skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can recommend the Wargame-Series (European Escalation, AirLand Battle and esp. Red Dragon).
Sure, your logistics begin at the Map border, but you have to make do with the units given in the campaign, so losses are permanent. And you have to keep your units supplied and fuelled throughout the real-time battles. Quite a hassle.
Is it adding anything to the conversation?
So what you're saying is "I do not know of any evidence showing a conclusive link between co2 emissions from human activity and rising temperatures?" What would change your mind? If the answer is "evidence," then exactly what kind of evidence would be required?
The article lists a bunch of things you can change personally and are therefore not "luck", like your last name, country of residence, display of middle initials and ease of pronouncing your name.

It seems to conflate luck with randomness.
It sounds so incredibly stupid that I suspect there's more to this story that we're missing
Electrical engineer here.

What is hard about these?

For a few dollars I can convert 120v to whatever I want.

Sell a different version to Europe
Air New Zealand trolled a customer by repeatedly speaking in the Māori language
It seems that GitHub at least has CSS classes for many things (including the quotation marks around a string literal, it look like), so this allows customization.
I get a cryptic error message that just says "network", others seem to have the same problem. Does it work for you??

Here's another demo that shows the error message at the bottom: https://mdn.github.io/web-speech-api/speech-color-changer/
As a Civ i-iii player, I do not recognize the game you are talking about.
edit: oops, reado
I find it interesting that there is no mention of NA64's sensitivity to the particle. Is it possible to say from the Atomki institute experiments what is the rate of production expected at NA64? Somehow LHCb will be able to refute or confirm but only by 2023.
DOJ does in fact do exactly that, and I’m not so sure about your own general inclination, actually, but let’s not make this about you.
Probably they are referring to things like this snippet:

Recognising the importance of mapping suggests another way of looking at what has happened here. Mapping can certainly be reawakened by trauma. One possible way to traumatise a person might be to:

1. Nuke them. Twice.

2. Rip apart their rigid, predictable feudal society.

3. Tell them the invader will be coming around tomorrow.

4. Leave them nothing for supper.

To eat tonight, this person is going to have to reawaken his ability to be imaginative.
Why do we need elaborated backend structures? A bit of SQL in stored procedures on top of a DB is good enough all the time. It's way less overhead. Heck, why don't we just let the users get what they want by giving them access to a SQL prompt. We could eliminate the UI completely.
We use Stripe + Quaderno. Quaderno does the invoice creation and adds tax lines based on customer vs business, they validate VAT numbers, make sure there is multiple evidences (billing address, IP address, bank location) and we can download a monthly report broken down by country. Stripe's Billing product does invoice creation but it lacks features when it comes to international taxes, Stripe's Checkout product can't handle tax at all last time I checked.

We could replace Quaderno, we already remove their Checkout and QuadernoJS from our frontend and use only their API in our backend, but building our own invoice creation (with history, one-off invoices, PDF export etc) is too big of a project given our small revenue.

source: running a SaaS in Germany
It's a great read if you're not too in depth on the topic and want an overview, but it is badly in need of a modern revision that removes some of the more speculative parts of the last chapter and replaces it with what actually happened in the last 20 years.
Or if you are lucky you need to work hard to do something with it.

Quite a few years ago I lived a few bus stops from the venue of the yearly PHP conference in Hungary but somehow I never went. Just didn't seem worthwhile or something. In 2004 May, a friend of mine called on a Sunday he is going to attend the roadshow of said conference in a shitty rural city in Hungary with his brother driving and whether I wanted to tag along. I shrugged and went. Still have no idea why. That's when I first heard of Drupal, it wasn't visible at all back then despite I was heavily researching CMSes just then. Being present at that roadshow was luck. My meteoric rise from financially struggling Hungarian web developer to internationally acclaimed Drupal developer and architect of a Top 100 web property only five years later was, however, the result of me pouring practically every awake moment into Drupal (I believe it was a Google Summer Of Code mentor questionarie which asked how much extra time are we spending with our project and I still remember when I was like, I am not spending any extra time because that'd be impossible). The finances aligned. When I attended my first Drupal developer come together in 2005 February in Antwerp I needed to borrow money from my parents for the plane ticket and couch surf for I had no money. I bought a apartment right down on the beach in Vancouver in 2009... And yes, this seemed unreal and it still does, walking home every time fills me with a sense of "this is too good to be true".
I've been writing rust since just before 1.0 and I've never written a type signature like that. I understand it just fine (even though it is invalid, I get what they're saying), but yeah, never needed it.

It's both a good and bad thing that rust has these sort of deep areas where 95% of users won't ever have to go - Pin being another example. I think it's much more good than bad though.
I think that only applies to the category of success.

