skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The New Yorker's 2013 article, "The Shadow Commander", is excellent and very indepth, and still very relevant today for what Suleimani's death means:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-com...
This is really interesting. Very excited to see the rust results.

I have to ask... What on earth is the story with the regex-redux test? TypeScript beats C?!
https://1password.com/downloads

Windows, Mac, Linux, CLI, supports all major browser and supports filling on iOS (Don't have experience with Android). It's just not open source but it's a pretty great package and I'm using it for a long time already.
Good point, but it is irrelevant to selecting the right tools to document, analyze, record and map.

Astrology can say that your left eyelid will twitch on the seventh day of the waxing moon and it still is a data point.
Can you share the link to the magnetic sensor you use on your garage door? I bought a MyQ[1] and it stopped working after the 11 months.

[1] https://www.myq.com/smart-garage-hub
> There exist good solutions, but none of these companies have the competence or will to actually solve the problem

Could you share what some of the good solutions are? As someone who works in games, (not in anticheat) it's a stretch to say that companies arent competent enough to implement good anticheat.
Is Google Drive faster in Chromebooks? The web version makes me want to rip my hair out.
lol its the 2020s now and we still dont know how to do clothing. WTH , we should already have a known set of fabrics and dyes that just work for any color or feel.
There's also https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass if you want a compatible Go version.
Whenever I go looking online at e-bikes, I'm always dismayed by what seems like artificially inflated pricing. It's difficult to believe that the engineering and manufacturing of most of these bikes justifies their 100+% premium over standard bikes.

There are some very clever e-bikes, and perhaps their prices are reasonable. But there are a lot of bikes which are standard models with an added Bosch motor on the crank and a battery clipped to the frame.
Company shuts down because of ransomware
So.. don't design systems that encourage toxic behaviour?

In the case of WoW, they realized their mistake and ripped out the global PvP ladder over a decade ago.
(initial comment deleted since one part addressed integer 'lanes' instead of the 32-bit FP that's more directly relevant in a comparison with a GPU, and the other part was incorrect.)
> We have waaaay too many overweight/obese people

An e-bike doesn't care if you're overweight or obese. It might reduce range a little bit... But it's not an impediment to riding. Additionally in Denmark one can see a lot of out-of-shape people riding manual (non-electric) bikes. Urban biking does not require athleticism, just as suburban driving does not require the skills of a NASCAR driver.

> there would have to be a sacrifice in terms of automobiles for this to truly work. I find it highly doubtful that Americans would be willing to make that trade

Cities that are investing in better non-automobile infrastructure are seeing people move to other modes of transportation. In many places there's literally no more room to expand highways. That's why voters in places like LA and Seattle are writing billion-dollar checks to build out sustainable transportation infrastructure.

> We talk about how the middle/lower class feels a sense of generational wealth loss, a major push to move people to bicycles from cars would really drive(no pun intended) that message home.

The average American pays about $800/month in auto-expenses. I think I spend an average of $20/month maintaining my bike. All that extra money can be used for whatever your interests might be... eating at interesting restaurants, travel, indulging in a hobby, paying down student loans, etc.
i believe those restrictions are for the same reason. I have a few leading dash hostnames and i only use them for attacking cli tools
Further to that Dell will also have configured it with Linux compatible hardware with solid driver support.

For example, the WiFi and Bluetooth support in dev edition XPS13 is solid.

You’re also paying for OEM firmware updates. I've had several over the life of my XPS13 even though it’s no longer the current model.
I couldn't agree more. For 5 years prior to 2019, I would routinely get excited about building a project. Despite being an experienced Rails developer, I'd spend hours upon hours researching and learning all the latest and greatest tools and languages. I did not even get close to shipping an MVP in all those years. In 2019 I realized enough was enough and started building my ideas with Rails. It has been a joy and I'm close to having my 2nd project up and running.
> No company should send messages containing a url that requires login, payment data or the like. People should go to these places by typing the url or by using their own bookmarks.

