skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Racing cycles and saddles aren't comfortable.

They aren't uncomfortable if you're fast. The harder you ride, the more force you're applying to your pedals and so more of your weight is borne by your feet and hands. The saddle on a racing bicycle is more of a perch than a seat; it's a very important link in the connection between rider and bicycle, but it doesn't need to be plushly padded. A wide and heavily padded saddle deforms and creates a large and unstable contact area with the rider, which increases friction and leads to nasty chafing on longer rides. It seems superficially insane to use a hard and narrow saddle and padded shorts, but it's actually a very comfortable solution for a fast rider who spends a lot of time in the saddle.

It's also worth bearing in mind the relatively enormous forces that a fast rider can apply to their bicycle. Solutions that work fine when you're pootling along at 120w are hopelessly unstable if you're banging out 500w in a hard effort or 1500w in a bunch sprint. You need a very stiff frame, you need stiff shoes with a rigid attachment to the pedals, you need high pressure tyres with good lateral stiffness. That stiffness can be bone-rattling at times, but it can also be very satisfying. There's a directness and agility to a good road bike, a precise connection to the road that is essential for professionals and hugely enjoyable for a certain sort of amateur.

You can't do this on a "comfortable" bike:

https://youtu.be/QE97iUvSHk0

https://youtu.be/RxXqQqAc2pA
> Leaving might have to do more with sunsetting and moving on from the Destiny franchise than creative freedom for it.

I'm tempted to say the same, but they're taking Destiny with them, so someone must have ideas for it. When they left Microsoft, they left Halo. I'm inclined to say that was intentional rather than a mistake (Bungie hasn't been hurting for lack of Halo).
IMO this discussion about notability is making the original point upthread about hostility to newcomers.

I also find it ironic that Wikipedia notability is so tied to traditional publishing sources.

ADDED: I admit to falling pretty heavily on the inclusionist side; I'm pretty skeptical about notability at times.
The NY Department of Taxation and Finance is incredibly aggressive in pursuing such cases, and the burden of proof is on the taxpayer to show that FL is in fact their primary residence. Those wealthy people that spend substantial time in New York keep careful location records (especially if they have a residence there).
Never even considered that you would also _hear_ things. That is completely different from me. I can imagine parts afterwards, but the characters have no voice.
That was the most impressive opening demonstration. My eyes popped out of my skull.
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Open Source as a Byproduct
Are there websites that aggregate the games from all the stores? That would at least give visibility to the rest of stores. Combine with metacritic and show price over time and per region like steamdb.info and you have something many would use.
id Software released their old deprecated engines as open source, when they had new engines they were pushing instead. It was a nice friendly gesture, but the engines typically weren’t competing anymore.
Yes, you should blog
My rant did start off on competitive hobbies.
In my neck of the woods cycling is very much in that category.

I wasn't complaining about the hybrid bikes, I did mention the drop handlebars, hybrids don't tend to have drop handlebars though.
paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08179-6
PR trying to recover from the fake 5G fiasco.
Given your point about the donald, you'll despair at https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/117289/86725. Check out the history and the comments-moved-to-chat. Answerer suggests creating lots of social media accounts as a way to drive bad search results about you off the first page of Google, and lists a bunch of possible sites to sign up to, including Gab. The mention of Gab gets censored by a moderator, but not before various Academia Stack Exchange members have chimed in to opine that:

1. Mentioning Gab as a possible site to sign up for is "pretty blatantly out of line" and a violation of the Stack Exchange Code of Conduct, and

2. If they discovered that a job candidate had a Gab account, they would throw out the application based upon that fact alone.

So it's not just internet communities; we've got academics openly bragging that even engaging with a community they politically disapprove of, regardless of your individual views, will lead to them barring you from employment in academia.
It looks like dark matter can be heated up and moved around
Django / Python sounds like the obvious answer. Almost every comparison between Rails and Django I have read seems to rate them fairly evenly.
This might be a good thing actually.

