skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like they missed a golden opportunity to come up with a new Google Branded dessert.

Queese Cake.
> I would rather modern games look a bit more "like crap" and have even a 10th of the gameplay depth and quality of Spiderweb games than his games getting any better.

That's what I was thinking. One of the things about games from back in the old days (I'm thinking 1980s) is that they had to be fun to play, because they didn't offer much else. Today there is an emphasis on looking good, but the game itself usually isn't great.

My hypothesis is that selling good-looking games that suck is more profitable. The graphics sell the game. Then the kids get tired of it and buy a new one. If the game is good, they'll just keep playing it and not open their wallet.
Could China Upend American Healthcare?
We've been using k8s-snapshots[1]
Very easy to setup and use. Very simple to add snapshots too.

How does this compare?

[1] https://github.com/miracle2k/k8s-snapshots
The Fight for Seed
Firebombing over Japan in 1945 wasn’t _that_ risky. Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan#Firebombing..., it seems losses were clearly less than 2% per sortie.

Seven planes took part in the bombing of Hiroshima, six in that of Nagasaki. That means that we can’t say those raids were less risky for US soldiers than conventional bombing.

Also “tremendous cost” applies to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, too, perhaps even more so.
>Finding talented, reliable, reasonably priced freelancers is HARD

He wants the talent, but he finds talented artists to demand an unreasonable amount of money. To me it's him that comes off as unreasonable.
I tried https://noplag.com/online-admission-essay-template/

but it doesn't allow me to type anything.
Because of my medical condition, I live in sandals and have for years. If I wear closed shoes, my feet soon smell and itch.

When I first went homeless, I thought I would have to get "real shoes" at some point or I would lose toes to frost bite. We crossed the country on foot and catching tides and we were above 7000 feet above sea level three times. Even with snow on the ground and freezing temps, I never did get "real shoes" though I ended up with some temporary skin damage and wore socks for a few weeks to protect me feet and let them heal.

I don't expect to, say, live in Alaska ever. But it's been quite surprising how well sandals and similar slip on type shoes work in winter if the local climate isn't too severely cold.
Big question that springs to my mind - what happens to tZero now, Byrne's blockchain security trading platform?

I can't see Overstock staying with the bitcoin and blockchain stuff - it was always Byrne's special interest.
> All else equal, more money per hour should decrease the number of hours worked

I would have shared that guess, but clearly that's not how we humans operate.

Maybe we just like to work!

Or maybe we really like to be richer than others. We're primates after all, and primates really care about their place in hierarchies...
An owners only real goal (sometimes enshrined in law!) is to increase private profits for himself.

At a certain point you run out of ways to do with for a single product or service so you're left with reduction of labor to lower margins. So in a way we can consider this article to be a very clear documentation of what people mean when they say capitalism is "efficient."
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell is a timeless classic on the subject: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
He has no idea, when it comes to working class politics. All of his ideas are things that happen AFTER you give workers more power.
GPU's have limited amount of memory.
>Everything is in London because everything is in London. HS2 is an attempt to break out of that. By developing better rail links across England we allow companies to start moving out of London.

Despite the topic being divisive, this is an ill-informed comment and does not relect the real purpose of HS2 ─ which is to increase capacity and improve links in the North of England to stimulate local economy and reduce the burden on over crowded services.

I will leave you with a couple of articles, which do a good job at explaining some of the reasons behind the HS2 project; which also serves as a springboard for the Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hs2-logistic...

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/08/just-when-y...
Yeah, as they should.
The article mentions that the plan doesn't include a carbon tax, and that one of Sanders' advisors says we need "more than just a carbon tax", and then gives a favorable quote from that advisor.
I can understand why a carbon tax might not be _enough_ given the current state of affairs, but is there a good argument against including it in a comprehensive plan other than that people dislike the idea of new taxes?
Real time ground traffic at 37 US Airports
60 Company Builders Share Their Advice for Startup Founders
I am very fascinated by the single mindedness of most of Americans. It is as if their entire adult life was about being finding that special someone ( just one ) through the trial and tribulations of misery.

I'm with you -- most of my dates have been very pleasant even if we ended up not being compatible on a romantic level. Some of them became very good friends.
What would you expect a company like Skype to be able to do? They're not exactly in a position to implement very strong KYC measures.
Do the stories the developers are given specify that handling of edge cases is not a requirement for completion of the current sprint?
It's not an entirely new thing, there was this article[1] with accompanying code[2] from 2016. It just used to be quite unwieldy to use (a separate script to deform the gcode).

