skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when NeoAxis was announced about 10 years ago, iirc on Ogre3D forums. It seemed like one guy's labor of love. I am pleasantly surprised to see it's still going strong after a decade. Kudos to the author(s) for sticking with it!
No one relevant agrees with your tired attempt to redefine the word "racist". By the way like 90% of all the white Americans I've ever met I certainly have done and said racist things. It isn't the end of the world, to admit that. Apologize and move on. Don't persist in error.

I can't believe you've trolled me into this. Twenty minutes of my life, down the drain:

1) conspiracy theory

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283872 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278910

2) Prejudice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24279521

3) Misinformation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283872 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24284118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24286768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278990

4) Racism

5) Feeling more empathy for abusive cops (of any race) than their victims (of any race).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24284044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278990

6) Unwarranted fear

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278910
You hit the nail on its head. Google usually discontinues products which have high maintenance cost so even if it turns out that YT Premium makes less money than people watching ads (and I highly doubt the average person watches more than $10 worth of ads in a month), they'll still keep it.
Maybe that's true in the political climate of the USA, but there's plenty of other countries that have either free University or interest free student loans while still having high quality Universities.

E.g. New Zealand has interest free loans, and Auckland university is ranked 81st in the world (although I have no idea whether these rankings are meaningful for bachelors students)
I never hear about this one: "DesignSpark Mechanical"
Its a great solid modeler IMO. It exports .STL, 2D Autocad .DXF's and .PDF's.

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/mechanical-software

It's FREE.

I've been using it for years. I used to develop solid a modeler but I have't used many others so I can't really compare and contrast.
Making student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy is a terrible idea. A much better way to help young graduates/professionals is to enforce sensible forgiveness programs for private loans.
I just want to know how paralives got interest in the first place - did they get big on Kickstarter or Patreon first ?
That's weird, basic glassware use including pipette is part of the national final grading in The Netherlands, I guess there's differences across the EU.
The one that got under my craw was when I went to see an academic advisor with one or two semesters left.

I had been fastidious about covering all the specified requirements, and my proposed course-load covered the remainder. Except apparently you needed 128 total hours, and actually covering the requirements of the programme left you six short. They designed the timetable assuming that people would bounce between majors or otherwise load up on go-nowhere electives, and the advisor basically said I could take underwater basket weaving and it would count for the gap.

I ended up taking a CLEP exam a few weeks later to claim the equivalent credits of several semesters worth of Spanish classes.
You have a very different understanding of the word "taboo" than I do. There is no[1] societal shaming of sports stars.

[1] OK, there's some. But very very little - and, usually, due to judgement (deserved or not) about how they employ their wealth, not about _the profession of_ being a sports star.
Play music’s iOS app was riddled with bugs. The YouTube music replacement has all of the same features as play music with none of the bugs. The only regression is that to upload my own music I have to upload it to YouTube rather than a (supposedly somewhat) private personal library.
100% agree. I grew up in Alberta but in the last few years have spent a lot of tourist time in Quebec. Hands down what the average person in Alberta seems to think about Quebec is almost complete nonsense. FWIW I don't speak French (altho my wife and daughter can, but not great). I just spend a lot of money there on skiing and culinary tourism.

That's not to say Quebecois nationalism isn't real -- but frankly it's legitimate. They are effectively a nation.

There are people who are building their political careers out of balkanizing Canada. Some of them in QC, but more and more in western Canada. They profit by telling outright lies ("Quebec using Saudi oil" or such nonsense when in fact Quebec gets the vast majority of its oil from domestic sources, mostly Albertan but some American).

Racism in Canada against our indigenous people, however, is deep and strong and disgusting. Most urban people don't encounter it as strongly because the native population is not dense in most urban areas. But just stroll through message boards, sometime... it's pretty shocking.

And there's a long history of ugly relations between the RCMP (and other police departments) and first nations in this country... Really bad stuff.
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I'd even go so far as to say that the me from 10 minutes ago isn't the same me as now. Consciousness isn't continuous, it arises and ceases. It's our memory that gives us the illusion of continuity.
And this is what makes me absolutely unconcerned about dying.
From what I read, this is what the Gautama Buddha meant with Anatta[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta
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> Repeal [Communications Decency Act] #Section230, NOW.

