skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See what a little competition buys you? Activision players can always go to Ubisoft or EA. But the dirty little secret that everyone's wising up to is that they all suck and indie games are better than AAA in ways that matter to many people.

When staring down an existential crisis your clients can and will push you around for misbehaving, even if that misbehaving is out of a desire to get out of said existential crisis.

Put shortly: fuck corporations.
What about all the "independent" "non-affiliated" groups who are absolutely tied to a political party? How do you adjudicate those edge cases? It's the edge cases, IMO, that are the real bear here.
Or Mars. I think Musk has an oxygen and methane plant penciled in for there.
No, it's about (being consistent with one's own) morality.
Paywall workaround?
Also, we surely would have compensated for relativity experimentally:
"The clock seems to run 0.2% more slowly than predicted. We don't know why, but if we subtract 0.2% everything just work. Let's ship it!"
(Hey philipov, I'm kinda using this comment to reply to both of you -- not everything here is directed at you.)

Guy Who Chose To Make It About Religion, over here! FWIW I was just looking for a concrete example that would illustrate the preposterous nature of the statement I was replying to, and when I searched my brain for people who don't have a position on something "agnostic" was the one that immediately came to mind. Having the hindsight of seeing this little back and forth between you two, maybe "undecided voter" would have been more apropos... but I feel like that could have potentially spiraled out, too. In any event, I wasn't trying to start a holy flame war and I didn't imagine that anybody would go on a tangent about the religious aspect of it.

That said, why not stoke these flames unnecessarily? As for whether athiests gang up on Christians more than the other way around, I don't think the "internet" context is relevant; the internet is the context we're discussing this in, but the hypothetical bar was IRL (or at least, that was the interpretation of the author and the author has never heard of a bar that isn't IRL). Where I live (Midwest US) Christians ganging up on athiests seems more common than the other way around IRL, so if we need to unpack the realism of philipov's modification to my example and willfully ignore the fact that their choice of which group would be cast as the aggressor was just based on which group was initially larger in my example (which was in turn based on which group is larger IRL, but I don't feel the example would be substantially different if labels were reversed) I'll vote for "marginally more realistic than the other way around and nowhere near the same ballpark as a roles-reversed holocaust."

Edit: s/the holocaust/a roles-reversed holocaust/
Had the same happen to us, host inventing damage and trying to force a fee through AirBnB. However we disagreed with the fee and AirBnB never charged it.
To refute my point on U.S. gun control, you point me to a country whose gun violence is almost exclusively fueled by guns trafficked from the U.S. Really strong argument.
I've developed a simple migration tool called mgrt [1] to handle database migrations. It takes plain SQL files, and runs them in order, keeping a hash of the contents of the file in the database to ensure that it cannot be modified once run for the first time. I've posted about it here once before [2]. Check it out if you like.

Right now it only supports SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

[1] - https://github.com/andrewpillar/mgrt

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19517001
I think you meant to write empathizing rather than emphasizing.
My airbnb stockholm syndrome..
I was referring to their statements. I think Jack might have omitted the part about democracy. Just announce the change and be done with it.
I just want to let you know that there are concerns with Airbus also. Article in the Oct/19 issue of Flight International Magazine the following:

It is worthwhile mentioning that the Airbus A320 wing was
designed 35 years ago for a 70t platform, and has remained the same
on all versions, from the A318 through to the A321.

While unchanged, the wing has seen a steady loading
increase: to 83t on the first A321, then 89t and 93.5t, and is
finally expected to go up to 101t on the A321XLR.
This increased wing loading has meant higher take-off
speeds, reaching close to the maximum tyre speed limits, and
a lower safety margin at altitude – in other words, a tighter
“coffin corner”, and lower stability protection.

Where and when would the civil aviation authorities stop
manufacturers from creeping ever so closer to the performance
limits of a product?
The same people who currently deliver UberEats or pick things at the grocery store for Instacart for a couple bucks.

It'd be a small fraction of minimum wage if it took an hour. It should not take an hour.
Nice assessment! Living in California, it's so tempting for me to point to the latest drought as "proof of climate change". But I find it safer to keep my climate discussions longer term, i.e. rising seas, overall warmer temperatures, less-stable climate.

