skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not get a chance to play most of the late 90s and early 2000 games in my childhood. My second console after an NES clone is a PS4, and I always had run of the mill business computers. My father gifted me Age of Empires: the Rise of Rome and that's pretty much all I played. And Half Life, which my friend gave me. I also played demo versions of Unreal and some shareware ID games, but never full.

I recently bought and played thief, thief 2, deus ex, starcraft, the rise of nations, prince of persia (My dad used to play Jordan Mechner (PC port) one with me, but I was too young then), max payne (1 and 2), half-life 2. I know these are blockbuster games of their time, but I feel they are better than blockbuster games of today. I play RDR2, Spiderman, God of War etc on my modern PS4 but thre is sothing these games are missing.

Some modern games I do like and recommend to everyone: Rimworld, Kerbal Space Program, Prey, ShenzenIO

Also Notable: the Witcher series
Well, everyone is talking about how excited they are to violate the 2nd Amendment. Might as well violate the 4th, too, and maybe the 1st and 5th while we are at it. All in the name of safety.
That is the take I got to is if the writer feels that there is some golden age in the past that the "elites" should adhere to.

And academic politics (which the article mentions) have always been nasty.
It's debatable whether most people believed it. It was an argument bandied and a bunch of politicians passed a law. It was not put up to a popular vote (like you would see with Propositions in California).

All we can really say about the beliefs of Americans is captured by a recent CBS News Poll:

> Far fewer think the middle class (31 percent) and homeowners (25 percent) have been helped. More Americans think those groups have been hurt rather than helped by the new law.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2019-taxes-most-say-new-tax-law...
If you haven't seen https://haskell-at-work.com/episodes.html yet, I can recommend it
Mmh. I am very pleased to read from the sea wolf. I only have childhood memories. I put it on my list again. Thank you.
Classic. Thanks for the laugh, even if it’s HHOS.
Russian nuclear agency confirms spike in radiation due to failed rocket test
Does anyone have a working link to the diagram at the top? It seems to be a Google Drawing that requires permission to view/
Spike in the waveform.
Biotech researchers venture into the wild to start their own business
Ah ah, good call
The company can only create new shares if it has unissued capital. Granted this is kind of a arbitrary legal restriction, so it doesn’t really matter.

But the real issue is that shareholders will be informed when new shares are issued and no one likes dilution. I’m not 100% sure, but I believe existing shares held by the company can be sold without notification until a quarterly report.
And for finding ways of using energy at peak times. I could imagine everyone charging their cars at work if it turns out the electricity is cheap at that time.
WhatsApp does not upload unencrypted chat history to Google for me. In fact, I don't even have a Google Account on my LineageOS device, so it can't upload to Google either...
If you have carpal tunnel, lifting weights can make things worse. It puts more stress in the narrow canal that your tendons go through, which cause the pain.
We restrict the right to some freedoms, but do we restrict the right of autonomy within the person. You may not be able to do things as you wish, but can you restrict or legislate that away? Nuance might include the reasoning - suicide to 'avoid consequences', or depression (and of course the confluence of multiple reasons and / or benefits).

Somewhat related, though tangential - there are countries that do not punish for prison escapes or attempts. You will be put back in jail if caught, and circumstances might be changed to mitigate risk, but the underlying reason is "a fundamental human desire is to be free, and we cannot (additionally) punish for acting upon that desire".
My partner feeds and plays with ours cats (I don't have as much time)
If that's the policy goal would it not be much easier to just build programs to support startups and entrepreneurs?
Basically every story in that book is a gem.
One thing that life tought me is that you can be the best dev in the company but still your boss is going to give the promotion to one of his buddies he likes.

Personal connections and social engineering is 10times as important as your actual skills.

Its unfortunate looking at current state of the world, but thats how it simply is. And I understand some may not agree with it, but please look around yourself and tell me Im wrong..
I don't feed my cats, and barely play with them. They also don't know who pays the rent...
It does allow you to walk and use it at the same time. But since it auto switches to normal view when you hold the phone flat it is easy to swap between both modes.
> it's certainly worth it to call bullshit that these governmental moves that everyone ends up paying for only end up benefiting the wealthy

If these companies made a large one-time dividend, would that be preferable to share buybacks?

On one hand, we have tax treatment. Dividends produce revenue now; share buybacks, only on the disposal of the shares. On the other hand...I don't see another hand. Share buybacks should be specially taxed at the corporate level.

Either way, companies returning money to shareholders is preferable to pursuing boondoggles. (I'd argue 100% of the buyback tax revenue fund basic research, but we know that's presently politically unrealistic.)
reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Animals (it's out next month i guess)
How to find hidden remote jobs with Google search
I might add that breaking the naming away (from traditions) also helps breaking the mindset away (from "that's how we always did it").

