skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the older Civilization games (Civ 2?) gave points in the final score for happy and content citizens, but not for unhappy ones. While that's a minor detail (you usually don't win the game by score anyway), I think that was a nice touch, and made it feel like something else also mattered beside just the attainment of power.

On a similar vein, I think in Alpha Centauri you could enable a rule that allowed a group of allied factions to win together.

I've occasionally lamented that Civ 5 feels like nothing but a power game where it's difficult to even justify the AI being "friendly" for the sake of being friendly and not just as a strategic, transaction-based move. The game may not be zero-sum, but it does feel like that sometimes. I don't know if my thinking has changed or if the later games just feel different somehow, but I didn't feel quite that way about some of the older Civ games.

The social policy advancement system in Civ 5 also feels a bit too "gamey" to me. What that guy on the video briefly mentioned about each social policy advancement being just another power bonus rather than having to make direct choices about tradeoffs (as you would in the previous games) struck a chord.

Some of the criticism in the video seems a bit nitpicky -- some historical inaccuracies such as lumping all of the ancient Hellenic areas together into a single unified Greek civilization are pretty much inevitable when your scale is the entire world and 6000 years -- but some of the points actually sounded like something I've kind of felt too, I just haven't been able to put them into words.
The last sentence really nails what's behind that queasy feeling some workplaces give off when you can't specifically figure out why they feel dishonest.

"The feeling of inconsequence is reinforced when Hastings flat-out admits that if you work in a non-creative field, his managerial framework doesn’t apply. “If you’re leading an emergency room,” he writes, “testing airplanes, managing a coal mine, or delivering just-in-time medication to senior citizens, rules with process is the way to go.” That is, if society depends on what you do, treating business like a competitive game played by an elite squadron of breathtaking colleagues won’t cut it. Meritocracy, if it functions at all, seems to work best when nothing is at stake."

I thought this was a fun reframing of the traditional way "talent" is thought of in the workplace. The connotation of the word kennel really seems to strike at the truth under the haze of buzzwords.

"All one needed to blast through the rapids of the new economy was a small dinghy packed with perky geniuses who had been plucked from the meritocratic kennels of the world’s most elite institutions."
Creative Artists Agency isn't an agency, it's a private company.
Well, there is a good way of measuring the area; instead of measuring actual area, measure the area of the surface on a perfectly smooth spheroid with an identical perimeter.
How does Mimestream work in terms of MFA?
Im not familiar with how Goolge OAuth handles it, but if I granted access to Mimestream app from one machine, can the same grant be used from another(i.e. bad actor's server)?
The only crazy is how she’ll probably get away with it.
> Davila authorized the examinations after Holmes’ lawyers said they intended to introduce expert evidence from a clinical psychologist “relating to a mental disease or defect or any other mental condition of the defendant bearing on the issue of guilt.”
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> The defense expert, Mindy Mechanic, is a California State University at Fullerton professor specializing in psychosocial consequences of violence, trauma and victimization, including violence against women, and often testifies in cases involving interpersonal violence, according to her university biography.

Ok, so my theory is that based on the expert her lawyers are calling, they are going to argue that Sunny groomed/abused Holmes over the course of their relationship (probably by calling attention to the age difference/power dynamic difference when they first met), which left her with trauma that led to her making the decisions she made.

So “Battered Woman Syndrome” [1] but applied to fraud instead of assault/murder.

If that’s the case, it really seems like they aren’t going to argue that Holmes didn’t deceive and commit fraud, but that her PTSD is a defense.

Novel. This may have worked in the 1980s, the era of the the Twinkie defense [2] and other ways of arguing diminished capacity, but I’m not sure it’ll be successful here.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battered_woman_syndrome
[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense
It’s rather comical, how for the past 20 years, Americans have been claiming themselves to be the pinnacle of creativity and innovation. And at the same time, denouncing the Chinese as a bunch of copycats-but-can-never-innovate. And they said the same thing about the Japanese a generation earlier.

Even Carly Fiorina, the witch CEO that burned down HP, said that the Chinese cannot innovate. [1]

And here you have a prime example of a Chinese company that found a good usage of the recommendation AI technique, and applied it in an innovative way, and created a whole new platform, that works better than YouTube or Twitter or Facebook.

And what happens? The white Americans steal it. Oh I’m sorry, their president declared it into law, like a dictator does, and force Tiktok to sell itself at firesale prices.

And what of all the supporters here on HN that have claimed that the Chinese can’t innovate. Well, their obvious answer is that Tiktok is obviously a spyware app for the Chinese government.

The American way to steal, is to force a firesale by edict, and get the patents for it. Then claim that it is their own.

The United States also did this to Toshiba and other Japanese semiconductor companies in the 1980s. Same dirty trick, different generation.

