skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it seems quite obvious that she actually does not have the power to do that. She doesn’t even have the power to resign, she tried and China said no.

Their demands also include permanent legislative independence from China. Something they obviously don’t have today, and will have less and less as China continues it’s stated policy of continuing the complete integration of Hong Kong into China.

Any level of autonomy Hong Kong has is granted entirely at the discretion of China, and is only temporary in any case, as it has an expiry date. It’s exceedingly obvious to any observer that Hong Kong does not currently have sufficient autonomy to satisfy the protestors demands.
I had a similar experience. A friend gave me a free shell account so I built a little battle.net chat bot in Perl. Later I branched out into AIM bots, one had jokes/fortune but also a student directory (commandeered from a school server with lax security). The other would sign on like 60 different accounts and on my command mass message someone, it'd crash some versions of AOL and just be a real annoyance for AIM users.

The Perl library was `Net::AIM::TOC` and later `Net::OSCAR`
> Making glass from scratch is incredibly energy intensive

Not much more than melting existing glass. It's not like aluminum, where melting is much cheaper than refining in the first place.

> glass impurities can be handled (purified)

It's much easier to handle impurities when you start with clean sand.
HP CEO Dion Weisler Stepping Down
Weight missing characters very low.
I am sure you are right about the real world, I wouldn't know anything about it. :)

I'm a mathematician and I do use a computer whenever I can. In that domain the problem I gave is a reasonable toy model of the code I sometimes write. In particular mathematicians like comprehensions because, as I'm sure you are aware, programmers borrowed that notation from us.
I haven't, mostly because it's fast enough already and I don't really feel like implementing this stuff myself.
Remember the Muslim ban? That was racist. You know, for starters...
I think he's asking about the layer we built on top of the shim to copy objects in and out of it. It's open-sourceable, we can consider it.
My company was having the same issue when I joined a couple of years ago. Endless design documents, RFCs, meetings, polishing corner cases.

I pushed the teams implement user story mappings for each project and cut the fat to delivery it on time. The argument with the developers was basically around: "I know you want to plan ahead and put shine things on your resume, you can do that if you get the following 3 releases on first."
>It's a challenging habit to start but not as difficult as you'd imagine to maintain.

The question is, why would you want to? I don't spend any time at all staying current on my own time. I stay current on my employer's time. That's part of what they pay me for. If they don't want to pay for it, then I'm finding a new employer.

Furthermore, I just have no idea where you come up with 20 hours per week. The kind of software I write just doesn't change anywhere near that fast, and I'm doing cutting-edge R&D! When I need to learn a new thing to do my job effectively, I go do research and learn whatever I need to. I don't, and see absolutely no reason to actively seek out new things to learn that I have no immediate plan to actually use.
I'm more concerned about the propaganda issue. I argued a couple years ago (heavily edited) when I left the Army that foreign actors (read: Russia) were data mining stolen data for fracture lines to amplify [0] which makes it hard to form a comprehensive list of politically relevant topics.

[0] https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archive...
Thanks. I appreciate the time you took for clarifying in detail.
Iran's Centuries-Old Windmills May Soon Stop Turning
You can also try Stash https://github.com/stashed/stash . This has been in use since 2017 and always worked with Restic.

Disclaimer: My company, AppsCode is the primary developer behind Stash.
The First Honest Cable Company | Extremely Decent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso (profanity)
Completely agree, people don't grok this.

I once gave a presentation 4 times in a row (venue was large with 4 rotating groups) and, man, the 4th time I gave it I was so freaking into it, it was so freaking good. You really noticed that it got better at the second, third, and fourth time. My talk actually got the highest rating of all presentations that day by a LARGE margin.
San Francisco Santitizes language used to describe convicted criminals
Would anyone at the time know what they were doing? Was there ever a similar protocol in existence yet? If the answer is yes, why did we need BT to be created?
Because if they could not reclaim it you would get VAT on VAT on VAT for every step in the value chain. The idea is to only impose it on the last step when the total value is known.
>That negative feeling can often outweigh any positive benefit people get from the targeting of ads.

If targeted ads really improve (in amount and in quality) the free content available on the internet because it drives revenue, then that's the real benefit.
Anybody could write their own implementation of ActiveX. (Sun did, if I recall correctly.) It was little more than an API built on top of COM.

Besides, many other browsers are available on Windows. ActiveX failed in the marketplace.
Regardless of whether this particular article is fake news or not Western countries should join together and pay Brazil not to burn down the rainforest. Models show that reductions to the Amazon would lower rainfall in the western United states, a place with a growing population and already bad water usage problems nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/how-cutting-the-amazon-forest-could-affect-weather
Man, you sound like you need a big fat blunt. There is more to life than what you are describing here. Do you have any hobbies?
I don't think that there is a way to index by levenshtein distance generally because there is a many-to-many mapping between search terms and keys to match and there is potentially an infinite number of either.