OK, now anyone can sue Twitter for defamation, copyright infringement, and a whole host of other things posted by their users. Allowing any user-generated content becomes a gigantic liability. How does this get Lin Wood un-banned?
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I think the general idea is that you should be picking your input data to be as evil as possible, so that you're explicitly testing the edge cases; if you use random data you're not thinking about this aspect.

Fuzz testing is a separate thing, and should be done too. But it's (in my experience) supplemental to well-chosen hand-crafted input. It's hard to do TDD or ensure you have all your edge-cases covered if you're using randomized inputs.

For example, for datetimes, you can pick something nasty and unlikely like 1999-12-31T23:00 Pacific Time, which will read as a different day, month, and year if you have your timezone logic broken somewhere (e.g. you're parsing it as a naive UTC datetime somewhere). If you test randomly, that "dates at the end of the year parse incorrectly for 8 hours" bug is unlikely to be found.
Uk is the outlier here.
AT&T and Apple make sense but why is Ford on that list. And how did Comcast get theirs in 2005? I guess if you just ask very nicely, anything can happen.
It may very well be the that the 10 best universities are in the USA so if you want your kid in the best university rather than sending them to Europe that might be the way to go.

That doesn't mean that in general the quality of education, for the general public in Europe would not be higher.

It's a bit like the US healthcare system, the best in the world, but only for those who can afford it.
Digital cameras in general are difficult to unbrick, so not very often examined in depth
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I recall John Carmack being interested in measuring latency in exactly this way during his Occulus tenure (think he mentioned it in one of his keynotes). I'm sure he would be pleased to see this is now becoming mainstream :)
You mean like this?
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Comparing death rates doesn't mean much if the number infected for covid is orders of magnitude higher. Even if it turns out to be about .02%, we are looking at a death toll like the world has never seen if everyone gets infected. And that's not taking into account hospitals becoming overwhelmed and causing deaths to skyrocket.
Walmart's actual return policy has always been better though. I've taken stuff there that I don't even know was purchased there and got a credit. This was some time ago so not sure if it changed, but they used to give you a few receiptless returns per year.
Recordings of dozens of numbers stations: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Conet_Project
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Damn if that means Linear-A will finally be deciphered, I'm going to sit here hitting F5 all night long.
I found the anecdote really helpful too. Privacy almost feels like an instinctual desire, so I often have a hard time articulating why it’s important. The anecdote gave me a good example of how something that seems benign to disclose can be used to a terrible end. I actually wished the article continued on this path because it was so interesting to read about.
>If this test fails, it’s hard to see what exactly is broken.

Breaking existing tests is rare. I don't mind some detective work when it happens. You start with a pretty strong lead, anyway: whatever you touched since the last time the test passed. In my workflow this is unlikely to be more than five minutes ago. Half the time I know what I broke without even looking.

I can see how specificity in test results would be important if you're running tests very infrequently and accumulating a lot of change between runs. But in that case I would probably invest in faster feedback before I'd invest in specificity. Huge, wordy test suites are expensive and can ossify bad design much more strongly than they preserve correct behavior.
> They will turn cancerous very soon, if they haven't already"

Ever since Patreon sided with those fucking shit heels Sarah Jeong and Jason Koebler at Vice Magazine, and took away Naomi Wu's Patreon supporters - I've had Patreon firmly in the "cancerous" category.

I'm still using them where I have to, because some of the people I choose to support want to be supported that way. But I've made sure I have non-Patreon contact details wherever I can so my donations can follow the creators, and Patreon as an organisation can die in a fire for all I care.

