skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TA's planes had enormous turning radii. TA's big units were effectively useless because they took far too much resource to build.

Can't these parameters be tweaked somehow? Experimenting with unit parameters was a lot of fun in Tiberian Sun where you could just edit a text file to get whatever you imagine. TA has to store unit parameters somewhere too, perhaps these can be edited with a hex editor.
A more likely scenario is that Google will fund an army of bloggers and lobbyists to create propaganda to make regulators forget the fact that they have a monopoly.
Then Google will keep extracting rents from corporations in return for allowing those corporations to maintain top rankings in Google search results.
In this environment, small companies will struggle to compete for user attention because they cannot afford a large enough advertising budget to be in the top rankings for any significant keyword even at a local level. CPC is prohibitively high.

The Federal Reserve banks of the world keep printing fiat money out of thin air and injecting it into government bonds which governments then spend on enormous consulting contracts and other useless government services offered by these corporations. This 'free money' essentially flowing directly from the Fed to governments to corporations allows corporations to increase their advertising budgets beyond any reasonable economic measure.

Small companies start dying like flies; in this environment which is adverse to small companies (where exposure to customers is prohibitively expensive and where big government contracts are out of reach), big corporations will discover that they can significantly cut back on the quality of their products and use a portion of the savings to further increase their exposure and rankings on Google. This creates a vicious cycle where products keep getting worse, but corporations keep getting stronger and customer acquisition costs keep going up.

Eventually, all small companies are dead. Everyone in the world is employed by a corporation. Governments start introducing laws to allow corporations to fire employees who vote for political candidates which the corporation does not approve. Corporations share data with each other so getting fired from a corporation means instant homelessness for the individual; they will never find a job again. Family members will receive a warning from their own jobs if a relative is fired.

Corporations then move to have the minimum wage abolished. Corporations then start paying employees with accomodation and food instead of money; they make the case that doing so makes the system more efficient overall and that this is for the good of everyone.
It was an okay article with multiple sources until it became a sales pitch for Brave and "will collapse" became "did collapse".
And then, someone went and invented the graphical user interface. So many precious machine cycles wasted rendering graphics for people who are too lazy to use the command line like they are supposed to. Shhheez.
It's the software developers equivalent of virtue signaling.

Some people get outraged that OTHERS use plastic straws, and wiggle the finger at them for being bad persons while pointing at their VIRTUOUS paper straw.

Some programmers get outraged that OTHERS write bloated programs in Python/JavaScript/Electron, and wiggle the finger at them for being bad persons while pointing at their VIRTUOUS C/Assembly/native GUI app.
There’s nothing magical or sacred about a particular medium, but the internet doesn’t contain all human knowledge, it doesn’t contain much of past human knowledge and it rarely preserves knowledge through archival. This is concerning because future generations may give up on history and/or give up on preservation/archival.

i. Try short books at first.

ii. Take frequent breaks (short and sometimes device-free days) from glowing screens to reduce dopamine dependency.

iii. Listen to audio book versions.

iv. Read to understand, not to get to the end by skimming.

v. Try epaper ebook readers that are less stimulating and more like books. This can be an easier way to make books portable and compact.

Here’s a short one, read or listen to Smedley Butler’s book [0, 1].

0. ebook version: https://books.google.com/books?id=trl4DwAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...

1. audio book version: https://archive.org/details/war_is_a_racket_1903_librivox/wa...

Another book I would recommend is Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (1542) which has been translated into English as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. It’s a must read to know the scale of the Spanish rape, pillaging and genocide of native American and imported African slaves.

I also go to libraries to see what they have for physical and electronic checkout. And, frequent the torrent sites to look for video courses and good book / audiobook packs. It also takes curiosity and critical thinking to actively seek out, discover and evaluate works of others.

I would also recommend reading important and banned books like Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, The Bible, The Quran, The Communist Manifesto, Heart of Darkness, Brave New World, Catch-22, Crime and Punishment, Howl, Fahrenheit 451, The Satanic Verses, Ulysses, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and so on. Especially important is to re-read them every 10-20 years, because your outlook on life will change with the seasons of life, you will find these works appear different than you remembered and you will get more out of them because you have more life experiences.
Cybertruck promises 6 seats at $39,900.

Minivan is the next obvious incarnation of EV.
Nope, I must not be searching for the right keyword or acronym.
'Get on and go ' No bus fare needed anymore on Olympia transit system
I expect climate change will look more like Y2K than the black plague. If anything the increase in precipitation, higher temperatures, longer growing season and CO2 concentration will help humanity more than it hurts with mass afforrestation and better crop yields.
Obviously also check out the show "Manhattan"
"Most western people are very negative about countries like Iran, China and Russia because they are the 'bad guys'."