How are you balancing this in your convos in Australia?
Isn’t it per Apple ID? Not limited to 3 per device.
Sorry, I see how that can be confusing that I switched topics like that. I mean IQ is the best single measure predictor of success on the job. It's also strongly correlated with lifetime earnings. And it should surprise nobody that success on the job and lifetime earnings are very tightly coupled.
There is value in the fact that the instruction set is an abstraction. CPU's built with more low-level instruction sets became obsolete faster because they couldn't adapt to new features and maintain compatibility as easily.
For simple code match, you can just compared bytes without decoding instructions. If you want to try and identify functionally similar but not more or less identical code from binaries, good luck; it's a very hard problem. Antivirus companies and reverse engineers would love to know how to do that efficiently.
Agree but for the comment about buying Instagram and Whatsapp being farsighted. I think it practically guarantees they'll be broken up.
You're arguing this in a Western, liberal website. You're fighting a losing battle. They know what you mean, they simply disagree.
I'm not confusing the two, there are inherently two parts to this. Because obviously, if you do buy the idea that we're literally just talking about the principle of free speech, then we have literally hundreds of lines of the facebook terms of service that we need to discuss - since those are limits on speech. In fact, the statement he put out on facebook literally says that his company's defence of free speech is not absolute.

The problem is, that it appears that buy buying a facebook advert you're essentially buying the ability for facebook to refuse to scrutinize you. The argument he's actually trying to make is:

>Should we block all political ads? Google, YouTube and most internet platforms run these same ads, most cable networks run these same ads, and of course national broadcasters are required by law to run them by FCC regulations.

But that's a lie. People aren't criticising Facebook for running the same ads that run on CNN. They're criticising facebook for running ads that CNN refuses to run. But instead, he completely fails to engage with the fact that cable networks have a different, coherent policy. Whilst Facebook's policy is that they're both a free speech platform, but also that they spend more money on getting harmful content off their platform than any other company in the world. That's the reason it's confusing - because the criticism of facebook isn't that its adhering to free speech principles, it's that its selectively using free speech as a defence when it suits them.
People can't apply this reasoning to companies because then they might consider applying that same reasoning to political parties.

"How could these people that say things I agree with actually be bad?"
> ...they are progressing

What they'll achieve is a bunch of politicians signing makeshift laws into effect, which will not actually be making a dent into global warming, but which will be diverting funds into the pockets of snake oil hucksters. I'm definitely long green tech!
How is it NOT his role to protect democracy? Democracy thrives on freedom of information, and with an informed populace. If the democracy's populace is gaining massive quantities of information from Twitter, isn't Jack Dorsey then directly involved in being an arbiter of democracy? For better or worse, isn't it factually true that these tech-info companies are directly woven into the fabric of our democracy?
Are you suggesting that there are NO viewpoints that are worth rejecting out of hand? If someone thinks that all black people should be killed, we need to entertain his views?

There are limits, and some views are not just a difference of opinion. Some viewpoints need to be shunned.
I wouldn’t call hyper object oriented languages like smalltalk, io, and ruby “better“, just different. The ABI is only a shortcoming if you value aesthetics over other considerations.
A very large part of astrology is about understanding yourself and your relationships to other people. Natal or birth charts are about wondering "Who the hell am I?" and relationship astrology -- also called Synastry -- is about understanding how you interact with people around you.

It's not terribly different from things like Meyers-Briggs Personality Types, which also have both avid followers and derisive critics.

I will note that both Natal charts and Synastry map out the positions of the sun, moon, planets and other points of interest and additionally examine their mathematical relationships. They don't rely on "birth month"/sun sign as anything remotely resembling sufficient information.
Aircraft still have to certify the feature, now that it exists. The title is accurate in that the m600 will be the first to certify with Autoland. Other aircraft will follow.
If the media isn't covering their message because they're LYING, then the media is doing their job. The fact Zuckerberg thinks that people who are intentionally misleading people "deserve a voice" is ridiculous. These aren't little white lies, or a bending of the truth, they're bald-faced lies intended to confuse or misinform the voting public. I'm not sure why we're pretending they deserve the same platform as people spreading factual information.

They're more than free to say whatever they want on their own property and in their own homes. But if they want a seat at the media, then at minimum there needs to be a GIANT disclaimer both before and after the advertisement both calling out the false assertions and letting people know the advertisement is strictly for entertainment purposes.
How do you land without doing guidance control?
I'd imagine given the airport database that it's capable of calling the right frequency. Might do both.
Instead of relying on a mocking framework to mock the injected service, can you inject a service which implements an interface and then supply whatever type of implementation you like depending on the context you'd like to test?

This is one of the neat things about Java 8 Functions. I'm not sure about what their design decisions were but effectively they backed into coding to interface vs. implementation, which used to be a solid design principle.
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I didn't think this was about what the player said, but instead about Blizzard leveraging their influence to shut someone up. I think that'd be wrong even if the player had said something "bad".

Now that I think about it, for most people it seems to simply be an issue of good vs bad.

