skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not altogether unsurprising though. Most religions tend to align themselves with the notion that "being a good person" is the same as "developing your public status as a good person", (in that the mechanisms they'll employ for self-correction don't make any distinction between the two) and westerners looking to ancient eastern philosophy for answers have always played right into that game.

Alternatively, every good idea that came from Buddhism doesn't need to be a Buddhist idea to be a good idea, so there's no point in selling good ideas using Buddhism unless you're trying to promote the bad ideas as well. Good ideas stand on their quality of impact, not on the quality of their source.
No, that kind of thing is fine...the issues is the it often acts as an apologist to certain Russian policies that are clearly human rights violations or counter to democracy/a free society.
It might be because the point stands up well to argument:

- Should Apple do it? Yes. No downsides are apparent.

- Will it help many users? Yes. Many users will benefit.

- Is it a panacea? No. Rulebreaking apps will rulebreak.

Thus the career detractors are forced to invoke unrelated topics to continue their press conferencing.
The fact that a 100% of the think-tanks taking corporate funding (from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Verizon, eBay) are trying to undermine excellent privacy laws passed by California [0] and Illinois state assemblies should come as a surprise to no one.

The problem is these think-tanks or variants thereof might end up representing the tech industry in most places where it matters anyway, just like how most of the standard bodies have been taken over by them and now slowly approve of features that further their business motives (I am looking at you ITU).

Two ways (there must be more?) I can think of to fix the behaviour of these behemoths:

1. External: Internet Activism. This has been well underway for a long time now but the corporates are patient beasts. The problem always remains gathering enough support [1] and generally the short attention span of the larger populace.

2. Internal: The employees. Be critical, put yourselves in akward situations, start demanding answers [2]. The problem might be risking job security? That could be offset by forming a large enough group?

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17420849

[1] Btw, the signees of this letter care about your privacy: https://www.eff.org/document/december-2018-preemption-letter

[2] https://demandprogress.org

/offtopic https://firstlook.media is doing a great job. Almost all their articles are of high quality.
While I totally agree with your sentiment, I'm not sure how I'd feel about tearing the whole thing down and building something brand new in its place. Interesting to ponder why that is.
I hope so. The first one was one of the greatest gaming experiences of my entire life. I don't want any tech watered down to support both consoles.
That's all correct, the higher frequency suffers from worse object penetration. Solutions I've heard was that 5G would likely involve neighborhood or even building repeaters.

IMO 5G is massively overhyped. My iPhone 7+ isn't limited by 4G LTE, it's limited by Verizon deciding to only allow it 10mbps down (with great signal). 5G won't matter one bit if the current bottleneck isn't 4G LTE in the first place.
American or European?
Does the linked case study[0] help at all? It's real code that already had debug assertions that acted as a postcondition. It was than formally proved that those conditions held (or didn't hold in one case) for all the relevant functions.

[0] https://blog.merigoux.ovh/en/2019/04/16/textinput.html
It appears that next year Sony will be releasing a console with similar specs to the PC I purchased last year.

One key difference being that while the PS5 will be backwards compatible with PS4 games, any PC is backwards compatible with virtually every PC game ever made.

If there's a case to be made for purchasing a next gen console instead of a gaming PC - other than artificial reasons like exclusive titles - I'd like to hear it.
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The other responses about difficult Infocom games are all accurate, but it's worth noting that Hitchhiker's Guide in particular played this as comedy. There were genuinely tough puzzles, but there were also lots of elements which essentially pulled the rug out from under the player to amuse them with unreasonable demands. Broadly, the game didn't feel as fundamentally hard as many of its contemporaries. Instead, it felt like competing against an obstinate and sarcastic opponent, so failing repeatedly was exasperating and funny instead of aggravating.

For instance, lots of early text games required tricky-to-identify commands for technical reasons, like the myriad ways to phrase "use key on door". Mostly, that was just frustrating and accepted because there was nothing better. Hitchhiker's Guide came late enough to parse language somewhat more gracefully, so it replayed that trope as parody by occasionally requiring absurd phrasings for basic commands. "Take aspirin" didn't work, but "get buffered analgesic" (a phrase the game did present to you) did. And then the rest of the time, it went back to fairly normal naming standards so as not to irritate the player.

As a horribly-dated example: Battletoads is infamous as one of the hardest platform games in history, but it was challenging by simply taking the standard play elements of a game like Mario and making them excessively tight and demanding. Syobon Action is also infamously difficult, but its gameplay is (often) relatively forgiving. The challenge comes from suspending normal conventions of games like making threats visible and giving consistent behavior to objects. Putting any one instance of that style in a normal game would be a ridiculous design error, but Syobon is built on escalating that unfairness to the point of humor, and openly demands trial and error as the way to progress.
Reflowing ovens and home ovens are totally different animals. Reflow ovens use closed loop temperature controllers. A ramping profile gently heats the board to a preheat temp just below reflow (drives out moisture and other outgassing), holds it for a bit, then ramp to the final reflow temp and holds that for less than a minute (possibly seconds) before quickly backing down to preheat followed by a cooling cycle. Many manufacturers specify these times and temperatures in their datasheets for components as well.

