skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Decimation was a form of Roman military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort. ... The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth".
Various mammals are a more similar environment to live in than land and water.
Thank you very much for suggestion but as much as I respect emacs and have always seen org-mode as something really really amazing out of the box, I still haven't decided to switch or start using emacs yet. There's a plugin in vim which replicates similar functionality but it still is not as good as emacs. I don't mean to say anyone editor is better, but for practical reasons I am not trying org-mode now.

I really appericiate your suggestions and will keep it in mind when I might give emacs a shot.
Some other ideas after poking around quora and the PM subreddit:

* How to use metrics when you suck at metrics.

* What are the 3 metrics you should look at every day (broken down by type of project)

* How to build a diverse team of PMs

* The best PMs I’ve ever seen do... (anecdotes from amazing PMs)

* The worst PMs I’ve ever seen do../ (anecdotes from terrible PMs)

* How to get the most from your PM as a (designer / engineer / biz dev / etc)

* how to get the most from your (designee / Engineerin : biz dev / etc) as a PM
Companies dont have a God given right to exist, nor to intrude upon me with ads, targeted or not, nor are they entitled to my attention. I could not possibly care less what the company wants.

The only effect banning advertising will have is that businesses will have to find another way to attract customers.

As for companies not existing without advertising are you serious? Billboards or some other passive advertising could still be possible,or how about we all opt in to services we want to hear about.

Companies have existed before modern advertising and will exist after.
In the last three years we have hosted our enterprise software on Azure, and the only outages we've had have been caused by mistakes or issues at Cloudflare. Azure has been rock solid but our customers don't understand that and assume that we're "just down", which impacts our SLAs.

During the most recent outage a few weeks ago, Azure were available to discuss the issue by phone. I wish I could say the same for Cloudflare.

I would be interested to hear from anybody who knows of a good alternative to Cloudflare. I'm completely fed up with them.
No it doesn’t. Look it up.
- I unfriended all of my friends from HS and college I would never connect with again, or we're on the same career path, this got me down to a few hundred. This step is important because when FB shows your post to people, and they don't engage, it kills reach.

- I joined all of the relevant Facebook Groups. Maybe 25% of the ones I joined were worth staying in.

- I added thousands of people doing cool stuff in the same space

- I optimized my Facebook profile to get link clicks to my blog

- I created an in-content CTA to download a template

- And a bottom bar that promoted my Facebook Group

The more I add value in relevant groups and on my own profile, the more of my target audience investigates who I am, sees my FB profile CTA, click my link, get on my email list and join my Facebook Group.

Then all these people engage with my new content.
So what you're trying to say is that execs getting these kind of bonuses in a financially distressed company is not unlike vultures feeding on a carcass, except that in this case the vultures were nurtured by the same "person" that's now the carcass, for years and probably decades, AND, it's part of the job of the vulture to keep the "person" from becoming the carcass.

Note-to-self: Stay away from vulture-minded execs.

Note-to-investors: Keep an eye on and go the extra mile in rooting out the vulture-minded execs in your companies, before shit hits the fan.
Definately like zim, it's amazing and I can use it with vim also. Only con that stopped me for using it is that it doesn't have cross platform support, as I would also like to keep my wiki accessible on my android device. Thank you so much for the suggestion ! :)
Not to mention it's a massive pain to use elastic search with serverless... Especially if you want it in a private VPC. Adding ES raised our monthly bill significantly since it required also adding a NAT gateway (which then double-dips data transfer charges, actual bandwidth out and NAT processed data), the cost was replicated across multiple "States" (Dev/test/prod), and increased cold start times (below they did work to optimize that) since the lambdas accessing ES needed to be in the VPC too.

I can see developers crunched for time (or businesses, money) not taking the additional steps to get there... And this is the same deal for Redis/memcache, which is another reason I think we see those exposed sometimes too.

(To be clear, the additional costs are minor compared to a big business budget, they would be more detrimental to a low (~<400/month) budget project .. or a team that can't dedicate 300-600 man hours to implement this)
Out of the question, where should an indie .IO game developer start to build their AI players in their game?

For the record, I am a solo developer in progress of developing a to-be-online browser game. I must make intelligent bots and keep players busy until the time it has a lot of online players.

I had a look at Reinforcement Learning but I am not sure people are really using for this use case.
On the other hand, it frees up resources and market share for companies that have better policies and are looking beyond a 30 day time frame.

And it's not like the house would burn down. The assets wouldn't go poof, they'd be auctioned off. The employees will lose their jobs, but then again, a competitor will be hiring because they will have more business, unless there is no market for the offered product at all. And if there's no market at all, then why would we want to spend resources to run a company serving it? An expensive real-life Company Simulator 2000?
It sounds really implausible that one can bribe a SEC auditor with a dinner.
The evolution has been from single threaded engines to different core elements being on seperate threads (e.g. renderer and io) to task based scheduling.

