skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair to jtbayly - I do agree I came across as
presumptuous and paternalistic to state people are voting against their personal best interests.

While I cannot, at all, claim to know what's in someone's interests, let alone their best interests - it is possible to reasonably determine when someone is voting _against_ their interests - especially when there is evidence of emotional manipulation or misrepresentation of the facts. (Though I assume we won't enter into a "debate" over specific facts here on HN).

The best example are the rural, conservative, voters in states that didn't expand Medicaid, who voted for representatives who campaigned against the ACA - and who who various reasons (unemployment, hard luck, etc) are now left without any feasible options for healthcare coverage: it's demonstrable that they did not vote in their rational best interests, even the most staunch Libertarian can agree with that statement (though the Libertarian might argue it was still their free choice to make and that should be respected - which I can agree with because at least they're being honest about it).
You're right, yes - a 1ms pause has a cost, even in a 16ms budget.

I interpreted the author's point as "GC is now potentially viable for games", in the sense that older GCs might have pause times larger than 16ms, making them obviously inappropriate, whereas today 1ms pauses is something that can be budgeted for at least in some cases.

As you said, malloc/free also have costs, and also GC has other benefits, like bump allocation, moving things to compact memory and improve cache locality, etc. 1ms pauses means GC is worth considering even for a game, in other words.
People here are wrong about the typical lawyer nonsense.

If the company does OSS, state tactfully and __indirectly__ that you'll call them out on stealing your work in public.

Most companies do OSS for PR and bait-and-switch hiring. Very likely they'll back off if something ruins that gravy train.
> The reality is that people can value something different than you (less government intervention, less restrictions on speech, lower taxes)

Why do you assume we don't value those things? Isn't that _you_ being condescending now?
Sounds like an even better reason to force their hand. If it was left to companies, they would still be shipping software with 68K code.
Well, to be fair, most of us who are paying the "bandwidth ransom" do have to scale, quite significantly I might add, and so the value is the platform as a whole.

Furthermore, if you are doing something for fun like you are, the bandwidth ransom definitely comes into play for elastic cloud environments, but anyone doing anything significant on AWS/GCP has definitely already negotiated down their bandwidth spend with their AWS/GCP account management team.
I'm from the states, grew up Mormon, and have lived in Alabama and Utah, in addition to other regions. I'm very aware of how the American mindset works, thanks.
For a lot of services, bandwidth is the smallest part of the hosting cost; often around 10%. It really depends on the kind of workloads and traffic you are getting. Of course, the low percentage is partially because their other services are also all very expensive relative to a VPS or dedicated host, but its not really a comparable service offering.
I thought the same, but there might be a good reason they can't.
Anyone knows the stack used for the graphql server ?
In most cases the downtime is scheduled and can be prepared for.
I'm curious -- are you using Poetry for applications, besides just the libraries? If so, what is your workflow? I'm currently setting up some workflows with Poetry so I'm keen to learn of others' experiences.
The last 32 bit Mac was released in 2007.
Arguing about what is best for baseload makes no sense.

It's like comparing ICE vs battery electric vehicles on the basis of what's best for the non engine/motor parts, or "base-car".

People need a whole car and a whole energy system. Coal and nuclear, which are suited to this artifical contstruct of baseload, are not good for providing 100% of energy requirements on their own or in partnership with others and that's why no one is building them anymore.
Completely true, but I'm fine with this being posted because I do think people need reminding of how much we can do without Google tracking.
This can be true, though so can collaboration in person also be. Often, time pressures, office politics, culture, etc. get in the way, though can be filtered to some extent through text media, but not without losing some meaning, insights and opportunities.

Frankly, modern corporations only appreciate productivity, innovation, creativity and spontaneous combustion, when executed at the dictate of Directors. So whenever you found a sweet spot, know that Change (Winter) is coming.
All righty then, my bad.
You don't have to guess what a lot of people's interests are. They will tell you. In my constituency people were annoyed with our sitting member who is Labor because the train prises increased. They want lower train fares so they voted conservative. So yes, it is actually easy in some cases to say someone voted against their interest.
GDPR is not a cookie law. You don’t need consent to run out-of-the-box GA with IP anonymization.
There Is No Single Right Way to Do APIs
Returned online purchases often sent to landfill
> I'm not sure why it's such a popular notion that the cybertruck won't crumple? It's literally got a big empty space at the front as a feature.

Because it's supposed to be bulletproof and have a virtually indestructible surface which you cannot dent or scratch. It's possible that this was meant as nothing more than resistance to minor assault but taking the statement literally and assuming a completely rigid reinforced frame makes a lot of sense.