Maybe they don't? This wouldn't help here, that's not the company sending the message. For that to work, people have to deeply know and trust the policies and resolve of each of their service providers not to do that - might as well just teach them how links work.
Wow, what a nice and funny story!

Why GlacierMD? You know glaciers tend to melt these days.

You'd be surprised that the dumb and not so noble idea of your buddy with Doppelganger could gain much more traction and make much much more money than your idealistic thing... this is usually the thing.

People are attracted more to fun than to pragmatic usefulness.

You feel almost like a martyr who wanted to save the world, but nobody understood you. I am very sorry and I see great value in your idea, but looks like people don't want to consume that.

Indeed, why would a medical practice want to completely cure the patient and never see them again?

Really fun read and with lots of useful references.
It's really odd, their 2018 revenue is reported at 2.3B (though as a private company, I don't know how one gets believable numbers).

https://www.forbes.com/companies/frys-electronics/#469688c75...
> These are tools and approaches that we had in past games and while they are not perfect, they are better than these black box invasive anticheat solutions born from a desire to avoid giving community control to users.

There are still games with votekick/ban. They work for cheaters, but the collateral damage that comes with votekick/ban is far, far greater than anticheat wave bans.

People votekick for very petty reasons and people often reflexively vote yes on the assumption that the votekick is done in good faith.
> Why? Because Ethereum isn’t just a store-of-value. The Ethereum network also contains smart contracts that execute native code on the blockchain.

It's funny when things are presented this way. Ethereum was never intended to be a store of value. It's a distributed computer that needs its own token economy in order to charge "hosting costs" to the computational agents running on it, and to allow those agents to trade work done for other agents for transfer of "hosting costs."

Ethereum would still be doing what it's designed to do, even if the price of ETH tanked. (In fact, dapp developers would probably prefer ETH to tank, since that'd mean transactions would be cheaper and less crowded by speculative traders and selfish miners.)
Ha! I’m sure many a proud Brummie would disagree. Glasgow also has roughly 1m.
Perhaps they are all the same thing ;)

Skepticism is important to keep discussion grounded, and I appreciate the level headed discussion. To me, finding something that breaks our understanding of reality is just as interesting and worth pursuing aggressively regardless of which of the above explanations is most correct.
The ars technica writeup does not mention the most significant upgrade of all in my opinion: 32GB RAM in February. See https://bartongeorge.io/2020/01/01/introducing-the-2020-xps-...
Austrians use bicycles a lot more rigorously, but there is still a resistance to 'being told to wear a helmet' .. alas, it only takes one fall to demonstrate convincing evidence for why one should always, always, always wear a helmet.
for the endpoint itself, consider switching to syslog so you get a bunch of stuff for free (auto-rotations, docker logging, ...) and more easy to change decisions later (pipe to splunk/elk/...). it's thought out and pretty easy!
It depends on the bike and on your condition. A normal cheap road bike weighs about 12 kg and an e-bike 22-24 kg. So riding the e-bike without e-assist is like riding a normal bike while being 10kg overweight (20 pounds maybe?) or like loading a bike with 10kg of cargo. It's doable, but is a lot heavier.

But there are also top of line electrified road bikes which are almost (almost!) like the road bikes they use in Tour de France but with an engine strapped onto them. They weigh about 11-13 kg and you'd have no trouble riding them without the assist. Of course those aren't cheap...

40 mile trips (60km?) are doable on e-bikes, but you'd have to conserve the battery. Like turning off the assist on flat terrain and only using it for riding uphill. Since you have a display indicating how much charge there's left you won't all of a sudden run out of power.
It's just how Chinese fiction is. My spouse has a master's degree in Chinese pedagogy, so I've had more exposure than most to Chinese ideas and fiction.
> They have 16 SIMD registers.