But some people are just born rich. Some people are just born healthy, attractive, and even happy! Research suggests half of life satisfaction is determined by your genes.

https://positivepsychology.com/is-happiness-genetic/

What's luckier than winning the genetic lottery?
I really hope they try catching up to nVIDIA in terms of the development ecosystem for on-GPU computation. I hate being effectively-vendor-locked like that, due to the weakness of the competition - and this is coming from someone who likes, writes and publishes CUDA code.
If leading people is so goddamn easy compared to software engineering, why do so few engineers want to move into people leadership, and why do so many of them absolutely suck at it?

I think you are severely discounting the skills it takes to lead people, and you are also making an extremely optimistic assumption that companies in the future somehow would be magically more meritocratic than existing companies, when there's no evidence of the sort. On the contrary, people with great interpersonal skills will continue to advance off of the labour of the people with only great technical skill.

Your glorious engineer's revolution will probably not come to pass if history is any indication.
Please don't edit your comments in ways that change their original meaning.
>> Writing posts on HN is not expressing your genes, it is an entirely accidental effect of intelligence

Your opinion is a function of your genes (sex, race, physical conditions, etc). Your HN post does not have to be imprinted in your genes but our genes affect our opinion whether we want it or not. It is rarely about which sorting procedure you will peak but when discussing things relevant to genes (again, racial and sexual stuff) they will inject their biases.
Problem is not just one trip, and you're right, economy is going down the drain here.

Problem is that those drivers take as much work as they can because they can't make ends meet after they collect wages. So they put extra hours to get more money. Remove a second driver, and you have a sleep deprived driver taking double or triple shifts just to collect an extra coin.
that assumes that his talk constituted a financial transaction. it's not clear that this is the case. if he was paid to speak, then it does seem plausible, but that doesn't seem to be disclosed in the press release. if he went for free (and, one would assume, would have needed to pay for the ordinary admission fee), then it's possible to consider it as non-commercial, so that would be only 15-21 months.

edit (can't reply yet): I arrived at this number by searching for USC and U.S.C in the press release, then googling IEEPA, finding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Emergency_Econom..., then finding 50 U.S.C. § 1701, then going to https://guidelines.ussc.gov/si, putting in 50 U.S.C. § 1705, figuring §2M5.1 is relevant, then putting 14 in https://guidelines.ussc.gov/grc.
Can anyone comment on pros and cons of running it virtualized on a Linux host? I have capable hardware and would like to run it on that rather than on a separate Pi device.
The "luck" of Zuckerberg seems to imply it was a random event he was at Harvard and that he didn't intend to be there. That story is about the meaning of being at a place like Harvard, you have the tools and people around you to see and take advantage of opportunities before others.

The conflict behind the story is whether your suffering is the result of something random or meaningful. Someone who does the best they can at a lesser university and gets lesser results is not a result of randomness, but the meaning (or properties, qualities) of being at a lesser university and the choices made beforehand.

Attributing randomness to big successes undermines the hard work that a lot of people go through to get one step up the chain.
This is nonsense. His example only works because the comment is "WARNING: ...". Most comments are not like that, and the actual code is generally more important than the comments.

Perhaps syntax highlighting should detect comments that say WARNING, like some detect TODOs. But that is a separate issue.
Customers have no expectation of privacy of banking transactions
Open the dev console for some fun... debugShopify()
I came across their NSF research proposal abstract [1] and it is indeed quite interesting. I'm curious about their federation model and how exactly they're enabling privacy.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1900638&His...
Three injured in Netherlands stabbing, police say
Yeah, they'll just ask the German intelligence service to spy on Americans for them using NSA tools.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-intelligen...
Yes, that was a great move, it's basically what the One used to be prior to them adding the mic. While they haven't done it yet I hope they don't drop the mic-less larger models. We'll see, from what I know Sonos has a very healthy margin (most speaker companies do) and the need to monetize user data would be viewed by many as over the top.
People stabbed in The Hague, police say
Killed, 3 wounded in London Bridge stabbing; attacker killed by police
I would think in certain societies luck (randomness) has much less of an impact on peoples lives than others. Like dropping a pin somewhere in Norway vs the US to represent where someone will be born. In the US there is may be a pretty large amount of luck associated with where that pin lands whereas in Norway it might be significantly less.
Last year I gave a talk about my setup in Gothenburg: https://conf.tube/videos/watch/e4bab8ef-be61-4036-b165-76890...
I didn't look that carefully, but I don't see the set of guideline rules that get you down to 15-21; how'd you get there?
I only ever use git with a central server providing the source of truth.
A Second Attack on Friday, This One in the Netherlands
> Attributing randomness to big successes undermines the hard work that a lot of people go through to get one step up the chain.

