skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find no merit in discussing on whom, PPP, or MQM, to throw the blame on for Karachi situation. The result will largely be the same if you swap them. Both Karachi (MQM's turf,) and rural Sindh (PPP's turf) are ran terribly bad.
Responding to every message/request with a "I'll get back to you by X" takes you away from the task you were otherwise doing. This may not matter, but it's often yet another diversion. Most of us are paid/valued on the basis we can do sustained work and responding to adhoc queries is only a small part of that.

I think there is a peril in responding immediately (which I tend to do) - you set a weird informal SLA that people then expect you to meet. I've had people call me and say "Hey I emailed you this morning - are you ignoring me?" - they're kind of joking but not really.

It's tough to balance. I agree with you - sometimes, me spending five minutes not only saves someone else an hour, it saves me hours later on when I have to unpick something someone else has done. The skill is trying to identify those critical points without interrupting what you're doing every time you get a mail/IM/whatever. A good team helps with that.
One time programmable fuses are rather terrible. I'd rather have an old UV resettable fuse that would also clear the key space.
Or perhaps a set of contacts to reset the fuse, like a jumper or lands that should be connected with a pencil.
OpenWrt 19.07.4 – Service Release
Are you saying that the targets referenced in this article/hearing were clear and immediate threat to Americans on the other side of the world? or maybe they were minutes from launching a nuke?

Also do you think its correct to investigate very carefully anyone involved in such activities openly after the fact (once the perceived threat is no longer present) to ensure that these powers are not abused?

There was an Iain (M?) Banks book (maybe transitions?) that sort of represents my basic thoughts on this.. A policemen goes extra-judicial and tortures a suspect to find the location of a kidnapped child (or something like that).. the kid or whatever it was was saved but the policeman felt he should be criminally charged and tried after the fact and the torture should certainly not be legalised or glorified as it worked that one time in exceptional circumstances. - I think that there are times when humans do carry out a wrong to stop a greater wrong - but that should be part of the burden this actor must accept when taking action. otherwise the creative among us will not be able to stop our subconscious manipulating the laws that allow us to circumnavigate protocol.

I spend all day implementing controls in ERP systems etc. and I have to admit that when I have to raise a PO or Req you are damn right i use every fast track and workaround i know of to expedite it (I basically can't help it). So I try hard to create processes even I cannot manipulate. to be clear I think my ability to "work a process" is what makes me good at creating more robust processes - which is why I think politicians and law makers have a hard job and why we need to hold them to account.
I think this might be what is meant by religious people when they say that nothing is "sacred" anymore. Meaning that there is no longer any value or virtue high enough to not be questioned, even if these are the axioms of the society.
It'd be a stretch to consider any of these games even remotely casual. I haven't played HOI3 or 4, but if they're as far on the extreme complexity end as EU4, then toning down on unneeded complexity may well be justified.

The goal is not complexity for its own sake; it has to serve a purpose. Some of the complexity does, some of it doesn't. Revisiting some of those assumptions for a new version makes a lot of sense. That said, these big Paradox games have a tendency to accumulate a lot of complexity over the years.
Half of it is returned in the form of tax credit.

A full time job minimum salary is 1.521,22 euros per month
in France, and at this salary, you have no revenue taxes and extra child support, namely a one shot birth allocation of roughly 1000 euros, and 185,54 € per month of child support.

So, no, "500/month" is not in my opinion "insanely expensive and unaffordable" considering a bigger picture.
Good! As an iPhone user, I’ll wait for the app to become popular enough that Apple correctly integrates it.

Case and point, Swipe keyboards. It was the biggest missing feature for three years when I moved from Android to iPhone. I still preferred my iPhone!
There’s no need to have access to things I don’t want them to.

There is no need for them to ask for my payment information in a way that can be fraudulent.

There are many reasons for them why they’d want to reduce subscription cancellation and other dark patterns.

There is no reason for them to be able to install anything, or run arbitrary code on my device.

If epic wants to do business with me, they can go through my secretary/lawyer/firewall (Apple).

I’m more than 10x likely to spend money on apps, so I think that more than evens it out.

Which apps are missing? I’m so t see any added value in another AppStore. Heck, I’d love for Apple to lockdown OS X so that adobe’s store/updater is banned. Wishful thinking
I don't know. Just buying something is usually boring and makes you feel powerless.
Might be half CPU there but also half that the JS Engine on Android is much slower than iOS’s. In all JS benchmarks the iPhone outclasses the Android devices by amounts greater than the CPU advantage.
It's not the full cost of having a kid in childcare. Norway have set a cap on what the parents have to pay, and most (if not all) kindergartens have discounts if you have multiple kids in the same place.