[1] https://hackaday.com/2016/07/27/3d-printering-non-planar-lay...
[2] https://github.com/makertum/non-planar-layer-fdm
BMI is only accurate at a population level. C-reactive protein is an easy blood test to monitor.
The post does not even give a high level technical aim of they want to achieve it. They just threw a "privacy sandbox" phrase at us that's it. If they are talking about standards there must be some technical solution they have in mind. What is this? Does anyone know?
I've downvoted you because, as others have pointed out, your statement that Google doesn't fingerprint is factually incorrect.
I want to join Palantir just to disrupt their business because Peter Thiel is a scum sucker and deserves the absolute worst workforce. Palantir should be liquidated and the proceeds returned to tax payers.
Did you try (athletic) taping your feet to add a protective small layer to your soles?
Bay Area traffic delays rank second longest in nation
Also still ongoing: They don't have IPv6.
>So you think there is no difference in guilt between being a war criminal’s arm dealer and being a war criminal’s grocer?

No, can you explain it? It sounds like a way to justify to yourself that "those people are bad", but you're "just doing your job". Are you principled about who you do business with, or not?
Is it not easy to see that there's a moral space between creating a tool that can be used for something you dislike (basically all software falls into this category) and working specifically for a company making software that will explicitly be used for something you dislike?
Almost every country in the Americas works this way, Colombia is the only big exception. It is certainly not "one of the few".
I am the OP.

It pains me to say that RMS is a Luddite. In a correct, historical meaning of the word -- to him technology should go a specific way. Just like it was to Luddites. Society disagreed. Just like it disagreed with Luddites. Luddites were loud ( in the context of those that listened to them ). He is loud ( in the context of those who listen to him). Luddites were wrong, largely because they just picked a hill to die on and they died on that hill. He is going to end up the same way. And it pains me to say that.
It's a fact in majority of companies; I have experiences with two companies that ran on different principles and were wildly profitable, so it could be done differently. Also, I am pretty much disgusted by what I observe, but it's an unfortunate part of reality and I am not going to unsee it to feel better about whatever. If you want to change something for the better, you need to understand what is wrong and what is better, hoping people after you would recognize what was wrong in your approach and correct it even more instead of regressing/oscillating.

The problem is much more complex though, being happy puts no pressure to change things and leads to stale/weak societies/companies; for some reason we humans need some form of pressure to give our best... Of course, it's difficult to motivate oneself when you see that upper management turned into parasites with sociopathic tendencies, ruling you like you were animals without brain, not even hiding their intent, and giving you as little money as they can get away with even during times of exponential expansion of their profitability.
> My understanding of a prefetcher is to get the data ASAP. It typically prefetches from cache, not from memory (if it prefetches from mem it's so slow it's useless).

The prefetcher runs at whatever level it's at (L1/L2) and fetches from whatever level has the memory. So the L2 prefetcher may be grabbing from L3, and may be grabbing from SDRAM.

> ram latency 36 cycles + 57 NS / 62 cycles + 100NS depending

That's the ram LATENCY ON RANDOM ACCESS. If you extend an access to fetch the next sequential line because you think it will be used, you don't pay any of the latency penalty-- you might need to strobe a column access but words keep streaming out. For this reason sequential prefetch is particularly powerful. Even if we're just retrieving from a single SDRAM channel, it's just another 3ns to continue on to retrieve the next line. (DDR4-2400 is 2400MT/s, 8 transactions to fill a line, 8/2400000000=3.3n)

> I see, but I think it does better these days, it'll remember a stride and prefetch by the next stride. Even striding backwards through mem (cache)! But it won't cross a page boundary.

Sure, the even/odd access extender is just one very simple prefetcher that is a part of modern intel processors that I included for illustration. And we're completely ignoring software prefetch.

Go ahead, do the experiment. Run a memory-heavy workload and look at cache miss rates. Then turn off prefetch and see what you get. Most workloads, you'll get a lot more misses. ;)

https://github.com/deater/uarch-configure/blob/master/intel-...
A big problem with anarchy is that it's really complicated and is usually either misunderstood by the proponent or the listeners. Anarchy is about levelling the playing field and reducing the power that the most powerful structures have in our society. The problem of removing power structures in institutions, is that they will naturally get replaced by other ones, and the replacements are often as authoritarian as the originals.

In the US, it's popular to think that you can somehow replace elected government (where power is somewhat dependant on votes, and somewhat dependent on advertising budgets/capital) with business (where power is dependent entirely on capital), and that somehow this is more "anarchist". This is a naive idea.
So my understanding is that there are positive changes associated with spending time in a state of ketosis, which is brought on by fasting as well as extremely low-carb diets: especially in the case of people who are already suffering insulin-related metabolic damage (like diabetes, prediabetes, or insulin insensitivity), there's evidence nutritional ketosis can help to halt or reverse that damage.

