skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something on the order of getting every mole removed. We're all full of little harmless anomalies which if you're rich and your doctor says something noncommittal, you insist gets removed. Then you follow up with claims about cancer when instead of finding things early you found things that didn't need to be found and exposed yourself to the greater risks associated with any removal procedure.
It should be noted that there are multiple mechanics at play here, and neither was removed completely.

The first mechanic is that while jumping, when you either hold down the A-button and move your mouse left at the right pace, or hold down the D-button and move your mouse right at the right pace, you will accelerate slightly, plus change your trajectory.

The second mechanic is that you don't just stop when you hit the ground, instead friction is applied to you in a very simplistic way. Also, when you jump at exactly the same tick at which you hit the ground, this friction won't even be applied.

Both mechanics together mean that you can reach theoretically unlimited velocity.

I'm not entirely sure what the changes in 1.3 were, but certainly both mechanics still exist in 1.6.

The first mechanic you can easily test on a local server, by typing "sv_gravity 0" into the console, then jumping into the air and performing the motions mentioned above - you can still reach unlimited speed.

The second mechanic is harder to test, but I'm pretty sure it still works. However, it might only work for a single time or something like that.

There is also "sv_airaccelerate" which somehow controls how much you accelerate with mechanic 1, but I'm not exactly sure how it works.

One thing though that I always mention when this comes up: Mechanic 1 doesn't just make gameplay better, it actually makes it more realistic too, and it should be implement in every shooter. "But I can't jump around corners in real life!" you might say, however I would argue that you actually can. We can do this because we can use both of our feet to manipulate our trajectory much more finely that we can in most games.

All mechanic one does is give us this lost freedom of motion back.
Show HN: Property Management with AdPro.rent
adPro.rent ia a property management system. Our family uses it to write contracts, print invoices or receipts, do simple bookkeeping, manage incidents, collect payments and get helpful statistics.

Now it has been internationalized and is ready for managing your own properties or those of others. I hope it helps others to save as much time as it does for us. The system has been created initially for Paraguay, all local features are now hidden behind a country-flag. I'm curious to hear if there are features that might be important for other markets and whatever else you might think about adPro.

This has been a side project but I work fulltime on this for the last months. I started this as a solo-founder coming from tech and I'm open to partner up with somebody experienced in bizz, especially sales and marketing.

The features are listed under https://www.adpro.rent/en/.
You can sign up for a free (basic) plan under https://app.adpro.rent/signUp.
The signing keys thing you did (with HMAC) is nice, but not quite what I'm talking about - I'm thinking about secrets in headers/cookies for the requests you're making. An issue I have with my current approach that I think this would also have is if you didn't want them to be in plaintext.

On the lambdas, I think from your blog post I understand what you're doing - you call the Lambda with an event which describes the task from Cloudwatch events. I didn't actually realise you could pass input from those events so that's what I was missing - because if you add an event as a trigger to a Lambda from the Lambda UI you can't give it a custom event as far as I can tell. I really like your approach, it's much cleaner.

Currently I have a lambda per cron, and each has a list of tasks to run on that schedule defined in a file deployed as part of it. Having an event per cron/lambda/task combination as you do is much more flexible and much more understandable.
Even if "regular" productive work is hard, you could use the time to learn. Read books, build prototypes, think about the hard problems you, your team and your company are facing or will be facing.

This feel like a great way to get some thinking time!
Going to Mars won't save us from a gamma ray burst either. Not sure what you mean by red dwarf but I take it that you mean an event on the scale of a gamma ray burst. Mars ain't good enough for that.

I'd be curious to hear about events which would wipe out Earth and the moon but leave Mars intact.
What stops you from doing usability testing?
Question to all UX designers: What stops you from doing usability testing? What's the craziest objection you have heard from your boss/manager for not to do it?
And enjoys universal health care and wealth.
Yeah, the reading went from: "I wonder what this old, smart man has to say" to checking url if it is the onion
Considering they might be worried sick about friends and family (and therefore using social media) this would be awful.

The world needs less authoritarianism and more compassion right now. We're all human.
Thanks for the pointer, I'll look into those services as well. :)
Animation Worklet: The 4 Missing Features
Generic and ugly non-native landscaping and beige housing development optimizer.
Mars’ atmosphere is less than 1% the density of Earth’s. It’s completely unusable for any practical purpose and would likely cause more problems (dust and erosion) than it would help.
Edited, thanks for that.

