skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious how those would be framed as lost or statement personally. Both have had long occupations, but you have to toy with the definition of winning to frame either of these as a loss/statement.

The major theaters were decidedly over in a very short period. Unless you need winning to mean annihilate or getting everyone to agree on things, those were both won quickly.
I have had it very rarely but it is quite amazing how much control one has over how the dream pays out, what you want to see etc. I could literally do a walkthrough in a house, checking out rooms one by one, houses I was familiar with.

I have heard that you cannot see your face reflected in a mirror in a dream. So sure enough when I got my next one I had to try it. I did not see my face, but not sure how much of that was affected by my expectation.
I haven't used ledger, but it seems to be double entry accounting too. According to the example:

2015/10/12 Exxon
Expenses:Auto:Gas $10.00
Liabilities:MasterCard $-10.00

whereas I would have something like:

2015/10/12 Exxon $10.00 MasterCard -> Gas

The idea would be that the form of the transaction doesn't allow you to screw up - it is neccessarily balanced because you only give the amount once. A bit like a typed language only allows well-formed programs to run.
> Google maps didn't start out great or even good

That is not my memory. Google maps used AJAX to let you pan around. It was fluid, and really nice. What I had been using up until then was MapQuest, where you needed to click an arrow to move around, with long delays.

Disclosure: I work for Google
I’m not sure developing nuclear weapons by any nation was a good thing. We would be better off without nuclear weapons and the MAD associated.
Come to live in Switzerland and then you will understand why the US embassy here has the highest US citizenship renunciation in the world...
For hunting, a Savage 110 is a great tool IMO.
> attributed it to gaining more experience

This was my thought. When I google stuff and will still see stack overflow as a top result but click on the official documentation instead, which is usually the 3rd or 4th result. SO is still showing up, I just visit it less because I get more value from docs these days.
For a similarly opposite perspective as someone who's currently in a rural area:

I can go out back, set up target(s) and plink away basically anytime I want. Might even do it this evening if the ammo I ordered finally gets delivered today. There's a safe direction to aim in and the distant neighbors don't mind, they do the same!

For longer range, there's various outdoor ranges around, both formal and informal (you may shoot on nearly all large tracts of public land and private land that isn't posted against it, provided you're an appropriate distance from structures and all that).

The occasional sound of gunfire here doesn't alarm anyone. One or two is someone killing a pest or hunting, lots is some target shooting.

If I put my trash outside without it being in something fully bear-proof, it will have a bear into it within a few days. Cook something nice, leave a door/window open to just the screen, and you might have a bear, moose, or something else in your kitchen one day. Police response time is 30 minutes on a good day.
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> not just random, as previously thought

Who would think that an animal would just make random noises?

That just ridiculous.
This is an extremely myopic and privileged point of view. You only go to Walmart once a year and think you understand the lives of people who go there all the time. A blender isn’t health insurance or a home or education.
I think it's a huge mistake to assume that the people that, say, refuse to believe in science and/or effectiveness of wearing masks are the same people that are traveling internationally. Only ~45% of Americans even have a passport and most will never leave their home state. I'm going to go out on a limb and say those who think the US is the greatest place on Earth and have no desire to step foot outside of it to test that theory don't have the best intentions.
Looking at the answer-rate-over-time[0] SO benefits from the Corona pandemic.

0: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/303570/an...
If a business is purchased by a private equity company, it is not long for this world. Private equity is all about strip mining a business.
You’ve pretty much hit the nail on the head. A few missing pieces:

- The moderator in question is a professional writer and preferred to avoid using any pronouns at all. She emailed SE to ask if that was acceptable, or if the new policy was mandating that she go out of her way to use pronouns. SE did not respond to her emails at all, then several weeks later they revoked her moderator status on a Friday night without even telling her — she figured it out when logged into the site and saw that her moderator tools were gone.

- Stack Exchange then went to the press and called her a transophobe and a bigot. They did post several “apologies,” but they weren’t apologies at all — they simply restated the (false) accusations and said they weren’t going to do anything to fix it. (See https://web.archive.org/web/20191005000615/https://meta.stac...)

- SE didn’t retract any of the accusations until the moderator got a lawyer and prepared to sue for defamation (SE’s accusations were the top Google result for her name for months)

- Then when all of the outrage started to die down, part 2 began when SE fired two long-time community managers who were just about the only staff members left that the community still trusted: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/342039/258777
AR15 is a lighter, lower powered gun than your typical hunting rifle; the energy of a .223 bullet is a lot lower than a .30. The capacity is almost irrelevant, changing multiple mags is no problem for anyone with decent training. I am the kind of guy that loads only 5 rounds in each 10 round mag (sport shooting), so changing mags is as natural as firing the next round. People telling that "high-capacity overpowered mass destruction weapons" should be forbidden, on the other side...
A $100 investment doesn't seem much and it's more like a kudos, but it is an investment. I agree that more information can help anyone determine better how to choose between startup A or B.
> not sure what the downvotes are about. maybe hn thinks that all countries are equal, and thinking otherwise is racist?