All these countries are not really a problem. Yet, the US has the most corrupt, the most rotten country in the world, Saudi Arabia, as an ally.
I think BitTorrent is a very 2000's/early 2010's technology. That's when it feels like it peaked, at least. The future is probably more toward WebTorrents [0] (with WebRTC) and IPFS [1]. And those have great cross platform libraries.

[0] https://webtorrent.io/

[1] https://ipfs.io/
SES sending email pricing:

> $0.10 per 1,000

I don't think a single send email API counts as "vendor lock-in".
this "root" cause analyze everything but how the fire started. was it not there an investigation to find out the ignition source? even if the source wasn't found, why isn't there an investigation report about that?

root cause cannot be "a confusing panel light" simply because without ignition that alone would not have caused the incident to happen, so I'm not sure if this is trying to take us reader as stupid or it's conflating root and aggravating on purpose.
Virtue signaling. Generating outrage works and raises your profile as a righteous one.
> they could have optimized away theoretically.

For a hello-world program, this is true, you do not need any of the features that usually come in the language runtime - no garbage collection, no runtime memory safety, no runtime introspection, et cetera. This stems directly from the fact that many of these languages have borrowed features from Lisp, which has the whole language (GC, compiler, debug functions, etc..) always available for the code.

And that, considering your point of view, might be a feature, not a bug - especially if your program, having a runtime of its own, actually produces its own stacktrace, allows you to interactively inspect values of variables throughout the stack, and - in case of some runtimes - is capable of opening up its own debugger for you to perform introspection and issue analyzing in.
Except any sound before the initial explosion would be impossible. The meteor would be traveling faster than the speed of sound, the first thing felt or heard by anyone would be the light and heat of the explosion followed by the shockwave.

When anything combustible is aerosolized and mixed with oxygen, it allows it to explode. This is how thermobaric explosives work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion

Gunpowder doesn't need oxygen, but it burns instead of exploding. If there was an initial set of fires and smaller explosions that dispersed unburned gunpowder and wood/grain dust into the sky, once it was dispersed a flash could have spread through the dust cloud and created a huge explosion as described. This theory would explain both the initial disturbances and the huge explosion at the end, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere.
test.c compiles to 6 kilobytes on my Linux Mint machine... how did he get it to compile to more than 2 megabytes?
When you have unlimited money from investors and your strategy is to engage in price dumping with that unlimited money, it will work well.

Has nothing to do with moving fast and breaking things though.
You just keep telling yourself that. Doing nothing is the easiest thing, and no one will blame you, personally, after.
Reading something by someone who is passionate about and an expert at the craft of writing — be it literature (which has special pleasures and gifts of its own), or nonfiction.

It is a unique way to learn about another persons interior universe and gain additional perspective on the world.

It is still the case, I believe, that the very best writers publish their writing in print — books or reputable magazines.

Obviously they are online too but more are in print.

And if you consider works which are seminal in their field or have withstood the test of time —— print.

Lastly there are studies showing that our brains process information differently when reading from a book Or magazine (or even a printed out PDF, probably) because of the physical interaction occurring along with the mental one (or something like that).

There are definitely people who find it easier to learn in other ways and that is totally legit.

If you haven’t tried though you should give it a shot.
As user dvt mentioned, this is built using bookdown[1], an R library (with the help of Pandoc). You can see that the example chapter of this book looks exactly like the bookdown output[2]. The bookdown PDF explains in detail how to use Rmd+RStudio+R+Pandoc+Markdown to publish this.

[1]: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/
[2]: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/bookdown.pdf
This New York Times article covers the same information and much more, including nifty animations and a detailed timeline of the events: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/world/europe/...