This is my entire argument. There's a much easier way to phrase it though: life's not fair.
-how to be an educated consumer
-how to buy/sell house/car, other basic contracts and understanding them (nda, work contract, t&c)
-sexual education without any moral bs, just facts
-how to recognizing symptoms of common diseases
-basic civics and legal training
-read a book, see a painting, tell me your opinion about it, instead learn what scolars think
Ask HN: Which platforms do founders mostly use to launch products?
I have seen founders using product hunt, hacker news, reddit and twitter etc. Are there other platforms like this?
It will happen in the future, but we need algorithms capable of empathy to replace human leaders. Let’s say we’re not close.
Oh, the device itself keeps a finite-sized mailbox and deletes the oldest message if it's full.

The concern is that one of the deleted messages might have been important (e.g. informing us that a transmission failed, or informing us that Search & Rescue got the message and is sending a helicopter). The polling is a backup plan that at least gives the phone feedback if it's not working (a failed read informs the phone that the read failed; a failed notification doesn't tell either side that something failed). We can still obviously lose messages if enough of them come in between polling intervals, but it's better than potentially losing messages indefinitely without knowing about it.

The other nice thing is that we can keep metrics for how often the polling process actually finds things that we weren't successfully notified about. That'll either give us leverage to encourage the vendor to switch to indications instead of notifications, or encourage us to find a new vendor :)

Edit: and yes, I 100% appreciate the feedback!
Would it be ethical in trek to build an AI whose sole purpose was to commit suicide?

John Carpenter's Dark Star covers this a little, but mainly for laughs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film)
As an example, before 9/11, there was some chatter about a possible terrorist attack in the USA. After 9/11 we know now this wasn’t noise. But if it hadn’t happen, we would classify it as noise. Telling the CIA to silence the noise is useless advice because we don’t know beforehand what is noise!
looks like a re-implementation of DJB's daemontools.

Some servers at work have this. I don't like it very much. Continuously, blindly restarting services masks more problems than it solves.
ENERGY AND INFORMATION: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24923125
Paving slabs - UK term for the individual 'stones', typically large squares or rectangles.
The State Department didn't create the law that made this a crime, they merely informed him of such. That's literally their job.
Suppose you WANT malloc to be eager (i.e. make sure all the pages are committed right away, so you don't pay a performance penalty for it later), what do you do?

The obvious answer is just looping through it and setting it to zero would be replaced with a call to `calloc` by an optimizing compiler, and doesn't calloc also do some kind of similar "lazy" trick? So what do you do? Mark the pointer as volatile and loop through it and set all the memory to 0 (or some other value)? Call memset, I guess?

EDIT: apparently malloc + memset compiles to calloc as well [0], so if you want to allocate, zero out memory, and make sure it's committed, using volatile seems like the best bet to me...

[0]: https://godbolt.org/z/qhaaYc
I find it funny that a nearly identical comment (different wording, but ssame joke and no follow-up) in this thread hasn't been receiving the same negative attention.
That's why CEOs make less $ than software engineers right?
> Just because the computer uses different technology than human tissue, doesn't mean it isn't emulating the same ultimate processes that are happening in our bodies

BUT: at least I think we are far from it. Very far. In the sense that we don't need more computing power of the current approaches to get e.g. AGI, we need radically new ones. And I actually don't see why this would be opposed to more neuroscience education, instead of excitement for cool but still quite limited models, and why this would be pretending that there is some "special magical non-material aspect to our existence"

How much can you compress the essential structure and complexity of an intelligent brain? It is an open question, but if in the end you can not compress it "enough", it does not have much practical consequences of it being also theoretically a mathematical object. And on top of that: we already know how to make new ones...
I think this is the norm for some of the more “controversial” countries. I went to Cuba (with permission from the State Department) before Obama eased sanctions and I was quite disappointed that they didn’t stamp my passport. Instead I got a little slip of paper that was about the size of a page in my passport. It was my understanding that the Cuban government had designed the visa system this way on purpose to allow Americans to more easily skirt the sanctions.

And once I got past border patrol and saw all of the items coming out with the luggage (car parts, toilet seats, televisions, a grill, etc.) it was clear that this system allowed the wealthier families to avoid most of the inconveniences of the US embargo.
I believe you misunderstood my point. I wasn't talking about people advocating for change against their own immediate self-interest, I was talking about people suiting their own self-interest by advocating for other people to change, regardless of what that entails for those other people and, most importantly, without consideration for whether the advocacy is merited and just, given their own position.

> Advocating for changes that go against your own immediate self-interest isn't lack of self-reflection; if anything, it's often a signal of a correctly pointing moral compass.

People like to advocate for change a lot, and they often do so whilst working in the opposite direction of that change. I consider that hollow.
Well that's refreshing... that someone managed to get a negative result in an applied field published. Thumbs up!
people need to be told what to do
loop
people wait do only what they're told;
people need to be told what to do;
if people don't have to be told what to do, exit;
end
Deming made this observation 50 years ago.
Shopify's Black Friday Live Map of Sales Revenue and Orders
I've been in prison and my first thought here is "Absolute Fraud."

