skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general the split between expressions and statements has been disastrous IMHO.

I remember the first time I saw 'constexpr' in C++ I was excited, until I realized it's really conststatement.

The elaborate syntactical decorations of most languages drive away from this, unfortunately.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=Type%3DBu...

It's not clear that all these bugs can be turned into an attack, but that sure is a lot of bugs.
I consider myself also old in this regard, having really enjoyed games like Galaga and Mario Brothers on the NES and with Tiberian Sun as one of my most favorite games of all time.

I'd say the most recent time I've been blown away was using Vive's full room VR setup. Many VR games have some very primitive concepts and graphics but it's a very different way of gaming even in multiplayer. There's a lot of room for improvement in graphics, but even _more_ room for improvement of controller hardware designs.
They are hosted on AWS or GCS on their kubernetes as a service platforms. Of course there is legacy to deal with.

And beyond kubernetes you have function as a service.
Was just there about 10 days ago with my team! Good times, we solved it in about 45 minutes :)
Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?
It isn't the magnitude of evil but the remoteness - we know about life in the United States. We don't know many details about a secretive repressive nation. There are also flaws about 'requiring far too many people to keep a secret' and some major 'game theory'. Now it is a matter of fact that he was involved with sex trafficking and corruption but there were plenty of reasons to doubt.

The story hit upon a number of other discredited conspiracy tropes and archetypes. A network of child sex traffickers resembles too much 'orderly world' conspiracy theorist family. Where there is some vast conspiracy to blame for everything wrong with the world but there is at least someone behind it and some concrete goal to 'fix it'. As opposed to a chaotic real world where there is nothing that can be done about it - sometimes some nut-job decides to do something really scary like kill the president or shoot up schools.

Not to mention the anti-semetic tropes hit upon by it when there was a simpler explanation for his contact with high level people - he was rich. Being a donor would have explained it far easier than a sex trafficking conspiracy before concrete evidence.

Frankly the 'believers' of the story did more to make less believable than any amount of spin-doctors with things like drawing tenuous connections to anyone who ever met the guy being a pedophile.
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AWS also seems to have good SEO on their docs, so it becomes hard to search for answers from other sources.
No one doubts that there people who would do it, it is more about how widespread criminal networks could be without blowing up.
The criminal justice system obviously isn't going to put Minsky's corpse on trial. There won't be any legal determination made.

It might be possible for the victim to sue his estate in civil court but the odds of success there seem low.
Because a vehicle barrier could also trap vehicles on the tracks.
Well he learned protectionist policies from China and seems to be going ok. It's weird that so many westerns are adamant we are wrong in this situation.
It's quite a leap to assume that our simulation would end just because we discovered it were a simulation. That presumes that something is monitoring the thoughts of individuals, or our species as a whole. It presumes that the simulation is so small in scale that only humans are being simulated (vs say an entire universe or some other large-scale experiment that involves more than human sentience). It presumes that any simulation-runner wouldn't be curious to see how the discovery altered our behavior.

I like the simulation hypothesis as a mind game, and I even have some semblence of religious attraction to the idea as an origin story that I could accept on faith, but I don't buy the "ancestor simulation" at all. Why ancestors? Who cares about simulating ancestors? If we're in a simulation, I'd find it easier to believe that we're being simulated by an intelligence vastly different from ourselves, and the complete evolutionary history is all part of the simulation. The idea that in a few thousand years humans will build some elaborate recreation of this narrow point in time and simulate their own history is about as absurd as The Matrix.
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I have had the opportunity to visit China multiple times during the last few years. Have met many wonderful people there. However, what makes me uncomfortable is the society. I have been in many countries where you get scorned as a foreigner. China is the only place where I have encountered that people treat you as you do not exist. Obviously, this is not something that only applies to foreigners; it’s a view of humanity that is very far removed from the rest of the world. I find it chilling to be honest.
Lower amount of exhaust gasses to "enjoy" in a proper traffic jam...
And notice how all mainstream media headlines use a strictly affirmative tone wrt whether it really was a suicide.

CNN: "Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide"
NyTimes: "Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself in jail"
ABC: "Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide"

etc etc. Just go to Google News and see for yourself. It's as if no reasonable person could possibly suspect that he was helped along, even though literally everyone was saying he will not live long enough to see trial, for months.

Lots of very powerful people (including some/all of the media owners) want this swept under the rug as quickly as possible for obvious reasons. I expect that it will be memory holed within a week at most.