LOL. The hypocrisy of Americans.

But of course, you are free to prove me wrong.

Also, I expect to get flagged and downvoted for this comment.

[1] https://time.com/3897081/carly-fiorina-china-innovation/
I mean, if he gives a timeline and the timeline is wrong, he's still wrong. Obviously people deserve a bit of leeway because shit happens, but it seems to keep happening.

In my mind that either means he's stupid (not learning from his mistakes) or deceptive. Personally, I don't think he's stupid, so...
> I think you're the exception, not the rule.

Yes, but HN is not a good representation of society at large.
If I wanted to see just orange-box, then I would do

grep --color=always orange-box file.txt

But, I don't want to see just orange-box. I want to see orange-box and compare against other cases of box. So I would do:

grep --color=always box file.txt | grep --color=always orange-box

Without that --color=always, other cases of box will be drowned out by the noise.

And if I wanted to write that out to a file then I would do

grep --color=never orange-box file.txt > matches.txt

Alternatively, I'd add a filter to the file with `ansi2txt`

grep --color=always box file.txt | grep --color=always box | ansi2txt > no-color-matches.txt
Ah, silly me. Thanks!
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Amazing!

I fear I have the opposite. I try really hard, but I can't remember faces or especially names. Until I really get to know someone, I'm not quite certain who I'm dealing with. It's a curse.
Right. As I wrote in another comment, this seems to be a way to argue diminished capacity, probably by arguing that she was a victim of battered spouse syndrome. It’s the modern day Twinkie defense.
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CK3 is better (which is saying a lot for a Paradox game that just came out and a Civ game with a lot of added content). Civ 6 feels like they optimized for the tedium: Do you like moving hundreds of units one at a time? How about having to constantly reallocate your citizens among EVEN MORE OPTIONS just to get them to do reasonable things?
Wow! As someone who has one of these nebulous titles ("Software Architect"), this is one of the most accurate descriptions I've seen of what the job entails. My employer is nowhere near the size of Salesforce, so a lot of things scale down, but the basics are the same.

I would say the biggest challenge with roles like this is the loneliness and what seems like constant conflict. One needs to work hard to keep up personal relationships with product/sales/project management/etc to ensure that the level of trust is there to be able to have the hard conversations. It is really easy to forget that, and a lot of those other folks start to feel like you're always just shooting down their ideas.
>Many pundits and commentators focus on economic deprivation or sociocultural factors—above all, racism—to explain the recent wave of urban anger, triggered by Floyd’s awful death. But the data show that American society has fewer people in poverty and less bigotry compared with decades past; and police use of force is far less pervasive than it was during higher-crime periods

This I think is a really bad argument to disregard those causes. What's relevant for discontent is not deprivation in absolute terms, but treatment in relationship to expectations.

Yes, racism is arguably not as bad as it was decades ago, but the expectation of how to be treated, and the voice that common people have now, is much, much larger.

The clearest example of this is the MeToo movement. Women obviously have gained a lot of rights and are in many ways much better off than they were merely a few decades ago. But that does not mean progress has been made as fast as people think it should have, and that's what matters, together with the capacity to speak up.
But what about the nitrogen production industry? /s
I do not know this person at all but after reading this I think I’d enjoy being her coworker.
Michael Jordan, as in the CEO of PepsiCo, Westinghouse, CBS, and EDS?
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> But the data show that American society has fewer people in poverty and less bigotry compared with decades past; and police use of force is far less pervasive than it was during higher-crime periods.

Nonetheless, it could very well be that poverty, bigotry, and excessive force are still high enough to remain a threat to social stability.

And that threat is certainly increased by ubiquitious video evidence of bigotry and excessive use of force which didn't exist in decades past.
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Of course not, this is classic white supremacy and heteronormativity
Exactly. 8-20x is a massively unlikely outcome so there’s huge risk. What do you get for taking a bet on that risk? Mere parity with annualized first year compensation elsewhere. That is a very low reward for such dramatic risk.
That's also how it was explained to me, back in the days.
For many use-cases FDO ("feedback-driven") can be more convenient and sometimes mkre effective than PGO ("profile-driven").

The difference is sampling prod vs sampling separately in test. The arguments for FDO:

- Prod behaviour/data is always "representative", whereas synthetic or recorded data can go out of date quickly.

-PGO test fixtures can contain sensitive user data. Instrumenting production processes doesn't put data in more places.

The benefits of both are huge though. The rule of thumb I've seen is a 20% improvement for FDO over -O3.
Hashes are not a panacea. I see them being suggested as solution for anonymization of ip addresses/domain names/urls/file names/emails all the time but these people that make said suggestions are either clueless or are arguing in bad faith. It is extremely easy to brute-force the majority of said hashes. (in addition to that I doubt that anyone is passing hashed emails as it would make it slightly inconvenient to send emails to said accounts)
Same author waxes how his adoptive parents made him conservative:

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/Column-Why-being-a-...