This allows for unified abstract views on things normally distinguished from each other by words, syntax, conventions and mind. This allows stuff like pattern matching generic functional code like the mighty monad with it's transformer.

Learning functional programming incl. higher kinded types (dependent types and such) isn't easy for someone used to e.g. Java,C,C++,Python,Go, and others I can't judge of the top of my head.

If you ask yourself why said functional is beneficial, remember the popularity and typical confusion of the Monad posts/articles. You might not quite understand / "get" it, but they keep coming up and the authors seem intelligent. So you (might) just have a case of the Blub Paradox[0]. You need to understand it to grok it's usefulness/desirability.

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
For anyone else whose attention was piqued by mention of this "diabloweb"... https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/

So nostalgic!
The alternative is to not do the tax cuts.
I'm not sure if it will help, but I also felt rather poorly on Gabapentin (and Pregabalin).

I did two rounds of it and decided it was a terrible medication. I could barely even walk (I distinctly remember my poor father helping me down some stairs at ikea the first day I took it, unknowing what was to come).

Eventually I found a rheumatologist that understood. She started me on 100mg Gabapentin in the evenings. I did that for 2 weeks. I slept better, which was nice.

Then I added 100mg in the morning with a dose of magnesium citrate. Gabapentin is absorbed in the lower GI tract and magnesium citrate increases intestinal motility. This effectively makes the 100mg dose therapeutically equivalent to 20-50mg.

After a week, I'd have my morning dose normally.

Then 200mg in the evening after a week. Then 200mg in the morning. Then 400mg in the evening... Etc...

It took me a little over 3 months to get to the appropriate therapeutic dose, but I managed without experiencing any unpleasant side effects. I then switched to Pregabalin without any titration, and it's more effective for me.

I spent at least 5 years rolling back and forth between pregab/gaba before a sensible doctor walked me through a tolerable process. Hopefully this might help you communicate a similar system with your healthcare professional so you can try it again.

It's been totally worth the effort.
Sure, but that's because the compass in your phone is smaller than your nail is thick. Which obviously makes is significantly more sensitive to any disruption.

How would you design it better?
That era of games really appeals to me too, and the games from then seem to require a lot of patience and are so unforgiving.

Also let's not forget the dawn of MMOs, with UO and then the revolutionary EverQuest in '99.
It has nothing to do with xenophobia or racism.

When the NSA tapped the dark fibers of Google etc they were also not exactly in bed with the government and yet they found out about the fact afterwards and started encrypting everything only then. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...)

When you look at the surveillance happening in Russia paired with the unclear status of Telegram's encryption and it being off by default I'd say it's valid to be suspicious.
Assuming he’s coming from a Windows background learning core Linux utilities on Redhat is also possible. At least going through rhel he can reference the Redhat documentation which tend to be far better written than the million free guides out there.

As a real life example, the other day I needed to migrate /var on a Linux box. The freely available CentOs guides covered it well, but when I was done the applications were having a lot of issues. Going through Redhat’s documentation it quickly became obvious that the other articles neglected to mention rebuilding the grub boot files and getting SELinux running on the new directory.
It is worth noting that earlier moderators in some chats used bots with admin rights to limit posting rate. So Telegram just made this feature easier to use, without needing to set up a server with bot.
But its not a guarantee of "receiving" any thing the company makes vague promises which may or may not actually result in a gain to me, its also ignoring the time value of money.

There are I think better and more transparent ways of returning $ to investors.
Telegram is a great way to read HN articles, by subscribing to the channel, especially if you can't onboard enough people in your circle, to use it as a primary messenger. It also fires up on iPad, unlike WhatsApp.
Can we really look at the past for direction? It was more or less full of conflict. We need modern solutions to modern problems (or not so modern problems), not regress towards old points of view.
I think you're failing to see the larger picture.

Buybacks are the correct option for these companies, because otherwise they would be burning money on stupid projects or acquisitions. The money goes back to shareholders, via higher stock prices. They then need to put this somewhere, and many just buy more stock. Stock valuations rise(lowering expected returns), and this causes more sophisticated investors to leave the general public markets and look for opportunities elsewhere... resulting in the 'real investment' that you want. Large, established, public companies are NOT the right vehicle for this investment to happen through.