My first thought for cryptocurrency when it first came out was "Oh, look, easy money if I felt like throwing my scruples and morals aside and actively participate in this!"

I'm still broke, so obviously I didn't sell myself out. Meanwhile many others I know who got involved in this are now facing IRS Audits and in one case criminal charges.

I'm somewhat glad my foresight saved me from ever making more than like fifteen cents and a couple 'free' pizzas off of this stuff years and years ago and getting potential charges. Knowing the disasters of a distributed database that works without explicit human permissions and checks like what we did in the late 70s, I dodged a big bullet, IMHO.
Yes but I think most people think of eg storming an airliner cockpit as “literal hijacking” and the notion of hijacking “ideas, concepts, and even things like meetings and parties” as metaphorical.
Pretty much every conclusion drawn from all studies where P < .05 is used as a proxy for truth, but which are later incapable of replication.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895433
https://betalist.com/

From my bookmarks, might be outdated https://github.com/intrepidkarthi/PlacesToPostYourStartup
How would you get started building an app like this?
What kind of sensible definition of luck wouldn't include the place where you were born?
Maybe. On the other hand, maybe a rigorous mathematical analysis of NNs is as useful as a rigorous mathematical analysis of computer architectures - not very useful. Maybe all you need is just to keep scaling it up, adding some clever optimizations in the process (none of the great CPU ideas like caches, pipelining, out of order execution, branch prediction, etc came from rigorous mathematical analysis).

Or maybe it's as useful as a rigorous mathematical analysis of a brain - again, not very useful, because for us (people who develop AI systems), it would be far more valuable to understand a brain on a circuit level, or an architecture level, rather than on a mathematical theory level. The latter would be interesting, but probably too complex to be useful, while the former would most likely lead to dramatic breakthroughs in terms of performance and capabilities of the AI systems.

So maybe we just need to keep doing what we have been doing in DL field in the last 10 years - trying/revisiting various ideas, scaling them up, and evolving the architectures the same way we've been evolving our computers for the last 100 years, with the hope there will be more clues from neuroscience. I think we just need more ideas like transformers, capsules, or neural Turing machines, and computers that are getting ~20% faster every year.
I’ve been developing on Zephyr for about a year now and “exciting” isn’t the word I would use here.
Or why all the ships have a front and a back. This why I like the Borg ships.
This is true sadly.

I believe Autto/wp org has stepped up rules about nagware making it less intrusive, although some needs to be reported before they put the smack down. They also have rules about privacy and dependencies - but they are not pro active in hunting down issues where third party stuff is used and not really needed... it takes the community to call it out sometimes, and like the gdpr it's easy for plugin and theme authors to claim 'we need third party fonts and phone number for reasons that others do' - whatever they are.

I would love for the wp theme repo to show theme thumbnails as what they look like on default install - with the option to hover for a gif or click to see optional layouts built in, and optional layouts with extra plugins or builders / etc.

I spent some hours the other teaching someone how to help get a wp theme installed and setup and we found that every single one looked nothing like the advertised thumbnail, and they all required customizer options to be set and sometimes other plugins to become as advertised... which of course those settings do not follow to a different theme - so it's all a waste if it doesn't work out.

A business could be made that strips plugins and themes of nagware for a buck and probably profit easy.. along with fixing outdated plugins for a fee could turn quite popular.

100% agree that all these resources and updates put into the new editor / builder gutenberg thing has been a complete waste. They could of absorbed the site-origin builder or one of the others and been a year or more ahead of the game - it still feels like a beta and missing features, and it still does not play well with other themes and plugins like it could.

as a WP power user, year after year I feel that Automattic and the group of devs there do not really listen to the users, they make decisions and do things like this new 'click to confirm your admin email addy' BS - guten editor, and lackluster default themes -

glad there is a fork of WP - https://www.classicpress.net/

having a team working on an underscores_light-and-speedy for frameworks would of been a good use of resources for the community.. instead we get things that break heavily used add-ins..

luckily we can turn off features pretty easily (disable google fonts, xmlrpc, rest api, default editor) - it's extra sad when an update requires some of those things to be working.

To think of the hundreds of updates I have applied over the years that have not added any features that are needed - it's crazy.

The plugin ecosystem does make it worth using for me for lots of cool things... but the main core had been a hindrance for some years now, and the themes showing what they could be, instead of what they are, is an even bigger hindrance to what at one time was the best attractive thing about wp.. imho.
This. I totally agree.

One fallacy I've seen is a reviewer only looking at the diff on Github, where a minor change in the middle of a function is made, and they don't expand the diff to notice that the new change completely invalidates a comment, params, call signature, return value..etc.