Downvotes are because you assumed certain countries are "not worth traveling to", when some of them consistently rank as fairly popular tourist destinations.
Yes, cpio is ancient and simple and very easy to work with. The Kaitai project didn't exist at the time; I used the C structs documented in man pages.
I'd love to travel to Pasargadae and Persepolis in Iran and Çatalhöyük, Ḫattuša, and the Hagia Sophia in Turkey. In fact, I'm likely to travel to Turkey when this pandemic is over and Iran if relations ever improve to the point where my American passport doesn't paint a target on my back.
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This conflict is complicated and our understanding of it is limited.

* We only have SSC's account of the conversation between him and the NYT reporter.

* The NYT does not have a history of doxxing people, particularly their home addresses. Revealing that sort of personal information is traditionally what "doxxing" means.

* SSC's fans revealed the NYT reporters name and home address. That is to say, the only person doxxed here has been the reporter. So the power dynamics are not as clear cut as SSC made out.

* Tucker Carlson has since used his fans to doxx NYT reporters when he objected to them writing a story about him. That is, this has become a right-wing tactic. And that will be unhealthy for a free press.

* It's not at all clear that Scott Alexander is anonymous, or that revealing his real last name constitutes doxxing. Scott Alexander are his first and middle names. He blogged under his full real name for many years at LessWrong. He published an SSC post in a Springer book in 2017 under his first and last names.
If you are on salary and you are putting in more than 40 hours a week, you are working to buy your boss his vacation home, not your own.
"the credit defaults during the debt ceiling brinksmanship of the Obama presidency"

What a strange way to try and pin what the Republicans did in 2011 and 2013 on Obama.

For context here is what actually happened...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_cri...
A muzzle brake might do wonders for you. I can't speak for 300WSM, but in 308, a muzzle brake takes it from "I'll shoot 10 rounds and regret it the next day", to "I'll shoot 50 rounds and stop from soreness, but have no shoulder bruising the next day."
> Americans used to have

> the US passport is not

You and the comment you are replying to seem to be discussing two different time periods, perhaps separated by a century or more.
Are you sure it's not just YouTube? Alphabet's arbitrarily changed YT's behaviour based on the browser's UA string in the past, and used deprecated APIs only implemented in Chrome.
I think they're referring to the browser hiding parts of the URL, the way Chrome does.

Unthinkingly following Chrome, Firefox started doing this too. To my knowledge, Firefox still defaults to doing this, but I could be mistaken.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/879926
I was surprised when I discovered that Yandex's OCR is also better than Google's version:

https://translate.yandex.com/ocr

For example, comparing the results from pictures with Japanese or Chinese text, Yandex gives meaningful results, while Google often struggles.
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What celebs would visit? There are unwritten rules and pr guidelines for celebs not to mix with the porn industry, strange that they would randomly show up at one of the biggest porn sites offices.
Independently of that, an exceedingly large number of countries require visas from Chinese citizens. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Chines...

This squares ok with geopolitical reasons, but not economic ones (although they certainly influence that map now and in the future).
Yeah I don’t really get the influx of nationalistic clickbait on HN lately... it’s super bizarre
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Basic IR beam solutions cannot tell the difference between someone going in the store vs someone going out, so keeping a real-time count of occupancy is difficult (or impossible). They also struggle with two people going through a doorway at the same time (counted as one entry vs 2).
Indeed, that even impacts French citizens who were born in the US but have never been there since then. And apparently it's a huge pain in the ass.
I'm surprised to read the stuff about asymptomatic cases. I thought the current thinking was that asymptomatic people are really pre-symptomatic, because of the incubation period. In other words, truly asymptomatic cases are rare. Am I wrong about that?
You think the Iraq/Vietnam wars are comparable to the Holodomor or the Congo Free State?
Its not easy to switch back anymore and breaks a lot of functionality if you do. But its crazy that you have to accept serious UI/UX changes to get security fixes too.
Never encountered this, same platforms. What do you mean by broken?
This type of news may go stale very quickly... Yes pandemic has instantly created myriad set of obstacles to travel and migration around the world.

Maybe some of these restrictions will take enough time to be lifted... But, does anyone believe that most of the world will suddenly reject American money (for business and leisure) for long term?

I mean, just look at the "in-fight" happening in Europe where southern countries want northern tourists despite pandemic status...
Sweet! This update fixes the issue where you weren't able to play videos on Firefox 78 with the MacOS Big Sur Beta.
Highlights:

- Return of shared memory between parts of the same page (including web workers). Parallel processing becomes more efficient, good for complex apps and games.

