skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's favorite game genre is RTS and all-time favorite games are Warcraft 3 and Age of Empires 2, I've been wondering the same thing. I genuinely believe that RTS games are the most intellectually stimulating due to the incredible amount of strategy involved, and thus the most fun.

Recently I went to a PC Cafe after having stopped playing games about 10 years ago. I started off playing CS:GO due to having loved CS 1.6 as a child, but I didn't find the modern version fun, and after an hour I was bored. Then I played a game of Warcraft 3, and next thing you know I spent the next month completely addicted to the game, watching professional commentaries and playing nonstop. It got to a point where I literally had to uninstall the game since it was taking over my life.

The reason I think I found CS:GO boring was because it felt like there was little to no strategy. It's basically just a game of reflexes and hand-to-eye coordination, and you only control a single unit. Meanwhile I think I found WC3 so fun because there's so much to it - what buildings/units to make, whether to harass, rush, and/or turtle/tower up, scouting your opponents and adjusting to their strategy, when to expand, whether to creep / level up your heroes or go in for an attack, etc. It's like a game of chess on steroids, where your opponents' pieces are completely different (if they're a different race), yet somehow the game is remarkably balanced.

I hate to sound like an arrogant old crank and my RTS bias is definitely clear, but I feel like most of the mainstream games today suck, and are of a lower intellectual bar. I can't understand the whole MOBA thing (eg. League of Legends) - I never got into DOTA because I always found it extremely boring, and I think it's just less intellectually stimulating (and also probably because the games are an hour and a half).

I'm glad that WC3 and AOE2 are being remade and released this year (though unfortunately I'll probably have to opt out due to how easily I get addicted). I hope that more game developers will see this and try their hand at the RTS genre. As much as I love WC3 and AOE2, they certainly have their flaws as well. For example, I feel the beginning in WC3 is too slow, making buildings/units is a bit too slow, and I find it a bit too micro focused (particularly for orcs). But I absolutely love the RPG element of heroes, and it's probably one of the main reasons why I've spent more time playing WC3.
Yes, the whole privacy concern aspect did stick out. More so than what the BBC ran with.
Yes, you pay a latency and resource cost to have the service mesh features decoupled from the application code. Same with any abstraction e.g. containers or Kubernetes.

You could alternatively get service mesh features in the application layer with libraries like Finagle, Hysterix, etc, and not pay that cost. But then you're tied to particular languages, and changing platform features requires making code changes.

It's a tradeoff. I talked about this at Kubecon earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3nfLI3z0hc#t=4m58
If it’s by choice, sure. A lot of people either can’t afford it or there’s no Connectivity where they live
Yep, you're right, I read the article too fast and missed some key lines. It clearly says "the form factor of an 8". I assumed it was calling it 4.7in because that would be roughly the screen size of an SE with an edge-to-edge display.
It’s tough because old people are generally more intelligent and wiser than average and have more free time, it’s not strictly speaking about accessibility, learning, stuff like that.

Personally I believe you get older and desire a certain emotional / stimulation product that software does quite a bad job at delivering.

Like Facebook helps validate your opinions but not by design, other old people just post stuff that their old friends will see. Email helps you feel busy but it’s not the same sense as being The Chairman of Your Company. Photos let you see your family but it’s not the same as lording over everyone in your big house on a holiday.

I’m not trying to cast these feelings of power as something negative, just trying to characterize something that Snapchat and Instagram are very good at delivering for young people (power by sexualization) that does not at all appeal to old people.

Startups generally don’t serve old people not because of lack of access, that’s more about whether the company can have a VC growth trajectory. If that’s the limit of your point, well just advertise on the radio, CNN and church instead of Facebook ads. But the more important point is how to make something for this population they actually want.
145: Thoughts on Stallman, spying in tech, Istio, K8s issues with iptables, more
Your idea is logical, but it's not exactly that way in practice. Many (most?) of the mainframe jobs are not that well-paid (for software industry). The other thing is that it nearly limits you to working in banking, airlines, government, insurance.
The average lifespan decreased by something like 0.1 years. It's a slight dip in an otherwise upward trend in life expectancy and it's mostly due to opioid crisis. At any rate, I fully expect social security benefits to be lowered by 2030 as we are approaching an inflection point in expenditures versus S.S. taxes taken in.
> they still look for multitask superheros able to play the tuba

I don't think the prize takes his tuba skills into account at all. It's just that very driven people take to be driven in their various interests.

That said, one reason to prefer tuba-playing ocean cleaners might be to avoid those that will burnout before reaching the goals.
China is a very safe country for Western people to visit. And if something happens to a Westerner authorities often go the extra mile to help.

On the other hand, drug trafficking is punishable by death in China. If anything China has tended to be more lenient to Westerners convicted of drug trafficking compared to its own citizens.