"Different people react in different ways" - Do you mean there is a chance I will feel better?
That term (or at least "jay driver") seems to have been in use before "jaywalker" or "jaywalking"!
One could argue humans are the invasive species.
I think that is unfair to MySQL. MySQL is and always has been a fantastic piece of code and to my surprise it has developed and improved under Oracle's stewardship.
Also, the 14k is over 17k by now.
Macy’s call it 4th of July

https://www.macys.com/shop/4th-of-july-sale
The paradox with cancer is that is grows much faster on young, healthy bodies than on old ones.
Philosophical arguments are for pure math navel gazers. Applied folks are too busy actually doing things that make people's lives better.

That rant does not actually represent my beliefs, it just seemed like what the ggp wanted so, tada!
Now living (in the US) where you can walk almost anywhere is a status symbol itself! I lived in downtown Palo Alto for three years, and I loved the fact that I mostly used my car for road trips and groceries. (I filled my trunk at cheaper grocery stores instead of walking to Whole Foods.)
FYI /r/nbastreams -> sportsurge.net
I thought the moon had minerals, everything you need to grow an independent colony. I'm not sure saying it only has H3 is entirely accurate.
Least future regret.

That is, when faced with a consequentional decision, I ask myself, "ten years from now, how much will I regret [not] doing this?"

I find this helps roll up a healthy combination of long-term thinking and YOLO-ness into a single easy metric. YMMV.

Example: I'm an introvert in my mid 30s. Lately I've been taking many more opportunities to bond with and make friends which I wouldn't have done for various reasons in the past. This is because I predict if I don't, I will sorely regret these missed opportunities in my 40s, when friendship is more scarce; this currently outweighs my predicted regret for the default alternative (spending that time focusing on career/family/personal projects).

YMMV.
It even can run as Xen dom0.

Well, that's software developer-led cowboy coding for you: prioritization based on weekend impulses rather than user-driven urgency. Also, the hobbyist and volunteer excuses don't fly because a professional effort with a saleprice of $0 has to compete with non-free and is subject to forking and loss of interest if it founders or stalls. Also, I don't think there are enough NetBSD devs. It's main users are some ISPs for network infrastructure IIRC.

BTW, FreeBSD doesn't even run usably on RPi4, it boots and that's about it. RPi3 support is somewhat better, but still worse than RPi2.

I hope all FOSS OSes, including Linux, get and stay organized and productive, but not heading toward a greater unbalanced power law distribution (pun unavoidable) monoculture where only Linux dominates, because then we're in real trouble.
I read it as sarcasm and cynicism. For someone at 100 years of age and having been involved in several environmental movements it can be exhausting to think of another protest failing. I suspect he'd like it to work but seems more interested in folks making the politicians pay attention by other means.
That's why I stay home when I need a long stretch of productive time on one or two things.

But the office has upside when the task is not well defined or I work on a lot of small stuff. At home, my brain will wander around more easily between context switches.
>forcing managers to not only work for their salery but for all employee

In my experience it was rather forcing managers to steal and take bribes. During communism there was even saying "Who doesn't steal, robs oneself and one's own family". I don't have statistics at hand, but I'm pretty sure that remains of that approach is still felt now, 30 years after and in post-communist countries there is much higher corruption than in western Europe.
Watch out for the charges. Accessing secrets through API costs money
Do you think that those outcomes would not be so detrimental if you did those tweaks more gradually, say over a year period you would get from 2 hours of focused productivity per day to, for example, 5 without those side-effects?
When the people vote for UBI one day you'll have your society...
There is a both a significant overlap and significant difference between bargaining and negotiating. The part of negotiating that is not bargaining includes gaining rapport, what former FBI Hostage Negotiator Chris Voss calls "tactical empathy".

President Lincoln summed it up best:

"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

"Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great high road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause really be a just one."

I teach some of the principles of rapport to stand-up comics. For example, do your material until they start ignoring you, then talk to the audience. When they start paying attention, return to your prepared material.
Mac vs. PC: Which Is Better for Gaming?
I would aim for a different solar system....
Also the fact that the player would just look straight forward the whole time, so when shooting at an enemy at a higher/lower elevation you just needed to overlap him on the X coordinate on screen.
On the other hand, they are under threat in Africa. A thriving population on another continent would be a net positive.
This is a beautiful read. It should not be taken too much seriously, though.

For a nice complement, see the writings of another, and arguably much greater, mathematician V.I. Arnold. His contrasting view on the nature of mathematics is that "mathematics is the part of physics were experiments are cheap".

EDIT: I add quotes and links to some of Arnold's writing.

" Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

The Jacobi identity (which forces the heights of a triangle to cross at one point) is an experimental fact in the same way as that the Earth is round (that is, homeomorphic to a ball). But it can be discovered with less expense. "

--[1] On Teaching Mathematics

"All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and by other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA.).