If DOJ/FBI/US penitentiary is not complicit, they should take in Ghislaine Maxwell into custody at this time and put her on the suicide watch, but for real this time. And possibly also offer protective custody to some of the girls who are testifying.
Commoditization drives down profits which will limit the returns on your investment.

Generally you want to invest in complements to things that are going to be commoditized. The drop in price and profits for the commodity drive increased profits for the consumer of the commoditized good.
Science seemingly removed meaning from our lives, with many of us reducing ourselves, like Hawking, to “just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet”.

But what if that’s a bad explanation? I recommend reading David Deutsch’s books. This father of quantum computing makes an incredibly convincing case for restoring our specialness in the universe.

Every single person you see walking down the street, no matter how offensive or incapable, has gifts not found anywhere in the observable universe 92 billion light years wide. That’s a nice thought.
The videogames industry got overcrowded over time. Videogames became more about money as the big names exploited the growth of the sector. There are good titles coming out, although it seems they become fewer in ratio.

Most big names push away game designers to favour software engineers with elements of game design. That could have worked 15 years ago, but with the increased competition, the need for proper game design has increased.

Finally, the people that made videogames 15 years ago were mostly engineers, but I get the impression they also had a better understanding of game design.

Hence that time was the golden era of videogames because it was when the key people in the industry made their careers. Todd Howard (Bethesda) and Jess Schell (Disney/Schell Games) for example were in the line at that time, but now are in management positions.

Because game designers where having an hard time in the videogames industry, they turned their attention to other areas: board games. Board games are indeed in a great period now, with many independent makers finding success.

So if you want to have again a good time playing games with friends, go for board games.
My answer is the group that definitely has historical and real reasons to dislike you. China doesn't like the west. Never has never will.
> Every single tube stop has "exit maps" that show you where you'll be emerging at street level before you exit the station.

Not at every exit, and you can't just casually stroll over to one in the middle of rush hour.

> The roads are not unlabelled

Sure they are, half the time the tiny road sign is obscured by adverts, construction, or just at an awkward angle not visible from the tube exit.

> and additionally a huge number of local area maps for pedestrians:

Again, not at every station, mainly the tourist ones.
You're thinking of Martin Eberhard, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Eberhard:

"In 2010, Martin Eberhard confirmed to Autoblog Green that he was doing work with Volkswagen, but no further details have been provided [...] Later, he worked at Lucid Motors, a startup funded by LeEco and others which was created to compete with Tesla, until 2015 [...] In 2017, Eberhard founded inEVit in a bid to supply major OEMs with electric drivetrains and power storage solutions. [...] In October, 2017, Eberhard joined Sokon Industry Group when that company acquired Inevit. This branch was renamed SF Motors."
Arch isn't bleeding edge either. It has always been stable for me and extremely easy to administer, but I have the benefit of actually having the true latest stable packages that you consider bleeding edge, but they are in fact stable just like they are called when they are released.
Marketing is definitely important for growth.

But the whole point of technology and good engineers is that you can scale up without hiring more people.

I see no reason a solid core of engineers couldn't scale Uber out indefinitely.
If you know that you're getting out at 33rd and that 33rd is a 1-way street that travels west you can orient yourself pretty well if you can see any street-signs.

What's infuriating is that nearly all map applications don't show you the pertinent street names or which directions one-way streets are going. You have to zoom and pan and whatever else to find out which street you're on.

This AR thing may be a nice upgrade that would help but please for the love of god just show me all street-names that I might be on and which direction one-way traffic goes.
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I think that's the best-case scenario, and the worst case looks more like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux#Deaths_of_potenti...

Even the public prosecutor was suddenly overwhelmed by sadness and took his life during the investigation. Hats off to anyone who dares to touch high-profile pedophilia cases.
Interesting that you conclude that it's based on A/B tests and present this as a fact in the title when in fact you have no clue and are just guessing.
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I don’t think we’re buying hardware anymore at this level. I think we’re buying software and support with hardware included. Not sure how I feel about this on all situations but I’d say that’s the only perspective the vendors can defend. It’s too bad for them too since eventually someone will build free software too.
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Don't you find that just run-and-gun gets boring, you want a change of pace, to choose sometimes to do a section of a [FPS] game stealthily, sometimes dynamic, and sometimes just tank it?

For me, it's good to force a certain style of play sometimes. One of the things I really liked about Deus Ex was that run-and-gun just left you overwhelmed at times, resources or floorplan could force stealth in some sections of the game.
Then why do people keep buying them?
Who says that they actually knew about it? If they just went around telling literally everyone that sounds like a way to get busted even as a low level drug dealer - let alone as a comparative nobody vs a big name - especially with secret service protection. From the perspective of a criminal blackmailer it would make far more sense to probe interests first before getting into it.
What I have found with ex-pats is they left somewhere and feel free to criticise it and give these as reasons they are glad they left. They also ignore similar issues in their new nation or ignore other aspects of their new nation. Arguing that they are not responsible for that as an ex-pat.