They are welcoming but they expect respect and no involvement in politics.
The article says they come from low incomes. Most likely these people don't like being too poor to be able to use the internet.
That's factually incorrect, but I am sorry that you've found it bothersome.

I don't see how you being part of a different platform, makes any difference to them.

It's like saying "Hey, I interviewed at Facebook - so everyone has to immediately hire me".

It is a freelancing platform and there are thousands of freelancers in their community, I'd suggest attending one of their events where you could meet & greet them, and talk about their experiences. As far as I can tell, they find it valuable to be part of it, so much that they dedicate their own time to spread the news, and work on Toptal's recognition.

The process is very similar to the interview processes at companies like Google, Facebook, Palantir etc.

Yeah, you're expected to do a project, as did every individual that made it through the screening process.

I really don't see how, with so many years of experience, you could possibly claim that they have hundreds of people (weekly) complete their clients projects? For free?

And,they've done it for years?
Seems ludicrous to me mate.
It’s far more than just having a single data type.

COBOL was in effect designed for business use so fixed point arithmetic has a lot of support in the language, libraries, and tooling.
> He had sent a minister on a voyage far over the eastern seas in search of a mythical potion of eternal life. But that expedition never returned

Makes me wonder about the details of that arrangement. What promise could possibly make the minister return from such an expedition?

If he does find the secret to eternal life, the obvious choice for the minister would be take it himself. The emperor would have a strong motive to get rid of anyone else knowing the secret after he got it from the minister.

If he doesn't, well, why go back to a tyrant and face potential punishment for failure?
"this" is also set by native listeners. IIRC it's the elem the event was added to where as event.target is the element that the event was cause from (often not the same). Example: https://jsfiddle.net/greggman/qpb7ct15/
One important aspect of tests is to derive them from requirements. Not from the implementation. This is also true if your requirements are only implicit in your head.

TDD ensures this as there is no implementation yet when you write the tests.

It also implies the changing requirements comes with the overhead of changing the corresponding tests. This is what happened in the incident described in the article. In many cases development speed might be more important than test coverage.

Still worse are tests derived from the implementation (usually to boost done coverage metric) because they often break although the code fulfills the requirements.

Rule of thumb: Test only the requirements which are stable.
Correct. At least in physics, there's no paper. The abstract is what's submitted to the conference, and gets published before the conference begins. Peer review is limited to deciding whether your talk gets into the conference schedule or not, slotted into a different division of the conference, or perhaps to a poster session.

You could contact the author and see if they have a preprint or something to share.

The intent is to provide an outlet for "lesser" stature work, student projects, or preliminary results en route to writing a full paper. I was a physics student 25 years ago, and there was an informal culture of "everybody gets to publish." You were pretty much guaranteed a slot at one of the conferences, even if it was a poster session in a dark hallway alongside the guys who were proving that quantum mechanics was a hoax. That way, nobody could say, "they refused to publish me." And the field was never so crowded that there wasn't room for a few of those abstracts.

How it should be done in the contemporary era is of course an open question. ;-)
You may find A Discipline for Software Engineering by Watts Humphreys to be an interesting read.
The web page you have linked literally has "A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet" at the top of the page.

The internal organisation of Oxford is definitely weird (I did my doctorate at the OII and most of the university didn't know we existed or thought we were part of computer science) but it's not that obscure.
This thing needs some keyboard controls. Clicking hundreds of times is a recipe for repetitive stress injuries.
Once upon atime: the most stupid Unix design idea of all times (2007)
As a Singaporean, this is another "feel good" article about Singapore that cherry picks anecdotal examples to paint a false image.
I remember in the early to mid 1990s when many were amazed at the Internet this new thing called the Web.

At that time I read that in the early 1990s only about 5% of the entire world were using the Internet home user would be using it via dial-up. But the shocking part was how many people in the world at that time did not even have a telephone. I can't recall the percentage but it was quite high.
Yes, I'm getting the recaptcha every time I re-login.
Is having sex with a 17 year old girl who an enslaved child subject to strict liability, in which case Minsky's views don't make a difference to the crime, or is it mens rea, where it can?

I don't know. Stallman doesn't address it. Hence, if he's really trying to change minds, he's doing a bad job of it. If he researched the issue - which I don't think he did - he would have known to cover issues like this before using 'appeared "entirely willing"', and qualified things appropriately.

> Why?

Because others have the personal view that it's sexual assault.

It's a very weak argument to say they are wrong, based on your views, when they can say that you are wrong based on their views.

The thing is, the current law backs their interpretation that this is sexual assault, or at the very least would be some some jurisdictions.

Hence, his personal view that it's absolutely unreasonable is bogus.