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial derivative
equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation)."

--[2] Polymathematics: Is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?

[1] https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/arnold.html

[2] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/Polymath.pdf

[3] Link to many Arnold's writings: http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/~arnsem/Arnold/arn-papers.html
There Are Blind People on Your Blog
> Turbo products were the "community/student", while the Borland were the "professional" variant with more tooling and compiler optimisations.

Ah.. Over here in northern Europe we'd typically just pirate everything from our school's installation so we weren't really aware of any marketing differences. Thanks for clearing up a long-time mystery :). (We ended up with an install that had both bp.exe/tp.exe and bpc.exe/tpc.exe, and they seemed to behave identically. bp/tp.exe was the IDE, bpc/tpc.exe was the commandline compiler.)
Thanks. I was wondering why this didn't exist already. T-shirts/in game items/early access never interested me.
By red dwarf I believe the GP means later phases of the star cycle when the sun increases in size and intensity.
There's no-one honking at red lights in NYC; if you're getting honked there, it's because you're stopped at the green.
It comes before and after.

Green -> Yellow (go if you're still at a speed that stopping would be dangerous) -> Red -> Red & Yellow (get ready) -> Green
All respect for the man, but fortunately we can like and respect somebody without agreeing with them.

You get set in your ways with age. Some of his responses are a bit too much of the type "young people these days!"

Young people may get carried away at times but important changes tend to happen due to young people. Young people led the French revolution and other revolutions advancing democracy and freedom.

A lot of the good things that has happened through the environmental movement has happened due to young engaged people. It is not enough to sit in a lab and invent solutions if nobody listens to you.

Sure I have seen environmental movement ebb and flow ever since the 80s. However it would be silly to suggest that this somehow invalidates them. These organizations helped save the ozone layer, whales and other species. They paved the way for the revolution within renewable energy.
C# Pattern Matching
exploding CD's, or going heavy and randomly shooting mortars at an enemy base. fun times.
It varies by state, but in Connecticut pedestrians always have right of way, but you can still get a ticket for jaywalking.

It reflects the reality that, while cars should get out of the way of pedestrians, a car can't stop as easily as a human, so you can put yourself in danger by darting out into a street
> “nowadays, I think middle class and fairly wealthy people don't die of cancer.”

That’s a pretty crackpot thing to say.

James Lovelock has been lucky, and it’s certainly true that early diagnosis improves your chances. But the idea that wealthy people don’t die of cancer is complete nonsense.
Steve spent $100,000 to decode his DNA:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/appleinsider.com/articles/11/10...

Billionaires would probably spend quite a bit of money if they knew they might get a disease in 20 years.

Bill Gates is funding Alzheimers research. His dad has it.
A third of GPS suffer from ‘compassion fatigue’
He almost made the point that the nuclear accident killed far less people than the tsunami that caused it, but instead went down the route that cancer isn't a big deal.

The tsunami killed over 15,000 people. The nuclear disaster is estimated to eventually kill 100-ish people due to excess cancer cases from radioactive releases.
There's the plenty of places on Earth which are uninhabited due to climate conditions. What makes Mars a better place?
Google does it all the time with GSuite. I doubt customers want buggy features. Beta testing new functionality on your free/personal user accounts before rolling it out to larger business customers is pretty standard.
Linux++
These are totally valid points.

I'd just like to add that Qemu can use NVMM (-accel nvmm) in which case almost all of Qemu's existing documentation is still relevant. You do still have to build it yourself however since it's a WIP package[1]

Same with ZFS, I've not found it to be any different than the ZFS implementation I was using on SmartOS previously. I'm sure there are some differences lurking as it's not the latest version of ZFS but on the surface it's behaved as expected.

These are not excuses, NetBSD does not have a lot of resources, documentation could definitely be better. I'm just really excited about this release as ZFS and a type 2 hypervisor have been the 2 things I missed most in other operating systems and both have been working well for me.

[1] http://pkgsrc.se/wip/qemu-nvmm
"Start with your number $X+80%, then"

Norwegian here: I've previously read self-improvement books written by Americans that state advice that gives me the same vibes as this one, specifically a feeling of this being a very bad idea. I'm almost certain that starting a salary negotiation with a demand 80% higher than my actual goal would either get me laughed out of the room, or a polite "you're too expensive for us, goodbye".

