skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like most people today, I attempted to get into the game a few dozen times until I finally was able to get past the first level "my own way" that didn't rely on the really finicky stealth mechanics (specifically using a GEP gun to destroy the robot, then walking through the front door).

The rest of the game is an absolute marvel of design. Even for a modern game the level design and depth of the story is remarkable. The game doesn't even look half bad if you install modern texture packs. It's a shame that the themes of the original were dumbed down significantly in the sequel.

I started another play through recently exactly for this reason:

> Smith: Deus Ex and Dishonored both involve a plague, and they both involve powerful, corrupt elites turning the disenfranchised against each other. When some states discouraged the wearing of masks or sheltering in place, somebody inevitably linked me the opening cinematic. ‘Why contain it? Let the bodies pile up in the streets’.
All that in-group out-group social identity theory stuff is pseudoscience anyway. But it's not an illusion, it's just a different and just as wrong framework of ideas than what you propose. Although I like yours better, it at least doesn't label people nor puts them in buckets, embracing more complexity of behavior.
See https://nix.dev
> Dido Harding has links to the Tory party and was in charge of the Talk Talk data leak scandal, and has been put in charge of the track-and-trace programme in the UK.

Some more context to this: England already has an excellent system for track and trace. Not for covid-19, we fucked that up. But for sexual health we have excellent work being done across the country by public health departments. These were split off from the NHS some time ago, and now they're funded by local authorities so they're struggling to cope with over a decade of austerity. But it's still a weird decision to not make use of that expertise and pull Harding in. Her work at NHS Improvement[1] is good, but she's had very little contact with public health work.

[1] Now NHS England + Improvement
I think you've hit the nail on the head, but you've also summarised why I think Apple should genuinely be concerned about losing marketshare amongst developers now that WSL2 is seriously picking up traction.

I started using my home Windows machine for development as a result of the lockdown and in all honesty I have fewer issues with it than I did with my work MacBook. Something is seriously wrong here.
I feel the same. I want to play the originals, but they are just so clunky and even the mods do not fix the fundamental problem of how old the games do feel.
iPhone SE is absolutely not cheap when you can buy a powerful android for $200. It's not absurdly priced, but that's about it.
The average solar irradiance on Mercury is over 9000W, on Earth about 1400W, on Mars 600W, on Saturn 15W, Pluto 0.87W, per square meter(or per 10ft^2, or per 14 medium sized Pizza). Farther you’re out the sunlight must disperse to a broader area thus gets weaker. Inverse square law you know.

Which means the solar array must be twice as large for same output on Mars alone, and solar propulsion is probably completely infeasible due to weight and volume constraints, if not structural as well, on Saturn orbit and beyond.

For missions further out or for Mars missions that cannot accommodate twice larger wings, we must “carry our own Sun” for power.

Which isn’t wrong at all, after all the Sun is a natural fusion reactor so solar panels aren’t like it’s free of stigmatic nuclear technology.

Oh and also nuclear propulsion aren’t considered chemical by the way...
eBay’s former CEO denies any link to the cyberstalking of a blogger
They didn't go entirely out of business: their consulting arm is now known as Accenture.
Money, dinners and strip clubs: How pharmaceutical executives bribed doctors
> Just in case you live on another universe.

Or any country that isn't the US?
The Venn diagram of "right-wing extremists" and "Islamic extremists" approaches a circle. This is especially true in an attack on the LGBT community.
Just the contact tracing app? All of UK politics over the last decade or so is the context within which this is just a very small line item. One own goal after the other.
Rust docs never claimed to prevent race conditions (which he doesn't call by name).

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
Combination of both high thrust-to-weight ration and a high exhaust velocity. The first ensures you can accelerate quickly when not loaded with too much fuel, the second ensures you don't need to bring that much fuel.

Solar by itself doesn't provide reaction mass (outside of solar sails, which are very low thrust). You would probably be combining it with ion thursters, which have really high exhaust velocities, but low thrust to weight ratios.
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You’re essentially downplaying a huge percentage of people doing real work.
I think Mac OS will remain Mac OS. Apple even said it would.
Yep, and all the solutions they can offer is "go to a meetup with like-minded people ROFL"... I guess it is that simple for them.
> the phone ringing within a couple hours? I highly doubt it.

The article says they did everything themselves, probably including calling that number and ordering food :-)
I assume you're talking about solar-powered ion engines, as solar panels cannot on their own move a spacecraft appreciably.