Typically though the updating the game itself is a relatively small part of the frame time and can be reasonably tricky to get real gains through parallelisation.
Yes. Driving on the autobahn without speed limit is our 2nd amendment.
Thank you so much for sharing your configuration!
Can anyone give me a reason, why the search results on ddg have become so much worse over time? Now it starts behaving like Google, as in not taking every single word I enter as relevant and showing me bad results. I enter words for a reason and I except them to appear in the search result.

To me it seems that ddg search has left behind the "ok we search for exactly what you entered, sort of substring like" and has gone into the camp of "oh we know better what you were looking for!".

I need simpler search, that simply shows me results, which contain what I entered without having to prefix every single word with "+".
Indeed, after my comment on that last links thread, I took out a sizeable short against Softbank, which paid fairly well. Masayoshi San's reality distortion field has since pulled a second (or third even) act against investors, perhaps time to double down.
Obviously Apple's efforts go beyond renaming functions. See my other reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880163
Could you point me to some reading material on this?

Because we have these schemes in the Netherlands. Opiod addicts can get their fix from municipality health centres, alcoholic homeless people can clean up parks in exchange for beer, it seems to work very well.

If you take away 'the game' of acquiring your next fix and give people structure it seems to set them up better to drop the dependancy all together.
> technically speaking, a human is physically incapable of accessing Youtube; we use tools to do so

"Your Honour, technically I did not break the window. I had to use a rock as my agent, therefore the rock is guilty."
The USA has a drug problem, Mexico has a kartel problem.
Well, first of all the parliament and the government are distinct entities. Government also is very corrupt and slowly changing. An advantage of gas pipelines is they can potentially be repurposed, for example to ship organic gas.

Your statement says nothing about the feasibility, just politics.
i was once told vision impared people can do much faster than that if it's a flat computerised voice. so i started reading articles like that for a while. i had to do a bunch of manual/automatic handling, but i got it up to super fast speeds and i could read it thrice in less than the time it took to read it once. not bad!
Yeah, as a programmer TW makes much more sense to me as I am not locked in by what I get, I can add additional functionality as and when I require.

There's also some things about notion that are starting to bother me, like the startup times of the application are insane, even if i want to just save a quick link, I cannot add tags to it. The out of customisability and freedom are great and definately appreciate what they have done to make it so much simpler to use for just about anyone, but sometimes the lock in just annoys a bit too.

Thank you so much for the Krytal theme!!!
Patent number 1 should be for a time machine :(
Covid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool
But such YT such the majority of any other service/work, isn't free: it requires a form of monetization in a way or another and YT uses advertisment. They have enourmous costs and they have much bigger revenues. If everybody blocks ads then they shut down.
You don't work for free, neither them.
I'm not a paladin of advertisment, simply saying those are their service conditions (that as a side effect provide money to content creators too).
Don't like their terms of use? Well, don't use their service.
Or adopt the other option they provide paying a premium account
> Why, does Microsoft support Vulcan?

Microsoft just uses whatever the vendors throw over the wall. So yes.

> Does Google on Android?

Yes.[0]

[0]: https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/graphics
It doesn't have to be society turning its back, because you can provide other health care (mental health, skin integrity, sexual health, etc) to people in those settings, alongside social work.
This is clearly the worst form of corruption. I would be surprised if there are not Federal or state laws which might nail these people.
Really good interface. Could be great but I think it needs _some_ documentation. How do I make a new project? Can this be self-hosted? Do I have to export to save or is there another method? Help!
You could have stopped at logging passwords.
Here is a talk from the developer Naughty Dog - making big games on the Playstation - about the parallelization of their engine: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022186/Parallelizing-the-Naug....

Having a system thread for every entity in a game doesn’t scale. Also having to synchronise the threads of entities by hand would be quite a nightmare.

It scales a lot better to have a thread pool, with a thread for each core, and then running lightweight jobs on them. So pretty much the same idea like e.g. the goroutines in Go or the green threads of Erlang.

Having such a job system you also have a lot less hassle with thread synchronisations. I’m working on an interactive 3d application and the job system we’ve have works like a charm for parallelization.
How to Make KDE Plasma Look Like Mac OS Big Sur
A deep generative model for simultaneous dimensionality reduction and clustering
There's also Price's Law: half the value is produced by the square root of the number of people.
Power abuse.
It's outside of their control since the search results come from Bing. I would presume Bing is no different than Google regarding their goals (ads?) so for whatever reason Google doesn't interpret search queries literally, so will Bing.
Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High
But it still builds trust in the brand.

