skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a slightly different take on it. From what I have seen, conspiracy theorists, some of them at least, will see snippets of truth and will start to fill in the blanks. Their methods of communication are usually filled in with passion and emotion. The end result often looks "crazy", but has bits of truth that have to be sifted out. I've learned to pay attention to some of the nutters, because they may not really be entirely nuts. Rather, they may have serotonin balance issues and communication problems. I have found more often than not that they were right more or less, at least partially. Alex Jones is actually a prime example of this. Most of the things he has espoused for many years have actually turned out to be true, but when he communicates these ideas, he sounds really out there. I personally know a couple people just like him. It's the same story. They see a series of events. They try to put them together and are usually just a little off base. The real problem is how they convey the picture. I find that I have to calm them down and "bring them back to earth" to find out what they really saw.
I just bought both MOO I and II as a bundle on GOG for $2.09. Well worth it! (it's on sale from $5.99 at the moment)

https://www.gog.com/game/master_of_orion_1_2
i know what im making tomorrow morning...

i have a cheaper rice cooker that isnt "non-stick" like the one pictured. May have to mix separately and then spray the pan.

Anyone made these like this before? Any tips, hints to look out for?
His book How Will You Measure Your Life? is a really great read (all his books are great).

Here is a good summery of his theory of disruptive innovation:
https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/4-keys-to-understanding-cla...
Prove it, or cite something credible. Business stance on the EU and Brexit has optimism at an all time low.
I'm hesitant to adjust my thinking because the alternatives are far from acceptable. I have an inherent distrust of authority to give them the power to regulate, and I would hope that those paying attention to the unequal application of law would have similar views. Do you really want the same government that gave Epstein his weekends only jail sentence for his convicted (convicted, not alleged like in many cases) crimes to also be in control of what information is allowed? I'd settle for conspiracy theorist any day of the week.
That guy is using server side blazer which doesn't use wasm. And his experiences aren't normal.
"little predictive power". Okay. Within 2 votes, the senate's verdict will be in favor of Trump, 55-45.

"1 of 2 parties is just corrupt" lol ok
> 4x in space, though, somehow defies the rule that adding 'in space' to anything makes it better.

A 4x game on land automatically has to represent terrain. That immediately brings our intuitive associations to the fore: mountains are impassable, hills are good for mining and defense, and you need ships to cross water.

A 4x game "in space" has to do without native terrain, and certainly without terrain that is automatically intuitive. The Plasma Storm Nebula is a creation (or not) out of whole cloth, with no natural rules beyond what the game designers impart.

That's a more complicated design space, and at the same time it's not immediately, emotionally engaging for the player in the same way that playing on Earth is.
Both Alex Jones and Hacker News are concerned about toxins in the US water supply!
I hadn't thought of it that way. I see your point now.
Giant extrapolation alert. So what's the alternative? Just leave the ISIS beheading video at #1 trending?
Environment variables with fallback to a default value.

They're a super cheap way of

1. allowing feature flags

2. injecting credentials in a way the user thinks about exactly once

3. moving workstation-specific details out of your code repository

They're implemented into the core of most every language in existence (especially shell scripts) and you're probably already using them without knowing. They're (get this) _variables_ for tuning to your _environment_.

Sounds like I'm being sarcastic here (eh, maybe a bit) but it never really hit me until I really dug into the concept.
I find it quite ironic that search engines were working better for me 10 years ago than they do now.
But... money doesn't mean much in Civ 1. The first thing you do is cut the tax rate to the bare minimum, often zero, so that you can route all your trade into science instead.

You need to cover the maintenance costs of your buildings, but any surplus that goes into your treasury becomes nearly worthless -- the things you can spend gold on are garbage compared to science / happiness.
I'm not surprised because I didn't even know that was a thing.
No idea but I’d be curious to know the answer.
Abstaining could have led to the decision being inquorate, therefore it would be seen as obstructive.
You don't need Google. The Internet is fairly decentralized. You can build your small web even today and just block Google via robots.txt, never use it yourself, and link via webrings.

The Internet is very good at overlay networks. Search engines aren't even required. If you want Google's features then they ask that you pay their price. But if you don't want to play with the rest of us, you can host on your own, you can choose to browse via a free web directory you and others like you maintain, and all that.

It's all there for the taking. It's just that the rest of us derive utility from being part of the network that's growing.
The Engineer’s Guide to Career Growth–Advice from My Time at Stripe and Facebook
In HN, there is a link labeled “web” under the title. Open that link in private mode, then click the wsj link.
// I find that “The Innovator’s Dilemma” is applicable to almost all aspects of life.