Time to go contact all the creators I support, and remind them I'd prefer some other means to send them monthly donations instead of via Patreon - before these new investors put the squeeze on and start ripping me and the people I support off (even further)...
> "In short, humans are really bad at evaluating risk, especially in our current media environment which is has a very low Signal to noise ratio."

that needs to be printed and hung on every door in america, as a constant reminder that we're in all the messes we're in because we're individually, and sometimes even collectively, bad at assessing risk.

the near-singular infatuation with covid relative to everything else that can and does kill us is rationally misguided (which is not to say ignore covid, just put it in its relative place). and news outlets like npr and nytimes that used to be considered relatively neutral are simply no longer trustworthy. self-righteous assertions of control with little concrete understanding is a dangerous road to be traveling down.
A hoverboard with fuel container on back looks like a jetpack. One guy crossed the English Channel on one in two hops. He had to refuel midway. Thats more distance in a flying device than I had heard before.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/4/20753648/jet-powered-hover...
I feel like you’re suggesting the answer is “zero deaths”, where it’s clearly _at least_ as many as the current road fatality rate, which is about 100 a day in the US alone.
Chiming in to join the chorus of praise for Permutation City and also call attention to Egan’s technical notes / FAQ for the same. Really mind-bending reading https://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ.html
I don't know about that. A relatively small player can get several mbps per dollar all over the US and Europe. That means you only need about 1 dollar per month per peak concurrent user.
My interpretation wouldn't be that ambitions are expensive monetarily, but rather in terms of time. I've got various hobbies where spending more money doesn't really get me anywhere - if I was more ambitious, I'd need to scale down my work to somewhere between 0-50% FTE to devote more time to a particular hobby.
She doxxed a Vice editor when she felt they failed to maintain a privacy agreement.
Minor note on Europe - Several European countries relaxed border travel restrictions and internal restrictions on dining / socializing in June in time for traditional summer holidays in July / August. Current surges are likely to be a result of relaxing of previous lockdown rules. For an early discussion of this see [1]

[1] https://fortune.com/2020/08/15/europe-covid-cases-second-wav...
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I thought I saw an app that would spoof a false location for a mobile device. That app would be more practical.
Or swimming :)
I had a colleague who told me he went to a university in Florida. I asked him what did he study there, and he said "Golf".
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No thanks. Bumble is yet another example of an arrogant tech company forcing its ideology and values on the world. I really don’t want a monoculture where even dating is inaccessible if you aren’t a progressive: https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/24/bumble-app-demands-you-...

Not to mention that the actual experience of Bumble is terrible. Like most dating apps it is a major time sink and money pit, and has low return for men unless you’re attractive in a very mainstream way. The League, as a comparative example, is much more cleverly designed. It avoids turning dating into a second job.
This looks like a nice simplification of yacc/bison and lex/flex. The `then` keyword seems superfluous though; what was the motivation for `then` as opposed to just juxtaposition?
> Not in faculty salaries, but often in faculty headcount. Lots of colleges and universities have added a lot of faculty while keeping student headcount constant.

Do you have a citation for that? The message in the industry is that colleges have been reducing faculty headcounts, and relying on adjuncts to cover class loads, not that there are too many faculty.

> tenure should be used very sparingly and should be viewed as part of a competitive compensation package.

I don't think you're going to get very far with this argument in most universities, where faculty see themselves as part of the governance of the university. There's quite a bit of collective action between faculty, and I think even if you could get faculty in some departments without tenure, the STEM faculty would not want to create a two tiered system.
US closed the border and airspace, and all sorts of international flights had to find somewhere to touch down. The huge Cold-War-era airport at Gander is now mostly one of the two major ATC zones for the North Atlantic flyways, and usually gets a few diverted flights a day. That morning, they got 38 planes, including a lot of widebodies. 7,000 passengers and crew, with an indefinite stay (ended up being like 3 days) in a town with 10,000 residents. The town of Gander (and surrounding hamlets) put everyone up. It's a sweet story from a tragic time. Gander's the only place outside of the US with a monument from WTC steel. There's a catchy Broadway soundtrack (haven't seen the play) about story called 'Come From Away'.
Like most web based startups, the cost of programmers and customer support becomes insignificant once the model is proven, and the investors are convinced b7y the pitch deck that says "If we now pump a hundred million (minus the founders table sweep) into marketing and acquisition, we'll exit at 100x within 3 years!"

> Or is the money just so that a few people can get richer now somehow.

Why _else_ does anything happen in this fucking industry?
"Who are those guys?"

