources available to your people. Through invasion and annexation you can increase the average amount of resources available to your people if you invade a place with a very high concentration of them. you don't need a hierarchy to justify this. Your argument doesn't make much sense.
Any mechanism that amplifies information also amplifies noise, something I think we didn't really understand when the web/internet started. Understand the provenance of information we see is still difficult, its not as if there is git log of changes in some concept or news item in some random website that goes back to whenever it was created globally. Even "blockchain" doesn't really fix the idea that it was garbage when it was inserted. Simple ideas like someone saying some words in a public context seems difficult to validate or verify sometimes much less complex ideas like climate change. Information is a messy concept made worse by the freeform nature of the internet/web.
It sounds pretty much like Steve Yegge's Grok project (now "Kythe") from over a decade ago. They just started at a different use case.
This is very true, but my thinking is that cost is almost all front-loaded - once we get equipment up there to accomplish the mining, the launches in support would not be terribly frequent, I think, right?
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Heck Sean Smith (who was killed IRL in Lybia) worked for the State Department IRL and was a high level diplomat-ish guy in game (roles seem pretty fluid in Eve thus the "ish").
Dreaming of death rays: the search for laser weapons
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Application gateways to automation
Reports raise video privacy concerns for Amazon-owned Ring
I was just kinda spitballing that INIT + CONDI form the biggest coalition in the game. Not sure if that's 100% true but when they're fighting an alliance that can field like 200 people maximum it might as well be. They're literally an order of magnitude larger.
Ok, let me try this again. Have you, (presumably) an economics student, ever seen an empirical justification for a Cobb-Douglas production function? Would I see such a justification if I opened, say, Mankiw's textbook?

If not, how do you know the assumptions are reasonable?
You do have a point. Perhaps it was rude of me to butt in here; nevertheless, I stand by my view, misplaced or not.
If you’re working for below market rate, you might be passionate, but you’re still making a poor decision. Don’t let emotions sabotage your financial well-being.
Actually, the guy is spot-on. Not only are the ads dumb, the actual products are dumb, too. Is there one thing on that list that the world needs?
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Ford is shutting down Chariot
Usually I suck at implementing these kinds of projects, but even I was able to set up a Retropie about a year ago. This is pretty easy and the result is really worth the time and money if you are into retro games.

I just wish I was able to create a four player Gauntlet table one day.
"you'd be doing a great service to encourage him to formulate such a "toy" question that he thinks is unanswerable without resorting to the do-calculus, which you then try to answer to the audiences' satisfaction using more standard techniques."

This would be very helpful indeed.

I think a lot of the issue comes down to how idiosyncratic Pearl's work is. It will have to accumulate quite a lot of victories before enough people will bother with it.

Until then I suspect Causality will remain something of a statistical Finnegan's Wake.

I'll probably read The Book of Why to try and get a better handle on motivation for the technical material.
NYC might be okay, it's one of a kind, but I think NJ/CT/IL are in for a slow long term decay. Their debt numbers are staggering, and they don't offer anything unique that other places don't.

https://www.watchdog.org/illinois/by-the-numbers-illinois-re...
If you have to reference the intent for every trivial case like HN, the letter of the law is worthless.
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I think you probably read it in Dr Dobbs: http://www.drdobbs.com/embedded-systems/processor-detection-...

Not exactly what you described, but very similar:

"Differentiating between 8088s and 8086s is trickier. The easiest way I've found to do it is to modify code that's five bytes ahead of IP. Since the prefetch queue of an 8088 is four bytes and the prefetch queue of an 8086 is six bytes, an instruction five bytes ahead of IP won't have any effect on an 8086 the first time around"
I am somewhat of a systems engineer but more in the distributed systems space rather than embedded systems.
I guess:

- runtime/space complexity and general algorithmic heuristics to know how the system will perform, or to be able to fix scale issues in the code.

- network characteristic (eg fallacies of distributed computing)

- CAP theorem and applying it to real world designs

- A co-ordination tool like zookeeper

- Understanding of the technological lay of the land (eg compression like snappy, different tools and approaches for communication like zeroMq, kafka

- Metrics and alerting - eg get how to instrument with statsd and know how and where to alert.

- Concurrency concerns and scheduling - you can get away with understanding futures and the actor model and can steer away from threading fortunately. (eg elixir/OTP or Akka)
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