I get the impression there's a major cultural aspect to this, with negotiation tactics that are considered acceptable or not in each culture. Does anyone have any experiences confirming or denying this? I don't think I'll stake my reputation in this small-ish city on trying this out.
Interesting. Last time I was in a city in France, I noticed the whine of scooters more than honking, but I live in a big city so I may have just tuned the honking out.
The investment portion is an interesting idea. What sort of legal mechanism are they using for this?
The book "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels" mentions Fig. It was started by several gaming industry developers/producers saw the success that Kickstarter offered the gaming industry.
He does, but I would not judge him too harshly. I suspect I will say some odd things if I ever turn 100.
Sell hippo tags. Hunters will pay you to solve the problem.
> Someone would have to drive to my place with my work laptop

If sending your laptop by taxi to your home would mean two weeks of work that seems like a very cheap solution.
One word: palimpsest.
Indeed. And since the tax caused the supply of bags to dry up, I'm very glad that I have a large stockpile that should keep me in bin liners for a few years yet.
Wouldn't aircraft H2 storage just be low pressure insulated tanks that self maintain their temperature by the boiling of the H2? Insulation is mostly air and as a result is light.

Any vented excess H2 isn't a big issue. You can just dump it straight into the atmosphere with no environmental consequence. If that turns out to be unsafe in some situations you can run it through some sort of heated auto lighting burner.
They probably don't care because it's not bothering the public yet. Just wait until there are thousands of hippos and they're a nuisance or people are getting killed. Then the public will be crying about the government doing nothing about this looming problem.
So did my Aunt. She had cancer a bunch of times before it eventually took her out. The toll that your body takes after chemo and/or radiation therapy makes the cancer that will materialize later in your life a lot more threatening, in addition to how your body decays over time. So basically, the older you get and the more chemo you've had, the higher likelihood you have of cancer taking you out. If Lovelock has had "10 cancers in the last few years", he's going to die of cancer in the next 10.
if users are logged in you can track everything they are doing while logged in without any extra cookies.
PHP has always been a great piece of code as well, there clearly is a reason it is used so much. Like PHP, MySQL used to have stupid defaults though, like silently ignoring errors.
For a simply objective look at the different positions of MS than and Apple now, there are three significant points that spring to my mind:

1. Apple do not have anything like the monopoly stronghold on the phone & tablet market that MS had on desktop and laptop PCs.

2. They are not (that I know of) directly using the market power that they do have to try completely block competitors. While there is no doubt some coercion going on (if you give iDevices pride of place in your store we may give you preference over others when supplies are low) there isn't the outright "stock Android and we won't give you any iDevices to sell" equivalent to MS's behaviour with regard to DRDOS/BeOS/OS2/... in the 90s.

3. They are not being deceptive about their position, like MS quietly but very deliberately scuppering DRDOS during Win3.1 development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code). Apple-land is officially a walled garden where MS were at least pretending to operate openly in a shared market.

More subjectively, whether these objective differences are enough to justify the relevant authorities not going after Apple is a matter of opinion and/or complex legal wrangling concerning the interpretation of monopoly/anti-competition/other legislation and its wording.
Show HN: Unlimited Web Development for small fixed monthly fee
> would likely cause more problems (dust and erosion) than it would help

Agreeing with your comment but to add: To my knowledge, the biggest problem the athmosphere is causing is the dust storms which can go on for months and which occlude the sky. This means you have to be able to hold out for that period. The Moon has pesky dust too (which got everywhere, it's so small it got through the joints in the space suits).
Ask HN: How do you create your databases?
Let's keep it to traditional entity/relationship databases.

How do you create you databases? Say that you are starting a new project, do you write all the SQL to generate dbs, tables views by hand, or do you use tools to, for instance, graphically create the tables and and then generate the SQL from that?

If so, what tools do you use?
Dunk? What you've done is stood on the other end of the court, holding the ball and said "I can dunk this ball" then left the court.

If you've got some counterpoints or arguments, please give them. Going "lol php bad" is just dumb.
The treatment you refer to was a “whipple” procedure, or pancreaticoduodenectomy.

A very invasive procedure that has significant detrimental effects on your quality of life, and still doesn’t guarantee long-term survival.

A tough call for even the most rational of patients.
Which keyboard is he using? Looks very cool!
A computer scientist urges more support for the humanities
Huh, I was wondering if this was legal (seems like an unregistered securities offering, which has semi-strict requirements even after 2012) and then read this at the bottom:

> The securities offered by the issuers on the Site (the "Securities") may be sold only to (A) investors who are (i) "Accredited Investors" as defined in Rule 501 under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or (B) certain eligible investors who are not "U.S. persons" as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act, or (C) otherwise eligible to invest in Securities as discussed elsewhere on the Site

I'm assuming C) covers general crowdfunding investors but I also thought that you still had to check net worth/etc. which I didn't see going through the site anywhere (though admittedly I did a very cursory glance).