skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American society, led by its rich, capitalist elites, divides people into winners and losers, from the time children are born through their whole lives. People are buried in a system of hierarchy and dominance. If you want people to feel like they belong you have to put an end to that system. There can be no more winners. Get rid of the private schools, the prom kings, machine guns, homelessness, “good” neighborhoods, private planes, the whole damn system. Build compassion and equality and accountability into everything. Deprive the winners of the satisfaction of dominating the losers.
I think the question is "Are you in Europe?"
It is in general more efficient to do basic research in universities and publish the results so that everybody does not need to do the same large amount of experiments.

Then do the productization in companies.

I don't know which part is harder regarding batteries, but I assume we have still quite a lot of basic research to do as well.
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Have you tried just a straight trackball? I switched to a trackball for rsi, and it helped. But I’m curious if a thumb trackball would be better.
None of these things have anything to do with being a senior devoloper. Whoever wrote this is trying to imagine what a senior developer is through this junior len.

A senior developer doesn't teach others how to code a senior doesn't need others to teach them how to code.

A senior has to make tough calls? No they don't they make logical and sensible even boring calls. The product owner makes the tough calls.

A senior is always learning new things? All developers are always learning new things. More so junior developers.
Sounds a lot like the classic arcade game Berzerk, complete with the indestructible wall-passing enemy to hurry you up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berzerk_(video_game)
Something I’ve always wondered about the programming / software development profession: do people buy insurance for their hands?

My sister is a denturists and she has insurance for her hands. Curious if this is something people in our profession have considered to protect from incidents like this.
Yeah, I wish I had more options at work. At home I use an adjustable height sit/stand desk from Ikea, and I've a Lifespan walking treadmill (just the base) which really helps with body posture (it's impossible to rest in the wrong position when you have to keep stepping forward a bit at a time...)

I've suggested getting a treaddesk (treadmill desk) at work more than once, with co-workers, direct managers and company execs, but presumably as no one else has tried one, everyone looks at me funny when I ask. So I tend to split my work programming time between workplace and home as a compromise...

Then there's the Vivo Barefoot shoes I've been recently trying for increased awareness when walking, and better walking ergonomics... at this point it seems like a safe assumption that most things humans habitually do aren't ergonomically optimal. ;-)
Many people are happy to admit and even enthusiastically embrace the concept that dogs have human-like emotions, but they will still resist that about farm animals and wildlife.
Nice, the definitive CL macro book for free.
Seconded on the scaling aspect. This company has 39 locations, mostly in medium sized cities. Granted, they are the "generation 1" type games, at least at the one location I've been to.

https://breakoutgames.com/
Ornate netsuke were practical status symbols
I am and I see the same text.
Gotta get them invested so that when they hate their job at Amazon and realize how much they exploit open source to help a wealthy company destroy it, then they will keep doing it for as long as possible because they were pathetic enough to spend $4,600 just to do a mock interview.
Most enterprise products today have a grace period when they enforce licensing (soft vs hard). So if a licensing server is unavailable it will start into a countdown mode of days, weeks etc before the product changes it's state for this exact reason. On the flip side most licensing servers will alert when check-ins go offline for two, general, situations: operational product that become isolated (your example) or decommissioned environments.

I don't know of any large scale products that don't approach it like this today simply because the vendor doesn't want to be responsible. I'm sure some smaller products might do this, that is until they lose a customer over one of those bad situations where a customer is trying to renew a contract and they get cut off before the PO clears the backend on the vendor side.