No one is safe from a state actor.
If you want to do the work I can recommend a book called The Trouble With Testosterone that takes a meta perspective on the different research on the topic. It is a fun evening/day going through it cited studies.

> The data we have from chemical castration of sex offenders is very solid

The data show same result for female chemical castration of sex offenders. Usually the study goes something like this: a self selected set of child sex offenders volunteer for chemical castration, and later they report a diminished desire for sex. The problem with linking this to aggression is on several layers. It self selected for individuals that want to reduce their desire for sex. It is self reported. And it is about diminished desire for sex.

Will reducing bodily strength cause a reduction in aggressiveness? If we leave the topic of sex offenders and look at aggressiveness as a whole, bodily strength might very well effect social status and thus fit the challenge hypothesis. Crippling a high social status individual and they will likely spend less energy on defending their status, through the result is going to vary depending on the culture.

The empathy studies are interesting (the book above list a few of those). According to one such study, giving men increased testosterone does not decrease their ability to read emotion in an eye test, but giving it to women does reduce their ability. Again this show a repeating pattern of those studies where within normal range, high or low testosterone levels can not predict behavior. You need to give people testosterone so that they are outside human levels to get any significant effect, and then the result is often minor unless taken to a very extreme level.

> As far as theoretical arguments against it go, I'd say the strongest is that high levels are simply a proxy for some irreversible virilization that happened earlier in life. Which would much better explain why both criminal male and females are relatively high T.

What is your source for that? Criminals have higer rate of violence, and if violence causes testosterone secretion, then the higher level can be explain by the increase violence. male-male competition in prison is also likely a bit more intense than outside which would also explain a higher level of testosterone.
If you think Musk or Trump have any sense of restraint, much less opsec, do I ever have a bridge to sell you.
> The worst thing about frameworks is that they force their architectural style on you.

Sometimes, and sometimes that's a good thing:

- If ones own skills in coming up with a good app architecture are not so great (and that applies to the vast majority of devs). It can't stop bad devs from shooting themselves in the foot, but can help less experienced good devs to avoid straying away and taking wrong shortcuts,

- If ones own architecture style is sufficiently similar to the framework's than it saves time on repetitive, scaffolding work.

IMHO if you build more or less similar type of apps, and you absolutely can't find the right framework for you, then just build your own, save time. Eventually you will end up with something equivalent to the one anyway.
Judge: Facebook's $550M Settlement in Facial Recognition Case Is Not Enough
Hardly doubt a service of their size is using API keys. They are larger than Bing in some countries
Chrome just got a new feature users will love
I would start with David Silvers (DeepMind) youtube series to get an idea of what's possible or not.

Running an already trained reinforcement learning agent is relatively cheap (unless your model is massive).

I suspect the reason people aren't using it yet is because it's a) really difficult to get right in training, even basic convergence is not guaranteed without careful tuning b) really difficult to guarantee reasonable behavior outside of the scenarios you're able to reach in QA.

edit: Link to lecture series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&list=PLqYmG7hTra...
Chromecast uses Google DNS servers ignoring your DHCP DNS. You need to block Google DNS servers on your router so then the Chromecast will switch to your DHCP DNS.

Also, on my experience, some Youtube ads are served through the same domain that serves the video so you won't be completely ad free.
My HP ZR2440w screens have this. But I don't need it there, because it isnt glaringly bright. Some other stuff I have could profit from it, but lacks that setting. Dark tape does wonders :-)
Its absolutely ridiculous that Twitter does not have end to end encryption of DMs yet. To think that they once hired Moxie/Whisper Systems and could have been miles ahead of everyone else on this. It's purely negligence at this stage.
My mom told me a few times that, as a little girl, she wished she could see peoples' farts. Their color would depend on what they ate. I hope they hurry so my mother's childhood dream comes true.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178078/

Just look at the prior chinese coronavirus-related studies, they did antibody tests in villages near bat caves for SARS-like coronaviruses, some of villagers had antibodies in 2015 despite no reported SARS infections ever near the area.

Simplest conclusion:
Zoonotic diseases sometimes jump from bats to humans in Chinese rural areas. The case clusters stay inside the isolated communities and stop naturally due to low population and lack of super-spreader events that can kickstart an epidemic.

In 2019 it happened again, but this time a villager who was infected visited Wuhan => pandemic
Ask HN: Have you delete your Facebook account?
Hello, folks!
After a marathon of 3 days I've managed to erase (at least what I can delete) my facebook account. and no, I didn't just click "Delete account" since when you reactivate your account, everything will be there as you left it, so you didn't delete anything. How was your experience?
> WebGPU is not high-level, no?