- Time-traveling debugger of sorts: search for "restart frame".
IMO it's temporary. (IMHO!) The population of America is very large, and it's hard for the government to control all the idiots(a good percentage of the population?) who live in it, and also it's hard for the government to be organized themselves because they're busy fighting for power and blaming each other. Great country, but COVID exposed some of the weaknesses.
Yeah, I'd expect Clojure to work. It's on my list of languages to investigate, but if you want to take a crack at it, submit a PR, see details at https://github.com/cloudflare/template-registry/blob/master/... Feel free to ping me @ koeninger on github if you need help on the PR.
Yes for sure - you can read the story of all the founders, see their product and even their financials. XX invests in early stage founders and that's inherently risky but our thesis is that when founders are mentored by more experienced founders and are around other motivated founders, they'll have more likelihood of success. We've seen mentors and cohort founders go above and beyond for each other's success.
It’s very hard to declare the first Iraq war as lost or ended in stalemate.
you have to be kidding. you do know our species did just fine for 200,000 years, before maternity leave, which is a recent thing. you think humanity will die out if a policy that's maybe 50 years old is cancelled? please tell me you're not serious.

a vast majority of voters are of course going to vote for what benefit them, not the company that employs them -that is not proof of what is right or ethical.

the company doesn't magically pick up the bill. they simply pay all people a little less, while spending more on just the ones with babies. this means people without babies pay for the babies. in no way is that fair. biology is unfair. that doesn't mean you can just pass on the cost to innocent bystanders.

being short is unfair. should i pay for short people?

our species behaves just fine. parents have an extra burden and need to be financially secure to handle a baby. without forcing random others to help with that. because it's unethical, and the term for that is tyranny of the majority. two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

but cool. let's go with your voter idea. let's let the whites vote on whether blacks should be slaves.
Why not just scan for MAC addresses? Legal reasons? Can't you black box something like that and not safe the actual IDs but use them for unique counting?
And if your passport expired during COVID-19, like mine did, you can apparently forget about getting a new one for at least a year.
In that case, are masks + sunglasses enough? Or should a hat that covers the ears be thrown in as well? I think that combination should still pass as fairly normal, especially in sunny locales.
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Again, you and OP seem to be talking about 2 different time periods. What does the historical (OPs time frame) rather than the present (your time frame) look like in terms of passport position? What there a time since 1776 (or whenever passports became a thing) that the US passport was in the top 10?
That's a very interesting phenomenon - I can definitely see parallels between that and the stock market, with there being record number of new traders getting into the stock market in the recent months due to COVID (https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-turmoil-free-trades...). Not sure if the mindset between those new stock traders and the new investors on XX are the same though.
I think if I had spare money lying around to bribe reddit moderators, I'd rather buy myself a nice server, or lots of steak dinners, or a new oscilloscope. Honestly, I can think of lots of better uses of my money than that.
I think this happened not because USA lost a lot, but because others gained ground. USA, despite all it's losses, was much better than most after WW2, industrial gap was enormous. Now other countries caught up in easier areas and the gap is smaller. Very obvious examples - Russia (USSR). They were stagnating in tech sector up to nineties end, then oil money bridged part of the gap and now Russia is immediately arrogant, "going it's own way" and all that rhetorics.
Cool - congrats! Would love to hear more about why you chose Rust for this?
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Definitely enjoyed the story and I find the product interesting! I especially like the time-series aggregation clauses since it makes it easy to "think in SQL."

I was also going to ask about replication. Any idea when it's going to be done?

Oh and kudos for the witty (previous) company name: Appsicle, haha, love that.
Well, I kinda doubt the person at Wal-Mart who tells me to have a nice day has sincere wishes about my day.

You can just do a job. It is possible to just write copy. Not everyone is rube.
Let the world have its little schadenfreude dance.
Fascinating. I don't know if other people will get the same result but reverse image searching for [1] on Yandex gave literal CRTs in literal swamps, not just things in water or CRTs somewhere. Doing the same on Google gave neither CRTs nor swamps.

Regular image search is much nicer too but I wonder if that's just because it isn't polluted with products? Searching for galaxy on Google gave me all kinds of products while on Yandex is just gave me literal galaxies. Maybe just less spam because its less popular? Or maybe some of those Google results are actually ads?

1. https://im0-tub-com.yandex.net/i?id=a8f55cb11e37e5a6616b33bd...
It’s comparable, US number is one way.
With one hour commute per work day it’s a little over 1/5 then.
With four hour daily commute you are over 1/4 but not close to 1/3 of your time.
Devonthink looks cool, but can you explain why it's functionally better? Or is it just a better layout?
I don't think losing access to most of the world is a permanent thing. It's purely because of the virus and nothing else which is self inflicted. The foreign policy and all around lack of empathy shown by the WH will all pass.