> at the very most you can draw from this

Correct. The point is, he doesn't offer any replacement viewpoint, other than "the current law is wrong." Therefore, it's very easy to interpret his statement as promoting sex with minors.

Which is what happened.

Anyone with a basic understanding of the issue would know this - to start with, in trying to understand why those laws exist in the first place, before making a claim that they are immoral. Then would need to show how the existing laws are actually immoral.

Stallman did not do that.

> Perhaps he would

The FSF is small enough that it doesn't fall under federal EEOC training requirements.

Does it fall under MA ones? Who is responsible for FSF EEOC training? Who can reprimand Stallman for violating EEOC laws regarding sexual harassment?

Has he had EEOC training? How often? Does he have enough understanding to be able to follow the relevant law, even if it doesn't believe it to be correct?

> just as he views the abuse of minors to be a heinous act

Sure. Now, what does he consider to be "abuse of minors"? Because apparently his definition doesn't include what the US VI law would now define as second degree rape.

As an example to show what I mean about the importance of knowing what "abuse" means, I could say that spousal abuse is wrong, yet reject the idea that raping my spouse is possible. The logic, which once held in the US, was that the wife's marriage contract was also consent to sex any time the wife wanted.

Or, "child abuse" is bad, but many in the US think that spanking a child is not abuse - though it is illegal in some countries.

Hence why it's useless to say that "abuse is bad" without knowing what counts as abuse.
There's scope for pretty massive sampling errors with any door to door survey like this - you only end up polling people who are home (presumably during the day), that answer their door to strangers (and not screen via camera) and are willing to answer a whole bunch of questions.

That may be representative of the wider society, but amongst my acquaintances it is not.
You can repo the shortness with a few tiny functions you put in your own library. Probably less than 1k vs all of query.

Also some programmers opt for readabiltiy over terseness.
High-performance serialization library for Clojure
> I don't understand your point.

That the article's premise "the US forgot what antitrust is for" is skewed, because it ignores 'healthy' investigations into problems in the internet space, and uses an editorially inconsistent presentation of a mechanism of state vs federal influence to support its claims.

you are correct this is at an editorial level and not problematic in the article as (selectively) presented.

I'm thinking you're coming at this 'economically', and I'm coming at this 'politically'.

> At no point did either of those articles imply that we should use anti-trust laws against book publishers in response to the undue influence Texas has on the market.

No, but it certainly complains about the mechanism of one state's purchasing power / legislation having influence over national policy, while making this mechanism a 'noble cause' in the case of california cars by comparing it to civil rights activism.

As a mechanism, either states and businesses should have national influence, or they shouldn't - if we are speaking of government 'function', this mechanism is not selectively good depending on ones own political agenda. It is either a good tool for balancing local/federal powers, or it isn't.

If Texas is misbehaving by issuing crappy schoolbooks, then California is misbehaving by organizing automakers in such a way that they build cars nationally according to its own requirements, and vice versa. One or the other, depending on our view of the desirability of the overall 'mechanism'.

If we pick one case and not the other we are being partisan.

If we are highlighting one case to make this claim and not others (internet),
we are being partisan.

Which is exactly the complaint being levied against regulators here.

So, at base, this is really saying "running cartels and using antitrust to break them is fine for me but not for you", which is the real 'argument', and not nearly as compelling a supporting argument to make when ones article title is "The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For", since we might just be doing it ourselves if we make that case.

Omitting ongoing tech investigations very conveniently avoids making this even more overt, and so, in my view, is suspect.

Again, this was (carefully, via sidestepping?) not done within the article,
but on publication level; and, Getting into the actual economic issues / externalities / etc. for this issue itself, I did not attempt do.
One of the Aegis developers here. Thanks for the feedback. Could you create an issue on GitHub for #2? I'm curious to know if you killed the app or just minimized it.
According to this calculator:
https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php

120k £ (equivalent of $150k at current exchange rate) becomes net 71135 £ which is 61.8%

In the state of New York:
https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-paycheck-calculator

$150k gets you a take home that is 68% of gross. NYC imposes an additional local tax between 3 and 3.8% so in the worst case you’re still taking home more than 64% of gross.

Maybe the last time you checked $150k was a lot less in £ and therefore taxed at lower rates in the UK?
I was eyeballing the Pico Computing boxen for this:

https://www.micron.com/products/advanced-solutions/advanced-...

One could get a lot of mileage in many areas out of a desktop with a good CPU, lots of RAM, a graphics card for general-purpose use, and one or more FPGA's w/ HLS tooling (or just buy the modules). Especially if the basic components were standardized like the PC with minimum requirements on cores, slices, etc on each version of the platform. An app ecosystem could be developed or emerge with capabilities regular desktops couldn't match.
I wonder what kind of machines Amazon is running in AWS to offer huge EC2 instance types. Anyone got insight into that? I feel like they could either go the Google way (cheaper off-the-shelf parts and a lot of replication) or the IBM way (scale up).
Exercises in MapReduce Style
Disproportinate representation of US culture? Which culture do you think should be represented in Hollywood?
Could you elaborate? What's the true image?
I learned the art of STFU late in life. A greatly underrated skill.