Also, you need to read through the fake news headlines a bit. The top 10 companies are responsible for a disproportionate amount of these buybacks. Smaller companies probably have ways to use the extra tax cut money. Apple may not have needed lower taxes, but pretending like all companies are in Apple's fortunate financial position, and hinging your argument on that is like arguing that lotties are the best use of money because you won the lottery.
They are using the same encryption as Signal and it was done by the people running and developing Signal.

"As of today, the integration is fully complete. Users running the most recent versions of WhatsApp on any platform now get full end-to-end encryption for every message they send and every WhatsApp call they make when communicating with each other."

https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
The alternative is taxing the living shit out of companies and giving it to people. Because that is how you grow the economy, by making sure people have money to spend on things.

But we live under capitalism so giving money to people is out of the question. Money is for billionaires and shareholders.
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Just a guess, but the Catholic Church relied on a Latin translation of the Bible. Accordingly, schools taught Latin as you needed it to understand the Bible and the Mass.

Those schools also taught Ancient Greek for advanced students to be able to read philosophy and portions of the Bible. This was useful if you wanted to be a priest, but otherwise it was just a pointlessly hard course for most students.
Very strange that this article comes from bloomberg, you would think they would understand business a bit better.
It's also very difficult to, from "ground level" dislocate the neck thus. It was the "long drop and the sharp stop" in the gallows which caused neck dislocation (or in poor planning, even decapitation).
> The police in Hong Kong would be a lot more respectful if the (massive, dense) crowd was armed with more than laser pointers

This statement is laughable, yet terrifying in its naiveté.

> "Gun Control" was originally just a mechanism to keep the (black, brown) population from owning guns; just a way of disarming the black/brown population. Look at the past laws, and current policing!

The history of gun politics is inextricably tied to race, but your comment is as dismissive of gun control as it is unsupported and vague, as if waving your hands and dropping a hint of racial bias categorically invalidates arguments in favour of restricting firearms rights.
This is extremely irritating. I have a fair amount of meraki hardware that was given to me as the reward for a hackathon, and I use it to run my home wifi networks. When the licenses expire the equipment will become completely useless and I’ll have to sell the perfectly functional stuff and replace it with unifi hardware...
Every share they buy back is being disposed of by someone else, who is paying tax on their gain. The tax rate across all of the payees won’t be as high as it would be with a dividend, but it’s definitely not a tax free event.
Parent may have mistyped, but benzodiazepines are very frequently utilized for treating Firbomyalgia pain. (at least in the US)
> So much of the argument behind the 2017 tax cuts and the Fed's low interest rates was that they would spur real investment (that is, investment which increases productive capacity or improves productivity) that would benefit everyone, mainly through jobs.

Sure. Do we have any reason to think that's not working? When an investor makes a successful investment, and the company becomes very profitable and has spare cash they can't find a productive use for, and give it back to the original investors...

...what do you think the investor is going to do with it?

1) Look for another good investment (something they have a track record for doing)

2) Pile the money up in a big pile and have a bonfire, as they literally have no other ideas for what to do with the money.

3) Something else?

1 is the obvious answer, yet you seem to be the answer must be 2 and can't possibly be 1, but you provide no reason to think so, the linked article provides no reason to think so, and you don't even seem to have realised 1 is a possible outcome.

Further, you seem to be implicitly assuming that a company management who are not professional investors and who don't think they can find a good use for the money will still do a better job of making investments than the firm's investors, who are. Is there a reason for this?
Well consider the clipper ship example. There was huge inflation in gold prices during the gold rush on the West coast. When the gold reached the East coast financial markets, the price of gold goes up there as well. So the key to making money was latency arbitrage between the East and West coast with fast ships. This allowed the owners to capture the delay between gold prices.

Banks do the same thing. Inflation is like a cone of molasses that is being pored on the banks. It then slowly expands. So banks get the cheap money first and lend it to people that haven’t been hit with inflation yet.

If they do this fast enough, they make money off arbitraging the inflation rates. Of course, the CPI doesn’t capture any of this.
I want to think it's about "show, don't tell" but I gave up on this article, too..
I'm not even close to being an amateur economist, but:

1. Paying dividends makes you an attractive investment to people looking for long-term investments, such as pension funds.

2. This increases stock price, and when a corporation holds much of the stock, this increases the corporations holdings.

3. Those individuals working within the corporate structure that hold stock, increase their net worth.

4. The corporation and influential employees gain, and so keep paying out high dividends.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm just guessing.
It seems like he is seeing the bigger picture.
Great tips, thanks! I recommend your "secondary mouse hand" trick in particular for right-handers who use desktop keyboards with the typical cursor keys on the right. I did this before I switched to ThinkPads, and it was great being able to seamlessly work the mouse with my left hand and the cursor keys with my right. Putting the mouse on the left also made a much shorter reach to get to it.

