skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Brit (residing in Australia), US communication always feels so direct and littered with unnecessary complex words.

A few of my colleagues dread speaking with US counterparts because they always come across as condescending (when they're definitely not meaning to be).
Actually they may have done updates to the fonts which overall look slightly larger in certain contexts.
I've done some bare-metal development in Ada. It was originally designed for embedded systems, so it has features that fit this niche very well. It's definitely not as simple as C, it has a much more modern design however.
This is literally what SSRI and PowerBI was invented for. Still requires codemonkies to prepare the data, but at least it cuts down on the rate of requests by allowing them to massage filters by themselves.
I'm curious to what degree Codepen^1 is considered to be part of the "demoscene".

1. https://codepen.io/popular/pens
I think of it as there are 2 ways to grow your career. Vertical and Horizontal. Vertical growth is another name for promotions. It involves having more people reporting to you. Horizontal growth is gaining new skills/technologies/knowledge/etc. I prefer the second, and so far my company has rewarded me financially for doing so.
I'm a bit mixed... that said, it's only a small step apart from what rust does for packages...

I would like to see a package repo for deno, if only to ease publishing/finding modules.
This was fantastically entertaining and educational. Sign me up for the long-form version!
A time when people can't eat food IS a food security issue. Do not invent other names for it.

The Irish famine has happened when UK was drowning in corn, and had the best harvest in many years.

The Bengal famine has happened in times when most regions of India had otherwise at least bearable harvests.

The Ukrainian famine has happened in times when the soviet union had bumper harvests, and was exporting megatons of grains, and other foods.

The Great Chinese Famine has happened when Mao too has tried the same trick as soviets did, except it failed on him even worse, like ten times as much.

Bangladesh 1973 famine has happened when Bangladesh was awash with humanitarian aid.

The chronic undernutrition of socially marginalised groups in 1st world countries keeps happening with governments throwing billions of cash on food stamp programs.
Competitive gamers care way too much about latency to use cloud gaming services for tournaments. Some Counter-strike players still use CRT monitors due to the latency advantage over LCD. I think that you won't see much adoption in competitive gaming, where every millisecond counts.
The models developed thus for SARS-CoV-2 hardly inspire confidence. I am tired of looking at models.
A lot of companies are cutting back big time on advertising spend and that’s Google’s sacred cow of revenue so this isn’t a surprise.
Yup. There’s a great memo from 1995 describing the web as the next big platform: http://pstella.com/reading/THEWEB.pdf

Looking at the massive growth in frontend technologies within the last decade, it’s easy to see why Microsoft wants to be a little ahead of the curve this time.
A handful of friends/acquaintances on fb - so, no, sorry. It's clear they're less informed than most, and I've certainly seen plenty of more appropriate responses along the lines of what you describe.

To clarify a bit: it's certainly not the position of the opposing party as a whole, but those I saw who were vehemently opposed to it were ideologically motivated.
Appreciate your luck, not your ego, you won't make as many stupid decisions that way.

It could be argued that Warren Buffet does exactly this.
I agree tests are useful, however the advice was not specific enough. The WHO should have specified how many tests are needed for various outcomes, offered early modeling, and facilitated information exchange to improve those models. Instead they simply played politics and offered very generalized and non-specific advice which overwhelmingly downplayed the risk.

Maybe a country has 1000 tests on hand, they test that first 1k people and can say they followed the WHO's advice. That's all that was possible given their immediate stock.
Hacker voice "I'm in" and the telex sounds off in the background.

It is interesting how you can track the history of remote terminals and make them work at all. It shows the true value of clear documentation.
"I find Marketplace's obsession with politics annoying" Same - seems shallow.
Checkout reddits r/conspiracy for a quick and condensed glimpse into the current insanity.
Any reason the Github page advertises Windows and Mac but not Linux? I saw that its built in Javascript and checked the releases page,you guys built a Linux version too. Is it just something that, while possible, you don't want to support officially with more than a build?
In college, I wanted to buy a vterm for connecting to my laptop and being cool, but I couldn’t find one on eBay for college student prices.
Is it me or does it feels like these post mortem blog post are becoming extremely common with Cloudflare.
discoverability mostly... the social aspect a second, smaller issue.

I think this is probably a good thing in general, and should maybe lead to some interesting enhancements, and maybe even finally solve the distribution of binary modules at a better level.
Ship them a preconfigured router and an already-set-up iPad (with the WiFi router's SSID/password preloaded) along with some printed instructions and pictures on how to plug the router in and how to open up FaceTime. If you want them to use only the video call functionality, you can turn on Guided Access, which can lock the iPad into one particular app, so you could pre-open FaceTime for them.

