skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More-upvoted comments float up. That's how Reddit works.
Contrary to what that Gamasutra article says, it sounds like the whole game was actually developed by the Japanese company and Maxis just published it. Was a lot of fun back in the day. The creator also made the very strange Seaman for Dreamcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfW6EbFXtCQ
It’s a death cult. Americans have internalized the loss of life essential to our way of life and will die to support it.
I'm guessing the actual reason why the guys in question are dressed in mixed uniforms is that someone in the department of justice hit the "send everyone" button, which included investigators typically not kitted out for field duty.
To unbury the lede, this is happening at tomorrow, Saturday June 6 at noon PST
This was binary test. It looks like they were testing if Covid-19 passed through masks or not. They did not look at N95 masks, nor did they look at seeing if the viral load was decreased.

"This experiment did not include N95 masks and does not reflect the actual transmission of infection from patients with COVID-19 wearing different types of masks. We do not know whether masks shorten the travel distance of droplets during coughing. Further study is needed to recommend whether face masks decrease transmission of virus from asymptomatic individuals or those with suspected COVID-19 who are not coughing."
if 95% doesn't qualify as "the vast majority" of anything then the phrase has no usefulness.
It is neither a personal attack or name calling.
Metaprogramming doesn't need to have a performance impact. VM languages like Java, C#, and JS allow you do define and modify code at runtime

JS you can redefine anything, Java support is pretty good, C# better support is coming with generators
I also would like to write more but more often than not find myself writing code.

Still trying to figure this one out and I think I'm getting closer. If I remind myself that I really like talking about this subject and that I want to share what I know with as many people as possible, so that they might grow on my shoulders, than I can find some energy.

"The hardest part is starting." ~ someone notable
I assume this is a joke comment? The font is too small, huge white borders, scrolling elements with the page. I'd suggest this an average layout at best, & certainly nothing to croon over.

The content is good tho.
Unpopular opinion: it really doesn't matter what VCs do or don't do. Most VCs dreadfully under-perform the market. The rate of VC success is mostly related to chance or some unfair advantage in getting into early winners. Most VCs are awful. Meet with them in person, not in person, it doesn't matter. I treat advice from VCs pretty much the same as a random money manager. Maybe what they're saying makes sense, maybe not, but it doesn't deserve any heavy weight.

The 80/20 rule applies heavily to VCs. A very small number of VCs are responsible for the majority of returns. The rest are just chasing deals around. Chase in person. Chase not in person. It really doesn't matter.
In your example, I think you'd have to be some sort of water utility for the EPA regulations to apply to you. Knowingly handing a kid a tainted glass of water would be handled under other criminal laws (murder?). Pumping that same water through a pipe to the whole city? EPA regulations!
Old wives tale.

Even the stackoverflow answers say as much. Most of the thermal ramping occurs in the first five minutes and then stabilizes after cache is exhausted. As all these dslr’s allow you to record 29m50s videos back to back all day long it’s also indicative that it’s not a big enough issue in returns to warrant addressing in their firmware.

As you’re not writing to the SD card, hdmi passthrough should yield an overall lower operating temperature after an hour than writing to the SD card when recording video after even 10 minutes.

I tried getting to the source of this rumor. Didn’t find one particular origin, just speculation amongst Redditors and Twitch users about the 30 minute limit and bypassing it with the Nikon or Canon firmware mods will void your warranty.

It will however introduce more noise. Particularly at higher ISO’s. Astronomy photographers (a major driver of the firmware hacks in the first place - see “Nikon stareater bypass”) have cooling solutions available there too.
> - People who are too passionate about one thing

People who are passionate about something are generally interesting people. They know the obscure ins and outs of the thing they are passionate about. You can learn a lot from such people.
At least, that's what I always felt.
This is what degrading all understanding of a political economy down to jobs and a stock market price does.

Btw, it’s absolutely unacceptable to justify the degradation of water quality with jobs. Regardless the reasoning it was entirely irresponsible given the infrastructure in the area.

Anyway it’s not like there’s any shortage of examples that austerity leads to loss of life.
Doesn’t arch also allow arbitrary package upgrades straight from the developers? Again I’m pretty ignorant but my impression looking at it previously was there isn’t any sort of “peer review” by repo maintainers.
I don't even see why we need to bring multiple languages into the picture. Different people have (sometimes not so) subtle different understandings of the meanings of different words. By a similar notion of "untranslatability", I feel like similar arguments would basically mean that a single language is untranslatable between two native speakers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430575
Do you truly think that there are zero cases where a police officer firing a gun is justified?
This stuff is highly charged. Doing it over text messages just makes things harder.