The actual cost is much higher but is covered by the government, with some adjustments to account for local variations in things such as real-estate costs and similar.
I know it has the tags for Work-in-progress, but it is ready we just need to change the page.
I see no material difference in how he'll be treated in either country. AFAIK the US still has the death penalty, does it not?
PR people are going to be PR people. Any sensible journalist or editor would say 'No, it's staying like it is'.
Or else.

It’s bully behavior and should be setting off alarms at the FTC. Stunts like this should scare Amazon middle managers.
The Mystery of the Neutron's Lifetime
Maybe it was the case few years ago, but now the rework equipment is quite affordable. It is certainly within hobbyist reach now to e.g replace BGA chip. That's why they rather go into "security" excuse as this sort of stuff cannot be easily bypassed.
I find it hard to imagine a Paradox game that could not be described as complex. Maybe some are not quite as complex as others, but they're definitely complex. Especially compared to any version of Civilization.
"Airbnb for storage"

i knew you were putting in the hn title, so we could all relate, but you have that quote right on your site... are you even allowed to say that? aren't you infringing on Airbnb?

i don't know about this... as others have pointed out, i wouldn't want someone sending me something illegal and getting int trouble for storing it. best of luck though.
It is just a request. You can say No. That is the definition of request. They used the word request. Asking is fine. They could stay silent, or they could request. They chose to request.

It is taken out of context, but as this is the only context supplied then it seems quite reasonable.
I think many companies are relaxing expectations for everyone. I have quite a few non-parent co-workers who have taken leave due to the mental health impact COVID has had on them, and my employer has been incredibly flexible in making sure they are able to take care of themselves.

I (also as a non-parent) have been mostly ok, but I've been taking more Fridays off than I would otherwise, just to have some more recharge time.

But I don't think there's necessarily a one-size-fits-all allowance solution. Taking care of a grandparent does not require the same time commitment, and, crucially, the same lack of control over one's schedule, as child care. Barring emergencies, you can schedule when you take care of your grandparent. With children, you are on call all day long, and kids can and will interrupt you for whatever (or no) reason. You can't just put them in a room by themselves for 8 hours and expect things to go well. Hell, with most young kids you can't even put them in a room by themselves for 30 minutes and expect things to go well.
BonziBuddy for iOS is what the world is crying out for.
> Forward rendering...

Isn't clustered forward rendering for lighting better in any aspect than "traditional" deferred shading, no matter if running on low- or high-end GPUs (because it wastes less memory bandwidth for accumulating light contribution from different light sources)? Also I think most rendering pipelines in modern games mix elements of both deferred and forward rendering (e.g. Doom Eternal renders additional information needed later in the frame into 'fat framebuffers', much like deferred renderers do).
They didn't demand it, they requested it. The recipient can say No, and they probably have.
Eudora was really easy to use software
Italia initiated investigation against Google, Apple and Dropbox cloud services
Apparently not that easily or the half-life would be longer than two hours... You want to try if storing energy in a flywheel while using a lot of energy for the magnetic field can outperform gravity storage?
In addition you have to look closely to see if there’s a . or , to know if it’s a new sentence or not. Horrible UX.
Actually one of their internal recruiters contacted me out of the blue. So I don't have any advice on that aspect.

Alas, after going through their interview process it turned out to be a "no", but no worries, it looks like I have at least one good offer, maybe 2-3 coming in this week.
Slightly tangential fact I heard recently on a podcast [0]: historically the problem of integration preceded that of differentiation. But because differentiation is so much easier, we teach that to kids first. It's one of the many ways that schools obscure the intuition of calculus and turn it into so many formulae to be memorised.

[0] https://newbooksnetwork.com/david-bressoud-calculus-reordere...
I see it as a totally reasonable request... But that the journal in this case is also completely within their rights to say "no".
Translation:
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CV194-CV195-CV196-PS11147-PS11149-PS11150 - Investigation initiated against Google, Apple and Dropbox for cloud computing services

The proceedings relate to alleged unfair commercial practices and the possible presence of unfair clauses in the contractual conditions.

The Competition and Market Authority has initiated six investigations against some of the main global operators of cloud computing services. The parties involved are Google (for the Google Drive service), Apple (for the iCloud service) and Dropbox, each affected by both a proceeding for alleged unfair commercial practices and / or violations of the Consumer Rights Directive and one for alleged clauses vexatious included in the contractual conditions.

In particular, the investigations for unfair practices against Google and Apple concern the failure or inadequate indication, when presenting the service, of the collection and use for commercial purposes of the data provided by the user and the possible undue influence in towards consumers, who, in order to use the cloud storage service, would not be in a position to give the operator their consent to the collection and use of information concerning them for commercial purposes.