Or you could ship them (along with the router) an Echo Show or a Facebook Portal (I think the Portal is easiest to set up and use). This is about as simple as you can get for video calling, but these devices aren't very portable.
What I want to know is, who implemented the original animation (on silicon, I presume?), and did they foresee that it would have such a cult following today?
My development environment – From scratch – Ubuntu – 2020
Wow, a true HN “I could do that in a weekend”. Good point, all software is trivial and anyone could recreate a website with thousands of man hours behind them in a long weekend.
>Q: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! YOU CAN'T TURN A DFA INTO A FAT32 FILE SYSTEM!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE A DIRECTORY WITH MULTIPLE PARENTS!!! YOU ARE BREAKING THE ASSUMPTION OF LACK OF LOOPERINOS NOOOOOOOOO

>A: Haha OS-driven regex engine go brrrrr

i absolutely love little toy things like this that probably shouldn't exist but do regardless, and even more so I love it when they close on a silly and playful note like this. this is a rather interesting concept and it reminds me a lot of the idea of glitterbombing from more occult/esoteric circles of the internet (performing acts of obscurity and aloof strangeness to degrade the meaning of consensual reality and expose people to a perspective of life they otherwise would not spend much time engaging in, sorta conceptually similar to Zen koans)
Why cloud gaming instead of console gaming, which as of the Xbox One is similarly secure without the latency penalty? Of course with cloud gaming you can make map-hack style cheating a theoretical impossibility (as the client never has the data) while with a console you're always relying on client-side hardware countermeasures, but the practical differences until console hardware are broken are non-existent.
I think Microsoft is cool now. Certainly much better than Google.
Success here is possible. I didn't believe it until I saw it :)

I was in a regional strategy-esque team for Uber Eats. Eats have a nicely curated data warehouse of core operational data. They also have excellent, free, self-paced SQL training built around that same data (a tailored version of https://academy.vertabelo.com/). So you learn both how SQL works and how your data is structured at the same time. You'd be surprised how many junior-mid level suits are eager to pick this up.

The result is very useful. Some non-technical folk picked this up on the side in just a few weeks. They understood the limitations and caveats needed to use the data well. They needed very limited assistance here-and-there.

It was purely magical how they picked up both the data and the system.
My local stores are totally sold out of flour. I had to travel to a different state to pick up my daughter from college. While traveling, I stopped at a Costco for gas. On a whim I went into the store and they actually had some flour available. I purchased about 200 lbs, even though I had to pay sales tax, since I have no idea when flour will again be available in my area.

When I got home my wife asked me if they had toilet paper too. Doh!
VSC has been huge in this regard, too.
So kinda like riding a clutch... ok maybe not that bad.
Here's Wikipedia [1] and the RFC [2].

As noted, Mac OS, Windows and Linux already implement this.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Temporary_address...

[2]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941
Mix flour and water and sugar and in a day you'll have a culture of natural yeast going and you can keep replenishing it as needed. There are also a variety of baking powder/soda breads you can make.

I've been baking cakes since I was about 13 and I have never used anything other than AP flour. OK. I've used bread flour in a pinch, being super-careful to mix it very little because of the high protein content.

Pasta: roll it out thin and cut with a knife. It really doesn't take that much longer. I did it like this forever until I got a pasta roller/cutter.

Not trying to be contrarian, but I felt to point out that nothing here is a show stopper, it just takes a little creativity/experience.
Why do you think then that EVs have a "profitability cliff" after which it will just magically work, bubble capital access or no bubble capital access? To me it sounds like you're presenting a case for why EVs are not the solution.

To rephrase the question: what will change in the structure of reality that will make EVs a great business?

To guide the answer: me currently being able to type it comes from decades of silicon semiconductor manufacturing improvements (none of which were bubble-funded; silicon is often not a massively profitable business but profitable; though those were govt bootstrapped).
I work in digital advertising. Spend* is up. Companies are diverting their traditional advertising budgets into digital. I'd be surprised if Google is unable to capitalize on this.

edit: I want to clarify it's strictly ad spend/booking. It's companies committing budgets. They know they will want to run ads and will run more ads. The ads haven't actually run yet, so ad payouts will tank.
It's briefly mentioned in the article, but Google actually shed jobs during the financial crisis. Facebook is the company that ramped up hiring newly available talent.
It's accessing player location data after it's been decoded into structs in the game memory. The packets are encrypted, so you'd need to MiTM the key exchange to decrypt them, which takes you the same place this device goes (you either need something running in the OS, or something outside of the OS with access to host memory) - and it's a lot easier to just let the game handle that for you and slurp the data once it's available.
If this was made as a joke (yes?), that's a pretty good punchline.
Programming is a creative act and requires substantial creative mental force. Anytime we are creative, we are putting ourselves out there and making ourselves vulnerable. This naturally causes us to be defensive. The ego connotation misses the root of the problem. We are defensive only because of our insecurities in our identities, not the identity itself. The code we write is an expression of our identity. I find it similar to an artist that paints a portrait and immediately gets critiqued.