How is it relevant to life, or business(besides being in a startup or protecting a business from it)?
i was thinking that, too, while reading this. It has been a while since I wrote any Clojure, but I didn't remember ever using `ref-set` with STM.

also, local bindings with `let` were the defacto standard.
Not sure if I will get down-voted with this opinion, blamed for turning a blind eye for a social issue.

But I grew up in Asia (I am Asian). My ethnicity is also a minority there. I came to the US 10 years ago, and had some cultural shock regarding racial and diversity issues.

First, my jokes were mostly offensive to people here. We grew up making jokes about marital status and body image. We told people things like "you're so fat, you need to lose weight", and "why are you still single?" and no one was ever offended. Little did I know that things are different here.

But, the second one was quite surprising. I had a conversation to a female friend. She was telling me that she wanted to go to a business school. I asked why business school, and her another female friend immediately intervened and answered angrily "oh why not? because she is female?" and I was like "what just happened?" because I was confused. That was one instance, and there were other instances where I was accused of "mansplaining". I had to google what that keyword was because I thought I encountered a new English word that I didn't know that I need to add to my vocabulary.

Also during my conversation with (mostly Asian) friends here , they sometimes brought the topic of "Bamboo Ceiling" and I was honestly didn't know what was that about until I googled it.

To be honest (and this is where I think I would be down-voted), I've never experienced such a thing called "Bamboo Ceiling" or I have to be white to be successful (well, the definition of successful varies between people) and I just go on with my life as usual, thinking that such ceiling is just some imaginary ceiling made by my (mostly Asian) friends.

But I do aware of the impact of diversity programs against Asians. We're dime a dozen lol.
if you work with databases, try DataGrip. it's pretty sweet.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uoc--omn0122...
> I have to admit, that at the beginning using brackets was not easy for me. Once I’ve realized that the brackets are just on the other side of the function name, everything was simple and I could code very fast.

A question to fellow Lispers: is there a good reason why LISPs do not put parenthesis they way we know from math? Why `(f foo bar)` and not `f(foo bar)`?
Exactly why these employees should all be provided regular therapy sessions as part of their employment, regardless of whether they've noticed any issues.
They care to the extent they have to.

They signalled earlier that they are not going to align themselves with EU regulatory apparatus - this was to indicate to the EU that they were not going for the 'tight integration' approach, which is important because it was assumed by many this would be the UK position.

The UK is seeking to have an independent regulatory system, obviously, this means many things vis-a-vis relationships with the EU. Many products will naturally have to comply with regulations, just as any UK company selling kit in the US or Brazil has to align their products with those regimes.

But in reality, obviously, this will evolve given any specific advantages that might present themselves.

But it's also impossible to tell what is a 'negotiating posture' vs. what is their real, intended posture, and that's very much on purpose.

My bet is that the end result will be something like NAFTA/USMCA.
Same. I used whatsapp for like 2 months to talk to a single person, my podcast partner that was in Australia and we quit the podcast and I never used it again.

I have 2 contacts that use signal, one is a VC that I've texted one occasion when we were trying to talk on the phone but Fi was being Fi and he could barely hear me.

I have 2 contacts that have Marco Polo installed for video messages, 1 hasn't been online in over a month and the other is my fiance that's currently living 9 hours away so we use it most days just to see each other.

My brother and mother message me exclusively on messenger, as do a half dozen of my friends even though we have each other's numbers.

Everyone else is regular sms/mms.
This is incredibly tragic—Clayton had the courage to leverage data in a very confined setting. A recipe that rarely works in academia (I’m a b-school prof/associate dean). And, all the ingredients to his disruption thesis were already there in his study of the hard-drive industry. His capacity to take that ball and carry it from academia across to the managerial end-zone is a mere pipe-dream for most. For Clayton, it was second nature.

His impact across both scholars and managers alike is—to this day—a singularity.
Oh I see. It said "any changes" so I figured that included DNS. Thanks.
and probably kill themselves off the internet at the same time
Who Wants to Be Relocated in Tech (January 2020)
The pricing is much higher than equally good service that can be had from other companies in other parts of my city, so I consider it overpriced.

But the bigger problem is that you have to scrutinize every billing statement from them, and then when they start charging you for things they shouldn't be (every 2 or 3 months), you have to spend a couple of hours on the phone with them to get it straightened out. Until the next time.
The types of medications prescribed for ADHD tend to make one overconfident. They may stop certain variants of mood swings but do they really make you a more pleasant person to be around? My experience and observations tell me that's unlikely to be the case.
I strongly suggest you learn more about the history of media. Your post has nostalgia for a time that never existed.

You may also wish to consider the notion that your perception of newfound media dishonesty has more to do with a well-known demagogue who has made it a mission to destroy all media outlets that do not fully support him than anything in the media.
Wow. Really. Only we are able to learn from mistakes and we have so much bureaucracy.