> Ordinary cars crumple but they don't fall apart if you lean on them or drive down a bumpy road.

Ordinary cars are not billed as bulletproof and virtually indestructible.
you are kind of making the assumption that the developer spent all year working on this cost optimization.

I'd bet the optimization and subsequent write up in a blog post didn't take more than a week to get done from start to finish.
Ask HN: How to decide tech stack for a project?
How do you do it? What are the criterions that need to be considered?
Would that change a single thing about the way you vote if they did?
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Setting a short expiring cookie is still setting a cookie.
it also sets a third party DoubleClick cookie

I have never witnessed that. Can you link to a site that uses only Google Analytics where that happens?

Maybe you confused Analytics and Adsense?
Astronauts to Attach “Robot Hotel” to Outside of the International Space Station
This explains that obnoxious URL google has for results. To be able to fully ensure they know who referred you. I use DDG at home but Google at work.
Amazon's new video game (MMORPG)
There was a lot of negativity around Corbyn in the newspapers that tend to flip-flop - only the definite left-leaning papers (The Guardian, etc) maintain their support for Labour and the LibDems.

My observation of the BBC's coverage was that while they at least didn't put a positive spin on the Tories, it felt like they were doubling-down on anti-Labour and anti-LibDem negativity. I still don't believe the BBC is in any way biased towards any particular political party, but I feel there's a feedback-loop somewhere in the media system. Once the meme "Corbyn is unelectable" becomes a meme and people don't stop to question it - or it becomes self-referential ("Corbyn is unelectable because the people believe he's unelectable") then we have a problem.

(Disclaimer: I would not actually vote for Corbyn myself - just saying).
I can't figure out how I am supposed to connect it to my Kindle.
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“China, Russia Putting New Spin on Term Cold War in the Arctic” - Senate Hearing
The perpetual license to use the software in the version you bought. Few people truly needed every single version, but instead only upgraded when it became necessary or there was a killer feature they wanted.
Regular programming is not different. You mention the case of users data being sent to a server. There is so much which can go wrong there when authentication, load balancing, session management, data storage, and network latencies interact.
I seem to remember that my ZX81 Basic allowed a computed "goto" statement, which my later Amstrad BASIC didn't.
I mostly used it for type-ins from magazines. I also had a little dabble in machine code (nearly forty years later I still remember the opcode for Return is "C9") but the learning curve was too steep for me to do anything much. I still wonder whether given tutelage or encouragement in programming I could have got way more out of my computer as a child.
Very interesting, but sad article.

I found out not too long ago, that some butterflies migrate -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera_migration
"For customers that are using Google Analytics' Display Advertiser features, such as remarketing, a third-party DoubleClick cookie is used in addition to the other cookies"

So, I suppose I should have said "can set", though remarketing is very common.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
This is just awesome.
Love the simplicity with the config system and the performance is crazy fast.
A cursory google search revealed as the first result:

''FDR was a gifted and facile liar,''

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/13/books/manipulative-secret...

I would expect much of the same from a glance at any politician. Politics is a field that rewards deception.

The perverse incentives of democracy have been illustrated from Plato through to Hans Hermann Hoppe.
Check out the selenoid project. It’s like a selenium grid but dockerized with novnc, etc.
Can TV (or YT) also count? Or sex. So many ways claiming to help you to fill the void. :)
All of the replies to your comment seem to be pointing out that IRC can be logged, but they're missing the point. You shouldn't play catch-up on IRC. Any useful information to persist should flow into the docs or onto the mailing list. On IRC, no one is expected to stay abreast of discussions they were absent for.
Energy density is only important in a few use cases since electric transmission is largely a solved problem and even in urban areas we currently have a lot of easily usable sun-facing surface area where panels can be installed.
If you're interested in a more modern Russian lead reactor, check out: https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

They also have a lot of recent experience with sodium fast reactors, of which the BN-600 is still running, BN-800 is running (and was started within the past 2 years), but the BN-1200 is delayed:

http://fissilematerials.org/blog/2019/08/the_construction_of...
Profit motive isn't bad. It just doesn't interface well with charity.
> I'd love to see some numbers here because without them it's easy to assume this is not cost competitive with solar+battery in +5 years given current trends.

[On nuclear fusion] “It's kind of as instructive to ask what's not the problem as it is to ask what is the problem. There is a problem. The problem is not cost. It's not that energy generation technologies are expensive. The cost is lower than it has ever been to generate electricity.

It's also not intermittency, and there are a lot of studies out there looking at getting to very high penetration of renewables, and how you manage that grid with those intermittent sources, and the answers sort of range between, let's say, 60% penetration of renewables to 100% penetration. I can't argue about that, but fundamentally I think it is possible to manage that grid and, even more so, the cost of doing so is not prohibitive.