Being able to take this criticism without feeling that it is an attack on your expression of yourself is a skill that is learned. I think it only comes from one or both of two things: 1) realizing that you are expressing yourself and that some may find it useful and others won't and be okay with that or 2) be in an environment that doesn't immediately judge your production. I find the latter scenario to be the building block for the former.

In any creative venture, there needs to be an environment of acceptance of failure. If people are comfortable with failing, then they will succeed.
The Swine Flu Fraud of 1976
Disturbing Car Breakdown Horror Stories (Vol.276)
For many copy-on-write or log-structured filesystems it's not particularly hard to adapt them to such a block size, but I don't think it has actually been done on a major scale yet.
Dark Reader Malware Clones
I just wanted to say that I'm sorry you're going through this. It must be very difficult. I hope you do recover. Best of luck!
And 120hz refresh rates... almost 20 years ago!
I think that's less to do with realistic differences than it is familiarity... I've used google experience for the most part, and even then using someone's Samsung devices is different enough to be annoying.

For the most part, I adapt along the way... I've felt similar with iOS, but refuse to buy from Apple.
I don't think cloud-gaming prevents you from writing an aimbot. Enemies are often visually distinctive (for example, Overwatch outlines them in red), so you can look at the video stream and move the mouse to their head, and synthesize a click when the crosshair is in the right place.

I almost want to write one of these that looks at Twitch streams to figure out how common the "no-reg" that streamers complain about actually happens. (Or, if I were the game company, I would write one of these to figure out if there's a bug in the netcode, or people just aren't really as good as they think they are. I have a theory, but data is better than a theory.)

To eliminate cheating, I think games have to move away from the mechanical aim aspect and focus more on ability management, which is harder to write a cheat for. I don't think it's a coincidence that most of the new heroes in Overwatch have projectile-based weapons instead of hitscan weapons -- even if you're cheating with a projectile, you're not guaranteed to hit the shot. The enemy can just move out of the way. (Of course, a "move out of the way" bot could be written, which would be a lot more insidious and harder to detect. Overwatch streamers accuse everyone that hits a hitscan shot of cheating, but nobody has ever accused someone of moving out of the way of cheating. There is enough spam in the game that eventually you'll kill the enemy; writing a cheat that kills enemies more quickly will get you better results than a cheat that lets you live longer.)

There is also a lot of low-hanging fruit where the client is trusted when it doesn't need to be. Hearthstone had a combo where people could generate infinite copies of a card ("SN1P-SN4P Warlock"), but the animations on the client limited the number that could actually be played in a turn. This is how the combo was balanced; not by a hard limit on resources, but by timers on the client. So people hacked their client to skip animations. This would be fixed with a thin client, but it's also possible to fix with 100% certainty on the traditional fat client. Just calculate how long the animations take on the server side, and reject client updates after the server thinks the turn is over. Add a few seconds of slop for people playing on 2G networks.
MIT Professor R. Lindzen explains the consensus in

"The Great Global Warming Swindle"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg

The explanation is in one word -- money, as in two words, too much money.

In addition, look at the arguments. Since I hold a good STEM field Ph.D., I'm supposed to do that.

For more, I gave my explanations in the two URLs to YC I mentioned above.
The detection is based on hardware ID interrogation, yes. Here's an ESEA blog post about it although of course they don't go too far into their methods, besides claiming they go "beyond just hardware ID" : https://blog.esea.net/esea-hardware-cheats/ . My suspicion is that they interrogate "suspicious" devices in various ways (for example, seeing if the IO mechanism provided by the driver for each device installed in the system can be used in the expected way), but this is of course easily defeatable.
It depends on market segment. We have seen a contraction for the vertical I work in. BUT the big players are spending more. It’s the little companies that are pulling out.
What was the role of ‘DVD programmer’ like? Could you tell us more?
Infinite Parallel Universes: State at the Edge
It's not synonymous with it, it does entail it. Why would you think resistance against sleepwalking into the collapse of human civilization as something deserving of such a title, which would entail incredible suffering, is synonymous with "society collapsing"?

To quote the White Rose: "If a person cannot even summon the strength to demand his rights, then there is nothing left for him but destruction." If someone person equates that with random fighting and murder that says nothing about resistance as such, it's very clearly attacking the weakest form of the argument.
That's how the industry has always worked. Walmart, Costco, supermarkets, clothing stores, pharmacies, etc, all have their own brand of products that they sell on their own stores along with other brands that use their competitor's infrastructure to sell their products. Usually the store's brand is also cheaper.

