skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I see that as a false dichotomy, and an important one at that. The most marvelous work the world has seen is a product of love, not a desire to maximize money or exposure. If you were doing number theory in 1500s, you were not thinking of how I would apply it to make the world a better place with secure communications. You do it for its own sake. ffs, I'm writing this comment on a website titled "Hacker News" after all, which I hope implies some audience care about the spirit of "doing something for its own inherent pleasure".
Would be glorious if at some point they also released sources for the voxel RTS's (Tiberian Sun, RA2).
If I remember correctly, in the early Days of OpenTTD you basically were lost without the files from the original. It took quite a while for the artwork to catch up and finally surpass the original.
There isn't really a lot of crime in Japan. It's culturally very shameful to be a criminal or to have a criminal in the family in Japan, and the entire culture is based on maintaining the family honor.
I got really excited about discovering a new progamming language, Phyton, for a second... but after some searching, I think that's just a typo
This is why I think of the Ivy League people as the ruling class of this country.

This is also one reason I find the woke Ivy League left so ridiculous. They see themselves as fighting the power. If you think they are the power, they look very different.
Thank you for your answer.

Another question: can you elaborate more on how did you price the product? Did you do A/B testing on the price? ask the first customers?
(Preprint) MMR Vaccine Appears to Confer Strong Protection from Covid-19
> Plenty of downvotes, but no productive suggestion of what use-case would be best served with WebRTC ...

Worms. Todays web browser are like MS office 15 years ago. A disaster waiting to happen.
Sorta agree with this but look at the success of Facebook. Zuck didn't have to sell Facebook. He put the idea out there and it was an instant success. if you find yourself having to sell too hard, maybe your idea is not that good.
They're re-releasing it on Steam on June 5th as well: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213210/Command__Conquer_.... Maybe the source release will allow for Mac and Linux versions.
The definition of OOP is super relevant when the definition encodes principles and abstractions in a discussion of ... principles and abstractions. It’s not a matter of what you or I want. Inheritance and polymorphism are incoherently designed in C++ and Java, but this isn’t a consequence of OOP. It’s a consequence of language designers experimenting and compromising.

Re. second point, I didn’t ask, so I won’t be stating my own opinion, but I will state my favourite OO language: Erlang.
> The trick comes in when we switch without acknowledgement to describing the system for the distribution of wealth and status.

I think the trick comes even earlier: in making people think that there has to be a single "system for the distribution of wealth and status".

Wealth is not a zero sum game; there is not a fixed pool of wealth in the world that has to somehow get distributed. Wealth can be created. Indeed, wealth is created every time people make a positive sum trade, a trade in which both sides come out better off.

Status tends to be more of a zero sum game, but it doesn't have to be. For example, status here on HN does not have to be the same as, or even measured by the same criteria as, status somewhere else.

However, if we set up one centralized system that is supposed to "distribute" wealth and status, we are making zero sum games out of things that shouldn't be (wealth) or at least don't have to be (status). The solution is to stop doing that. Stop centralizing power.
Johnson is also basically the reason why most of this happened at all.
Sunken ships are vastly different from land convenyances, historically and in cultures everywhere. There's a gravity to the inaccessible, abyssal deep.
To find more of these unofficial APIs, Google:

[site:github.com "unofficial" AND "API"]

Or click here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:github.com+%22unofficia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritiated_water references Jones (1952). "The Triple Point Temperature of Tritium Oxide". A Google Scholar search shows publications about "tritium oxide" in the late 1940s, like https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.1746932 from 1948.

The linked-to piece says "1966, after nearly four years of work".

That puts at least 14 years minimum between them, and likely more.
Positional records are a terrible idea, one of the best things about C# is readability

var (f, l) = person;

is so much worse than

var (f, l) = (person.FirstName, person.LastName);

I don't want to have to refer to documentation or class implementation to understand what a destructuring expression does.
I think that the argument that they are making isn't about the role that the person ends up with but the dramatic difference in wealth, status, and privilege.
Thank you! Thank you very much. :-)
It is worth mentioning that Emacs is a wee bit easier to script than notepad.exe :)
Why don't people understand that LINQ isn't just a C#-ish way to write SQL-like statements? So many people are comparing their libraries to LINQ without understanding what it actually does.

LINQ brought System.Linq.Expressions and IQueryable to .NET which allows so much more than just filtering and grouping data. You can write entire data providers with LINQ and parse arbitrary expression trees in any way you like.

Entity Framework (Core) utilizes this very well. It doesn't just query an SQL database and then use LINQ's Where, Select etc. to manipulate the data but parses everything the developer has written to an expression tree and then generates an SQL statement at runtime.
I can't see anything
You raise an interesting point. Even if someone gave me ten million dollars for rescuing a rich guy, why would I want to live in a little tiny country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US? It would be miserable, boring, terrible. I want to live in a place where I do something useful and intellectual, giving me 10 million dollars to go live on a desert island doesn't have an appeal. Giving someone 10 million dollars and you can live in the US, that's different.
> I'd like to go to a place where a person is not defined by the size of their paycheck, how many hours they work and how big their start-up exit is.