I guess this was in-between the baseball bat wielding wildings...
Ask HN: What features do you expect in an interviewing platform?
While interviewing for candidates, what do you think should be some must have features, which is currently lacking in platforms like coderpad.io .
Doesn't make it any less irritating.
Maybe we don’t need the mobility with the concept of remote working normalizing. Community is underrated.
I saw something on twitter about her ... pet horned beetle eating her other pet horned beetle?
Lament HN: Light Bulbs
Are light bulbs representative of life?

I have a lamp that takes G9 capsule-lightbulbs. These have two little legs made of wire loops that push/click into sockets — about the size of a large bean.

I have two 30W halogen bulbs made by GE. A known brand, known technology, radiating across the spectrum in warm colors with stable light.

They are also far too hot. I want to replace them with LEDs. Searching Amazon for a minute felt as comfortable as buying in a black market at 4am. All brands I’ve never heard of. Most have bad reviews focusing mostly on either unwanted flicker, wrong color, or high failure rates.

I went to the website of a bricks-and-mortar store I trust. They have a Philips bulb and two other brands. Philips is a brand I recognize. The bulb is not omnidirectional. The other two have some reviews. One off-brand has multiple reviews saying the bulbs flicker and have odd color profiles.

The other off-brand has fewer bad reviews. I load up my cart with two bulbs for $12. There is a ~$2 fee to click and collect from the local branch of this bricks-and-mortar store.

I go back to Amazon. No handling fee but the price for is higher by ~50%. I go back to the bricks-and-mortar store and take the fee-hit, mostly because I don’t want to be wandering around the shelves in store for too long in these trying times.

I will pick the bulbs up on Saturday. The technology change will save me energy and save my lamp heating up too much.

LEDs are a wonder of the modern world. What’s not a wonder is this late stage capitalism shopping experience. I lament it as much as I am no longer surprised by it. This little experience encapsulated everything that’s awful about light bulb shopping online, and if I think too hard about it, quite a lot of other things in the modern world too.

Thank you for reading. Sorry if you decided you didn’t want to. [x] Uncheck this box if you don’t want to be emailed about reviewing your purchase.
If there’s any company that could have tons of uses for a TLD it’s Facebook.

Imagine a decentralized Facebook made up of custom websites all using the .facebook domain. Imagine the revenues.

Zuckerberg are you reading this? What are your thoughts?
You don't need a public market to sell your shares. The company itself could buy back the shares, or an other employee could buy them from you.

Actually, I think most C level officers in a startup would be quite happy to buy lower level employees shares.

Of course this would have to be possible considering the shareholder agreement, but I don't see any reason it would not.
The moat is very different.
Picture 10 years down the line. Which do you feel more confident generating returns?
A man who owned 3k cameras
Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges
VyOS supports bridging and routing although the config is more like a Linux host and unlike a real Cisco/Arista switch.
All of the stats he cites outside of the suicide stuff don't differentiate between men and women. They indicate that everyone (men and women) feels like trash these days.

Unless every Ken Burns doc I've ever watched was a deepfake, the overwhelming majority of cannon fodder in major conflict in recent human history has been young men, so maybe there is something to the young men break stuff idea. However, there are plenty of women toting AK-47s in the YPG, so I'm not sure the degree to which this is a cultural thing.

As for the suicide stats, I believe that men tend to use guns, and guns are one of the gold standards for this sort of thing. Men are exposed to guns more as a cultural thing, and may feel more confident/comfortable in their ability to commit suicide with one.

Characteristics of adult male and female firearm suicide decedents: findings from the National Violent Death Reporting System - BMJ Injury Prevention

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2008.021162
^^ DOI for the SciHub folks

Here are some graphs this nonprofit made from CDC data that help build the idea that women try to kill themselves more than men, but men are more successful at it.

https://www.sprc.org/scope/attempts
> It’s specifically a high risk, high reward form of compensation.

This really only applies to the first few employees, or maybe the first few hundred if you happen to be at the next Google (so the company has to 1,000x).

After that, it's very unlikely you'd come out ahead even if the company 20x'ed compared to joining FAANG. And the other thing to consider is that FAANG stocks aren't stationary. I know people whose relatively modest AMZN stock offerings have made them millionaires.

The fact of the matter is you don't join a startup to get rich (unless you're an idiot). You join a startup because of the many other benefits it provides - having a bigger impact, working on a smaller team, less bureaucracy, etc.
>Setting extremely ambitious goals and trying your level best to achieve them is a virtue, not a vice.

That only holds true up til the point where your loud (public) ambitious goals are the reason for ticket sales.

Once there is financial motive for setting ambitious goals, you lose credit for the ambition -- it becomes driven by profit.