Not labelling all expats like this but the vocal ones tend to be like this.
This is great data, but missing one crucial piece: how much reach did each candidate achieve given their spend? Both what they directly paid for with the ads, and then what the ads achieved organically beyond the spend.

My suspicion is that Trump, by being outrageous, realizes far cheaper effective ad rates (i.e. when you factor in both paid & organic reach) than any other candidate.
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Threadripper and many Ryzen chips support ECC as well, and the professional market can use either and still be professionals.
There is no requirement for a panacea or super neat developments that allow individual households to store seasons worth of privately generated electricity.

For seasonal and sporadic production shortfalls in solar and wind generation, biofuels and electrically synthesized fuels can fill in. On the occasions where carbon-neutral fuel resources are insufficient - gas generation can remain as fallback (increasingly rarely) until sufficient carbon neutral fuel production is developed.
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>I don't understand your parenthetical assertion that domestic abuse and mass shootings are not crime. Of course, they certainly are crime.

My point is to separate the actions done by career criminals, (organized crime, burglars, gangs, drug dealers, the mob, etc). As opposed to a casual, accidental, one of, not intended, breaking of the law (even if they committed crime) by an ordinary person who doesn't live off of crime.

(Perhaps the distinction is more powerful in my language, but I think there's a distinction in casual conversation in English too. E.g. you'd call someone who abuses their spouse a "wife beater", or "creep", or "abuser" or several other terms, but you wouldn't say that they lead "a life of crime" (even tho domestic abuse is a crime). The same way you usually wouldn't call a mass shooter a "criminal", but a "deranged person", "psychopath", "terrorist", etc). If I say "criminal" or "outlaw" for example, does that bring in mind someone deep in crime, or a person involved in a DUI?

Anyway, my point is, in a total gun ban, you'll still have the gang/career criminal/etc people have guns and you could even have the same amount of gun crime of that type as now, but you'd have much less murders within a family, mass shootings, etc... -- as it would be way more difficult for lawful people to get their hands on guns, have them casually at home, and e.g. use them on a sudden rage against their spouse or parents or whatever.

(I'd say even the career criminal type of crimes will be less -- criminals will also have a worse and harder supply of guns).
@dang I’d enjoy seeing a trial run of this on HN for one day.
"...but handguns were effectively banned after the Dunblane school massacre in 1996 with the exception of Northern Ireland."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_the_Uni...

They have not always had the outright ban they have now.

Knife Crime:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42749089

With the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales in 2017-18 the highest since records began - the BBC has tracked the first 100 killings in 2019 - revealing the people behind the headlines. - Mar 8, 2019

"there were 285 knife murders in England and Wales in 2017/18 — the highest number since the Second World War — and 34 in Scotland"

Not everything is black and white.
Any place where people LARP and hide themselves behind masks of their own design all day can be caustic, Yale is far from being an outlier.
It's a very interesting story, thank you for sharing it.
Ah yes, trackballs are good too due to the reduced wrist movement/strain, and much cheaper than the Evoluent. Trackpads can work, but hand and wrist placement matters similar to keyboarding...
New? I've had this on my phone for a year...
This is congruent with my experiences teaching college students: http://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boost...
That seems to be the baseline for a lot of these places. They rent some warehouse space, throw up drywall rooms, then fill them with thrift store furniture/decor. The puzzles boil down to solving a series of padlocks or keycodes.

However note the place in the article - they clearly put a lot of effort into it. The decor is well done and the puzzles are actually involved, even interactive.

I went on a cruise ship that had an escape room. It was incredibly well designed both from a puzzle and decor standpoint. It was also the most difficult room I've ever tried. It was a fake "submarine" like the one mentioned in the article, though the decor was even more realistic. There were multiple interactive puzzles that involved things like re-routing the flow of water through pipes or using a VR headset mounted on a "periscope" to scan the "surroundings" for clues. The sky's the limit on these, so to speak.
>I feel like you have never talked to a gun owner before. Though they may lean towards the pro police/pro military side, they absolutely would not bow to the government implementing some kind of mass martial law.

That's what they pay lip service too. In practice the huge majority are chickens, when they're not pro-army (and the first to cheer for an actual martial law, as long it was done by favorable politicians to them).