What I've seen databases that need to do fuzzy matching on strings do more often is index a list of substrings of keys and match on those. So hypothetically if I had a row identified with the string 'abc', I would have a separate table with the strings: 'a', 'b', 'c', 'ab', 'bc', 'abc' all mapped to the row in question and an index built on them.

If you had a cap on the edit distance you knew was acceptable for searches, you could do something similar with levenshtein distance, where you could save every string with an edit distance less than say, 3, to a separate table along with the edit distance. This would be expensive in terms of space though, if your keys were very large. I suppose you could optimize it by just pre-computing the distance on a prefix (say the first three or four characters) and using that to narrow the search space.
Æternity State Channels: A Peer-to-Peer Browser Game
Give it a few years and vaping will be seen as bad or worse than smoking cigarettes. There is already quite a bit of research out there, the products simply aren't in use long enough that we have a good statistical base to build conclusions on but the first signs are terrible.
Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages (2008)
Because the military-industrial complex of the world’s largest super power invested in the basic research and infrastructure to create this context. It’s the same reason the Soviet’s excelled in technological pursuits relative to many small European countries and why Russia still has an outsized place in IT.
Also know as the "Taxi Cab" metric... as in how a taxi cab would traverse a city along parallel/perpendicular streets.
One does not leaked documents to know that Bolsonaro has grave plans for the Amazon rain forest and will use hate speech for ANY of his goals. Yes, this publication is biased against fascism. What a travesty /s
Is there anything better on the horizon? Is Bluetooth LE fundamentally related and thus also unfixable?
Surveying audio support in cars over the last few years has taught me that car manufacturers have some of the worst tech around. It's almost universally bad.

Toyota seems to be less bad than most. I'm sure some others are also less-than-horrific. Maybe Tesla?
Brute Force from SSH to Web
Well, you need educated people to deal with the problems caused by global warming, including finding new clean energy sources and carbon sequestration. If the educated people don't have kids, then that leaves people who don't value education as much, without others who can inspire them and their families to get an education.

Is that really better? I'd say no.
I think the scale required to do batteries + solar + wind is much greater than building nuclear power plants.

I know that nuclear power plants are a large scale event but so is creating a factory to make PVs. Same with lithium mines. Same with refinement of that lithium. Now we're getting into having to create lots of steel for wind turbines too.

In my mind, you get to the end in 10 years with nuclear. With solar, you get to production capacity to solve the issue in 10 years while slowly addressing the problem along the way. I think the dent you'd make in 10 years while ramping up to production capacity would at best just match increased demand.

Then you have large swaths of land that are dedicated to solar cells, wind turbines, refineries, factories, and mines we had to use for all the lithium. (Not that some of those won't exist for nuclear)
Nobody:

Developer: nuh-uh, it's you who's wrong! hAtErS gOnNa HaTe!
The hype and angst that some people are raising over fake news articles is reaching a fevered pitch. I don't think I've ever seen such a dichotomy between what the left and the right believe to be true.
Republicans bad! Democrats good! Grow up.
The (not)funny thing is that everyone in my long running community were telling exactly the same thing about injuries.. And, at closer examination, everyone lied (including myself).
"I am happy, nobody has injuries here either".. Except when people start to vanish for months and turns out they were struggling with some chronic issue for a looong time before that, "working out" the pain (yeah, chronic injuries tend to vanish into the work out, only to pop out later), until the pain became too big to bear with.

Final revelations came when I discovered how many people I knew were on steroids (to heal fast) and painkillers, all amateur runners and cyclists.
> I genuinely don't mind ads if I know it's supporting the thing it's displaying ads on.

I do. I'm pretty that sure there are other people who would rather not consume content if they can't do it without having ads shoved in their faces constantly. In fact, ads bother me irl more than online, since it's harder to avoid them.

> All those cookie popups are clicked without being read (and they never will be read ever get, that behaviour has been established)

Says you. Since the EU cookie popups are not required if you don't use third party cookies, having the popup is basically admitting you are selling out your users. As for the GDPR tracking opt-in popups -- most of the ones I've seen violate half of the GDPR requirements. Once the regulators start fining publishers for those violations, we might see an improvement.

> I think at least _exploring_ this whole thing in a way that's balanced towards the entire internet ecosystem is way more thoughtful than a knee-jerk "block everything, privacy everything" response.