Why is it an issue with Amazon?
It looks to me like you are incorrectly believing that I am making an argument that attaches intrinsic value to human lives. I am not.

If we assume humans are slabs of talking meat which are worthless except for their economic properties (productivity and consumption), it is still not a likely economic win to let enormous numbers of them die because the economy is made of people. If you kill the people you kill the economy directly-- and, of course, people aren't going to continue like normal while others are dying around them regardless of what state policy is.

So you are making a false comparison of the economic cost, the alternative is not "do nothing, let millions of innocent people die, and have the economy continue as if nothing happened". That isn't a possible alternative-- the economy couldn't continue as if nothing had happened if millions have died or are dying.

Imagine for a moment, for the purpose of discussion, that we didn't need to keep food, medical supplies, power, etc flowing during the intervention. In that silly and unrealistic hypothetical it would be reasonable to pause the economy-- basically say "okay, for the next year all contracts are paused, all transfer of value prohibited, and in a year we just start 2020 over again for all legal and contractual purposes". Just like weekends are often disregarded in contracts but at a massive scale. No businesses would fail, nothing would change (except the people that died along the way).

It's not possible to actually do this fanciful thing, because, unfortunately, we still need to keep utilities, food, medical services, etc. running and because everything is interconnected you can't just pause everything else. But if we could it would be a completely reasonable response.

To the extent that, e.g. businesses fail due to this is a failure of our imagination and political will. Other than the small amount of actual damage done from spoiled goods (and deaths from the pandemic)-- all other economic consequences are a product of our beliefs and actions, and are not actual unavoidable losses in the same way that a death is. The stimulus is just one (half-assed) example of the potential ways that we can act to mitigate the direct economic harms while still protecting lives.

Of course, I do also think that people's lives have tremendous intrinsic value, but that isn't part of my argument here. Instead, I was attempting to argue that even a dispassionate spherical economist murder bot should-- if it were behaving rationally-- respect that the irrecoverable loss of many human lives is something of tremendous economic significance because of the central role of as agents and targets of all economic activity.

You're also disregarding the potential economic benefits of this disruption. Causing weak businesses to fail can be economically beneficial in the long run, as might the radical increase in telecommuting and video conferencing, or the development of more pandemic robust services (e.g. will we finally see automated grocery stores become a thing?) or the numerous other ways that this event might help the economy escape other local minima.
This phone compares so favorably to the Pixel 4a!
"China is known to be faking their numbers"

I haven't seen an explanation of South Korea then. Are they faking their statistics too? If not, then China's reported stats don't seem so incredible.
The tremendous ethical and methodological flaws in the Raoult clinical trial
Model 15 machines have such a long life. I've restored two of those, plus three Model 14 machines, an earlier 1920s design. My machines have been to about a dozen steampunk conventions.[1] People send in their messages by texting, and they're printed on the Model 15, then delivered by a messenger. The video shows two acting students running our steampunk telegraph office. They're great at it. Web site: [2]

For smaller conventions, we have a semi-portable, a Model 14 tape printer in a road case made to fit. The tape is pasted down on telegram blanks, just like real telegrams up to the mid-1950s.

I normally run these off EeePC subnotebooks that run XUbuntu Linux. Those subnotebooks are about $30 on eBay, so I bought some of them for small projects. It's like having a Raspberry PI with a keyboard, screen, battery, and power supply all in a convenient clamshell case. I could run them as a Linux terminal, but I usually run them with a Python program that performs the telegraph office functions.

The lack of lower case is less of a problem in this application than the lack of emoji. I put the entire dictionary of emoji names into the program, and it spells out the emoji as (happy face), etc. That's amused some people who sent emoji-heavy messages.

The Right To Repair people would love those machines. Every part is individually replaceable. The price of this is a huge number of adjustments, plus annual oiling and cleaning. Few people today would put up with that much periodic maintenance in an office machine. It does let them be restored a century after they were built.

[1] https://vimeo.com/124065314

[2] http://www.aether.ltd
I’m indeed implying the hypocrisy. I’m also fine with all guns going away. However nobody who is anti-gun is suggesting that in reality.

I guess it all depends on how much you trust your government and police. Anti-gun sentiment seem to be about forcing the views of those who have reason to trust them, onto those who don’t, at gunpoint no less.

That seems wrong to me.
Makes sense if they can't onboard the talent, and can't manage a 100% distributed workforce.

Nevertheless, seems like a great time to acquire talent on the cheap, so long as you can effectively use it.
“He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life.” -Homer J. Simpson
If you're stuck on windows maybe you could try this:

curl -o fi.exe -L -C - "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-stub&os=win64&... && ./fi.exe
Yes, it does. Those machines are very well documented. Here are the manuals:

http://aetherltd.com/manuals.html