[A consultancy called Systemic] added on the cost of intermittency, basically paid for with lithium ion batteries and gas peakers to deal with the hardest intermittencies to deal with—which is not when the sun goes in front of a cloud, but when it's summer or winter, that difference. So this isn't a carbon-neutral grid, it still has gas in it, but the total cost of intermittency adds about $15/MWh to the levelized cost.

So you take solar, for example, from 35 to 50. Well, gas costs 80, so this doesn't change the picture. Solar and wind are still the cheapest sources of electricity.

The problem, and this is where fusion fits, and this is where any new energy technology fits; the problem is scale. This is looking at the growth in deployment of solar and wind in a global sense. [...] This is the total sum of wind and solar based on current policies. We wanted the most aggressive scenario for the deployment of solar and wind, because we wanted to know the answer to the question: do we actually need fusion? So we took these curves, this is continued exponential growth. We did this last year; reality is already behind this model, because last year, 2018, growth in renewables flatlined for the first time. We assumed continual exponential growth. You add all of that up and you compare it to the total demand for electricity.

[...] Renewables can get us to half the required electricity generation. A lot of the stories you see in news take that number and compare it to how much electricity we need now, but you know electric cars are coming, right?, electricity demand is going to increase. If we're going to get to net zero, whilst overall energy consumption might be falling, the demand for electricity is substantially rising because actually only about 20% of energy is electricity, so, you know, the energy in my car I drove here this morning was not electricity.

That is what creates this clean power gap and this is why ultimately we need new technologies. We cannot get to the scale required to meet net zero by 2050 with the technologies that we currently have.”

https://youtu.be/DtvcEkIb4D4?t=653
Why do you use the word "we"? I wasn't directing my comment to you.

An assumption isn't necessarily condescending. I assumed I was talking to someone on the left side of politics and was giving examples for the sake of an argument. If those examples do not in fact work then I can just as well pick other ones.
That might be Google's dream: Remove URLs completely from the user's awareness. Let them use Google search to navigate the web. And make Web site owner pay to Google Adwords to make their site addressable. Of course the www is just a minor step into that direction, but still a step into a worrying direction.
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> In many (most) cases any IP you create does belong to them.

Why do Americans consider themselves free?
I'm not sure that a better solution is possible in America's current political climate. As I see it there are basically three approaches that a progressive could take in a policy debate:

- Persuasion: I think that you are mistaken as to what is in your best interest, here's why my approach would benefit you more.

- Negotiation: Here's how we can work together to find a solution that meets both of our interests.

- Zero Sum: I recognize that this isn't in your best interest but I don't care because its in my interest.

Due to the power of Fox News and the Republican party's current willingness to ignore facts, I don't think persuasion is possible.

Similarly, the strategy that Fox News and the Republican party have taken of promoting polarization, demonizing the other side, using straw-man arguments, etc.[1] Makes it impossible to have the kind of nuanced debate and compromise that would be necessary for a negotiated solution.

Therefore, it seems like all that is left is a zero sum solution. If the other side won't listen or negotiate then the only option remaining is to implement our policies whether they like them or not.

I'm not saying that's an ideal situation, but it seems to me that its the reality that we find ourselves in.

[1] To be fair, I think that progressives do this to a worrying extent as well. However, I single out the Republican party due to the degree to which they have focused on this strategy and because the fact that many Republicans get all of their news from Fox makes the strategy almost unassailable.
I don't find the hostility to profit absurd. Profit motive also filled the world with crap we don't need. It also accelerated climate change. Through our fossil fuel companies' profit motive. I actually find HN lacking in hostility towards profit, but it seems it's because we selectively choose what to pick up on and remember.
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I think you should become the change you want to see in the world and stop charging for your work. I wonder how that will go.
it definitely is the bottleneck, which is the reason we should move all other possible tasks out of main.

in this (neo.mjs) case main applies the deltas, forwards dom events to the app worker & serves as a message bus as long as workers can not directly communicate. nothing more.
No; after letting them down the following day, the one on the driver's side just wouldn't go back up again or would even go down by itself once the car was started.
Still not quite understanding the point.

You mentioned even with unlimited amount of energy and power the speed is still capped and limited by Hull Length and Shape.