Tbh, I don't really care about the for-profit content publishing part of the "internet ecosystem". Most of the interesting stuff I read is on personal sites with no ads or tracking anyway, so I don't even care if half the "publishers" disappear. I've yet to meet a single consumer who likes ads.
I was responding to a specific comment where the OP insinuated that overdose deaths were caused by "Mexican" heroin as reasoning to support strict immigration enforcement.

I was simply pointing out that it is highly unlikely that he actually knows where the drugs came from and therefore it is an unfair assumption to blame Mexico (and Mexicans) for something that could have just as easily come from Spokane Washington.

Using the death of a loved one who killed themselves presumably by accident to pass any kind of law that isn't relevant to the circumstances surrounding the death is disingenuous. It's like if Mothers Against Drunk Driving wanted to close the Canadian border because someone might drink Molson beer and crash their car.
A $2.4M Auction Hints at Collectors' Growing Interest in Retro Sci-Fi Art
How about 2 forms of government ID to open an account just like you need to get a passport. Identity theft is so easily facilitated by just having to enter a social security number online and the banks are responsible because they are trying to make it as easy as possible for anyone to sign up.
Their current game raised just shy of $100k on Kickstarter [0]. Presumably there have been additional presales via other platforms such as Steam as well. Given that, $10-20k as an art budget doesn't seem unreasonable to me, though I have no idea how to estimate how long it would take to do the art for one of his games and if that would be enough budget (probably not at $50/hour, but maybe at $25-30/hour).

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/619141553/queens-wish-t...
It has been a part of every budget proposal since 2017. It was only removed from the FY2020 list this past March as part of a deal to get the budget passed:

https://lahood.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/lahood-...
Splunk is a platform for log aggregation and search. There are use cases (apps) built on top of it which include infrastructure monitoring and cybersecurity.
So does this mean I am on a list? As I did wonder why I was walking about in circles.
Reminds me of the Immovable Ladder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_Quo_(Jerusalem_and_Be...
How do you suggest someone should proceed if an essential library in their project has no typing for typescript?
i know this type of comment(mine) suck, but goddam is this the funniest comment i have seen. She wants us to feel sorry that she basically can do whatever the fuck she wants fking lol
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There is another side to the "bludgeoned to death with axes and clubs". They took those implements from the american team. So the unarmed North Koreans disarmed several of the Americans, turning those weapons around to kill two officers. That is a massive humiliation, particularly for the types of people selected for DMZ duty at that time. That humiliation was a factor in the american response, but equally it was a point of pride for the North Koreans.

Leaders on both side saw this back-and-forth, realized the emotions involved, and pulled back. That makes the incident a learning experience that, ironically, increased faith and probably defused tensions in the long term. Similar dustups would occur throughout the cold war and continue to this day.
Also, about 1/3 of CO2 emissions of nuclear power gets created during construction, ie. building a ton of nuclear in the next ten year would produce a huge amount of CO2 before we get any benefits.
It's not a false dichotomy to compare the two things that were explicitly compared. My initial response was to someone who said that Trump got elected and ICE started with child separation, concentration camps, and racism. The objectively verifiable items in that list are child separation and concentration camps. The reality is that under Obama both of those things started and in the years since, both under Obama and under Trump, the child separation continues, but the detention facilities have improved. When I pointed this out, the first response was "you and I have different ideas of better."

You are entitled to ask for a discussion of different policy choices, but the reality is that children were detained in shittier conditions under Obama than they are under Trump.

There's literally only two possible reasons why a person would think that the worse conditions is better. 1- the person preferring the worse conditions is stupid. 2- they want a club to bludgeon Trump with, even if that club is suffering children. Which do you think better describes bovermyer?

My post is neither a false dichotomy nor intellectually dishonest.
Why do you think Splunk will kill it?
Jean-Pierre Marquis, in his contribution to the volume "What is Category Theory", wrote: 'Category theory is the Architectronic of Concepts'.

I think this is the best way I have heard it put.
"The age of privacy is over" (2010) [1]

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwri...
Blogspam of https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/moviepass-thousands-data-e... (which I did submit [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20752190] but didn't get many upvotes, hmrph)
This isn't a foreign concept, either. It's how everyone started out. Google just thought they could charge more for ads if they also began tracking users so they could display higher-value ads that are supposedly relevant to a user regardless of the content of the page they are on. It turns out that they were right, and they are able to make more money doing this. Unfortunately for the rest of us, privacy is collateral damage.
The US is running up a huge deficit and lowering rates yet the dollar is getting stronger. It is kind of strange.
I’ve coded for hours early on in a project without compiling/running/testing. But I’m old enough and wise enough to constantly save.
Do you know what is worse? It's counter propaganda, in fact it's an elephant in the room.