If huge content distribution platforms like YouTube and Facebook are not viable anymore, it might put a renewed wind in the sails of self-hosting systems. Getting the Internet back to it's distributed nature would make it more resilient.
Atari computers actually had a hardware random number generator driven by electrical noise. (I'm not sure what the 2600 system had, most of their latter game consoles were based on their computers). Most other computers in those days just used a pseudo random number generator.
More context:

The City of New York grew by over 362,000 residents between 2010 and 2016, a growth rate of 4.4% (Table 1). City officials consider this to be among the strongest periods of growth in the last half century (NYC Planning, 2017a). The population grew by 402,000 people through natural increase, and net foreign migration added an additional 500,000 residents. Net domestic migration was -524,000, as more people moved out of the city than moved in. If foreign and domestic migrants are consid- ered together, approximately one person moved out for every person that moved in. The greater NYMA has approximately 20.2 million people and grew by three percent during this period, adding over 586,000 residents. Approximately 672,000 people were added through natural increase while foreign migration added an additional 849,000. The metro lost 903,000 people from domestic out-migration. NYC is a major driver of the metro area’s population change; 62% of the metro’s net population growth occurred within the city.

I don’t see the problem here.
> But seriously, there are about one and a half billion iOS devices in active use, on a vibrant, alive market. That is an absolutely colossal market, and positing like all platforms are the same and therefore n platforms is better is a non-starter.

Sure. As long as Swift is the only way to program for iOS there will be people who have to use it for business reasons. But that's very different from claiming it's a growing/exciting/high-momentum language.

> The original guy's post was simply ridiculous. Apple has to accept reality that the smartphone market has matured and suddenly we're all writing web apps and abandoning the platform?

It's not going to disappear overnight. But smartphone sales are slowing (especially for Apple), the app store gold rush is over leaving an oversaturated marketplace, and a lot of unprofitable app makers are exiting the business one way or another.

There will always be room for great app makers to make money - just as some companies still make money selling desktop software. But I wouldn't call it "vibrant", and I would think long and hard before entering that market right now - it really feels like we're on a downturn at the moment, at least to me.
Huawei employee arrested in Poland on espionage charges
That's interesting :)

I suspected that I might be an outlier. But I do still enioy reading though.

I like the prose and the story even if it is just a story without image. I am unsure how to explain the pleasure I get from it.
While Nix can use a lot of memory while evaluating larger systems (or searching all of nixpkgs by evaluating everything), it is usable on systems with 2GB RAM.

Nix 2.0 had a bug which caused excessive memory use, but it's been fixed in 2.1: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/2825e05d21ecabc8b8524836... https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/48662d151bdf4a38670897be...
I'm not saying there won't be an effect, but having an effect it's why you pass a law. But 8 months in, and the landscape doesn't seem radically altered.

If anything, major players deciding not to compete in a market is good to my mind, as a means of increasing a diversity of business styles. Laws like this make businesses pay for the actual cost of thier hidden externalities.
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Repeating messages to an audience that agrees with them are practically non actions. Influence occurs when the difference between saying something and not results in different actions. As such most social media content is effectively meaningless.

New ideas in this context are not limited to what disagrees with the overall consensus. Simiple refinements make real changes over time.
You're thinking about serverless costs all wrong
Indeed. Support for -fno-strict-aliasing and -fwrapv can be expected for modern C compilers, so I don't see any real hurdles besides the obvious engineering and maintenance effort required to support a robust transpiler.
This is not related to business but there's a horror story with Romania (it's in the EU) asking a news organization to provide informants information related to some corruption leaks.

The information is requested by the national GDPR enforcer so it bypasses the prevention written in the GDPR about news leaks.

Now there's a trial going around with this which blocked any further spread of that information until it's solved. It can be easily seen how the GDPR can be weaponized.
C enum values are convertible from int; C++ enum values aren't. This is one of the biggest differences in fairly idiomatic C code and has been the case for a very long time (i.e. not dependent on newer C features not being in C++).

#include <stdio.h>

typedef enum EFoo {
FOO_A = 1,
FOO_B = 2
} TFoo;

int main()
{
TFoo foo = FOO_A | FOO_B;
printf("foo = %d\n", foo);
}

This compiles in C but not C++.
Something that's become quite popular in recent times are "awesome lists"[0, 1]. This isn't the common use-case for them, but it might be worth looking into.

[0]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

[1]: https://awesomelists.top/
As with all these things, "sucks" is relative, and there are low paying jobs for anywhere in the stack. There's certainly fewer employers that need full time low-level software developers. So perhaps the contract/freelance approach is the way to go. It's certainly possible to achieve ~$1.5k/day consulting rates for low-level software development if you're an expert in a niche.
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I submitted different applications with different products but all rejected, How i can open a Stripe Atlas account?

Please help me.
Maybe someone should tweet at them or something and see.
So does this mean I could write a Wikipedia article about my grandmother if I can dig up articles on her from two different newspapers?
Just like adblockers. You can advocate using them, but they only help the big players, because Facebook and such can ask for subscriptions if needed and they can also afford implementing anti adblock measures.