I appreciate you are doing it good faith, but 400 years of blood makes for murky waters.
Looks like another marketing article, empty of any insight.
Other than the perchlorate problem (which is a real problem, but they can be baked out with heat as I understand it) I don't think we know any reason why not.

You'd have to fertilize the soil of course, but fundamentally plants don't need that much to grow. A lot of hydroponics use a completely inert "gravel" like substance and just wash a nutrient solution through on occasion.
And Wolf3D!
Would you use a hosting provider with 95% uptime? That’s 72 minutes of downtime per day. Would you describe them as being up "the vast majority" of the time?
_Everything_ about the Trump-Rocky affair was odd.
Oh, yeah I think these comparisons actually are interesting. I'm not aware of any good studies about the root causes of gun violence in the US, but I'd be interested in reading them. My totally unsubstantiated guess would be that we have higher rates of mental illness, inequality, drug/alcohol abuse (which are mental/physical illnesses but important to call out separately) and access to firearms than almost every other western society.

> The other part on the gun control question is the age-old adage that in countries where guns are outlawed only outlaws have guns. They're not exactly hard to come by after all.

That's true, and it's also true that guns aren't the only horrible weapon you can use against someone. But that accepts the premise that a lot of gun violence is one person using a gun maliciously against another. While that does happen, in the US most gun deaths are either suicides or accidents.

And besides, while I'm sure it's not a problem for connected criminal enterprises to get guns, I'm confident we can create a system that would foil a kid amassing weapons for a school shooting. Degrees matter.
Even if it did the effects would not so quickly reverse.
But the whole point of extreme political ideologies like libertarianism and anarchism is that they are dogmatic. They have simple answers to complex problems.

If you're grappling with gray areas, then congrats! You now have a more nuanced understanding that brings you closer to center, and you're not libertarian anymore.
It is interesting that the cotton masks were more effective than the surgical mask:

>The median viral loads after coughs without a mask, with a surgical mask, and with a cotton mask were 2.56 log copies/mL, 2.42 log copies/mL, and 1.85 log copies/mL, respectively

My point was that if the statement read Scientific evidence shows masks are not effective it would means something. The lack of evidence showing effectiveness does not disprove effectiveness.
Based on everything I've read it should be possible. One would just need to add organic material and cultivate the symbiotic microbes, and plants should have no problem.
All the big techs are stifling competition in many markets by offering their product in those markets at or below cost and supporting those losses with money that comes from elsewhere in the company.
Look at music streaming: Spotify is the only big service that is only in that market.
Look at consumer storage: Dropbox is the only big service that is only in that market.
If tech behemoths didn’t exist, there would be much more active competition and thus technological advancement in those markets.
They also buy start-ups in emerging markets at a breakneck pace.
ISPs and telecoms are dangerous due to their level of control, but are significantly worse at using their data to influence the way you think. I strongly believe that the current political climate would be significantly more tepid if not for Facebook and YouTube alone... the scale is so hard to comprehend.

On the surface social media looks completely benign, but they have these far reaching insidious impacts. Our elected representatives don't even have a basic understanding of how these sites operate... yet you have the majority of the population being fed content by these algorithms that determine what you see when, and they're completely opaque.
They've got scores of analysts and psychologists shaping this stuff full-time... no single entity in human history has had this level of data and reach into human behavior, and it's all proprietary.

Small intentional changes over time to such wide-reaching algorithms can literally shape humanity in ways that may be entirely impossible for an outsider to detect.
There Are Two Recessions, Not One
Yeah it's bizarre. (Us) Americans sure love to chop up our words, and it seems even more we love to create binary classifications for three different axes of beliefs (social, political, economic). Like, ok, if I'm a communist but believe the government should be as small as possible to serve only its core set of functions, which box do I fit into? If I think women should have the right to choose what's best for their bodies, but I support free speech and the right to bear arms, what am I?

The whole left vs right, liberal vs conservative thing is so stupid, but our FPTP voting system and media are happy to keep the fight raging.
Ubuntu Unity 20.04 V4 Released
He's right though, not even Paul Graham's blog gets 25 HN posts in 3 months.
Looks like HN should have used Functionize(r)(tm) to test their software to make sure this doesn't happen.
> Google, Amazon, FB are not the monopolies that you should be worried about. They are fun to talk about and tech is sexy, but there are bigger problems - ISPs / telecoms, for example

Why not worry about both groups?
I remember but have never found a copy of an Apple ][ program I got from a pirated software collection, temptingly called "SUPER HIRES CHESS", which was actually not a chess game, but a puzzle game in the form of a computer virus:

It pretended to be a BASIC game with a bug in it, and when you ran it, it would break with an error message. Then it would intercept the keyboard input vector, watch what you typed, and play all kinds of tricks on you, like when you typed "LIST" and hit return, it replaced it with "LSIT" and beeped syntax error, to drive you crazy! Eventually it would start giving you more hints that your computer had been taken over by a virus, and you had to figure out some puzzles to disable it.