Maybe I expected too much of them.
>I see discussion

I think that's just it. The vocal gaming crowd is very quick to talk big talk about action but they're a tiny minority of the actual customerbase. For all the bravado you see on Reddit about boycots there's wayyyy more people who just want the latest title from popular publishers or the most anticipated shooter; they're not even aware of the drama going on in the background.
Simple, is the ad for a product or not?
If we go by polifact (https://www.politifact.com/personalities/), the highest rated politician has a truth rating of 14%.

From personal experience the issue we have with fake news is not caused by a president. It was the polarization from the 2016 election, which has resulted in people valuing the narrative over facts. Nothing was a clearer example to me personally when later that winter as I was participating in a conference located in Stockholm, which had a track title "Fake News", with an invited keynote speaker who was a previous board member of the wikipedia foundation. The keynote talk was made to present a narrative that media had failed to present information to the voting population about trumps scandals, and as evidence there was a image from a study showing survey result about what people knew about each candidate and their scandals. The conclusion was that if media had done their job then obviously the election would had ended correctly rather than electing Trump.

The numbers were extremely biased against Clinton and fitted the narrative so perfectly that I got a bit suspicious. Looking at the recording of the talk afterward I noticed that the evidence had a reference printed inside it. A moment later I had the paper itself, and what do I find above the image? The researcher explicitly saying that anyone reading it should not draw any comparable conclusions about the numbers as the survey operated during a period of 9 months. The researcher noted that if they had done a new short survey closer to the election date then the numbers would look very differently. It pretty obvious that people can not answer a survey with knowledge of scandals that occur in the future.

Fake news will continue as long we try to make facts fit a narrative, rather than first looking at the facts and then construct a theory about the world.
Why is his policy so diffficult for people to swallow? He has made a standard rule without room for arbitrary censorship and everyone is upset. If you can pay, you can publish on Facebook. This is a good thing. Fairness is important when it comes to monopolies offering services.
Yeah, that would have been better, at least given what we know of the situation.
Players such as? Lebron James certainly wasn’t for the protests or players supporting them.
How is this different from a hotel? From rentals in general?

I guess you know what you're going to get if you're staying at a national chain that you've stayed at before, but there's not always one available or in your budget.
Yeah but there's still a point to be made here. Maybe the amount is closer to $10/month instead of $3/year, which is still pretty cheap considering the social utility and "entertainment" hours people are getting out of the service.

Also, maybe the costs of running facebook's infrastructure and code drop (and employee headcount, etc) off dramatically if they take an axe to all the parts of it that are devoted to advertising and user data tracking/sales and just focus on the useful core tech bits, which also helps increase the profit margin on the new income model. It's possible there's a rational price that the masses would pay that would still turn them a profit under this kind of setup.
> Polluting the air, land, and water we share seems behavior that hurts others.

What happens when the government mandates only electric cars, solar heating for your house and other expensive "green technologies" that low income and poor people can't afford?

By the very same measure, your green technologies to try and halt climate change are going to severely impact low income families who can't afford a $40,000 Tesla electric vehicle or the $30,000 up front cost for a small solar array.
I don’t think the Apple ID has to match what you’re signed in to on device. At least when using Impactor. Is the sign in account referring to App Store id or iCloud? I assume App Store.
Millions of Chinese are wrong on this topic.
The Open Book Project Gains Steam
Just taking a quick look at the DIY stuff, that only seems to cover the initial genetics experiments. The equipment offered on the Odin project sites doesn't really cover what comes after that.

What do you do after you introduced a plasmid or modified the genome of some bacteria?
I wonder if all of this fervor against political ads would have happened if Clinton was elected.
I keep seeing job postings from Blizzard for software engineers. I hope people are ignoring them, just as I am.
T-Mobile Now Offers Home Internet for $50 Per Month with No Data Cap
If everyone knows you can rob or scam me for $50 and I'll hand it over and not go to the cops (because doing so isn't worth my time) there's really no downside to robbing or scamming me.

On the other hand, if everyone knows when robbed or scammed I will doggedly pursue every avenue until a much higher price has been extracted from the robbers or scammers, the downside is nonzero.
Yes, and sensible frameworks use constructor injection -- see ASP.Net Core.
see classic "design patterns are missing language features" presentation by peter norvig, aka "design patterns in dynamic languages"[0], which is from 1998.

[0] https://norvig.com/design-patterns/
> The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%–100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper.

This sentence claims consensus exists 90%–100% of all publishing climate scientists.

> Those results are consistent with the 97% consensus reported by Cook et al (Environ. Res. Lett. 8 024024) based on 11 944 abstracts of research papers, of which 4014 took a position on the cause of recent global warming.