AVX-512 has 32 SIMD registers.
> Anticheat is generally not understood to mean manual reports as best as I can tell. Its the well anticheat software

That's the thing though. Good games (CS comes to mind) do have some sort of ability to have human intervention.

Building a hack that can't be detected isn't easy, but it's also not _that_ hard with determination.
No, but we should have a tax on sugar that offsets the cost of sugar-related illnesses like diabetes and obesity. Let people make their own decisions, but don't socialize the costs of substances we know are harmful like sugar and drugs.

This solution has many virtues. It discourages harmful behavior without being paternalistic. It comprehensively prevents an entire class of free-rider problems. It prevents people feeling like they're subsidizing another's bad behavior because everybody knows the smoker is paying their way.
Maybe you could open source it, and with the help of people from the community get sort of grant from Google or Amazon or say digital ocean so that this could work without you having to pay for servers? All the work that contractors were doing, people could do that for free. The only thing is I’d license this thing so that it can’t be used commercially (except for research)
MBA's aren't to blame for everything.

Margins used to be skyhigh on electronics. Things were new and hot and changing rapidly. People didn't know a whole lot about what they were buying, they needed educated. And it required educated staff, and the margins were high enough to afford them.

Electronics are mostly a commodity now. There's less of a difference now between a TV store and a shoe store.
Restaurant prices are based on the cost of real estate. Cheaper places assume more tables per square foot and more turns per table. Prices are based on average spend per cover.

$12 glasses of wine seems more than reasonable for NYC, especially since natural wine often comes in at a higher cost than mass produced wine.
Chrome to show error codes, similar to Windows BSOD screens
Bootlegging as an industry led to a lot of other crimes. I also think most of us here are glad it happened. It was a natural social response to an unnatural restriction in freedom.
You'll see more and more of this. The Porsche Taycan makes a fake noise at low speed.

The Audi e-Tron does the same. I walked by one the other day that was reversing out of a parking spot and it sounded extremely strange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUcbXplAvSc
More than 400 restaurants closed throughout San Francisco during 2019
Some hacks do run games inside a 'container' or VM because the host machine just modifies the guests memory from the outside.

(Take this with a grain of salt, I have heard some very expensive hacks work like this through word of mouth)
Measure not by how we treat other humans. Measure by how we treat animals who interfere with us or are perceived as a threat.

Most of them are extinct.
I have a middrive (BBS02) on a mountain bike and it absolutely sucks with a dead battery. You're not going to pedal much faster than 10MPH and it will be with decent effort unless you regularly cycle for exercise.
I was around, just barely — had my first startup job in early 2000.

There certainly were a lot of bad companies without meaningful revenue seeking and getting investments, just like today.

But if you'd invested only in profitable small software companies doing 15% growth back in 2000, I think you'd have done well.
Truly written by a non-disabled twentysomething in Southern California who gets his groceries by delivery service.

Don't get me wrong, I bike every day there's no ice on the streets and really enjoy driving those Uber e-bikes too, but seriously: any mobilty solution that's aimed as a "revolution" can't go around people with disabilities, heavy rain, northern winters, multiple kids, 10km+ commuters, elderly people and transportation of more than 10kg of cargo.

If you're coming with cargo bicycles, you haven't tried parking one in an "already-convinced" city, also go read the above sentence again.
Sure, but that's not the whole story -- the OP would also need to be okay with changing the idea drastically where and when required. As other people have noted in this thread, not much effort was made when talking to the doctors to find out what problem they do have, and no mention is made of ever even showing this product to consumers.

The fatal flaw here was building a product "in secret" and not launching soon enough.
> I travel to Japan regularly

Sorry for prying, but I'm curious. Is this for business? Do you plan your flights around travel sales? How's your Japanese?