You can turn an electric toaster oven into a reflow oven with a cheap programmable closed loop temperature controller. Though I don't know how even the heating would be or how effective depending on the model.
Pretty much all home connections have too up here, unfortunately. I have to pay a CAD$15/month extra to have unlimited transfer, otherwise it's capped at 400GB IIRC, and overage charges are outrageously expensive.
Do you believe that forced integration is more often worse for individual nonwhite children, but a net improvement for both the minority community & society as a whole?
I think you need to rethink most of your definitions.

> telemetry

is not tracking. please think about this rather than outrightly dismissing it.

> ADs

Ads are a legitimate way of making money on the Internet. I don't like them, but many services we use online are available because of them. Google is what it is because of Ad revenue. Firefox needs ads, there is no other way of surviving. It is laudable however that they are leading the movement in making ads transparent and building a framework of not having intrusive ads.

> malware

This is laughably innacurate. Mr. Robot was a terrible mistake, but it was not malware. Neither does Moz peddle actual malware.

> MITI

what does that have to with any of the above? Also the EU and many other orgs are thinking about the same thing. The Internet is new and we need to think about controlling the spread of misinformation. I'm going to make the best assumptions about you, so I'm hoping you can see why experiments in that realm can be advantageous.

> DRM

Again, a necessity. You cannot watch most news online without DRM. Supporting DRM is not the same as campaigning for DRM, which brings me to the biggest surprise I found in your comment of all the others...

> I trust Apple more than I trust the Mozilla Foundation or the Mozilla Project

...seriously? Apple? Apple is your privacy company? And you were just complaining about telemetry and pushing updates and DRM. Ugh.
I personally wouldn't have used the Bible as an example, but...

I too am impressed that so many old folk tales/myths/legends have recently been found to have a basis of reality.

I mean, the way I see it:

There are stories from a decade ago 'based on a true story' and if you look at our modern 'myths', like a movie based on a true story, generally they are very loosely based on the true story.

And that is with our modern ability to document and review what happened in the past.

These stories were oral tradition for hundreds of years before being written.

The fact that they have any basis left is amazing and a testament to the powerful events that resonated through history. It's a testament to the ability of humans to pass on information in a uni directional time dimension.

* I'm completely non-religious.
The price of the phone is not based on tariffs. We’ll see.
The French are incompetent. Why weren't there more guards to detect the fire earlier? Why wasn't there more fire-fighting equipment on site? Why was dangerous and unsafe work allowed so close to such old, dry timber?

Notre Dame is stuck between a rock and a hard place: the French government can't pour money into a privately-held building. The French Catholic Church is too poor to pay what it would have truly cost to do a proper job.

Why didn't the Vatican contribute a bigger fraction of its billions to the maintenance of Notre Dame? With proper procedures, this might not have happened.
I’m somewhat confused. I’ll admit that I’m not very familiar with super high frequency radio, but isn’t the difference at least 200 MHz, approximately 10 times larger than the entire FM radio spectrum? Doesn’t out-of-band emission stop being a problem at that much separation? Or should we look at it relative to the base frequency?

edit: For what it's worth, I found this paragraph from the FCC last year: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2018-14806/p-20 It sounds like they're saying "we don't know if this will be a problem yet, but be prepared to limit emissions in 23.6-24ghz range because we might require it at some point".

Also, paragraph 9 of the same document has the actual band limits (with a special requirement) if anybody is interested:

> The 24 GHz band consists of two band segments: The lower segment, from 24.25-24.45 GHz, and the upper segment, from 24.75-25.25 GHz

> any mobile or transportable equipment capable of operating in any portion of the 24 GHz band must be capable of operating at all frequencies within the 24 GHz band, in both band segments
I was not arguing the elegance of the build of a cathedral... (I have a background in architecture, btw)

I was arguing the stupidity that the Giz pyramid was simply built in 20 years.

You may or may not be aware of the complexity of the pyramid, which is far greater than layering blocks of the same shape in a simple pattern.

Firstly, the core inner spaces are of a different material than the outer larger stones which make up the structure. Their size and way of creating the roof to the inner chamber defy the skills of any cathedral stonemasons.