SpaceX is literally taking queries for the sale of private Mars tickets[0].

I have a hard time considering the sale of tickets to a now-technologically-impossible-future-event that may be possibly hundreds of years away from our present time as altruistic.

If I made a website and sold tickets to the "Nicest place to sit and observe the apocalypse when it occurs." for hefty profits i'd be driven out of town. No way I could know where that might be or when it might occur; the entire premise is faulty.

A guy launches a rocket or two and suddenly his opinion, against the majority of the rest of science and engineering by the way, claims we're going to Mars soon.

Sure, he's more believable than some random person saying it, i'll give you that -- but the promise of Mars is something that I and many others consider to be so unlikely in the immediate future that we view the promise as akin to a lie or fraud; and Musk has done little to assuage the very real technical fears behind the mission other than with vagueties like "Well, it's an engineering challenge." or "We'll have to discover new ways of doing X".

Yes, that's true, new method and procedures will inevitably need to be developed -- but dismissing such feats as minor is not only in poor taste, but short-sighted when trying to plan a timeline for when these events may occur.

I think this shortsightedness is intentional, and for profit. He can claim the world, profit from it, and deliver very minimal results that are nothing compared to the promises.

You see this behavior over and over in the management of early Tesla, too.

[0]: https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
Love won't pay my bills, I want money! Just give me money!

-- apologies to the Flying Lizards
I heard that some services have started rejecting email addresses that contain their name.
Empathy is a possible consequence of comprehension, not comprehension, yes
Complete English sentences in present tense are infix, with the subject and object clearly stated. Implicit subjects only follow after the first sentence in a paragraph or a phrase. Case in point is the words you've read so far. "are", "follow" and "is" are verbs. This is why most programming languages are in infix notation. Lisp syntax stayed is a historical accident. [1] Arabic is a prefix languages, and people don't program in Arabic.

"is assigned to" is passive voice. I think we've all learned in writing classes we should avoid it as much as possible because stating the active voice is clearer.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
It’s as if we as humans adapted to a certain way of organizing ourselves and now that way is deemed “bigoted” and “old fashioned”
Who would have thought that nature designed a better social system than we could.
I had the same issue. This is why I always comment my assignments.

x = x + 1 // assign x to x+1
As someone who worked with Amy for years at Heroku, I can confirm that this is very accurate. Amazing write up, Amy. Damn.
desktop version: https://xkcd.com/2357/
What other moonshots were there at the time?

And I doubt you would get the same success as investing in Bitcoin at Vegas.
One issue with PGO is you are optimizing for the particular subset of use cases which are profiled, on the exact machine you profile on. The 2% quoted improvement will not necessarily generalize across all use cases for the software and all machines it runs on. In fact, you may often be taking that 2% or more away from other use cases.
> empathy is not comprehension?

Not in the sense in which the law requires you to comprehend the consequences of your actions. An insane person could feel bad after killing someone because they respond with empathy after the fact, but still not have comprehended before the fact that what they were doing was going to kill someone. The latter, if established beyond a reasonable doubt, would mean they would not meet the legal comprehension requirement.

And, conversely, a psychopath could comprehend perfectly well before the fact that what they were doing was going to kill someone, but feel nothing because they don't care. They would still meet the legal requirement for comprehension.

(Disclaimer: IANAL.)
Totally non-scientific measurement (I took a few applications I had lying around, got size of symbols with nm -S) suggests that you're looking at around 0.1-1% of all functions are larger than 5KiB.

Interestingly, the largest function all cases seemed to be something on the order of "initialize a large static hashtable."
Beautiful rant.

Request. Do TLS next (if it’s in your wheelhouse). I’ve been looking for a good summary of ECC and selected curves in tls 1.2
It's not just common, it is part of the MIDI specification and deliberately done that way to allow running status, an optimization that was important in the days of (true) serial MIDI.
> Still, we had food and cheap cell phones and cheap beer—and we had one another, unlike today’s friendless millennials.

What the hell kind of judgemental piece of bullshit is this?

> The lack of stable families has contributed to the widespread mistrust of others and lack of social relationships among young people.

The whole piece is like this - quote some unrelated stats ("suicides up" - even though they are less than the late 90's, and "out of wedlock births are up" - even though the 40% for "now" means those kids are zero years old so unlikely to be rioting) and then use them to support some blanket social statement unrelated to the "evidence" other than "oh this sounds bad"
This seems like it would lose an appreciable amount of water, but perhaps not nearly as much as transpiration. But in most places water is a cheaper input than nitrogen.
That’s neat. Is there a separate syntax for var to var assignment or are variables immutable in Prolog?
Is "risk" even the right thing to call a too-low-to-expect probability of a desirable event? Is playing the lottery a "risk"?
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