Having worked in Silicon Valley for a few decades, that's exactly where I live.

Maybe you just need to upgrade your social circle?
Is there a way to watch this without an account?
Assuming a magical test that actually could pick the best lord... that would justify the lord. It wouldn't do much of anything to justify the subjugation of the serfs.
Coinbase will be a remote-first company
I recall George W Bush tried to appoint a woman who had gone to community college to the supreme court and she didn't get appointed. Right, it was Harriet Miers. So instead Samuel Alito was appointed.
I would expect the financial costs of providing a welfare state to decrease if you offered drug addicts their choice of addiction treatment or free drugs. Right now addicts are pushed toward treatment even if they don't want it. Common street drugs are inexpensive to manufacture. Treatment services are subject to Baumol's cost disease. Treatments are also unlikely to permanently alter behaviors of people who are being pushed toward behavioral changes rather than spontaneously seeking to change.

The state could buy an addict a 40 year supply of opiates (wholesale) at the same cost as 3 months of outpatient rehab. Incarceration is even more expensive than outpatient treatment.
I would much rather have an AI that is capable of interpreting what I say as code. So if I say:

Build me a class which computes the larger of two integers.

The AI is smart enough to write it.
> Wealth can be created.

Corollary: wealth doesn’t exist and the need for disparity to drive the economy doesn’t exist either.
It begs the question to just assume there is a "feudal society" that needs to be "run". For instance, why not have a "first citizen" who is selected to manage internal coordination and external strategy, but must live in the worst house in the village and wear a hair shirt.

You can say, well that wouldn't work! But now the idea is that the structure of this model feudal society is justified by reasons like "people won't follow someone if they don't have a gold hat and a scary sword" and not by any process that led to selecting the particular feudal lord.
Is there anyway to get to the video? I'm registered for build, but the page is all but empty...
You also need good air flow inside the case. Something like big tower with plenty of empty space and additional case fans. If your case is tiny, liquid cooling might be better.
The Afghanistan Papers[0] was a bit unnoticed by many people. It is well worth a read, especially during this time. There are many, many very interesting things in there, but I want to highlight one: General Flynn's 'Lesson's Learned' Interview, 11/10/2015.

Keep that date in your head.[1]

That the interview is public at all is amazing. It is a very good overview of the man and the issues that the US dealt with in Afghanistan. Especially considering the current media tornado with Flynn, it offers an insanely unique look under the tent.

Flynn's attitude is really one of exhaustion. He's tired, after nearly 14 years fighting in Afghanistan, he's just done with it all. He's done with Congress, he's done with the White House, he's done with the military. What is especially interesting is his attitude towards the US voting public: He's done with them too. His faith is caput.

Sure enough, exactly one month and 30 minutes after the end of this interview, Flynn is shoulder to shoulder, sitting directly next to Putin in Moscow. 12/10/2015. [2] That dinner is wild by the way.

So, not only are the lower level contractors looking outside, the top line staff are as well.

Not to be too alarmist, but there is a whole whale of bad news here. There are uncomfortably large similarities to the lead up of the Social War of 91 BC afoot [3].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-fly...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_War_(91%E2%80%9388_BC)

If you don't really have the time to read through it, the Washington Post did a fairly good job of highlighting the interesting bits. If you have not looked at it and don't want to read the grainy .pdf, that's ok too. The audio is free to listen to. I cannot stress enough how crazy this is. That this document is out there at all, that they went through all the highlighting and editing, that the audio tape is out there, and then the cornucopia of other info too. It's amazing technical journalism, let alone the content.
Vaccine experts say Moderna's Covid-19 data leave big questions
I don't think Kotlin is being pushed because of the Oracle lawsuit. Most of Oracle's complaints were at the VM and standard library level, which Kotlin doesn't help with.
Wow that's a twisted interpretation. Perhaps they become people uninterested in the trivia that used to consume them? And so seem to become boring to someone still in that frame?

Talking about condescending, that comment takes the cake.
They're not completely gone, but they're hard to find.

This book describes an early version of Dylan that was very close to Ralph:

https://www.amazon.com/Dylan-Object-Oriented-Dynamic-Language/dp/B000KGC0HA

It wasn't exactly the same. Ralph had some extensions that weren't part of the language described in the book. For example, it had a class for representing blocks of memory allocated outside the Dylan heap (that is, "foreign" memory).

It used to be possible to find a copy of the book online, but I didn't turn up anything with a quick search.

I think Bauhaus sources still exist somewhere, but I don't know how you'd get them. I asked Apple about releasing them some years ago and they ignored the question.