I've scoured the Apple ][ archives but never found it. But as long as people keep uploading and sharing their old collections, maybe "SUPER HIRES CHESS" will show up some day!
Corporate veil is a bitch.
The Lancet's credibility is kind of in the toilet right now thanks to publishing that Hydroxychloroquine study that appears to have had the data pulled from thin air
Coinbase is selling blockchain analytics to IRS, DEA
What would you recommend as the best mathematics course for understanding the underlying mathematics in machine learning ?
how do I avoid hardening my arteries?
The cost of those machines failing or worse getting stuck is enormous, they have very specific life span and are pretty much discarded even mid project if they dug past their mileage.

These machines are also custom built for the diameter, soil type and probably a plethora of other variables so it’s unlikely that you could reuse them.

They are also not built to be recovered and reused from what I gather which complicates things further.
you obviously did not do metaprogramming in Ruby. Try it and you will never look at the "metaprogramming" capabilities of other languages in the same way.

no offence to JS, but JS and a proper programming language are not even the same species.
I've been using Manjaro for about a year now, after also getting fed up with Ubuntu. It is based on Arch, but just as easy to set up and get running as Ubuntu. I find its package management sane enough for my day-to-day use, and though I install packages from all over I have yet to have anything break on me. I can definitely recommend it.
Just to be clear, they "resigned" from the special unit not the police force. None of them is going to resign from the force.

The article suggests that these additional officers "resigned in disgust because of the treatment of officers who were simply executing orders".

I have to ask, what orders were those exactly.

I'm sure they were tasked with clearing the area. I'm also certain they were not tasked with critically injuring a citizen (let a lone a senior citizen) while doing so. Those officers were not suspended for "simply executing orders", but how they did so and perhaps more importantly how they were susceptible to the peer pressure inappropriately applied by uninvolved officers egging them on. This was 50+ officers vs one 75 year old guy asking questions. They have all taken a public oath.

I was a military dog handler, I have family in state police. My closest cousin wears a police ring as his wedding band. I have the up most respect for law enforcement in general and feel that the overwhelming majority of officers act heroically in the face of daily uncertainty.

However, this entire group of officers needs retraining. Officers who are susceptible to peer pressure (either applying or receiving) need to be retrained or discharged. This not an appropriate career path for those not confident enough to resist being bullies or cowards.
The core issue here is that this regulation doesn't directly introduce any new competition while it only tries to weaken Google's network effect. Network effect is a new corporate tool to fight against antitrust regulation; it's not that straightforward to handle it within the scope defined by the US antitrust jurisprudence especially when it actually benefits the consumers (in this case, advertisers).

I personally believe that we need to deal with those aggregators but not sure if this kind of breaking up will result anything other than lost opportunity costs from several years wasted from a lawsuit. I hope DoJ to develop a new effective framework to regulate aggregators but it's very unlikely since William Barr seems to be mostly driven by political motivation.
Does anyone know how a post with 200 comments and 230 upvotes published just 2 hours ago ends up on the 4th page?
Ask HN: What is the greatest open-source project?
Taking into account factors like security, contributors, maturity, popularity, code aesthetics etc, which project do you consider to be the perfect example of how open source should be?
Keep the document open and just mash on the keyboard, multiple keys at a time
Raspberry Pi Cluster Episode 4 – Minecraft, Pi-Hole, Grafana
Modern policing is full of contradiction: it should be non-violent, but it should also evict people, even from the streets. It should be anti-racist, but most prosecuted crimes are against the poor. It should protect the community from loss, but most of what is spent on policing is lost in wage theft. It should protect the community, but death by policing and incarceration are major causes of death.
snap has problems that exist for years.

It will upgrade a running application without telling the user. Then it will remount all folders in use by the running application in read only mode. As such, your chromium will start misbehaving, crashing, extensions will start failing, it won't save cookies or remember tabs after restart. DBeaver won't be saving your .sql scripts. Snap developers think users are precogs. That users without any foreshadowing will close application before snap silently upgrades it behind the scenes.

Also Snap does really weird things as a container. I run multiple VPNs each within own network namespace. So something as simple as :

as root:
ip netns exec myVPN chromium
fails with
execv failed: Permission denied

Both of these problems exists for years.
It also ignores a third option (and one that was actually used anyways), blocking all shipments of n95 masks to retail outlets to send to hospitals instead
Do you know if there's any knowledge on how much fertilization you'd need to bring in? Or: whether it actually makes sense to use Martian soil to grow things on? If it doesn't supply much, one might just stick to hydroponics...
(For those who dislike sitting through a video and would rather have a wall of text, I have this posted on my blog, too: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-cluster-...).
What distro? I use Ubuntu because I just want an OS, not a hobby.
There are some answers here:
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer...