So, I feel that your oversimplifying the topic.
I'm currently working at Boeing, and had a very similar experience to him getting onboarded as a contractor on a major project. Just as an example, I'm going to outline the steps it took to get me a proper badge

1. Filled out badge request form and gave it to my manager who gave it to the person who would be my manager at boeing

2. 4 months later have to refill out form because they lost it

3. 1.5 months later I receive badge, but it doesn't have the chip I require

4. Get told by manager to go back to badge office and get chip, but apparently the form was submitted by someone who actually isn't my manager but is listed as my manager and they selected "no chip" so they can't reissue until they get a new form

5. My manager submits new form requesting chip, go back to badge office and get told I can't get a chipped card because he isn't technically my manager so they need to change my assigned manager first

6. Actual manager attempts to contact the person boeing says is my manager multiple times, after about 3 weeks they hear back from them

7. Manager finally changed so he sends email to badge office saying that he is now my manager and I need the badge

8. Go back to badge office and they can't give me chipped badge because he submitted the form before he was my manager and the email isn't sufficient.

9. He submits new form, go to badge office and they finally give me chipped badge

And mind you, everyone is so lazy that it takes multiple days minimum for every communication with anyone. So essentially Boeing payed me for an extended amount of time where I couldn't really do anything because no one cared to get me what I needed to do my job. Also, that was only the first piece. I am still working on getting everything else I need, and it doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.

Another thing I hate is everything costs a ton of money and is garbage. No free coffee, no free tea, no free snack, no free cups, no free stirring sticks, and the cafeteria food and options they do have are way over priced and worse than dog food. The majority of the staff are old, sad white men that don't seem to want to do anything.

Oh, and on top of everything the project is 100% in the cloud but the out of touch manager requires everyone to be onsite

By far the worst company I have ever had the displeasure of being contracted at. Can't wait to be done

edit: thought of another wonderful example, I once heard a member of the "security" team say that their job is to just say no to everything that comes their way
Hm. The design of Notre Dame was the highest-tech architecture of its day. I wonder if, ironically, folks resisted the Cathedral being built at all for much the same reasons above?
The 5.8 GHz band has 500 MHz total of bandwidth. Many cell phone companies already have more than that much bandwidth already, they just have to deploy more small cells.

The only result of 5G would be the end of public wifi which typically has 5 - 10 mbps speeds.
Builders seem to be following the same playbook as the private equity firms who bought up homes to rent/flip, which is to limit supply to keep upward pressure on prices.

I've seen regulations brought up as a reason why there isn't much new construction, but other states with similar building code/environmental regulations don't seem to have the same problems.

The exception to this IMO are zoning regulations. When those limit high density housing, eg condos/apartments, they can serve to substantially increase home prices. But, that's assuming builders are willing to build enough units fast enough to actually reduce unit prices, and they've consistently shown they will not do that.

Prop 13 could contribute somewhat too, but I imagine it's effect is also much smaller than private equity and builders limiting supply.
most people will never need Latin in the sense that they are unlikely to read original works written in Latin unless they become a classics professor. you could say the same thing about most classes in elementary through high school. rarely if ever do I directly apply my knowledge from biology, history, english lit, etc.

once we start looking at indirect applications, I think Latin and Greek are easily as useful as any other subject. even if you can't read them fluently, having a firm grasp of grammar and vocab in these languages is a huge advantage when it comes to proficiency in English. complex terminology in other fields becomes much easier to understand when you know the roots.
What are the parts in that PC that can do 8K with ray tracing?

To start with, you’re probably looking at $399 vs $2k.
I agree, loved this one! The satire ran thick there
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I started reading that book in 2014, but put it down because it really was about project-level estimation on the order of a few weeks to a few months. At the time, I was really looking for guidance on how to estimate tasks—things on the order of a few hours to a couple days.

I’ve gained some experience and confidence at this in the years since, but at the expense of some psychologically painful experiences and a firing. Our industry really calls out for a more basic book aimed at University CS grads (or bootcamp grads or MOOC)-grads on how to estimate tasks.
> You need to be willing to endure the discomfort of looking someone in the face, saying “I don’t know”, and then standing your ground when they pruessure you to lie to them.

This. I have PMs who will ask me over and over until I give a number and I've learned to stand my ground. Because if I don't, I end up being responsible for the estimate I've given (as I should).

Now I make it clear that I will not give a number until I know more. Just a few weeks ago I was asked to give an estimate of how long it would take to do an integration with something I've never used before. I said, "I need 1-3 days to learn the product enough to give an estimate". What I get back is "can't you just give WAG". But this time around I said "You have two choices, 1. you give me time to learn what I need and then I'll give an estimate or, 2. Find someone who already knows the product to give you an estimate"
In my experience software takes longer to build than original estimates because no one will get out of the way of the development team and let them work.

This is an extreme example, but one I now live in daily.