What the talk I linked in the other comment talks about is something different: there's evidence that prolonged periods of severe calorie restriction can make your metabolism's bias move more toward storing calories and away from expending energy.
Helm adds a link to a YouTube video on all charts
the funniest thing in the last few years was watching proggies get all foamy about trump over pictures of border hoppers in cages taken during the obama administration

keep pretending!
I think an important qualifying question is: how does your team/company deal with failures? Is there some other carrot/stick that incentivizes developers to behave this way?

There's certainly a rational argument to be made that a project's progress is important and lines of "acceptable quality" should be drawn somewhere, but people are often not rational and respond to other things, and that's probably where your problem lies, IMO.

For example- I used to work in a team that maintained an enterprise UNIX kernel, and we had a space shuttle - like culture of obsessive failure prevention using meticulous process and checks, because the cost of a failure could mean [m|b]illions of dollars at our customer sites. I now create startups, and the incentives are the absolute opposite- I need to get _something_, _anything_ out the door as soon as possible because the most important question I need to answer is "does anyone want this?"

The reasons for either approach are not technical, and the source of your frustration, I suspect, is deeper than "convincing developers" (though I look forward to hearing what you have to say).

EDIT: this post also expands a bit on the carrots/sticks I was referring to above: https://www.verica.io/inhumanity-of-root-cause-analysis/
Before 9/11 nothing. For the last two decades, it's almost like cruelty is a requirement to work in that dept. USCIS and CPB are still alright though.
The sprint is two weeks long, if you finish your user stories in a week like OP, then is a full week of downtime ok? That will encourage everyone to sandbag the work to only need to work every other week. No one is talking about milliseconds or even hours, but I don't want the developers making up stuff to do like the OP mentioned or taking stuff off the backlog that the team did not agree to for the sprint. He used the word Sprint, so I assumed we were talking about a team and not just an individual, support your team, that's all.
This metric induces the discrete topology, which isn't very useful. Regarding its metric structure, you could apply the contraction mapping theorem but I can't think of any interesting contractions off the top of my head.

I'm just spit-balling here... but when a natural metric induces the discrete topology then it's probably more useful to look at connectivity graphs induced by the metric. For instance the graph on all strings with two strings connected by an edge if their edit distance equals 1. Restrict to words in a dictionary and you have a basic spelling suggestion algorithm.

Edit: the analyst in me really wants a translation-invariant abelian group structure ... then we can do Fourier analysis...
The issue is not that the graphics aren't flashy, whatever that means, it's that they are inconsistent.
Absolutely. I think it's telling that the one piece of artistic criticism he admits he wants to fix is that characters are looking diagonally, which seems trivial compared to other visual design issues in the game.

Part of the problem seems to be that his critics range from the unrealistic "Just™ triple your budget and make it look competitive with AA games" to the more practical "why not think about visual design more coherently and address some of the low-hanging fruit to make your games more approachable and broaden your audience?" and he's lumping everything into one big WONTFIX pile.

But at the end of the day, if he's found an audience and can support his family, more power to him.
There's a pretty interesting account of this in the book The Long Grey Line, which is about the careers of the West Point class of '66. One of the men killed in this incident was a member of that class.
> But you can't make films for 25 years and decide sound isn't all that important – unless you want to look like a complete amateur.

Given that he's making a living with his current strategy, and has been for twenty-five years, he is by definition not an amateur, let alone a complete one.

Indeed, the amateur is more likely the person who insists on making every aspect match their aesthetic ideal. They are not giving thought to what could make them profitable, instead focusing on building something that is precisely what they want.
These sort of border skirmishes happen every once in a while on heavily militarized borders between hostile nations, usually to much less fanfare.
Or maybe the fact that ICE has been overabusing their authority to also detain US citizens for weeks at a time despite providing evidence of their citizenship has got people wondering if they're the baddies. In addition to, you know, the horrible treatment of asylum seekers incl. things such as not providing flu vaccines.
I might be really uneducated here - I'm not American. All I know about ICE is that they're immigration and customs enforcement - they're basically the US's border force. The quality of the conditions they keep migrants in is poor, and has been for years.

OK. Why is that worthy of a boycott? Your democratically elected governments create the laws, and determine the funding for things like beds and toys etc. Boycotts in some cases may make those conditions worse instead of better.

There will always need to be a border force. Wouldn't it be better to focus on improving conditions, increasing funding, and stopping people from crossing the border in the first place?
I'm with you on the games being excellent examples of a super niche style done well but he's basically writing an article attacking the very concept of art direction as a waste of resources. That comes off a little disrespectful towards people who care.