I'm asking because I'd like for similar arrangements.
Browsers Are Interesting Again
When the retaliation comes, more Americans are going to need 'dem' electric cars. In any case, Souleimans' value was not only military. He was a formidable politician as well. His achievements far outstripped that of the US agents. One example :

... the crucial deal that brought the Iraqi government together was made not by them but by Suleimani. In the months before, according to several Iraqi and Western officials, Suleimani invited senior Shiite and Kurdish leaders to meet with him in Tehran and Qom, and extracted from them a promise to support Maliki, his preferred candidate. The deal had a complex array of enticements. Maliki and Assad disliked each other; Suleimani brought them together by forging an agreement to build a lucrative oil pipeline from Iraq to the Syrian border. In order to bring the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in line, Suleimani agreed to place his men in the Iraqi service ministries.

Most remarkable, according to the Iraqi and Western officials, were the two conditions that Suleimani imposed on the Iraqis. The first was that Jalal Talabani, a longtime friend of the Iranian regime, become President. The second was that Maliki and his coalition partners insist that all American troops leave the country. “Suleimani said: no Americans,” the former Iraqi leader told me. “A ten-year relationship, down the drain.”

Iraqi officials told me that, at the time of Jeffrey’s announcement, the Americans knew that Suleimani had pushed them out of the country but were too embarrassed to admit it in public. “We were laughing at the Americans,” the former Iraqi leader told me, growing angry as he recalled the situation. “Fuck it! Fuck it!” he said. “Suleimani completely outmaneuvered them, and in public they were congratulating themselves for putting the government together.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-com...
Also worth a read:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/quasim-soleimani...
One of the things about the Middle East is that politics and diplomacy are intensely personal. It is less about the office and more about the person. Suleimani spent decades cultivating all sorts of relationships throughout the region and that will be sorely missed by Iran.
Quadrantid Meteor Shower
> but how could they justify putting those kind of resources behind a game like BFV?

Presumably to fulfill their end of their transactions? It’s not like the game is free; presumably you’re paying for something.
I completely agree. Ironically, centralization has not helped them move faster.

They won’t have usable group messaging without proper “mentions only” notifications. I’ve tried to explain so many times on the forum that they don’t need usernames for this. Just allow us to configure our own list of keywords we want to be notified of.

It’s very frustrating to keep up with the development of the apps. I wouldn’t recommend it.
- political philosophy merges with cognitive sciences and it will be scientifically demonstrated that some political philosophies are nothing more than mental illnesses

- epigenetics merges with cybernetics and it becomes possible to backup people's epigenome for later when they aren't as healthy as in their previous epigenome, in case for example of cancer or in case of degenerative cognitive disorder or heart disease and so on and this backup can reactivate previous version of the epigenome.

- an increase in revenue generation opportunities on social networking websites

- Christian faith is the fastest growing religious beliefs in the world

- growth and domination of nuclear power generation

- creation of first human like level of general artificial intelligence but that stagnates at human like level of cognition because more advanced levels of cognition can't find product market fit.
> I know quite a lot of Lisp-y coders (most of them do Clojure these days) and they don't understand how/why you would ever use anything else

Because Lisps emphasize data more than the syntax.
The following quote is from Rich Hickey's famous: "Simple Made easy" talk:

Syntax, interestingly, complects meaning and order often in a very
unidirectional way. Professor Sussman made the great point about data versus
syntax, and it's super true. I don't care how many you really love the
syntax of your favorite language. It's inferior to data in every way.
Not that simple given their sole California location in Tustin has been doing quite well. Fry's imploding has only made it even more popular.
You're completely ignoring the difficulty mechanism in Bitcoin. When everyone has a 1TH/s miner that consumes 1kWh and suddenly a 10TH/s miner that consumes 1kWh comes out everyone is going to switch to the new miner. Because Bitcoin guarantees that a block is mined every 10 minutes it has to make the calculation 10x harder than before. The end result? The energy consumption didn't change.