The big difference there is thrust. Ion engines are efficient but have very low thrust, so it can take months to change your orbit. Chemical and nuclear propulsion is high thrust, so we're talking minutes instead. Nuclear has higher propellant (i.e. mass) efficiency than chemical as well.
that's nice and all but it's a thread about aggressive pricing and I just linked you source for the Iphone SE having big fat margins, so, no, you're talking about another thing completely, the Iphone SE is not priced aggressively. it's at most built on the low end to compete strategically, and that has nothing to do with the point being made.
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It'll be interesting to see if they succeed. It seems developers aren't to keen on differentiating their UI:s, but perhaps Apple's draconian app store rules can counteract that.
Is there a link to the actual study? I can't seem to find it on this website.
10 years young me would have liked having something like this. Nowadays any manual configuration is a big no-no. All my configuration parsing and building happen in the CI pipeline in an automated manner.
I’m disappointed that U.S. police departments would use such low a quality service with no focus on security. Looking at Netsential’s website, their services look very basic and inexpensive. There’s not even a mention of security on its site. It was only a matter of time before they were hacked.

https://netsential.com/default.aspx?menuitemid=280
Exactly right. I play didgeridoo, American Native Flute, and guitar.

[1] https://markwatson.com/fun/
I have similar results when running the code in the Firefox devtools console, however, running these benchmarks in a dedicated webpage does not show the results.

When using a dedicated web page, I see results which are in the same ranges as NodeJS and Chrome: (not comparable, as running on different hardware)

Started data Local (original) foo.html:120:11
Finished data locality test run in 8.6800 ± 1.3095 ms. foo.html:144:11
Started data Non-local (original) foo.html:120:11
Finished data locality test run in 38.9400 ± 1.6195 ms. foo.html:144:11
Started data Local foo.html:120:11
Finished data locality test run in 6.6600 ± 1.1390 ms. foo.html:144:11
Started data Non-local foo.html:120:11
Finished data locality test run in 38.6400 ± 1.5861 ms. foo.html:144:11
Started data Non-local (sorted) foo.html:120:11
Finished data locality test run in 12.1800 ± 1.8334 ms. foo.html:144:11
Started data Local (object) foo.html:120:11
Finished data locality test run in 14.4500 ± 1.1492 ms. foo.html:144:11
Started data Non-local (object) foo.html:120:11
Finished data locality test run in 49.0000 ± 1.6576 ms. foo.html:144:11
Started data Non-local (sorted array of indices) foo.html:120:11
Finished data locality test run in 53.8500 ± 2.9725 ms.

I opened a bug against the devtools console of Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647276
And that the market nowadays has nearly 0 predicting power and live in the very short term/present, contrary to the priced in belief.
HTML doesn't need to be simplified to reign in the complexity.

Rather, it needs to be completed as a hypertext, so that people can build complete software systems using (only or mostly) that language.

See the htmx examples page for stuff that should be doable in plain HTML:

https://htmx.org/examples/

The fact that only anchor and forms, only clicks and submits, only GET and POST and only full page replacement is available in vanilla HTML is the core issue. If HTML had htmx-like functionality you would see far less pressure for large, complex front end frameworks, and it would be completely within the original REST-ful web model[1] that Roy Fielding described.

[1] - https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...
All groups you know don't have contrarian opinions? Most ideas can be questioned.
probably links to main stream media outlets?!
Do the cops not comprehend that they were recording themselves while committing crimes against the people they are sworn to protect?
Yeah lol, hesitant to say this but murica leaks here.
I wonder what happens when you have a successful product that doesn't need any more tinkering but you still have a lot of people working on it. Maybe this is it :)
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a) I love that an offhand comment about password entry has spawned a sprawling thread about dieting.

and,

b) This reminds me of Penn Jillette's potato diet, and might explain why it works.
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I'm fairly certain that Venn diagram would be almost disjoint if representing individual people.

But both groups are definately conservative and hold some of the same ideas. They both want the world and power they or their grandfathers had 50-150 years ago.
Big Tech Monopolies Are a Threat to First Amendment
The idea was considered before and showed great promise:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu...
Of course there is always the backside, imagine a rocket exploding in the upper atmosphere leaving nuclear waste and rocket parts over vast areas of land.
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Astronauts, Experts and Space Agencies Discuss Asteroids on Asteroid Day,30 June
“docker-compose up &”
Never seen it with the & before. Why not use “-d” instead?
Sugary drinks are absolutely the next Big Tobacco and should be treated as such. It's promising to see the positive results of the experiments that have been performed worldwide over the past decade or two. Adjusting the prices of these products to better reflect their externalities seems to be the best way to address the problems (as opposed to just banning them, for example), and these studies show that it works.
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Some pretty thorough discussion on Meta: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/398367/feature-test...
And that's where model checking / formal verification is a tremendous help (or would be if it was easier to use).

There are many properties of multithreaded/distributed systems that are emergent and that current static compilers don't address.

In distributed systems it's becoming more common to use TLA+[1] to model the system and ensure that we don't have bugs at the design level (rather than just the system level).