I think there's no point in making their games looking any different than they do (because it's part of their brand, now) but the correct response to a question of why they don't make a "better" looking game is that they don't care. Or, maybe, it's a taste issue. Flailing your hands about how people totally did not appreciate you going through the trouble of making the graphics isometric or hiring underpaid artists is not the way to go. It's maybe "honest" but it's IMO at best a misunderstanding of and at worst a severe lack of respect for art direction and visual design.
How would you define what intelligence is, in simple terms to a layman?
>I'm pretty sure a worker could buy a house and support a family in 1950 on a single, average 40 hour a week salary

The average family income in 1958 was $3300. Adjusting by CPI, that has the same buying power as $36,000 today.

https://census.gov/library/publications/1952/demo/p60-009.ht...

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Some migratory birds sleep better than others
I've begun to think most software engineering should be done remotely. Easier to get into a flow state, no need to look busy, and you can work at times when you are most focused. I transitioned to full time remote, and routinely work 5 hour days, and get more done than when I was working 8-10 hr days
It’s interesting to contrast this attitude with Simogo, who seem moderately successful by really prioritizing visual conception.

I wonder if there are non obvious economic factors that make it possible for them.
> They're trying to build an alternative system which allows ad personalization

That's the antithesis of privacy. You can't have personalization without privacy invasion.
This seems to over-abstract the issue by treating the content of each campaign as irrelevant.
lucky you :) there was no wikipedia when I first ran into this algorithm. Foxpro for DOS & Novell Netware had an implementation of Levenshtein distance that I ended up using as part of a college project on database basics. I used it to detect typos in data entry by comparing entered names with all names already in the table. It was blazingly fast because we never exceeded 30 names (the size of our class) and my profs were super impressed because they thought I did something way more complicated than I had.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that, but also that seems to be her "default face". Looks at the other photo of her being victorious. Stoic, almost.
Correct me if I'm mistaken: I think you can indeed cast from HashMap to Animal and it will happily compile:

```java

import java.util.HashMap;

class Main {

class Animal {
String sound = "roar";
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<>();
Animal animal = (Animal) (Object) map;
System.out.println(animal.sound);
}

}
```

At runtime, this will crash with the following Exception: `Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: class java.util.HashMap cannot be cast to class Main$Animal`, but it will satisfy the type system.
TLDW: felony murder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule)

A similar case was recently in the news as “Police Shot Jacob Harris — Then Charged His Friends With Murder”: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-cops-shot-jacob...
No it's not.

Actually during time of first emperor in Asia, we've proof of European DNA present at the sites were terracotta army was made.

Secondly, if you go to north India - you find plenty of people with European features (mostly Greek features to be specific)

People knew about India and if they did come to India, it would have been impossible to not hear about Himalayas.
This was a summer internship project at Keybase, and the whole team is thrilled with how it turned out. The OP of this post is the author of the project and would be happy to answer questions here in HN.

One of the biggest devops pain points for a large team and large infrastructure is updating N servers every single time a team member is added or removed. Of course there are some other solutions to this problem, but the Keybase one is extra slick and just works automatically once it's set up.

It's also entirely powered by an open-source 3rd party bot, so it can be forked for improvement or to build something else triggered by cryptographic team membership changes.
I wish I could upvote you a hundred times. I get at most about 3 hours of intense concentration per day. The need to show constant progress on daily scrums is what made me quit my job recently.
You mean enforcing the laws of the US and controlling the borders of the country? Yes, that is good. They are dealing with a situation largely created by the people illegally crossing the border. It's crazy to think that any country should maintain 4-star luxury housing sufficient to house the global population just in case. The reality is that the US is not being cruel or harming people. And ICE has upgraded the facilities in the years since the "children in cages" photos started popping up during the Obama administration. It is objectively true that the facilities are better and practices are improved. Are they something I want to live in? No. But on the other hand if people don't want to end up in detention, don't cross illegally. It's easy.

Not to mention that something like 30% of the "families" crossing the border have been shown by rapid DNA testing to be unrelated. Are we supposed to let any rando who happened to buy a child free access to the country?
I use very aggressive privacy protections and have never been locked out of Chase or Citi. I've had a lot of trouble logging in though.
Seattle is still less white than the country as a whole, and Oregon has a weird history that makes it an outlier. In any case, a couple exceptions doesn't change that cities trend less white.
No matter how detailed the requirements you give them are, the requirements are not software and they are not fully formalized.

The job of developing software is to take requirements and find the inconsistencies at every level of detail. The software is the design, not the requirements.

All software teams miss deadlines, it's a natural consequence of the fact that developing software is an exploratory process.