>Lastly, our military swears an oath to the people and the constitution, not the government. Every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, and Guardsman is bound by oath to refuse unlawful orders.

Yeah, good luck with that if push comes to shove.
In Hebrew we also say "It's Chinese" when we don't understand something.

Interestingly enough, I took the family to Greece just last month and explained to the children that in English, it is said that something sounds Greek if it cannot be understood. My oldest was wise enough to ask why, if Greek is the root of so many English words. I still don't have an answer for her!
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Gender and age are interesting. But elections are won or lost based on ad copy targeted at interest groups... neither appear to be available in this analysis(?)
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Explain to me why the F would I ever use an app that requires my phone number to run?
Great to see such candid comments and this clearly shows you actually really care about this startup's mission "Compound is entirely focused on helping you—the employee—understand and manage your equity."

(Full disclosure: I've been following this founder for a while to see him do great things)

"there are some absolutely ridiculous ideas, most of these companies will fail miserably and would NEVER have been seeded during a recession"

So, to state the obvious here, recession is actually one of the best times to start companies or join solid startups to earn early-employee equity: fortune rewards the bold. And to some extent, that's the best concentrated personal wealth investment if you choose wisely which early-stage startup to join, especially when you don't have lots of cash sitting around to "buy the dip" from public market. So why not "join the dip" to take advantage of the recession years (golden era, blessing in disguise) to become equity rich coming out of the other side?

I believe it's true that many/most non-VC-funded startups don't give employee equity, but don't you think this situation actually also needs to change? Just like now remote/distributed work is all the rage, in 5-10-20-25yrs when most/many other companies also give employee equity for them to have the opportunity to "earn concentrated wealth" from 'investing in" what they work on at the company?

I see Compound's mission very aligned with employees at all kinds of companies of different time, start from a smaller focus market (VC-funded startups), to serving majority of the planet in the future :)
Definitely, but they need video chat like yesteryear.
Discussion of why it probably doesn't.

http://www.thephysicsforum.com/astrophysics-cosmology/5948-h...
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>There is nothing like a 20 round barrel

I was jocking (and making a point), but you'd be surprised:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrion,_Dassy_%26_Heuschen_do...

>A barrel is not a unit of measure for rounds. Learn something about what you want to discuss if you want to have any valid point, being clueless and talking is not a good idea.

Actually my whole point is that people should not care about, and not be allowed to own those things...

That said, I've been in the army myself back in the day, I just don't care for guns to keep reading about them 20 years afterwards, or to go read about the different variations on the market.

Nor is english my first language, I read that the shooter used a 100 round barrel, I guessed they mean an attached mechanism (round), or some magazine or something. I know that revolvers have barrels, and those bizarro mob guns in the 20s (tommy guns?).

Still, apparently there's a 20-bullet barrel, how about it?
Great offering and slick design! I hope you guys expand to traditional markets as the providers there are a bit messier.
That's exactly what I mean. No injuries to innocents; dangerous crime (armed home invasion) thwarted.
There were a number of red flags indicating that microservices were not a good fit here:

> Microservices had been sold to us [...]

It seems no one really understood the benefits or costs--somewhat understandable as there's no learning better than doing.

> Building on top of a third-party impacted how we could divide our domain into microservices.

Usually the features come together at the top where the user is, in this case it may be both the top and bottom.

> We couldn’t identify any obvious candidates in our monolith to be broken out into a microservice. So instead, we started drawing arbitrary lines between our domain models

This is how most first-time microservices designs fail drawing boundaries around 'nouns'. With each being a source of truth for information needed in many contexts. A microservice should be one of these contexts and the data it needs from each 'noun' source separately from serving requests.

> We have approximately 12 developers spread across 2 feature teams

This is the biggest red flag. The primary advantage of microservices is for scaling teams so each can deliver independently. With only 2 pizza-sized teams there's not much point.

There may still have been a useful feature that could be extracted into a microservice if given more consideration. Think along the lines of 'what has to change a lot for a particular recurring reason' might point somewhere. Another way is if there's a mixture in the tech stack, e.g. search is often split off.
> In early 2007, Palfrey reacted to the suicide by hanging of Brandi Britton, one of her former escort service employees, by saying, "I guess I'm made of something that Brandi Britton wasn't made of."

Still, she also was found hanged. Very fishy...
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Neither of those charts go back far enough because if they did you'd see this has all happened before, and even worse at one point. When IE was taking over the world FF fell to <5% of the market, yet it survived. It's not dead until its dead and with Chrome killing off ad-blockers I bet we'll see some reversal of the current trends when that ships.
I wonder how effective it all is. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it’s mostly wasted money.