IIRC it was the same thing they said during the launch of the Dragon capsule so yeah they don't use crazy RAD stuff:

SpaceX uses an Actor-Judge system to provide triple redundancy to its rockets and spacecraft. The Falcon 9 has 3 dual core x86 processors running an instance of linux on each core. The flight software is written in C/C++ and runs in the x86 environment. For each calculation/decision, the "flight string" compares the results from both cores. If there is a inconsistency, the string is bad and doesn't send any commands. If both cores return the same response, the string sends the command to the various microcontrollers on the rocket that control things like the engines and grid fins.

The microcontrollers, running on PowerPC processors, received three commands from the three flight strings. They act as a judge to choose the correct course of actions. If all three strings are in agreement the microcontroller executes the command, but if 1 of the 3 is bad, it will go with the strings that have previously been correct. The Falcon 9 can successfully complete its mission with a single flight string.

The triple redundancy gives the system radiation tolerance without the need for expensive rad hardened components. SpaceX tests all flight software on what can be called a table rocket. They lay out all the computers and flight controllers on the Falcon 9 on a table and connect them like they would be on the actual rocket. They then run a complete simulated flight on the components, monitoring performance and potential failures.

SpaceX engineers perform what they call "Cutting the strings" where they randomly shut off a flight computer mid simulation, to see how it responds.

Dragon uses a similar triple redundant system for its flight computers.
Someone else more knowledgeable will have to expand on this, but I know that on Docsis the lower bands are used for upload and those can carry less signal. Something about those lower bands makes them more advantageous for node > hub communications but exactly what I don’t know.
1701 D-Day
You're being hit hard wherever you go, but I think you've got a fair mindset. Small amounts of people have a disproportionate amount of final say in how millions of people get to group and share information. That has to have negative externalizations, it doesn't track that it would have absolutely no ill effects. If you have a legitimate argument that defends there will be no problems, please share, I'm open minded.

If Trump is attacking them cynically out of some tantrum relating to how they beat on him and his supporters. Then yeah, I disagree he's doing it for the right reasons. But I think he has the right directional thrust.
How the heck does this get onto the front page?

The top question is "What methodologies have you used?" -- is this a joke? The answer will tell you nothing about the candidate's ability to do a good job.

This article is a waste of time.
No, quantum computers as we understand them can be simulated by a turing machine
I'm not claiming there is no looting anywhere. But why should we expect that other police departments treat peaceful protestors any less violently? Do you think the NYPD is just especially sadistic?
Spaceteam is fantastic.

There is a card game version: each player has a stack of problem cards, and a hand of tool cards, and you need a certain combination of tools to fix each problem. You can pass tool cards to other players who need them.

Simple, right?

You can only pass cards to the players immediately to your left or right, so if you need a tool from someone on the other side of the table, you need to get them passed all the way round.

Each tool has a name and a picture. Some of the problem cards refer to the tool by name, some with a picture. So you're asking for "the tool that looks like a red egg whisk", a description which other players may or may not recognise.

There are cards in the problem deck which cause you problems. You might have to throw your hand down and wait for the other players to pick it up. You might not be able to use your thumbs. You might not be able to speak out loud or move until someone touches you.

And of course the game is played in realtime, against a timer, with all players playing simultaneously. There is a lot of shouting.

Plus, i swear that the cards are far more slippery than normal cards, so if you make the slightest error in handling them, they fly off the table.
Settings > Passwords and Accounts > AutoFill Passwords

Make sure it's enabled and uncheck "iCloud Keychain" while leaving "1Password" checked. It'll basically make it your default password manager.

Most apps that I use handle this well. Some (E-trade) don't seem to have the implementation quite right.
It sounds like the objection isn't technical -- sandboxed apps are perfectly fine -- but rather to how Canonical is trying to change package behavior alongside the transition. Specifically, they're forcing you to use them for some packages behind the scenes, and restricting what you can do with those packages as a result:

> "In the Ubuntu 20.04 package base, the Chromium package is indeed empty and acting, without your consent, as a backdoor by connecting your computer to the Ubuntu Store. Applications in this store cannot be patched, or pinned. You can't audit them, hold them, modify them, or even point snap to a different store. You've as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you."
The below package implements something like that, but better imo: https://tk3369.github.io/BinaryTraits.jl/dev/
I think most public companies make sure that upcoming earnings data and such is only released to people on a "need to know" basis. It doesn't seem reasonable that thousands of employees would have access to it.
Ruby's meta-programming capabilities is why optimising Ruby is so darn difficult. It's extremely powerful, but also complicates a lot of things.