While small sites with a handful of staff, can't do that. People may subscribe for big sites like Facebook and Youtube , but they won't subscribe separately for a lots of small sites.

So blocking ads helps eliminating the small guys while the whales can deal with it.
Reading it like this makes me a bit sad - but only a bit. They managed to survive and maintain the first Keepstar for over two years, and it took a huge and long winded infiltration to finally destroy it.

I'd argue that it proves that you have a big tactical advantage in wormhole space, but you're not invincible or safe. Nobody is, anywhere.

Which at the same time is a bit of a shame; I wouldn't mind having my own space station in high security space with no risk of losing it by another corporation. I'm more of a casual base building turtling kind of gamer than the pvp type.
Great. But, of course, there'll be a new service fee to offset the lost revenue.
Space Crusade ?
Reversing an n-bit number in log n time
I would expand on your last point. Latencies all programmers should know: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
It's a bit like D&D, which exists mostly as stories in people's heads and maybe a crudely drawn map, a character sheet, and some dice.
Oh, they doubled down on that lie. The CEO fully supports lying to their customers.
I was told more or less this many years ago by a friend who grew up in rough neighborhoods. Paraphrasing: "When you walk around in the ghetto just walk like you're packing heat in your jacket." Nobody messed with me. I guess it's science.
In short, look for changes in the world and see how they change once well held beliefs about said world.

There was a lecture I watched years ago that specified the different areas that change that can allow startups to do well.

I remember Technology and Law. Possibly Social as well. Does anyone know what I’m referring to and what those areas are? I believe there were 5 of them.
Demand for real estate plummets and prices drop. Sounds absolutely horrifying.

The high income earners all fly off to states like Nevada, where the population is low and chances to earn a high income are even lower. That's definitely going to happen. Meanwhile, America's megarich continue to settle and grow their wealth in California, New York, and Washington and upcoming rich folk continue to pop up in those states while the best employment opportunities for other people also tend to be in regions where people are, not where tax benefits happen to be the best. Nevada's advantage is less the taxes and more the rapidly growing population and low rents due to a lack of high income earners driving rent prices up.
Most film quotes on HN would be covered by "fair use"[0]. If someone pasted an entire script in a comment that would be something different entirely, and likely to be picked up by the existing flagging or moderation system. Also, I'm not entirely sure how HN itself can be said to be profit-making, e.g. there are no subscription fees to use it and it doesn't appear to have any advertisements from any advertising platforms.

[0] e.g. https://www.bl.uk/business-and-ip-centre/articles/fair-use-c... for UK and https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html for US
The thing that’s concerning is whether or not the board or processor or memory is made in China.
>With all of the assets finally in place, there was only one thing left to do. On December 8...

So, Pearl Harbor?
youtube does not rely on infringing content anymore. at least, 100% of the channels i follow are by makers who try to make fair use of copyrighted stuff or using public domain of historic stuff .

> the sails of self-hosting systems

Self-hosted content is pointless if there are no watercoolers to chat about it.
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I wouldn't call it addiction as such, since the game doesn't really have addicting gameplay elements itself - like idk, lootboxes or flashy graphics or things like that.

Instead, it's a game that can pull you in through its community, its galaxy-wide events, its huge space battles, all of which are coordinated by and performed by real people, real communities.

Of course, in most cases, in a space battle you're just one of many and the main thing you need to do is lock onto the target being called out by the fleet leader and hit F1 to start firing. It can be quite passive in terms of gameplay itself.
This is basically what I was thinking -- that a relatively minor change to the parsing process could yield such significant results.
Mathematicians Seal Loophole to Breaking RSA Encryption
For writing APIs, Echo and Go are pretty great. Then write your site or app as a one pager in angular or react.

Many huge sites are running on rails though, so switching to a new framework isn't going to give you automatic "scale". I'd recommend reading this post which summarizes a re:Invent presentation about scaling to 10 million users on AWS http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-...
Mining is also quite expensive. Conceptually, the process for lifting from the deep ocean is quite a bit simpler: attach the load to an airtight bag, and release a little bit of air into the bag. The load will float to the surface. There would still be a process involved in getting compressed air to the deep, but it might be simpler than boring holes in the earth.