In particular for message-passing, I'm quite curious about the state of the research on Communicating Finite State Machines[1] and Petri Nets[2] and if there are actual products that could be integrated in regular languages and are not just of academic interest only.

I expect that Ada/Sparks[1] has some support for this pattern though Ada multithreading story is not there yet (?).

I'm quite excited about the future Z3 prover integration in Nim[5] and the potential to write concurrent programs free of design bugs[6] to address both ends of the concurrency bugs:

- bugs in the low-level concurrent data structure via formal verification (which is something I used int he past to prove that my design was bug-free and that the deadlock I experienced was a condition variable bugs in Glibc[7] and I had to directly use futexes instead.

- bugs in the high-level design, implemented as event-loop / finite state-machine reacting to events as received by channels

Are there people working on model checkers or formal verification in Rust? Like the author, i think addressing memory bugs.the borrow checker is only a part of the "fearless concurrency" story and preventing design bugs would be extremely valuable.

[1]: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_finite-state_mac...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_net

[4]: https://www.adacore.com/sparkpro

[5]: https://nim-lang.org/docs/drnim.html

[6]: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/222

[7]: https://github.com/mratsim/weave/issues/56

And shameless plug, my talk at the NimConf on debugging multithreading programs (data structure and design): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAI2wH9Cf0&list=PLxLdEZg8DR...

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRq2wvd4q_mo...
If previous incidents have taught us anything, it's that taxpayers should buy free credit monitoring to everyone affected by the leak and be done with it. Maybe throw in $10 to anyone that can prove they suffered losses as a direct result of the leak.
I don’t think that’s the bargain here.

Fusion centers seem to be shared databases of threats that federal, state, and local agencies all contribute to.

Given the scale, it’s likely more of the focus is on organizations, not individuals.

Given the nature of internal misconduct, I think it’s safe to assume that wouldn’t be shared period, let alone in venues such as these.

In cases where it does need to be shared, e.g. covered up NYPD misconduct affects FBI case, I’d assume they have alternative means to this sort of spreadsheet-broadcast impression I’m getting of the centers.

Could be totally off, either way I suppose we’ll find out now.
> a centralized model based on confirmed cases rather than suspected ones was more in line with capacity [of testing and contact tracers]

Seems a pretty clearly spelt out to me.
So I've got 4 four kids and was the tech director for a school district that was 1:1. We started iPads about 10 years ago but have now transitioned to Chromebooks.
In my observations educational games work well with under 12. After about 12 years old social pressure and lack of complexity keep them from enjoying games that are "educational". Over 12 apps suck as Minecraft, Tynker, Scratch become more inline with an older kids interest.
But if you DO make educational apps please keep it up. For example Stack the States / Stack the Countries has been a favorite in with all my kids.
I find it interesting that the model doesn't get one of the simplest rule of a recipe: the ingredients list and the ingredients in the instructions must be the same.

Obviously, it is because the model "understands" the structure of the sentence, but is oblivious of the text as a whole.
The Weather Underground never killed anyone outside the organization, which is usually how far left terrorism operates. There are exceptions, but that's why it's not compared to far right and religious terrorism.
I'm an OpenBSD developer and fully agree anjbe here.

OpenBSD is for REAL HUMANS. Not real "men". OpenBSD is build and designed for everyone. It is a system you can give to your 5 year old and as they learn how to use the computer they'll learn how to safely connect to the Internet. The base install literally comes with games targetting children, to help their Internet experience.

Your whole life you have been using non-free, non-functional, and insecure software.

I'm here for fun - if we want to keep as many pufferfish alive as possible until the heat death of the universe, for me it starts with installing OpenBSD. OpenBSD is nothing other than love for other humans, and we don't know if we can trust them.
Continuous improvement is what happens...
Wirecard was the biggest bank of the 4th biggest economy. So I inferred some systemic issues here.
this is where i lost interest in the book. the idea that
destroying another civilization is the only reasonable choice is beyond ridiculous.

first of all, game theory is based on our current experience and conditioning. if we raise a society where cooperation is valued, then the outcomes of game theory will change too. it is absurd to assume that game theory is universal.

but even if it were, and we'd have to assume that all aliens are hostile, the recources necessary to mount an expedition to another inhabited solar system are much larger than the benefits of exploiting a remote planet. it's simply not worth it.

what would be the point?

my expectation is that before we are able to send ships we'll be communicating for a long period, giving us enough time to share scientific discoveries.

i'll even go as far as to claim that developing space travel that can take us to another inhabited solar system will only happen in collaboration with the civilization that we want to visit.
> "Meanwhile, officials were looking for glory (and even knighthoods), and ministers were focused on rolling out a “world-beating” app, rather than just a successful one, so that they could claim victory on the world stage."