For Windows users with desktop keyboards that have numeric pads, I also suggest turning on the Mouse Keys feature. One thing I always found most stressful with a mouse was dragging with the button down and trying to make precise movements. I felt like I was cramping my hand every time I did that. Mouse Keys makes precise mouse movements easy:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14204/windows-7-use...

Or on a laptop keyboard - particularly on a ThinkPad - use my JKLmouse program (an AutoHotkey script) that does much the same thing without a number pad. Whenever you hold any mouse (TrackPoint) button or the Caps Lock key down, various keyboard keys turn into mouse movement keys. It works on any keyboard but is especially nice on a ThinkPad where you can press a TrackPoint button, use the TrackPoint to get the cursor about where you want it, and then - with your hand still on the home row! - move pixel by pixel with the keyboard.

https://www.jklmouse.com/

I don't know of macOS or Linux equivalents for these, but would be interested in hearing about them if anyone is familiar.
Sundar repeatedly stated in this Google I/O 2019 presentation how they were condensing and bringing AI and ML techniques onboard to phones to provide better responsiveness and lower the security issues of taking private data into their cloud.
I agree.

We should ask if they should have this power and the people should seize it back if necessary.
1999: The Last Great Year in Movies
Europeans speaking perfect English sounds like good news but may be a threat
Can you remember millions of faces? Can you watch video from millions of cameras simultaneously and create a list of routes and profiles of people taken by them? Can you look at a person and find his/her social network profile in a second? Sorry, but I doubt your capabilities can be even remotely compared to software.
> I was in a group with just too much useless conversation. So I listed a few things I would like:

Leave. Or put the group on mute. You can't fix noisy people. Let them stick together in their own playground.

> - time windows (no posts on Sundays, for instance);

Why? Either it is work-related, which means out of work I'm not listening, or it is non-work related. If someone feels like they want to contribute to the group on Sunday, let them be?

You're trying to fix a problem from the wrong angle. You're doing damage control instead of fixing the problem.
Much of the money isn't going to startups. It goes to savings. The top 1% save ~40% of their income. The bottom 90% save 4% of their income. The problem with giving money to the wealthy is that it doesn't go to startups, it leaves the economy and increases a number on someone's terminal.

The best way to spur economic growth is to give money to people who will spend it quickly whether rich or poor. In general, it turns out most very wealthy people have little incentive to spend money quickly. Instead, they save to hedge against and profit from recessions.

I really don't understand how people still push some version of trickle-down economics. Corporate buybacks are exactly this. Using taxpayer money to fund it only hurts the long term value of the economy.
I'm pretty good at that too, but mostly due to temporary climbing injuries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/wage-gro...
It should be mentioned again that Lise Meitner should, by every standard, have got the Nobel in 1944, not Hahn.
A different reading of the history is that it was a political move by the other Spartan king to force Leonidas to die in a lost cause with a small force in order to remove a rival.
In the 21st century, I am increasingly convinced one of the biggest problems with capitalism is that entities with large amounts of cash (corporations or individuals) are just sloshing it around pointlessly instead of investing it in actually beneficial things. Maybe central banks should try the forbidden “helicopter money”. I'm sure the average person would actually spend money they get on improving their lives.
Honest answer:

Your premise that the stock price is "just pure massive speculation of the market players to begin with." is wrong.

Maybe in the short term, but in the long run the stock price of companies reflects the value of what they are able to build. When management feels that it has cash that it is unable to invest productively in building company value it returns that cash to shareholders in the form of dividends or buybacks.
> If the player is enjoying themself

Well, sure.

But the issue is that optimal gameplay isn't always fun for the player, but it may be too strategically effective to ignore.

The game in the article isn't likely to maximize fun for the player if the player feels obligated to abuse the door in every single combat encounter. Or use the same overpowered weapon and always have enough ammo to ignore the rest.

Save-scumming often suffers from this as well where the advantage of getting a good RNG roll (like which item will appear in the chest) is so good that the player can feel obligated to reload the game 20 times every time they encounter a chest. You could fix this by making a chest contents deterministic, like based on some global seed. Or replace save-files with an autosave-only feature.

Good game design can save the player from themself and force them to have fun, so to speak.

Making games fun is hard.
We need progressive corporate taxation.
The Democrats usually complain that the money should be used to increase salaries or whatever. Which is fine, I guess. But it’s not about a tax dodge (or at least that’s not the main point).
Good. You have found a rare example of a legitimate use for facial recognition.
The other reason this is a smart move for companies is that it gives them another tool for the upcoming recession that they can leverage to raise capital, should they need it.