We do so much learning, its Yuuge I tell you. No other country learns so great. And our bureaucracy, everyone is jealous of it, it is so highly, so much red tape. Nobody has that much red tape.

https://qz.com/1790253/the-usda-is-recalling-more-unsafe-mea...

Lol
Orbit can be both higher and lower, actually, any deltaV except purely in the axis of movement will result in exactly that.

Yes. you can accelerate away from the Earth and have a lower periapsis (conversely, you can accelerate towards the Earth and have a higher apoapsis). The only way you can maintain the same periapsis is by accelerating in the same direction you're going. Highly impossible in an explosion.

Also note, it is impossible to raise periapsis in a single event (or single time frame), except by leaving Earth orbit entirely (i.e. eject to planetary space)
I fear that if I voiced the opinion I hold of my dear government, I shall be voted down into oblivion for gratuitous use of colourfully explicit language, and rightfully so. The only comfort that is given me, is that this stain on European politics stands out slightly less for being in some equally abysmal company, which unfortunately is another source of pain all by itself. I wish our politicians were the only paragons of stupidity and corruption, so that the European community as a whole would put them in their place. Alas, we're not the only flower in the bunch that stinks.

It seems the most prominent use the EU is regularly put to, is as a scapegoat to blame for bad laws. These are sponsored and promoted by cabals of national governments on the European level, in order to shirk their responsibility to their sovereigns, the national voters.
This is just anecdote:I have two houses with Comcast: one in Palo Alto and one in the sierras. The one in the sierras is pretty fast though had lots of multi-hour outages that stopped a couple of years ago.

The one in Palo Alto goes out a couple of times a week and is quite slow.

Luckily they haven't implemented the mooted usage caps: last year I was traveling for a few months but somehow managed to transfer tens of GB over the network in the sierras, according to Comcast's site.

They have a lot of good network engineers but the work at the edge is inferior.
It's missing my favorite concurrency construct: immutable, persistent data structures. I was initially interest in Clojure for things like STM, but found most of my concurrency problems are amenable to immutable data. You can certainly use this technique in other languages, but it tends to be higher effort.
> had already protected their domain with a “registrar lock,” a service that requires the registrar to confirm any requested changes with the domain owner via whatever communications method is specified by the registrant.

Wrong. That is not true. Although some registrars might 'confirm any requested change' that is neither ubiquitous or required by ICANN etc.
The biggest part of the experiment that has failed is our government run school system, so maybe we fix that rather than give the government more control.
It's worse than that.

I have a LinkedIn Premium account, and despite that, one month it decided I'm a power searcher who must upgrade to the next level (2.5x more expensive).

My searching is only limited to looking up companies I might want to work for, and browsing what kinds of people work there, or in some cases, looking at people who have already messaged me, and from there their company.

I guess I'm just too curious.
I'm trying to find out about other EU countries' implementation, but so far it looks no one's doing much.

Germany has a proposal that I doubt will go anywhere, but who knows, maybe they will, judging by their ignorance of anything Internet related.

Other countries don't seem to have any information available.

I seriously hope Eastern European leaders aren't dumb enough to implement something that would send their online tech sectors to the grave... But again, who knows

Anyone from EU have some information about this?
We procrastinate because a lot of what we do _really_ doesn't truly matter. That thing you're procrastinating probably won't mean jack when you are on your death bed. The conflict is that we feel like that thing should matter and yet we don't want to do it. Which choice is the delusion?

"The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide."
~ Tyler Durden
I don't do a ton of business reading, but Christensen's stuff was top-notch and always on the short-list of recommendations I'd make to others.
> What if Google is just taking credit for clicks on ads just because people would have been searching for that stuff anyway?

This is about incrementality. Google/advertisers are well aware of this fact and have been doing lots of ablation studies to understand advertisement's effectiveness. Don't underestimate the industry; you may spend millions of dollars but not billions of dollars without good justifications.

I don't know the exact numbers (and I wouldn't be able to tell it even if I know it) and it heavily depends on the type of particular ads (e.g. brand ads will show much less incrementality), but the general consensus is that more than half of those ads can take the credit for conversions. Given that conversion tracking and attribution is not perfect, it's fair to take the money.
Doubly unfortunate https://github.com/sctb/lumen
Don't forget Netflix, who is hosting Anti-Vax shows and movies and causing immense harm.
> This is just blatant nonsense and the author of the article clearly has no idea what a powerful static type system is capable of.

A complete non-sequitur. It does not refute the fact that most tools such as debuggers are customized with dynamic languages. The few times statically typed languages are used, it tends to be some kind of managed language where a lot of type info is retained at runtime.

> no idea what a powerful static type system is capable of.

If statically typed languages where so amazing and powerful then they would have been frequently used as extension mechanisms. They are not. Meta-programming also tends to be poorly developed in most statically typed language. The paradigm is just very limiting.