"Pinkerton men"

-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969

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> Yes, morality is an opinion.

Quite frankly: no, unless you subscribe to the sort of philosophy that that believes there is such thing as morality. It's an attractive philosophy, but nobody I've met has ever actually behaved that way.

If I punched your face and gave you a bloody nose, you would almost certainly not act like I simply have an alternative opinion about where my knuckles belong.

Edit: I think we might have a difference in how we're using language. An opinion, as I'm using the term, is a belief that we don't strongly believe that other people ought to believe as well.
The FX series was pretty bad and around the same time AMD's X cards (eg X700) would burn out within a year if you gamed on them, but not fail. The FPS would slowly lower over time. This was due to a lack of a fan inside of the case.
Mandatory link to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM

It clarifies a few of the points made in the article.

Personally I would add: Don't overuse mocks, only use dependency injection on the module level (Ludicrous use of singleton DI will hinder your design, not help it)
Can’t tell if this is a submarine post but that’s nothing.

If they have the balls to announce it, wait til you hear what the suicide rates will be by EOY.
One thing that is pretty widespread is Speech and Debate. The debate disciplines, in particular, are very rigorous at higher levels of competition. It's a very good educational activity.

However, to your point, it's not a class and it's not required. So participation in debate ends up being very low among the population of all students.
Anonymous as in the only thing they're getting is a random identifier and browsing data.
See also https://www.fakespot.com/

Although the easiest solution is to not shop on Amazon and avoid the flea market of random unknown brands and cheap or dangerous counterfeits.
Importantly, there's a limit to how much money you can spend on a single 'client' [0]. I don't think Zynga had meaningful limits on whale spend per game?

[0] I assume client is the inverse of a patron? Just going by Roman usage.
Yes, its pay for content.
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I’d be pretty surprised, because I feel like the UI in OS X has always had more latency than Windows. Especially noticeable with the mouse with acceleration, but also throughout the rest of the UI. This was my biggest gripe in switching to OS X.
If it was just about morals I might not mind. But they've shut down a lot of content and content providers in ways that don't seem to be based on any moral stance they're taking.
a few years ago

Twitter was hacked via social engineering of an employee just last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851275
>>Because there are a lot of pretty women in the world and I would say 99% aren't 1% as successful.

99% of the pretty women aren't leveraging a tech platform to directly extract resources from lonely dudes across the entire planet. It's more due to ignorance of their options for monetizing their sexuality than it is well-developed and unique skillsets. I've actually been debating starting a CamStudio with a friend of mine, as I've met more than a few cute women who don't grasp the concept of "You can make more money by just sitting your butt in front of a computer monitor all day in makeup and a low-cut top". Anyone who has worked in a cabaret, a "girls bar/snack bar", or a strip club understands the basics of talking to the Johns, and appearance-enhancing makeup and outfits. Camming/streaming just combines their social skills with IT/technical support to expand their potential client base. They won't become Belle Delphine overnight but there's a lot of room for low-effort revenue growth with a bit of management and guidance, IMO.
Java testing at google:

* Don't mock if you have access to the remote server code, create fakes using calls to class methods being tested or use an in memory version of the entire thing if possible.

I know it's not easy and it takes time, but it's worth it in the long run. If something changes you'll detect errors quickly.

* When using guice injections, override explicitly what you need directly in the test setup. Don't create huge test modules with everything and the kitchen sink, eventually these will become unmaintainable and become difficult for future maintainters to understand where overrides and injections are coming from.

Integration testing is whole another subject but I would highly recommend it for mission critical production code.
Cutting the rail would also break the track circuit and force signals to red.
You as the user manually pasting the content in is tangibly different from an automated system doing it, which is what we have now. Whether the courts would hold them liable to pay for your personal actions is a separate question. It is currently the case that individuals can violate copyright by reposting someone else's content unattributed, and when that happens there are existing processes for dealing with it.

If the URL has the title in it, that means the news site put that information in the URL to share it. Should I be able to charge money for my phone number because it happens to spell out a word? Again, maybe a court would hold that both are true, but it's absolutely a different thing from scripts automatically scraping and reposting content.