This is the lede. Technology issues aside, the problems started here. It's a false narrative that the idea the technology and the makers that use it are to blame.

Too many inflated egos and too much ambition have undermined more efforts than any other factor.

"How do you conquer the world? One country at a time."
Still one of the best games ever released.

The gameplay is clunky now in comparison to modern gaming, but the story is still one of the most compelling in the field.

Agree with the above -- would love to see it remade using modern engine.
A large desktop app (CAD). But the same thing has popped up in other projects: games, audio plugins, statistics, visualization... Basically anything that is CPU/Memory bound (which is most things except for basic web/database apps I find) needs careful thinking around performance.
>powerful android for $200

Even the $1500 Android flagships are completely outclassed by that SE.

On CPU:

>Overall, in terms of performance, the A13 and the Lightning cores are extremely fast. In the mobile space, there’s really no competition as the A13 posts almost double the performance of the next best non-Apple SoC.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...

and GPU:

>On the GPU side of things, Apple has also been hitting it out of the park; the last two GPU generations have brought tremendous efficiency upgrades which also allow for larger performance gains. I really had not expected Apple to make as large strides with the A13’s GPU this year, and the efficiency improvements really surprised me. The differences to Qualcomm’s Adreno architecture are now so big that even the newest Snapdragon 865 peak performance isn’t able to match Apple’s sustained performance figures. It’s no longer that Apple just leads in CPU, they are now also massively leading in GPU.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15246/anandtech-year-in-revie...
> as employers embrace new skills-based certifications, many students may question the value of the traditional four-year degree

Of course employers will embrace skills-based certifications, as they essentially offload the cost of any specialized training to the employee. Until now, it was not uncommon for the employer to pay (directly or indirectly) for the additional training.

But I'm not sure if getting a specialization certification without having a solid background on the topic is a good idea. It will be like the hordes of self-taught plugin programmers that made the Wordpress platform a liability to run.

In the end, the problem is not the value of the four-year university degree. The problem is its price. Pretending that the price can't be lowered, so we have to investigate alternative modes of higher education, is both untruthful and undemocratic.
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I keep seeing this idea of an incompetent government come up repeatedly.

What people don't understand is that it is precisely this incompetence which allows corporations to manipulate the government so well.
Laws and regulations do not originate within governments. They originate from lobbyists who are working in the interest of corporations and other large financial interests.

When discussing the economy, some people will keep insisting that capitalism is the most intelligent collective system possible, yet when it comes to politics, they will make it seem like capitalism is the dumbest system in the world, utterly incompetent at implementing perverse economic agendas...
So I guess the view must be that capitalism maximizes the extraction of value from every kind of activity except when those activities relate to the government?

Clearly this makes no sense. Why would capitalism's efficiency at leveraging the collective intelligence stop at politics?
Show me the Isp figures on these proposed nuclear thermal propulsion designs.

Project Rho (the best source for this kind of stuff) is listing various nuclear thermal designs with high 3 digit Isps, e.g. 900s for this design: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php...

If that's realistic, it'ss certainly an improvement over the 348s of the Falcon 9 second stage (and that figure is representative generally of chemical rockets), but it's not a sea change.
Years ago I visited Mammoth Cave, KY. There I learned about cave explorer Floyd Collins. He was trapped in a cave in 1925 and the incident attracted wide attention. I started reading about Collins and this is still one of the most terrifying reads for me. I cannot imagine being trapped so tightly, underground with no light and for so long.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544782/1925-cave-rescue-...
I'm guessing there's a lot of bloggers out there that are going to find this interesting.
Thanks Mark. I didn't know if it was music or electronics or what lol.
Pet Detector, an Android app using machine learning to catch various animals if they stray in front of the camera lens. The app then takes a photo and/or plays a warning sound.

Also made my first CV in 20 years because I need a second job to pay back all the money I'm losing - I previously made my living mainly from entertainment at large events...

https://www.circusscientist.com/cv/
You couldn't do it today, but possibly it would work 7 years ago.
Having had formal education at a Java college, where you had to have at least one Class definition to run your code, discovering this course was a revelation.

To learn from the people that invented their own programming language AND chip to go with it. For free, as long as you had internet access, is something I'm eternally thankful for.

This video series is a national treasure. It changed my life, and so many others, without a doubt, for the uncountable better.

(THANK YOU)
Anecdotally, I've used risperidone specifically to abort LSD trips on two occasions and found it quite successful both times. Now when I introduce people to LSD I give them a Risperdal to keep in their pocket "just in case", though to my knowledge none of them have had to use it.
I was able to use the docs on the official website[0] without issues for both installing and upgrading on ubuntu. Trying to figure out what this page does extra that provides value beyond them.

[0]: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/
I think you’re overestimating the minimum size of a nuclear device, they can be small as a larger watermelon.