> If you want to get a feel for what structural typing can give you, you don't need to look further than TypeScript

I know structural typing from Go. If you think structural typing is a proper substitute for dynamic typing then you simply have not used a powerful dynamic language before. Or you have not learned how to use it properly.

With dynamic typing you can easily manipulate types as objects. Structural typing does not give you that. You latch on to a completely superficial similarity and think it is somehow similar in capability and scope.

The attitude you display is what makes a lot of the static typing fans kind of off putting. The smug superiority complex. I prefer dynamic languages but I recognize areas where static typing is preferable.
It should be straightforward to have GPS jammer detectors along the road. Throw in a giant federally enforced fine and people will stop using them.
> is there a good reason why LISPs do not put parenthesis they way we know from math? Why `(f foo bar)` and not `f(foo bar)`?

Because the first is a list and the second isn't. The whole point of LISP is to represent code as data, and the fundamental data structure it uses is a list.
the problem I think is that the cheater AI is unstoppable cheating -- his cheating becomes almost independent of his state within the game (true independence is the behavior of actual cheating), such that your path to victory really ends up being complete and total domination. You can't really apply normal strategies like crippling the opponent by poking the edges, or baiting a fight here and having a small force go around to there, or focusing down the infrastructure over the army itself; there is only the main body, and that's all that matters..

I think cheater AI is probably a perfectly good strategy; its just the implementation is never done that well, and it ends up cheating in a fashion that isn't actually interesting.

Alternatively, the cheater AI could simply be given an aesthetic reason to validate cheating, instead of trying to pretend its a normal player -- eg AI war simply defines the AI as an overwhelming force; so overwhelming that it doesn't actually pay much attention to your activity, and that's the only reason you're not dead (your goal is to continue growing without letting the AI noticing).

Total War and other 4X games generally have you playing where the AI is also generally unintelligent, but feels more fair, because everyone is in various starting states of strength. The cheating AI gets a set of arbitrarily strong units, justified because its simply a strong country 10x the size of yours. And then the amount of blatant, uninteresting, cheating that has to occur is much more limited -- if the AI is not sufficiently challenging, then it's generally simpler to increase his relative size, or resources, or production facilities, or whatever. What the AI does after that, after the game has started, becomes less important, so what cheating occurs becomes negligible from the perspective of the player. A 50% cheating bonus to production time doesn't mean much when he already started with a 500% bonus in resources and production.

Games like MoO and Civ make the mistake of having everyone start at the same state, even when its just you vs the AI(s), because they don't treat the two differently -- there is only one setup, one goal, one victory condition, regardless of the number of human players. That is, they don't admit to the weakness of their AI, and try instead to make up for it "under the hood"; and when you as the player catch this cheating, and it's never that hard to, you feel inexplicably stupid to have ever thought you were playing a fair match, and losing/winning to fair rules. The same as when you catch a human cheating.

Most other 4X games are defined as you vs the AI, and there's little to no multiplayer in the first place, so the idea doesn't trivially translate, but you vs the AI should probably be treated differently than a legitimate multiplayer map anyways -- as a campaign setup or a skirmish map.
I'm not an expert but I know of two different technologies to convert heat to power: thermocouples and heat engines.

Thermocouples are great because they're small, can fit in enclosed spaces, have no moving parts and last nearly forever. However, they're not a very efficient way to convert heat to energy.

Heat engines + generators can be very efficient, but they're bulky and have many moving parts (you're not going to attach a diesel generator to your cell phone).
> Maybe it's because I grew up on 4chan in the age of goatse, but shocking content is a tiny fraction of how disturbing real life can be.

I'm surprised you can say that. I also frequent 4chan and there have been tons of times that I have to close a thread within the first few posts because I do not want to see the content in them. There have also been times when something I've seen in a thread has lingered in my head for hours after, making me uncomfortable and definitely impacting my mood.

> it's nowhere near what every nurse, doctor, firefighter, police officer, soldier, and even teacher will live through over the course of their career.

Blood, gore, and dead people are only some things that could trip people up. You have to understand that many of these flagged posts are actually engineered to cause outrage or to trigger the primitive, emotional parts of your brain. Even pure audio alone can scar you - if you're really interested, and I do not recommend this, and I'm going to put a large TRIGGER WARNING here so you can look away before I describe this, look up the dashcam audio of a family traveling down a highway when a 2x4 from a nearby pickup truck falls off the bed and flies through the window, killing the mother instantly. Listen to the screams of both children and the father driving as they realize their family has just been destroyed. It will haunt you more than any "simple death" can because it interacts directly with the emotional core that makes you human.

Honestly, I believe only sociopaths can do a job like this and make it out unscathed.