RMS isn't the Free Software movement, but this still disappoints me.
> or there’s no Connectivity where they live

Which unfortunately in the UK is an issue. I have no mobile phone reception at home (20 miles as the crow flies from Charing Cross station in London), so if my only access to the internet was through a phone then I might be one of these people.
> "Non-users are older, proportionately less well-educated and have lower incomes," said Dr Grant Blank, survey research fellow at the OII, who oversaw the project.

> Non-users, said Dr Blank, were those who did not go online via any means - either phone or computer. The proportion of those falling into this category grew as people aged, he said.

The main welfare benefit in the UK at the moment is Universal Credit which is an online-only benefit. You apply for it online. All communication is done online.

If non-users are not able to even use computers then they can't access the benefits they are entitled to.

A lot of people have been made redundant from Job Centre Plus (the public facing offices of the Department for Work and Pensions) and so the help just isn't available from DWP. It seems a lot of that help work has been off-loaded onto libraries which would be fine if they'd been given a funding bump to cope with it, but they haven't.

As a Librarian I spend most of my time helping people with universal credit: https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/universal-credit-claimants-libra...
One aspect is that they describe themselves as not using the internet. There might be some Grandma who says that while writing a text message to her family. Does the survey make clear what "using the internet" means?
Alternate title: China doesn't give carte blanche to foreign fraudsters and spies.

In context of Victor and Cynthia Lu, the siblings father is accused of embezzling 1.4 billion. From memory, millions of assets was put under their names in form of US real estate making them legally culpable. More importantly:

>The Chinese Foreign Ministry defended the holding of the three family members, saying: “The people you mentioned all own legal and valid identity documents as Chinese citizens. Because they are suspected of economic crimes, they are restricted from exiting the country by the Chinese police in accordance with the law.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/us/politics/china-exit-ba...

China doesn't allow dual citizenship, Chinese nationals (including HKers) who naturalize abroad is suppose to renounce their Chinese citizenship. Many don't, choosing to travel on Chinese papers for expediency (no need for VISA) etc which subjects them to Chinese law. There's no extradition treaty to China which makes these dumb administration hacks backfire. The article also covered spouse of suspects arrested on suspicion of spying... which no shit justifies exit bans.

E: I think the greater story is that white expats in some countries no longer get preferential treatment due to trade war (US + Canada), and ex Chinese nationals are not safe from CPC reach just because they have a passport with no PRC extradition treaty, but especially if they're being dumb and travelling to China using Chinese papers they were suppose to renounce.
Maybe because challenging China's sovereignty is risky? Just a guess. It's a good question.

With the rapid growth of global tourism, there are a lot more citizens visiting different countries. I wonder if the state dept (or equivalent in other govts) are getting stretched.

The article makes it clear that China is making up criminal cases to justify exit bans, as well.
The Kona coffee you buy from Costco and Walmart? It might be fake
I can't speak for US law. But i worked at a company that had something similar happen to them. We went to the police and they said there's nothing they can do.

The guy that 'extorted' us dropped out of law school and knew exactly what he could and couldn't say.

So the answer to that is probably that it's not extortion if you know your way around the law and are clever about it. He never extorted us, he just offered to sell us the domain name that was shit talking our company. Of course he's allowed to SEO the domain name with a link farm, that's not illegal. And it's not slander if it's true or not presented as a fact, just as speculation.
You included all the two year olds in your 66 million.
Introduction to Algorithms (2011)
Thank you. It looks like what I think BuzzFeed looks like but I was wrong.
It's an increasing struggle to get a good sample for surveys, as the rate of people refusing has been going up continuously since surveys were invented. This has methodological implications for survey researchers that are quite serious. Some things aren't a problem, though. Survey companies definitely work outside 9-5, and the 2,000 population sample turns out to be more than enough: the sample size needed for a particular degree of statistical confidence is independent of the population size (except for very small populations) and remarkably few people are needed for a good sample. 2000 is actually pretty large for survey research, where ~1000 is pretty standard.
And it is especially quite a bit better in handling a high volume of transactions while physically replacing one of the CPUs and half of the RAM in the system than many $50k servers.
Just an inflatable boat and a sub in coastal waters. Massive ECM cover if they mention anything. And denial after.

What also works is making the most of these cases in PR sense. To show people that travel to China is risky. Must be a good way of impeding their economic growth and world influence, who wants to deal in a country like that.