I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about this disaster, it's a much better article than the Sologic analysis linked here, which sounds kind of like a sales pitch (in my opinion).
Those ancient people without stable homes also didn't get education or jobs beyond basic skills and tribal fighting. A hostile childhood environment is probably useful for making hostile tough men who can survive in a hostile world. But not for a happy life in civilization.
As a torrent newb, what's the tldr on on why webtorrent over BitTorrent?
Add the size of all the dynamic libraries that your executable depends on - which most likely means glibc, the C runtime.
The problem with your perspective is an economic one. If you have the chops to be a hybrid TW/SWE, you will never take a tech writing job (or get out of tech writing as soon as you can) because tech writers simply make substantially less than engineers. Everyone acknowledges that tech writing is vital but until the pay story reflects that the status quo will persist.
I worked on designing and implementing a data architecture at a FAANG. One of the things we found worked well was bringing documentation as close as possible to source - that way, making changes to one but not the other has a high rate of getting caught during code reviews and documentation stays in sync. The challenge with this approach was then accessibility for non technical customers who don’t care for nor have reason to look at source. Instead of building documentation pages, we leveraged a system that was a registry of datasets, individual columns, use cases, and sample queries... it was tricky to get right but we implemented a pipeline where documentation from code would get propagated to this system automagically.

In terms of general technical writing, style is less of a concern I have. The real challenge is writing efficiently to convey sufficient information to the audience, without staying too high level but also not providing too many details. I often suffer from writers blockz
A few things here:

> It is important for mentors and others looking to implement solutions for Black students to come from within our own communities. Studies have shown that students do better in class and have less disruptive behaviour when educators look like them, and mentorship is no exception.

Well this completely goes against the narrative that more diversity in schools is good. If people are literally biologically wired to be racist (at least in some sense of the word) and now people are advocating that blacks are taught by blacks and whites are taught by whites as a solution to the diversity problem then that's a little worrying.

On a more controversial note though, I also wonder why we expect peoples who have evolved separately for thousands of years with significant genetic variations to preform equally. There was an article by the New York Times recently that discuses why Ashkenazi Jews tend to perform out preform academically: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/opinion/jewish-culture-ge...

Unfortunately from the reading I've done on this topic, it does seem the author is probably right that there is a genetic element to all of this. Obviously it's not what people want to hear and the author was predictably slammed for writing it, but most intelligence researchers would agree that genetic plays a large role in intelligence and again, unfortunately, not all groups preform equally.

It does seem possible that part of the explanation as to why Whites and Blacks under preform East Asians and Ashkenazi Jews academically is simply genetics. And if that's the case, do we allow the best to rise to the top, or do we discriminate against Jews and Asians as the author proposes by segregating education or, as something universities do, discriminate against applicants based on race.

I'm sure I'll get down voted for but this won't get better until we start recognising and addressing certain realities.
The largest PEPCON explosion was about 1 kiloton: (1m37s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGSx54CkWsQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster
Billionaires don't cause the climate change. If you kill all the billionaires, there will be zero difference. If you kill all non-billionaires, you have an immediate solution to all the problems in the article.
> governments don't have a reliable way to authenticate their citizens today

Yours might not but mine (Norway) seems to work quite well.
Right? Right? It was like playing chords on a piano, or maybe like those rows of buttons on an accordion. Top row F keys, feh!
Show HN: Wake word / hotword detection for Node.js
Yeah...no

Culture is generational, it doesn't exist in a specific individual.

Considering African Americans are still discriminated against everywhere, they never had time to develop a strong local culture.
Sure, and several dozen other languages. That's really what it is - the lowest common denominator that almost every language can work with.
You can't make bias go away just by speaking its name.
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Ask HN: What are you working on this decade?
A bit dated and sensationalist, but still has some good points.

Maybe Google won’t collapse outright, but they are facing challenges on a lot of fronts. Everything from employees unionising, antitrust legislation both at home and abroad, massive loss-leaders like YouTube, and advertising market challenges.

Worst of all is probably the reputational damage. They used to be the darling of technologists everywhere, but countless privacy- and monopolist scandals have taken their toll. There’s a growing anti-Google sentiment, and once lost, reputation is hard to recover.
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> If you get told you are rolling off, don't take it personal

What do you mean by "rolling off" here?
LTT did a video testing out different cleaning methods - Surprisingly keyboards in dishwasher with modern keyboards was safe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgnF42ZoRSw
Taskflow closed β ver is released
For this complex system, I guess the best way to minimize catastrophe is to have several guards independently checking the alert (away from each other) and sending a unique person to investigate.

Best case, a bunch of people end up at the right place. Worst case, no one ends up at the right place. Most likely case, at least one person ends up at the right place.

This increases costs, but for situations where mistakes can be catastrophic, it's probably wise to bear the cost.
FWIW the word "collapse" appears 7 times in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
The majority of people are disarmed and happy to be defenseless because "Won't someone think of the murdered children in schools!".

>Egalitarianism has meant a lack of luxury relative to what was possible at the time, but a better baseline for the population as a whole.