This reads to me if I could get a Nuclear Fusion reactor in my ship that has 10 times the power my Max Speed would still be the same. This doesn't sound right to me.
I dunno. I read about this when this article was posted before and totally forgot about it until just now. Then again, I don't have a lot of stuff with images of butterflies. I do have a friend who is obsessed with them who I sent the same article. I wonder if it's stuck with her.
New approaches shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality
The Beatles: Firstly, you don't know what I know from my youth. Please argue the point, not your presumption of my personality. He talks about them as the heros of "our generation". They weren't. The musical heros of that generation (in the sense of being the leaders of that time) included the ones I've mentioned. The tone is nostalgic and rockist, as dull and unimaginative as his tone when talking about coding.

Every generation reinvents stuff, and adds new inventions of its own. People shouldn't just dismiss new creators as inferior out of some chronological quirk, just because those people were born at a later time, or because low-hanging fruit are gone. It's exactly the same condescending and arrogant tone that consigns all young creative people to being "unlucky" to have been born when they are.

Ironically, the Beatles - and the tech wizards of the past never listened to that moaning nonsense either from their own older rose-tinted, time-locked colleagues, they just got on and changed the world.
Initial discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15357584
If, as many have speculated, OP has signed a contract making this work the employer's property, then I would guess that it is not open source and never was - it would be like OP declaring the work he did in his day job as open source, and then making it public.
Not sure how I vote is relevant to the conversation.
I have made this one https://www.colorsandfonts.com
There's also many different IT departments on a campus in my experience. I've never worked in a physics department that interacts with campus IT. It's either great or terrible.
Zorin OS Is the Alternative to Windows and macOS
Reactor-grade uranium isn't sufficient either. It's enriched to a maximum of 20% U235. A bomb requires over 90%, and getting to that requires the same kind of enrichment facilities you'd need if you started from uranium ore.

But fission reactors also produce plutonium. Using that is another possibility, but you need very pure Pu239. Once the reactor has been running for over three months you start getting a lot of Pu240, which is a serious contaminant for bomb fuel. Separating those is not currently feasible.

So one expedient for nuclear ships would be to run the reactors a few months in secure conditions before putting them to sea. Reactor-grade plutonium is still rigorously controlled, because it might be possible to make it explode, but nobody has ever done it.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
Why Can't I Ping My Router?
Interesting thought.

How is GIMP coming along these days?

Any other open source projects people recommend?
^This. I don't understand everyone in this thread complaining that it's hard to update a direct dependency. You literally just pip install it and "pip freeze > requirements.txt" again.

In my experience, the issues come around when you try to build envs cross-platform. There are a lot of dependencies that have missing versions or bugs for certain platforms. This is not a pip/venv problem though--it is more of a python problem.
The Diffie-Hellman protocol was published in 1976. Why some places still rely on passwords more than 40 years later is beyond me.
The best way to get realistic pictures of butterflies is to use a camera. As a kid I had a fascination with collecting butterflies, and would chase them with a net and kill them. Once I grew up I realized the pictures were much better.
I think if Mumble ever had a web client it would be a game changer. I have not used anything other than Discord for voice chat since it came out. Unless at a company setting where other tools are appropriate due to culture.
The problem is exactly with you having `python3` but not `python`. The convention is to use them both only if you have both Python versions 2 and 3; otherwise there should always be a `python` command on your system. If you insist on having only `python3` you will keep running into problems.

My recommendation is to either create an alias for `python3`, or even better use `pyenv`: https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
The IG Report on 2016 FBI Spying Reveals a Scandal of Historic Magnitude
You don’t need to convince republicans, you need to convince moderates who can be persuaded to vote one way or the other in a given election. In the context of a general election, we’re talking about thousands of people in a handful of states. I’m struggling with how the idea of “condescension isn’t persuasive” is finding so much friction here.
> some browsers even then did not send Referer headers reliably

Apart from https/http thing mentioned elsewhere in this thread, there's also Referrer-Policy [1]. I don't know how wide-spread its use is, but I find that most requests I get have no referrer header these days.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Refere...
Securing network access to IPv6 docker containers
Because they are free to choose to not work for a company that has such an IP clause in its employee contract. They are also free to negotiate a change to that clause.
Plenty of other countries have managed to get PR. So, this is a hypothetical objection only.
An Inspector General’s Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke
> The condescending part is that the left views poor people who vote for non-democrats as voting against their self-interest.

Is it condescending if it's true, though?
> as you can .gitignore it

As well as ignore config in codecov, black, flake8, mypy and so on...
> you can't be as fucking god-awful at customer service as Google without something to make up for it

Like near-total dominance in multiple market spaces?

They don't need great customer service or continued innovation to remain absolutely ubiquitous for decades to come.
This comment is unnecessarily antagonistic. The government here doesn't intrude as much on private employment contracts as in Europe. Maybe as a result the salaries in the US are much higher and unemployment rate over time also much lower.
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