But agreed, automated licensing does have it's fair share of pitfalls. Then again, it's like taxes. You should know, at any point in time, where you stand over the course of a year as it pertains to your over/under. The old school manual audits seem to be kept in place to keep the overages out of sight.
In the press, the alleged victims were "young women" - not "minors" or "underaged". The difference in reporting is amazing to behold.
Goldeneye on N64 had the alarms which would, IIRC, at least accelerate the onset of enemy attacks but I think also increase numbers of attackers.
Contraction hierarchies[0] are a nice extension over which A* works even better and I believe these are used in osrm. I read a paper by Microsoft Research where they optimized the setting to enable shortest path routing in average of 5 memory reads, or something ridiculously unbelievable like that. [1]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_hierarchies

1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Snaking broke that game.
But the dead guy who was photographed when they rolled him out, had a different nose and a different ear. Convenient, if so.
Sila Nanotechnologies (https://silanano.com) is doing interesting things with battery chemistry. They recently raised a bunch of money from Daimler.
No, I want to avoid it, so under that scheme, I would root for people to hand in their guns voluntarily!

Now, if they want to make it a tragedy (and to perpetuate the current tragedies).
Here’s a thought: require such manufactures to completely recycle their discarded equipment. Suddenly reselling their ‘old’ equipment as refurbished at lower costs is a cost cutting option.
Split keyboards allow you to have both hands and arms perpendicular to the table.
Russia's floating nuclear power plant in the Arctic causes anxiety in Alaska
The AWS docs annoy me SO MUCH. As others have noted, there is a LOT of them, and they cover every feature. But I cant think of any of them that explain how stuff works. There will be three different versions explaining how to set some option with cli, sdk, and console versions...but they never explain what that option actually does. The examples are always at the tutorial level (there are so many * in IAM permissions in their docs). For something that is so very much a professional product where the details are important, their docs should really have the more in depth details. Like what are the tradeoffs with Aurora? How exactly do the load balancers handle connections and scaling? What does the "certificate" option in codebuild do?
>We are literally talking about millions of people who would refuse to follow this law

Wouldn't then they be criminals?

There are millions of people who have been in jail (even for BS like marijuana, which killed far less people than guns, well, literally 0 people), so what would be special about them?

>Seems like you are doing some sort of poes law parody of a gun grabber.

Yes, but I also like the thought experiment.
Ate they wrong about the current situation?
interesting, yet as someone else commented this assumes things only get better over time. which is obviously and throughout history not true. we have had entire civilizations and everything they did dissipated...

we need to strive to preserve the good things. and video games is one of those areas where the best ever will often be a name from a not so distant past... sorry.
do you jump right into writing? Do you write long or short stories? Do you scribble stuff just for fun?

writing is a continuous process as well as a developed skill. You should write stuff just for fun, just for picking up your own language and structure. Then write short stories that are easy to manage.

For larger books you have to create a solid structure first. Characters traits, genealogy and interactions, world lore for fantasy, timeline flowcharts, anyway all the backstage setup so you don't get lost or contradict yourself. It is a lot of effort, but is just a natural continuation of the first two exercises (writing for the fun of it and writing short pieces).
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress
You're much better off learning core Linux utilities like from installing Arch, rather than outdated distro specific management.
I feel there was a ”PC gaming winter” roughly 2005–2012. In that period it seems most commercial PC games were sloppy console ports, lacking the depth and storytelling finesse developed in the previous decade. Games were also severely technically handicapped by the limitations of contemporaneous consoles.

Crowdfunding made possible projects like Pillars of Eternity and Wasteland 2, starting a renaissance of sorts in game design and a reinvigorated respect for the PC as a gaming platform.
Clinton didn’t spend anything on Facebook? The data is also a little screwed considering that it was Trump and Hillary in the General election. All of the other candidates were just in the primary. Ad spending will heavily increase for a candidate in the General election.
'Poop every other day' to protect the environment
Seems like a load of crap, eh?
> He’s literally done that before.

Exactly - the prosecutors no longer have that capital, otherwise it would come off as getting another rich guy get away with it, again. Not to mention those involved in the last deal are already in a world of trouble.
We need a notion of lifecycle independent of reconciliation. The definition provided in View Tree Duality is natural, essentially locally determined, and efficient (i.e O(n)).