My current full-time-ish gig is working on a pretty enterprisy system for law enforcement. To this date there hasn't been a single feature request, or bug fix that took more than 16 hours of development time. And so I know that I can typically finish something within a few hours to a day of receiving the task. UNLESS my manager wants to discuss ad nauseam what he means when he says "intersect an array". Or get stuck in 2 day long code reviews where my manager makes me sit behind him while he goes over every single line of code that changed, then gets side tracked and starts checking emails, chat messages, text messages, calling other developers in to check on their statuses, and even watching youtube... while I'm stuck in his office waiting on my code review to be done so I can go back to my 5th day of trying to complete a task that would have taken only a couple of uninterrupted hours. /rant

And this is why I pay $120 a week for therapy.
One secret to becoming a great software engineer: read code
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Timely for me - I've been down the rabbit hole lately of understanding how the elements are formed and got as far as stellar nucleosynthesis, s-process which involves neutron capture making a heavier isotope and then apparently the neutron turns into a proton through a process called beta decay. (So I'm all about the lifetime of neutrons right now!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-process
And magazines - some times later than Infocom we got Dungeon Master (on an ST although we were Amiga guys) as soon as possible, played it through, wrote a walkthrough with all the maps drawn to be the first to the magazine but got slightly beaten by another guy.
Can you really not take PII and publish it without consent? Let’s say you found it somewhere publicly or in some other fashion where a user has not agreed to a privacy policy. I’m not saying you should do that or that it’s morally right, but are there actually legal protections against that outside of Europe?
The Reims cathedral suffered very heavy damage during WW1 and was rebuilt in about 20 years. Looking at it today, you'd hardly know the extent of the damage.
There are a lot of things one would hope the FCC would do that have not been happening under Ajit Pai. He's an industry shill, plain and simple.
sad story bro
Mine is 1tb/month, but $50/month to get unlimited. The sooner internet gets treated like a utility the better.
That's a great question. I wish I had an answer for you. I've been fascinated with text adventure games / interactive fiction for decades, but I haven't really been playing much lately. As such, I haven't spent much time thinking about what a "more modern" text game would look like.

At first blush, my instinct is to say that it wouldn't look much different from any reasonably contemporary MUD. I mean, "text is text" on one hand. But when you consider all the advances in tech since the origin of those text games, it's hard to imagine that there aren't some really cool new things that could be woven in.

At the very least, thanks for asking the question. Maybe it will spark an interesting idea for somebody here, and indirectly lead to the rise of the Next Great Text Adventure.
I can see in your reply that you have a firm mastery of the obvious along with Engineering 101. I was simply pointing out that men have a different frame of reference than women.

> But I do think you could have had a more thoughtful response to your wife.

LOL! What are you, my marriage counselor?
Given how incredible the first game looked on the PS3, and it's performance, I have a feeling that if TLOU2 is a multi-generation release, Naughty Dog will pull it off without having to water it down technically. We've seen game-play, and it looks insane as is already, and supposedly that was on PS4...

Naughty Dog is the studio who can pull it off, on both PS4/PS5, or just PS5.
PowerShell is also cross-platform now: https://github.com/powershell/powershell
“Do we still have access to all of the specialized knowledge that went into that building? E.g., stone masonry, wood carving, preparation of varnishes, etc.? And is there enough supply of the required building/decorating materials?
”

France has dozens of cathedrals being restored at any given time (don’t forget that we have 1000x more old buildings than the number foreign tourists go to :-) ), restorations that often take 5-10 years. I wouldn’t be too worried about not having the skill set.
What about protection from extradition to the United States for bogus charges?

Whsitleblowers need protection from cooperations and nation states.
Has this ever failed :D
5G attempts to market a compelling reason to upgrade a phone and stave off the slowing phone replacement cycle?
Hmmm...actually, those switches turn the no-longer-C back into C.
It seems like the main issue here was that it was very far away and comparatively small to other intergalactic features like, say, galaxies themselves.
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>But compared to how we use our phones today, what new items will be be able to do with 5G that we can't do with current 4G/LTE?

5G has the potential to provide throughput and latency that is comparable to a fixed broadband connection. In reasonably competitive markets (i.e. not the US), that's A Big Deal. Latency is a particularly acute issue in many applications; 4G generally adds about 50ms in the best case scenario, but 5G can easily provide sub-millisecond latency. Imagine a near-future where it simply doesn't matter whether you're on WiFi or cellular, because they both provide the same experience.
If you go and look at all the sites that have implemented Facebook Connect and their beacon you know there was a quid pro quo there. You don't know however the nature of the deal. But Facebook seems very generous with sharing your data with other large companies... as the data itself is worth pennies but scarfing much more of it from partners is worth billions.
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