What makes Bitcoin more energy intensive then? The price of Bitcoin. When the price of Bitcoin doubles that also means the mining profit doubles. More miners (= more energy consumption) join the blockchain until the profit margin is back to the previous level. The price of a Bitcoin is 70x higher than the price of Ethereum so that suggests that Bitcoin should use 70x more energy.
It annoys me as well, and I think the intent is that "just build the product" is about avoiding shaving the yak.

Some of us poor bastards have to invent the stupid things that let people get things done, and it isn't exactly clear that the stupid thing is even good in the first place.

For instance, right now, I am in the process of inventing my own programming language. I've done this in the past with varying degrees of technical success, but it tends to get deep into the weeds of shaving the yak and polishing it up.

I'm have a hell of time to pull myself from the technically interesting problems to focus on the product that this language enables, and I find myself having to balance between fixing the language idioms and building the product.

Balance will be a key thing to focus on if I make this product a real thing for real customers... very challenging future ahead of myself.
What I’ve Learned from Elizabeth Gilbert about Merging Inner and Outer Journeys
No, the moment you are diagnosed with a chronic or life threatening disease, your premiums no longer cover the medical cost. Otherwise what is the point of insurance. Moreover, many regulations prevent them from raising future premiums. So kicking you off the insurance plan or letting you die is indeed their primary concern
Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment
Is there any book which has more than a passing mention of BERT?
Berkeley Logo 6.1
http://archive.is/ZlWje
Proof of Stake has a separate set of problems to worry about than Proof of Work. It's a solution to some of the scaling problems, but at the expense of some security.

As with all engineering, it's a set of tradeoffs.
> “And that isn’t worth something? Prescribing better treatments?”

> “Hmmmm,” she said, picking at her fingernails. “Not directly. Of course I always have the best interests of my patients in mind, but, you know, it’s not like they’ll pay more if I prescribe Lexapro instead of Zoloft. They won’t come back more often or refer more friends. So I’d sorta just be, like, donating this money if I paid you for this thing, right?”

I've never seen such a concise indictment of the American healthcare model.
1. VR/AR finally become a thing as the tech becomes small enough, powerful enough, and wireless enough to be a good UX. Facebook's investment in Oculus pays off as Oculus becomes their main profit center, and we transition to a Ready Player One reality.

2. The world faces increasingly alarming & extreme weather disasters. The damage will be utterly devastating and start to really hurt economies. Governments will still be inept at managing these crises. People who have the means will move to lower-risk areas like the Pacific Northwest, driving up real estate prices. Those who are poorer will suffer from homelessness. There will be massive encampments like we've never seen before of displaced families.

3. MDMA and psilocybin will be legalized for medical use and will revolutionize mental health care for depression and PTSD. Which is great because we'll all need a lot of mental health care.

4. Trump loses his re-election bid and ultimately flees the country to avoid consequences as the world closes in on him. He loses his US assets but is given safe passage by a foreign power he has had corrupt dealings with.

5. CRISPR is touted as the tech of the decade as it cures a major disease and appears to have incredible potential. At least one nation violates international ethical standards in their experimentation with CRISPR, igniting a debate over whether we have opened a pandora's box. There are protests and our CRISPR anxiety is evident in pop culture.

6. Americans finally catch on to the bidet/washlet craze thanks to an incredibly effective viral ad campaign.

7. Learning Chinese in school becomes more common because China has become the dominant world superpower. India rises to second, and US falls to third.

8. Bitcoin will cost $500k+ per coin, having peaked at 100-150k by 2022 and 500k+ by 2026. There will be a Silicon Valley-esque tv comedy about rich crypto bros that everyone hate-watches.

9. There will be a major pandemic that scares the shit out of everyone because we are woefully unprepared for it.

10. We're all going to become preppers by the end of the decade because there will be so many potential existential threats.

11. Water will become a lot more expensive, driving major innovation around desalinization.

12. Lab meat will have it's first big success a la the Impossible Burger as clean/lab meat tech becomes commercially available. There will be a thriving DIY culture around growing meat at home.