Suddenly, people around the world will notice that things are not as bad as initially reported. Thus, Brazilian government will be "allowed" to exploit a larger area without any pressure.
How can a post be downvoted here in HN? Thought only upvotes were possible.
German-soviet joint military parade in Poland, 1939
Lubricity, apparently. It apparently makes things powdery, but slightly "greasy"--much like graphite.
I feel like any conversation about speaking/presenting skills should have a link to Patrick Henry Winston's "How To Speak" presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbmPuhuFv0&list=PL9F536001A...
use shingles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-shingling
Show HN: Hue Compatible Therapy Lights
It's not my understanding that having a fond nostalgia for somebody's works excuses the article's salty tone that basically tells people they're wrong for thinking the games are ugly, coming up with all manner of excuses but never once embracing that the problem is entirely the developer's own and nobody else's; yes, that point is laid out there but it's given as an excuse, not as a justification. There's a fine line.
Not really.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/politics/fact-check-tr...
The US government as a whole, if you combine Local, State, and Federal spending, is not running a huge deficit. It is, in fact, paying its debts down.

You can quip about how sustainable this state of affairs is, but of the three, only federal debt is growing... And, if you look at inflation-adjusted metrics, that growth is very minor.
There's probably a certain amount of truth to that. It seems like those animations sit in some kind of sweet spot between 'realism', 'beauty' and 'being visibly pixellated'. Since pixellation seems to mostly be used for the nostalgia factor as opposed to either realism or beauty such animations really must be a niche interest
Unlike some of the others, I played on a TV with a wooden case, through an RF modulator, and I get the point you are making.
Banning visas from a list of failed states was not racist. You can say the rhetoric surrounding it was, but not the policy itself.
Their customer database was probably the only asset of value they had.
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Noted, I'll certainly be updating the copy/documentation substantially. Thank you!
That's interesting, where can I see a chart of that?
A major difference is also the after effects. A deadly atomic bomb can likely make a place uninhabitable for months or years because of radiation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/agrep
Partisan politics really gets in the way of that point. Both sides of the aisle have been pointing to the other side saying “Russia” or “China” for the past few years, so admitting civil division is their primary objective would almost be admitting complicity.
And you pay for the privilege.
> the Exile III version of the Realmz graphics

What do you mean by this?

I miss Realmz¹, and until today didn't realize that the developer of Realmz was also the publisher of the Exile series. But I still can't figure out what "the Exile III version of the Realmz" graphics is referring to.

¹My ringtone is actually the Realmz outdoor theme.
What about their priorities are crazy?

As the old saying goes, you're not crazy if everyone is actually out to get you.
>they are still not breaking the law.

Yes they are, illegally entering the United States is breaking the law.
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In 1950 the average new home was 983 square feet and the average household 3.8 people. Today it's 2500 square feet and 2.6 people. That's a 270% increase in home space per person.

And that doesn't even get into all the other ways that modern housing is fancier. Central A/C, attached garages, swimming pools, high ceilings, granite countertops, finished basements, more bathrooms, massively decreased fire risk, higher capacity electrical circuits, improved water heaters, builtin appliances.

Median home price in the US is $123/square foot. To house a family of four, under 1950s standards costs about $125,000 in America today. That's easily affordable to a single earner at the median full-time wage of $45,000/year.

I'm not saying that housing policy doesn't artificially inflate the price of housing. There are many easy reforms that would drastically increase affordability. Especially in high-priced metros. But to pretend like people in 1950 had it easier than today is just ignorant of the historical facts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
[2] https://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/the-righteous-small-house...
[3] https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/average-price-per-square-...
This doesn't address credential stuffing, spear-phishing, propaganda, or many of the other issues that come along with data breaches. Identity theft is a piece of the puzzle, but no where near the whole thing.

Your idea might cut down on identity theft - I'm not sure. But it doesn't speak to the root issue. (Not to say it isn't worth pursuing, just that it doesn't do anything if I shared a password between my email, bank, and MoviePass)
Now that I think of it, even the flatMap version builds a lot of unnecessary arrays. The comprehension isn't just more readable, it's also more efficient. (Unless you're using a fancy compiler like GHC that does deforestation, in which case the flatMap/filter version should be as efficient as the list comprehension.)
Well, if you saw some of Jeff talks you know that he has a respectable sense of humor. Everything in this post that you are angry at is just plain trolling.
The 2d animations look fluid and realistic. The Horizon Zero Dawn clip you linked looks simplistic in comparison - floppy 2d textures glued onto a character. The detail is much higher of course, but the realism is much worse. It's interesting how 2d animators could capture things that existing 3d tech can't even scratch the surface of.
>avoid contact with denim and leather, as it “might cause permanent discoloration that will not wash off.”

That article is basically a tweet. One nudge of my finger and it was already the comment section, but it seems you can shorten it even further.