Right - what I read is performant WebGPU is more consistent than Vulkan between GPU vendors and I understood that to mean higher-level. But perhaps it's just a promise of a better design.
It wasn't that way in the earlier days. The W3C certainly made some questionable decisions later on that contributed to its slide into irrelevance, but it was Google flagrantly ignoring standardisation, absurdities like "living standards", and the way all of the other major browser developers were asleep at the wheel for years that really sealed the W3C's fate. And now, sadly, a new generation of web developers is about to learn the hard way why browser monopolies are a bad idea. :-(
Soon you'll need status pages for the status pages.
it's the matter that matters?
The migration guide and list of breaking changes is already up: https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/migration/introduction.html#break...
Amazon soya and beef exports 'linked to deforestation'
> Mollath wasn’t killed: he was falsely imprisoned

He wasn't imprisoned, they sent him to the asylum for 8 years because claiming German banks could do criminal things is just such crazy of a thing to do.

Which has quite some similarities to what happened to Hessian tax investigators [0] that were too successful for their own good: Using psychiatric assessments to discredit people who blow the whistle on corruption.

In that context it's quite cynical how nearly every high-profile suicide in Russia is framed as some kind of political hit-job ordered straight by the government, while in other countries people are looking for any reason to deny the existence of foul play.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuerfahnder-Aff%C3%A4re
Price's Law applies all the way down. It's a small portion of the engineers.
Then it was truly unavoidable for the us to keep getting worse and worse, for some reason more in states full of people who think masks are mind control (a total mystery that we will never understand), while other countries are seeing things get better.
Fast charging vulnerability could be used to explode smartphones remotely
Try https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=3M+Aluminum+tape&ia=shoppin... instead?
Close the border, it's as simple as that. All countries that were able to lower infections did this.

In Europe this was done even between neighboring countries both part of Shengen.
Thanks for the link. Interesting reasoning around the choice of the 'negative' __STDC_NO_VLA__ macro, rather than a 'positive' macro like __STDC_VLA__.

See also StackExchange discussion on the question: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/314838/
Australia does this. The border is somewhat porous, but it's worth mentioning that Australia is worrying about hundreds of cases right now.
You were being downvoted because people really want to believe this story. And always politics is louder than science.
While I do agree with you I don't see how this would have helped unless it is encrypted with a key Twitter doesn't have (ie. encrypted in the client with something else than the password). I highly doubt we will see that happen.
Suggestions for game development that wont be a waste of time?
I want to mess around with Unreal Engine or possibly Unity. I was thinking of doing my own Real Time Strategy game (like Red Alert / Command and Conquer). But instead of starting something that big, perhaps there is something smaller I can build that might even show some returns. For example, it might be better to try and do some sort of short animation because then I can do short videos for cash. Or perhaps I can do a one-level game with the option to expand?

I'm not asking for ideas for games, but rather if there is a profitable way to learn Unreal Engine by actually building something useful.

Alternatively, I guess, I could try and get work for some gaming company. But I'd prefer just to do this for fun on the side.
I suspect that hedge fund managers and bank board members are considerably less likely to use DMs as a means of primary communication than Twitter celebrities. Private alt accounts would be very interesting, but you'd need to know who they are....
But that's the point. The arguments for the current regulatory environment failed because the gatekeepers still perpetuated a drug epidemic. That is, not only did drug scheduling fail to keep people from obtaining illegal substances, it failed to keep people from getting legal but inappropriate ones too.

Not everyone said weed wasn't dangerous either. Leading up to cannabis deregulation there were any number of experts warning of disaster due to its claimed severe effects.

The point of the deregulatory argument is that you can't really entrust a homogeneous monopoly to act optimally, because there's lack of competing perspectives and alternatives.

The current drug regulation regime has failed in all sorts of ways that go far beyond drugs of abuse, into siphoning off funds surrounding less recreational substances, through rent seeking. Anyone who has tried to get a prescription for something harmless or nearly so that they've taken for years can attest to this. Acyclovir, for example, is an essential medicine per WHO, and articles have been written in which it is acknowledged to be safe for the general public (with empirical data) but still argued should be kept as a prescription to avoid viral resistance (even though there's no evidence of this, and other sources of microbial resistance are routinely ignored).

The current system has failed in part because discussions are presented in this black and white fashion where it's things stay as they are or nothing. Pharmacists could be used much more than they are, for example, as could other provider types, not just for drugs but for lots of things.

The pandemic is full of other examples. The CDC demonstrated early on how regulation can fail, and people managed to poison themselves without involving prescribers or their illegal drug dealing counterparts at all.
I suppose corruption at higher levels has greater incentives and is harder to eliminate than low-level corruption (perhaps). I wonder if there are any books on the subject - general principles of how corruption develops and decays.