[[citation needed]]

The population of China was larger than any of the time and the majority lived in poverty so great the Europeans who visited were shocked by it.
Don't make assumptions. I have both an electric car and a 7kw solar system on my home. Not because I'm saving the world or smelling my own farts, but because it makes economic sense. That is the reason, the only reason, climate change will be solved.
That you are supposedly informed makes this worse, because if true, you know ISIS/Al-Qaeda have zero chances of prospering in Iran yet still made that argument.

Anyway, as I said, the US never did intend to overthrow the regime, so that scenario isn't relevant - unless the Iranian people make a go for it, but that's not up to us.

As for the regime being weak, the key point is that the regime's military counter-pressure plan has failed.

All the wild attacks you cite are tactical victories but strategical failures - they have failed to affect the sanctions or even world oil prices (barring small insignificant blips), yet have led much of the world to see Iran as a threat.

By shooting and failing to win, the regime lost the deterrent value of these threats. When the US showed it is not afraid to escalate, Iran lost that threat too.

What's left? Continuing a strategically failed campaign? Massive escalation, which will lead to the regime getting crushed?

Another important point to remember is that Suleimani wasn't just a general, but the de facto vice-Supreme Leader, the one leader with significant popularity the regime had. It's a huge domestic loss.
I find the act of reading a book from start to finish over a period of time is a good deal. There is definite progress toward a goal, you generally learn something and books are portable and generally cheap.

It's also a decent way of exploring something without distraction and to a guided level of depth. Usually by the end of it you have a feel on how deep you want to continue and what aspects you don't understand. Depth vs breadth is usually more easily traded off each other after you've read one or more books on the subject.
I wonder which marketing genius decided to rename "name mangling" to "name decoration", and who they thought that lie would fool.

Undecorated name Decorated name
int a(char){int i=3;return i;}; ?a@@YAHD@Z
void __stdcall b::c(float){}; ?c@b@@AAGXM@Z

OK, Microsoft.
You’re my nightmare scenario for humanity. The frightening part is you probably think you’re well informed and educated.
Sure it can. Samesite cookies will prevent e.g. Google Analytics from identifying me between domains, since any samesite cookies they set for the domain from which they’re serving their script/pixel won’t be sent. (Presumably tracking prevention will eventually start to block cookies with samesite disabled).
Sorry, I missed that completely. You’re right on all counts. Thank you for the clarification and your reference :-)
I'd imagine it's much more likely that Brave will collapse.
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I think cars are fine, probably one of the greatest aspects of the modern human experience. I think all this “cars are horrible” talk is just edgy millennials who are now parents, worried about their out of control and highly distracted children. They’ve got their life in a situation that they can do without a car and as a result think that everyone else should do without too.
A really good book has a sense of permanence and speciality to it that outlasts typical online content.

Philosophy and mathematics books, for example, tend to exist outside time because they are dealing with fundamental unanswerables and constructions of assumption, not "extent of our knowledge" empirical observations as with science. If their thinking is robust, they never go out of date.

History books likewise indulge in rich storytelling about what happened and why. The story is assembled with fact, but filtered through the historiographical lens of the author. There are many niches of history that can only be studied in books. History is easily revised, but each telling can uncover a more "complete" truth.

And fiction, of course, captures the world as a non-factual experience and therefore says the things that can't be said(no words for them, little concept or attention given to them). As a storytelling medium, writing is not everyone's preference, but it is the singular most productive form we have, and so a lot of fiction books express forgotten corners and small whispers of thought.

Given that you have a serious temperament I would recommend starting with very old books from ancient times, since those are the ones least likely to be "obsolete" - power laws being what they are.
I didn’t read the report so I don’t have any opinion, but Texas passed a law concerning racial profiling.

https://police.fortworthtexas.gov/Public/racial-profiling-re...
Makes sense. So closed loop basically means there's a feedback mechanism in place to ensure that the input results in the desired output, or some sufficient proxy thereof.
It fits too well together, not good really, using debt as a systematic driver this way is nothing other than exploitation.
Deepak Chopra's got you covered.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum_woo

How about Quantumorphism? All of the buttons and labels have fuzzy blurry edges, and you can't tell if something is a label or a button without touching it, and the act of touching it changes it.
What is the command used to get total and unique syscalls!? strace wc !?
This is totally just my opinion, but the days of the mainstream consumer having a dedicated torrent client installed on their desktop computer (or even as a phone app) are pretty much over.

But as a streaming technology, torrents are still pretty great. And like it or not, being able to run in browsers is a major advantage right now.
Really important & useful ideas require hundreds of pages to express.