A few years later I asked whether they were still in Apple's software library, and the person I asked--who, I would have thought, should know about it--didn't seem to have any idea what I was talking about. Maybe they ditched the software library.

Once upon a time there were videos of some of the demos that various folks did of pre-release Newton features. Maybe some of those still exist somewhere; I don't know.
But this could be just regular science. To be sure we need a dataframe...
That's basically the idea though the details are subtly different.

What the ASF won't let you do if you can't muster the votes is actually make a release — that takes 3 votes from people on the Drill PMC (Project Management Committee). If you can't get 3 PMC votes, the project cannot even make security releases and must be retired.

As to who can commit code, from the ASF's standpoint any person with commit rights can do so at any time. However, the project may impose additional constraints, such as requiring a code review.
> The lower tiers of human needs are about people being able to access things, not whether or not those things exist.

If those things don't exist, nobody can "access" them. All of those things have to be produced before anyone can use them.
> ... and I don't have to deal with snow or rain.

But the smog, the wildfires, and the traffic are, um, not ideal.

I admit that the beach in Iowa is somewhat lacking...
Ugh, I did not need to see this today :(
I would say it’s up to the viewer to decide what to take seriously. I wouldn’t listen to the flat earther for geographic information, but to better understand why they think that way. By better understanding their thought process, you have a better chance of explaining to them the holes in their theories. I personally don’t know why someone would be a flat earther, and am curious to know why.

You could look at it another way. A flat earther might watch his buddies episode, enjoy the Joe Rogan format, then watch the recommended Neil deGrasse Tyson episode. This would expose them to concepts that can help them see the error of their way.

I think it boils down to people thinking for themselves and deciding which episodes are for pondering vs which are for entertainment. Plus, who gets to decide what’s too “out there” for the show. A lot of the information dropped by Snowden was considered tin foil hat before the leak.
Yeah, but swapping out redux for `useReducer` doesn't require you to relearn the core concepts of React. The move from `React.createClass` to `es6` was clearly driven by the JS standards themselves evolving. At any rate, you're not having to rearchitect your whole React app for any of these changes. If you're still using Redux, that's cool, it's not necessary for you to swap it out and state management was never prescribed by React in the first place.
The missing piece here is: How do you sell it? How do people find out about your work?

These days (especially in a quarantine world) that means SEO, writing to the search engine, and to an extent, social media.

So while I don't love it, either, I'm increasingly learning to see sophisticated social media usage & SEO as part of my work.
If too many people are using the unofficial API for a product, is it right to assume that building a competing product offering a better official API, would be successful?
'No knock' searches plus stand-your-ground laws: A deadly combo
The virus is mutating, but mutations aren’t making Covid-19 worse
CORS is set by the target, so localhost CORS policy is directly in the hands of the user. intranet CORS policy is set by whoever operates that intranet service
The exact opposite is true. Bridenstine is/was a politicians and Loverro had a lot of experience and had political positions before. He ran military and spy space programs.
Why NASA’s chief of human spaceflight resigned–and why it matters
What do you expect Intel to do? Keep selling the same CPUs? Declare themselves bankrupt? Switch to TSMC for chip production? They are doing what they can in this situation. And I'm sure that their sales are far from zero.
No, Satoshi Nakamoto didn’t just move his Bitcoin
The Browser Exploitation Framework
Even if this were true, Facebook is an extreme (as in, 0.000001%) outlier. It's difficult to draw conclusions.
The Covid-19 migrants who never got home
And yet producing them without the ability to access them is completely pointless, which is my point. In fact, it's worse than pointless because effort and resources are expended in production.
There are some horned owls that seem spend a lot of time on my property at night. We like listening to them Who Who at each other.

Sometime last year one swooped over me while I was outside, I had no idea it was there until it was feet away and it was gigantic. Startled the hell out of me.

Only time I've ever actually seen them. I'd love to get some photographs of them but because they move so silently they're hard to find.
How about a "dont record where you shouldn't" clause in TOS... probably there already is one...
I'd like to see some data on this. There have been reports of clotting problems, lung, kidney and liver damage, destruction of lung function, and more. Yet there are no estimates I've seen of the duration or prevalence of these. There are anecdotal reports of people taking months to recover, but again little public data. Death is not the only bad outcome of this virus and without documented these other effects the true harm of the virus can't be known.
> None of it would address the question of justice.

I'm probably misunderstanding your point, but this is a question of justice. Specifically, it's a question of Distributive Justice, which is "[concerned with] the socially just allocation of resources". Saying "What would we need to change about our absurd arm-wrestling-based distribution system in order for it to be just" is squarely a question of distributive justice.