Without an independent notion of lifecycle, React essentially cannot improve it’s reconciliation algorithm.
The car makers with any volume are using asynchronous AC motors (Leaf, Tesla) or PM DC synchronous motors (GM). Tesla got a lot of publicity when there was speculation about the Model 3 using a reluctance motor, which suggests it would have been a new thing. But it turns out to be a hybrid of PM and reluctance. Possibly Chinese vendors are doing something different for cars, but the e-bike and scooter motors are all PM.

I don't believe the company in the article have anything at the level they are claiming.
Shkreli didn't "return every penny to his investors". He stole money from one group to pay another group. Yes all of his investors ended up in the green eventually (because some underlying businesses were profitable), but that doesn't change the fact that he defrauded a lot of people and not "every penny" was paid back.

For example, if you invest money in a profitable business and the CEO skims a little bit off the top, you might end up making money despite that you were defrauded off some of your gains.
Lol. Thanks for pointing that out. I have fixed it now.
AI Is Hot and SoftBank’s New Tech Megafund Offers Cash to Burn
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/women-sent-mar-a...
My favorite variant of this is IDA
OpenShift is pretty well positioned as the Kubernetes variant for big enterprise, with the often-necessary vendor support and responsibility that simply doesn't come with open source. Cloud vendor implementations can take away some of the risk there, but there are a ton of servers still sitting in datacenters still.
Sounds like the Trisolarans
My company has a very useful guide for the software engineer ladder, and one very interesting characteristic they look for (not mentioned here) is scope.

Seniors are expected to have a bigger scope, not only technically (e.g. leading the development of a service), but in terms of reach. Senior developers influence teams other than their own, and drive collaboration.
>1.6 is the factor everyone talks about (approximation of 1.609), but it has 2 significant figures. To make mental calculations easier/quicker I use its reciprocal, 0.621, which I approximate with 0.6, which has only one significant figure, 6.

How about just 1.5 + 0.1? I.e. the same amount plus half, plus a tenth?

So, 55 mi -> 55 + (25 + 2.5) + 5.5 -> 88km

And inversely, 0.5 + 0.1, so half plus a tenth:

80km -> 40 + 8 -> 48 miles

And for most purposes, just (one and a half = 1.5) and (half = 0.5) is close enough. You can mentally add a little more.

So

55mi -> 55 + (25 + 2.5) -> 82 (let's say around 85)

80km -> 40miles (let's say around 45 miles)
Engineers Diet
1) different guns do different things
2) they become collectors items
3) just because we can
To Get a Gun License[in Punjab], First You Have to Plant 10 Trees
Do you plan on extending the product offering?

Edit: Do you use FIX API for the exchanges that provide it?
37°C (not 38): 37 is a prime, and a centered hexagonal number, if you need some facts to hang your memory on. It's only approximate (same for °F where 98.6 is now seen as "normal"). "Normal" temperature depends on where on the body you measure anyway.
Soon only the rich will be able to escape the heat. In Iraq, it’s already so
Which VSCode plugin are you using for this? I’m not sure what to search to find it but it sounds handy :)
interesting, I actually consider hl2 to be a remarkably balanced game wrt weapons. the only weapons that are really OP are the revolver and ar, but you don't find a lot of ammo for them. that's one of the few games where I actually find myself cycling between all the weapons to find the best fit for the situation.
Is this a firmware issue? It seems to be a change in the OS.

Regardless, ONIE + ONOS has been an excellent choice for a while now.
I don't really see the reason for that. Usually people don't reply in bursts here like you'd expect in a chat app. If there are multiple comments by a person in a short amount it's usually because you are replying to questions or addressing points of a discussion, hindering that doesn't really seem like something that helps the discussion.
Green Door
I'm not interested in many client-side frameworks. The reference to Silverlight gives a clue as to who it may be targeting.