As a country though, the US has become the beacon of anti-science nut jobs starting from the president. For the leading tech country in the world, it's jarring how anti-science it is. The whole world seems to have gotten a grip on the situation except the US, which is still consumed with frivolous things like throwing the first pitch at the Yankees game , just because he is jealous of Dr.Fauci.
>This take doesn't deserve the upvotes it's getting

But it sounds good and that feel-good-factor was what the parent comment was trying to evoke. I'd say they succeeded momentarily.
It's also not an economic one. My salary is locked in. So long as I don't get fired, I get paid the same. So I can give different outputs and get paid that same "premium price." Just have to meet the bar. So it's in my interest to reduce how much work I do in order to increase my de factor hourly rate. If you factor in promotions etc, it's the same thing - just a different bar.

I guess you could say I'm offering a "premium product" either way and be right, but my original point stands. I don't need to be giving 100% to get that money. And the longer I'm at a job, the more I can understand the effort bar I need to meet and influence it downward.
Alternatively, Factorio is known for being low powered enough a toaster can run it.

Someone who can't afford a fancy computer can afford your game.
Diversity quotas are definitely a factor in my demoralization. I've seen completely incompetent people be promoted because they meet the right diversity criteria.

I was also surprised at how little tenure our CDO (chief diversity officer) has. I would love to hit the C-level in less than ten years at a large company. I was also interested to see what a CDO does. I couldn't find any internal resources or examples, but it seems like an easy job.
> Things are more expensive at the bodega partially for convenience

What, specifically is being said here? Higher prices don't somehow make transactions "more convenient."
The disconnect between how the world sees the US and how the US sees itself is astounding.
"Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?" is a 40 year old movie quote referencing a 50 year old event, so....yeah.
I'm so confused by this comment. You downloaded Firefox on MacOS and scrolling was broken? Scrolling itself is always broken on Firefox on all platforms?

Considering that scrolling clearly isn't broken for Firefox users (I think Mozilla would notice), doesn't that point to the fact that it's probably something on your end and not Firefox?
We went from building VM's with ansible on AWS to everything being on GKE. Previously if we wanted to build out a whole new stack it could be a multiple day endeavor, now on GKE I can build out a whole new GKE cluster in a matter of hours. Its also allowed our team to sleep at night as our Ansible driven AWS architecture was fickle and fragile. I'm sure that we could have engineered our AWS infra much better, but its a lot of work, and GKE allowed us to bypass that and focus more on the business's bottom line.

There are 2 major issues that we tend to run into on GKE:

DNS Problems: most likely self inflicted, but they are a pain and can take a while to troubleshoot.

Google Cloud Platform Quota Increases take FOREVER: as far as I am aware Google refuses to allow customers to set organization wide quotas for new projects that get spun up, and there is absolutely no way to automate quota increases requests via an API. Its absolutely infuriating and makes making disposable projects all but impossible, which I was really hoping to set up for my company.

If there is anyone at GCP reading this: Please, please, please allow customers to set organization wide quotas(even for new projects that get spun up) and please give customers an API to manage these things!!!!

Overall though, GKE is pretty great for us.
Switzerland isn't part of the EU.
The bigger problem for US citizens is that US Passport is essentially an IRS trap, no matter where you decide to live.
More direct link to the roadmap: https://github.com/github/roadmap/projects/1
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It's very high-risk. I guess it's a philosophical question of whether you think the public deserves the right to take super high risks and invest in startups (1000x more risky than the public market given there is no secondary market).

On one hand you'd think the people with the least amount of money are the ones that need the options to take risks the MOST. To get out of their situation.

On the other hand, will this help them? Will the companies be good enough? Will they provide returns. Is helping 1% of people escape their situation worth it for the other 99% that will invest in startups that fail.

Interesting
It's interesting that this bounced back and forth and was flagged, not flagged, and is flagged again. And, of course, interesting that someone felt they needed to flag it.
Some people just have very mild symptoms that they don't recognise. A lot of people don't notice their temperature is raised for a day or so.

Some lists of symptoms don't include anosmia or diarrhoea, so people have symptoms but don't think these are covid-19 symptoms.
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Marlin is really sad. A Marlin 336 from 1985 and a Marlin 336 from 2019 look the same at first glance, but you only have to cycle the lever once to realize something has changed for the worse. Old timers will tell you that the lever will smooth out with use, which may be true, but my experience is that it will break and require a gunsmith before that happens.
People who don't own guns tend to think of AR-15s as something exotic or particularly dangerous. Those of us who own guns tend to just think of them as the default rifle, for various reasons.

You're saying "why wouldn't some other firearm suffice", while we just buy ARs unless that default is somehow unsuitable.