Are you saying that nothing that determines who gets to be Lord can be tweaked to reach a just distribution because of the winner-take-all nature of the rewards? Further, are you suggesting that the current (American, I assume) system of distribution is equally unjust in distriubtion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributive_justice
I tried signing in with my Microsoft account as well, nope, they want you to definitely go ahead and fill out a registration form for Build conference https://register.build.microsoft.com/, not gonna happen. Hope they learn not to paywall conferences of this kind, their competition just puts it out on YouTube live.
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Stonehenge will livestream summer solstice event for the first time
"The remarkable thing about these numbers (and Yang provides lots of them) is that four of the six industries (consulting, law, finance, and academia) are easily described as parasitic or predatory, secondary adornments to the actual business of human activity on the Earth."

One might suggest that one of these things is not like the others. (One might also suggest that a glance at the right column would be one reason why.)
SOCOM is around 100,000 soldiers. only the top 20 countries have militaries with more than 200,000 soldiers. if SOCOM was its own military, it would be bigger than 90% of the militaries in the world.
This is the truth. The way our market defines success doesn't mean that thats what success is. Sure, you can abuse it and sell your product even if it's bad, but look where that has taken the world.
What about Formal Proofs?
Syndicate pleeeeease :)
wonder if age is being accounted for?
King shares the Defold game engine source code and invites collaborators
DJB paid out $1,000 in 2009 to Matthew Dempsky for a djbdns security vulnerability.

https://marc.info/?l=djbdns&m=123613000920446&w=2
I've often felt like I'm somewhere in between worlds - I'm studying at the "top" university in my country, working at a Fortune 500, etc., and on the other hand I know how to use a chainsaw, have done my fair share of home renovation, own a few guns, and hit the range on weekends.

There is pretty much any activity or community that doesn't exist within your sphere. If yours is anything like mine, the people around you play Ultimate Frisbee, rock climb, "hike", do photography, and are "foodies". Pick an activity or community that you don't see represented in your sphere, and that's probably what you're looking for.

As an aside: my girlfriend and close friends have commented that I speak differently when around, e.g., old boomers at the range. You can use whether you feel like you "fit in" as a litmus test, and if you don't fit in, rest assured you will in due time. In my experience, people outside of "meritocratic" (read: finance, tech, law, etc.) bubbles are very kind and welcoming.
But they can hold you as long as they want in apparently uncomfortable conditions until you sign a confession, right?
I'm VERY excited for Record types. Automatically having automatically deep equality in data types is going to really help maintainability- no more "developer adds a field to the type but not to the equals function" type errors.
How so?

Johnson definitely did a lot of pork-barreling with the space program funds, but I think the main reason that Apollo went forward was because Kennedy had espoused a grand vision shortly before being shot. Without Lee Harvey Oswald, I doubt that Neil and Buzz would have made it to the moon, especially given Apollo 1.
How to deal with Virtual Interviews in the era of WFH
A lot of newer games probably include middleware licensed from other companies that make relicensing more challenging
oh boy! i had no idea such a utility existed, very cool.
A stable that can only contain white horses is not a stable that can contain any kind of horse. Whether you can ignore that distinction depends on whether the stable is in a covariant or contravariant position, i.e. whether you want to get horses from the stable or put horses into the stable.

These would be fine:

Horse[] genericStable = …;
WhiteHorse[] whiteHorseStable = …;

genericStable.insert(new WhiteHorse());
Horse someHorse = whiteHorseStable.first();

However, these can fail due to type errors:

whiteHorseStable.insert(new BrownHorse());
WhiteHorse horse = genericStable.first();

Because the ability to substitute a subtype for a supertype (or vice-versa) depends on whether the use is covariant or contravariant (or invariant) it becomes difficult to have proper subtype or supertype relationships in object-oriented languages where this distinction is not factored in to the type system. Simplifying a bit, to apply the LSP the language needs to distinguish between getters and setters at the type level and can't treat all methods equally.
It's by far my favorite general purpose language. Works well everywhere, and the best tools around.
> Corollary: wealth doesn’t exist

I have no idea how you are getting that from what I said.
Like most things moderation is key.
How to Choose the Perfect Programming Book to Read
HN has unofficial write APIs, since they don't prevent cross-site request forgery. This enables HN apps that upvote/comment/post to work. Thanks, HN ;)
People pining for other games might find this list handy: https://osgameclones.com
I'd prefer CPU to draw as much power as it wants if that would allow to perform given task faster. So I'm not sure if that's really an argument against Intel. If it wants to draw kilowatt for extra 20%, go for it.
How do you tell if someone is Protestant or not?
Investing in Alternative Protein Startups
It seems like entertainment overtly produced by the military is mostly outside of the scope of this particular phenomenon, which is more about the military influencing the content of entertainment-in-general.
CIA Guide to Business Sabotage
Not surprising in general, but given the reality that SF is the most tech-dense city in the world, it's an interesting observation that people perceive jobs to be scarce enough that the opportunity cost of leaving is worth more immediate employment.