> Unlike former platforms like Silverlight, it does not bring its own rendering engine to paint pixels on the screen. Blazor uses the Browser’s DOM to display data.
Unlike WhatsApp that IIRC you've advertised until earlier this year Telegram doesn't upload unencrypted chat history to Google.

Telegram has its issues, yes, but it would be nice if we could agree at some point that it is possible to discuss security outside the context of E2E encryption.

> I'm not really snarking at you;

Well I'll have to take your word for that but you have a long history of showing up on Telegram discussions.
OOC how is a manager $2k a month? Is it a part time gig?
It's a good idea in languages that are both a: statically typed (so a variable that can contain 0 is not also able to contain False) and b: weakly typed (so integers can be implicitly treated as boolean at all). Whether it's a good idea for a language to have both those properties is debatable, but if "if(statically_a_int)" is valid at all, "is zero" is one of the only sensible interpretations ("is negative" being the other, but that doesn't generalize to unsigned types well).
Good grief, get to the point!
I second that, it was a riveting book. There's a really good audio version as well.
When I type, I type by moving my whole arm. No aches or pains. It's only when I'm playing video games and use multiple fingers that my wrist hurts.
I have to say, apart from nostalgia, the main thing I miss from that period of gaming is the death of RTS.

I think everything peaked with supreme commander forged alliance, and after the strategic zoom, i couldn't go back and play things like StarCraft without feeling like I was watching a genre defined by fighting the interface and hotkey mashing obsessives rather than playing the game or worrying about grand strategy. I know in all these games at the top levels you do have to worry eventually about hotkeys and commands, but after supreme commander on dual monitors, all the rest have been like viewing an art exhibit through a toilet roll.

These days there's barely a handful of games anymore in the RTS genre, and maybe publishers like paradox, will focus on longer running strategy, but nothing that quite meets that old feeling of sitting down for a 30 - 120 minute epic match of actual wits and thought and ability that supreme commander (and the C & C universe before it) contained. We lost something with the death of Westwood and when blizzard moved Warcraft from its roots, and no real successor to the old total annihilation, which is so sad considering how powerful computers have gotten in the meantime and how hard these games were pushing them back in the day.

(PS, if anyone can post me a working tute on getting SC:FA multiplayer working on Linux, I might sell you my firstborn).
If you don't do it already, take regular breaks. That helped me recover from RSI.

The difficult part is remembering to take regular breaks. I use a piece of software call Workrave and have been very satisfied with it.
As others mentioned, ergonomic keyboard helps with this. I'm using Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic wireless keyboard (haven't tried Kinesis) which is IMO a good compromise between price, quality and size. One thing to be aware of though is that for security, the USB dongle is paired with the keyboard at the factory via a unique encryption key, so if the dongle breaks, you can basically throw the keyboard to the bin (contrary to other vendors which offer universal dongles that can be paired with existing keyboards).

Another RSI tip concerning mouse usage: try to learn using the mouse with your secondary hand. Initially it's very hard, but after few weeks you can do all but the most precise things with the secondary hand. Changing hands can significantly reduce the pain. I have two mice (that may look weird but I find it useful): an ergonomic one for the right hand, and a symmetric trackball for the left hand.
There were at least 4 candidates on my ballot in the election.
Better solution is to ditch the single-block-style keyboard and get a proper ergonomic one that's split into two parts. That allows you to keep your wrists at a natural angle but you also need to change the layout to use columnar staggering so the fingers are only moving vertically.

There's many things wrong with traditional keyboards and many solutions that I could write for years about. This one's mine and is focused at programmers/Vim/Linux users [1]. The main takaway is move the fingers less and leverage a programmable layout to overload fingers. Look at how the thumbs are used and the relation to common programming symbols. [2] and I mean it's programmable so if you don't like it, flash it.

[1] https://www.gboards.ca/

[2] https://qmk.fm/keyboards/gergo/keymap.png
Algol (60) had if-expressions, as did Simula 67 (based on Algol): x := if (y = 0) then 0 else 4 / y
The firmware on a Cisco switch IS the OS.
I’ve seen it for a while. My 2c.