Of course, it's still likely that the costs involved mean this idea wouldn't work in today's market conditions. That doesn't mean that conditions would never change...
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Those articles also aren't uploaded but merely linked, so the rule doesn't apply.
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One way is through changes in context, by organizing them by origin and theme so that they contribute to a larger narrative. Another is through enriching them with metadata that would not be obvious from simply looking at the image.
> Most modern jets are worse in key ways than the 767. More freaks and rattles during take off and landing

What a weird comment. Probably the reason you think modern aircraft have more "creaks and rattles" than older ones is that their engines are so much quieter you can actually hear some minor rattling of the cabin fitout on bumpy runways.

I've been an avgeek my whole life and while I'm nostalgic for the old planes, I don't think I could ever delude myself into thinking they're in any way "better". Turns out the manufacturers, and the airlines, and the passengers, agree. The 777 is my favourite too - from the outside. Tell me I have to spend 12 hours inside the damn thing though and I'll choose an a350 - or a b787 - every time.
They fit a different niche. Some people cycle for fitness or sporting reasons; a motor might compromise the sense of achievement of going faster and further under your own power. A lot of people cycle just to enjoy the outdoors; the idea of going faster and further for the same effort might seem perfectly logical. Ebikes are a great solution if you're just using a bicycle as functional transport, serving as a convenient halfway house between a bicycle and motorcycle.
The other interesting protocol in this space I only recently became familiar with is the Debug Adapter Protocol or DAP [0]. Curiously it doesnt't seem like there's a standard for test running though? Unless that's supposed to be an LSP action of some sort.

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/
Peak-a-Boo
https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2018/05/rare-earth-depl...
You're not the only one. I'm deeply embedded in a story when I read, I feel like being there, but I imagine only sometimes, when a place is described enough.
Lots of people would disagree. We'll never see that wildlife, and its survival or demise has no effect on us or anything we do see.
Is that what you believe? The EU bankrupted Greece then asset stripped them..
I remember hearing about this on the podcast roguelike radio a long time ago - truly a brilliant little hack.

Here's the link for anyone interested:
http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2016/06/episode-122-nethack-to...

A very niche topic on an already niche podcast, but probably will get some decent overlap on HN.

(Also I'm assuming this is the same team? It's hard to tell.)
One of the things about Eve Online that's fascinated me is how "open" they make the game for third party developers.

Why bother with a spreadsheet, when you can dial it up a level and use their data export and your favourite "Big Data" analysis tools to look for interesting opportunities?

Maybe you enjoy blowing up space ships, but can't think of an in-game method to fund your habit? Build a tool other Eve players will use (and pay for with Isk) instead.

https://developers.eveonline.com/resource/resources

https://github.com/devfleet/awesome-eve

https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/tweetfleet-slack-invites/
Provided those two different newspapers wrote on her life in detail, not just a mention, yes. See the following section of the notability guidelines:

"Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material.
The same reason any other company develops Mac-exclusive software.
What.

What good programs are written in C that don't have well-structured memory management the way C++ does it with RAII?

Edit:

"But in reality, why C is still the best programming language for large projects (IMO) is exactly that the programmer is allowed to choose a suitable structure, such that the program can fulfill the technical requirements. Other languages force the project into a structure that somehow never fits after a couple thousand LOC."

Yeah, this doesn't make any sense. The reason is, C++ doesn't impose anything on your program structure that C doesn't, while C, with the limitations it has, imposes a tax on all sorts of ways of structuring your program.

For example, you can't practically write a program using a futures library (such as the Seastar framework) in C. And every program you write in sensibly written C can be translated to C++. The exception might be really really small-scale embedded stuff that doesn't allocate memory.
I don’t know that it’s the start, supposedly reputable news sources such as the BBC have been reporting on what happened on Twitter as if it was news for years
really ? Gates promoted heavily his idea of network OS hinting a .Net as the foundation. Maybe I misunderstood or maybe it came later ...
One day late… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
Apache CLI alternative with autocomplete and ANSI colors
Old games have such predictable RNG that humans can manipulate them in non-TAS runs. See the run for Final Fantasy 1 for a good example.
That table only shows that the languge server supports the feature, Whether it's stable or not depends on the language server implementation. You should report to your language server implementor about the instability
I don't understand what you mean, can you elaborate? Are you talking about perfect hashing? Or are you talking about doing multiple strcmps? Or about doing the state machine until you reach a unique alternative, and match the remainder using strcmp?

What I was trying to say is that the lexer is already doing a state machine, and the keyword can be determined from the state of the state machine, rather than re-determining it from the token substring itself.