Here the story changes in two ways:

- the number is related to research papers, not individual scientists, as is the claim. There is a difference both in fact, and in persuasive value. I feel the greater persuasive ability of this incorrect and deceitful framing was chosen, and I'll go out on a limb and say I suspect the choice was subconscious, which explains the utter obliviousness to the hypocrisy below. The human mind is highly tuned for persuasive communication, both within each individual lifetime, but also evolutionarily across centuries. Our minds are so good at it, we can easily pull the wool over our own eyes (might this be one of those times?). Most people would have no problem acknowledging this if the topic of discussion was psychology, but when it's mentioned in the context of identity-related conversations such as this, the reception is typically far less warm in my experience.

- the actual percentage of papers that express concensus is 33% (4014 of 11,944 total abstracts), not 97%

> A survey of authors of those papers (N = 2412 papers) also supported a 97% consensus. Tol (2016 Environ. Res. Lett. 11 048001) comes to a different conclusion using results from surveys of non-experts such as economic geologists and a self-selected group of those who reject the consensus. We demonstrate that this outcome is not unexpected because the level of consensus correlates with expertise in climate science.

Here they seem to imply different conclusions are factually incorrect, and the person who disagreed is using dishonest rhetorical techniques.

> At one point, Tol also reduces the apparent consensus by assuming that abstracts that do not explicitly state the cause of global warming ('no position') represent non-endorsement, an approach that if applied elsewhere would reject consensus on well-established theories such as plate tectonics.

Yet, they have absolutely no problem assuming, in the very same paragraph, that abstracts that do not explicitly state the cause of global warming ('no position') DO represent endorsement. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

> We examine the available studies and conclude that the finding of 97% consensus in published climate research is robust and consistent with other surveys of climate scientists and peer-reviewed studies.

Indeed.
They will find dark-matter when they unify GR and QM, never :)
Years ago an acquaintance was running a MICROS POS for his restaurant, and lamented the heavy tax burden the local government levied on him.

I was able to create an external software application (we called it "CookBooks") that would selectively skim off cash transactions (ignoring credit card transactions) from the Access database.

This allowed him to reduce his tax liability and pocket a substantial amount of cash on a nightly basis.

This was in 2002 and I recall that it took no time at all to gain update access to the underlying proprietary Access database powering the MICROS system.
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World of Warcraft was a success because it came out at the right time, during an upward trajectory of MMO popularity, and it was polished and approachable compared to the first generation MMOs.

Since then, the MMO market, to my knowledge, has shrunk, as other genres have become popular. There's no indication that a World of Starcraft released today would be anywhere near successful.
I am (was) an avid reader of Deadspin, and the non-sports content was a large part of why I read that site for 10+ odd years. The reality is that, even for people who love sports, there often isn't very much to say about them. Rather than force them to churn out the same kind of article about why LeBron James is good at basketball that you could read on any number of websites, Deadspin allowed their writers the freedom to write about whatever they wanted to, whether that was a brilliant analysis of Loony Tunes (https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-wile-e-coyote-explains...), poignant commentary about the ways in which journalistic language undermines sexual assault victims (https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/against-allegedly-18197033...), or tell a harrowing story about recovering from a major brain hemorrhage (https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-night-the-lights-went-...). The perspective offered by Deadspin was unique, and I will miss it dearly.
> Can these be replaced?

Yes. The operation takes a couple of days per plane.
I think most isps also block outgoing traffic on port 80 these days. At least, that's the issue me and some friends found when we tried to host websites on our various ISPs.
Panic is not the same as fear. Panic (insert here mythological reference to god Pan) is a kind of fear that causes uncontrolled, irrational and often counterproductive behaviour. Is that the case?
Does anyone have a link without paywal?
Ask HN: Whats your opinion on open source contribution as a hiring challenge?
We are an open-source company, why not require applicants to create a contribution to our project as a hiring task? And since I don't want this to be free labour, I'd even pay a fixed rate.
I’m curious if you have seen this work, or if you would apply for a position that requires it? What would be your concerns?
What's Congress going to do? The reason China has so much influence is because Chinese companies are willing to invest in (western) video game companies (or at least Tencent is). Most game developers aren't exactly swimming in money and if a Chinese company offers them more resources then many of them are going to take it even if it comes with strings attached.

Another reason is access to the Chinese market. Congress can't really do anything to stop companies from complying with the Chinese government so that they can publish their games in the Chinese market.
That's what Hulu is like with ublock. It goes to show "ads" but just shows a blank screen, and the countdown goes from 30 seconds to 0 instantly.