They’re usually off beat enough to be interesting.
The phrase "It's greek to me!" came up at work once, so we asked our co-worker, who was of Greek descent, what Greek people said. She said they use the phrase, "You're preaching a Turkish sermon"!
little constructive criticism... no where on the site or in the document does it mention what the supported languages are. After a little bit I saw that this was only for python, but I think it would be better for you cause if you not only said what languages are supported, but maybe also how you can add other languages.
Brushed motors are readily available in the appropriate sizes in small quantities and used. Brushless motors not so much yet. Then you also have to use the OEM inverter which will take some reverse engineering or bring your own inverter. People are doing this with car conversions, but it's early days and anyone can wire up a brushed motor.
This article is not the best source. I’ve read his story before (not sure where right now). It misses the best part. After he regained conciousness he didn’t just “start to heal and then get a girlfriend”. He was stuck watching Barnie and was wishing he would just die and then something in him shifted and he thought ok well atleast if I can read the time I can start to know when Barnie will end. Article didn’t mention he was tech geek also. He worked out a way to read time time without a clock.. just from what he could see before him. As his brain ramped up and he began to create mental puzzle tasks for himself he began to recover.

I’ll try find a better article rather than give the punchline away. I’m pretty sure I heard an audio recording of what happened.
I have worked before on something similar: cryptomarketplot.com

Free API access is not 1 day but 24/7 on : http://cryptomarketplot.com/api.json ; if you have traffic limits check http://cryptomarketplot.com/api.json.br added a few month ago but not shown on the mainpage (I did that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18653590 )

Only drawback is the limitation to 1 minute resolution. Still good enough if you are not HFT.

If you are HFT they had packages like "all you can eat" feeds. It was like $500/month for the BTCUSD pair on any 5 exchanges out of 75 supported, with different pricing for different latency offers (going all the way to colo!) using custom client and software integration (for SLA on latency targets)

I'd have to ask if they now provide historical data.
This is one of the few games I re-bought when they ported it to the Win7+ set of OSes from Microsoft. This game, Dark Reign, Descent 2, all consumed so much of my entertainment time. It wasn't until World of Warcraft dropped that I didn't have a 'lan party' rig that I could pick up and carry to a friends for a great time.
Assuming "Robots economy" comes true, you're probably right, and it's a really interesting way to think about it. Definitely a bit scary.
I don't see how he can expect people to take him seriously, but if he's paid off by industry it doesn't matter. Defecation isn't a choice. Medically if you need to poop, holding it until tomorrow is not safe.
According to this [1] it looks like about a third of energy used in commercial and residential buildings is for space heating. That only accounts for some 32 Pwh of 157Pwh [2] of energy use but is greater than the 21-23Pwh of total electricity generation.

So judging by your figure of 10% of electricity usage that's 2Pwh (10% of 21-23Pwh) for air con v 10Pwh (third of 32Pwh) for space heating.

But that energy demand is mostly based on combusting fossil fuels directly, decarbonisation would require a move to electric heating which would probably involve heatpumps, and quite a lot of insulation, so I would hope that that figure would drop quite alot in the future.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211... fig 3.

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
I think the XCOM 2 example is a good illustration of the kinds of invisible lines that gradually get drawn around a long-running series over time by players' expectations. People expect the next game in the series to play fairly similarly to the previous ones, so if the designers take it too far in a different direction, the players recoil. It doesn't even really matter if the new direction is objectively better. It's just a "New Coke" problem -- people expect Coke to taste a certain way.

In the case of XCOM 2, I don't think timed missions were by themselves a bad idea. It's just that they were different enough from what people expected from an X-COM game that they didn't fit. They pushed the design of the game across one of those invisible lines.
When was the last time you read something longer than a tweet?
AKA ortholinear.