The same complaints are also raised against Dropbox, which is also accused - in addition - of failing to provide in a clear and immediately accessible manner the information on the conditions, terms and procedures for withdrawing from the contract and for exercising the right to reconsider. In addition, not to allow the user the easy use of out-of-court dispute settlement mechanisms, to which the professional is subject, with the necessary information to access them.

Proceedings for unfair clauses, on the other hand, concern some contractual conditions set out in the relative models of the aforementioned companies, such as: the operator's ample right to suspend and interrupt the service; the exemption from liability even in the event of loss of documents stored in the user's cloud space; the possibility of unilateral modification of the contractual conditions; the prevalence of the English version of the contract text over the Italian version.

Rome, 7 September 2020
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/03/20/devil/

The quote is best known in the modern day in the form it took in The Usual Suspects: "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist".

Baudelaire did write the same thing, but it's not original to him either, making him an odd citation. In particular, the form you quote didn't come from Baudelaire; it came from John Wilkinson.

Wilkinson (1836): "One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist"

Baudelaire (1864): "la plus belle des ruses du Diable est de vous persuader qu’il n’existe pas!" ["the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!"]
What a strange set of conclusions. The author also misses out on one important point: many of us read books for pleasure, NOT because we feel pressure to read from society. I have a large collection of physical books in my TBR pile, and not one cent of guilt about that (even their presence on my shelves makes me happy).
I'm not so sure everybody played it. A lot of people didn't. Many more casual games sold a lot more.

But in the market for complex strategy games, Civ was absolutely king. But that's because the market was far less saturated at the time; nobody else had made a game like that before. Now there's thousands of games trying to do things like that, so it's much harder to stand out.
This an overly narrow view of the problem. The footprint of pumped hydro is enormous and you can't just put it anywhere where you actually need the power.
I’ve always wondered how Plan9’s “everything is a file” didn’t open up a billion race conditions. Did they solve this problem, or was this just something that was papered over?
Assange has never did anything directly towards Trump, only things against the person who was secretary of the united states of American during the time when diplomatic cables was released, and when the "paranoid speculations" started that the US wanted to extradite Assange for treason charges.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend is a common theme, and trump did benefit from the situation. There is also the theme that the enemy of my enemy is simply the enemy of my enemy, no more, no less. If I guess which one it was in 2016 I would not count on Trump pardoning Assange in 2020.
That assumes I'm much more valuable to the team than the other person. Real life has not many Napoleons though...
Reasonable or not, it's a super widespread practice for marketing and PR departments to 'insist' on certain language when their products are referred to.

A super notorious example of this is Apple insisting/asking that their devices are referred to without any determiner like 'the' or 'an' e.g. 'We think THE iPhone is really important' to 'We think iPhone is really important'
This is putting a lot of credit into the random marketing person’s grand evil plan, when in reality their job is busywork PR emails to outlets hoping they fix articles to make it sound better for the products in question.

Companies like this hires tens of thousands and some people do dumb jobs. PR is mostly a pushing/prodding game with no guaranteed ROI, so they resort to weak attempts like this.

It sounds distasteful with a light shown on it but it really isn’t too different to how most of the meat is made in the blogging industry as a whole. With these high output blogs mostly just repurposing corporate press release kits.

I’m sure Vice only wrote the original blog post because some Amazon person emailed them a presser about this residential program, and Vice did their usual snarky article about it.
We used to call this "Solve it by waiting" at my previous job.

It was a very effective solution for many kinds of problems.
The app store: now with the usability of US sales taxes.
My dad still uses Framework at times on an old machine. It just works and is perfect for his use case of large spreadsheets.

https://framework.com/
I guess you could call it a stricter version of the Linux’s kernel’s ABI stability?
Here's the article:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj45kx/amazon-wants-alexa...

https://web.archive.org/web/20200905234440/https://www.vice....
> How exactly to people buy food and pay their bills in this scenario?

In Tech? With 3-10 times the average family income? How will they buy food if they work part time for a month or two, or one of them quits?

Probably the way as before, with their massive pay check.
My comment was in regard to the risks of clinical trial participation, not approved vaccines.

There is some precedent for the scenario you describe, however: the 2009/10 H1N1 vaccine “Pandemrix” caused permanent narcolepsy in 1 in 55,000 children it was administered to:

https://www.narcolepsy.org.uk/resources/pandemrix-narcolepsy
No, it seems that China and Iran's data are at least not susceptible to having modifications or fabrications easily detectable using Benfords' law.

Keep in mind that if you are hip to that trick that it is pretty easy to get around it. Absence of evidence etc.
Nothing is black and white, sure. Foreign intervention was probably good for the Kurds and some other minorities being suppressed by Saddam. He really wasn't the nicest guy.

But there is also an unfortunate history of selling weapons to him in the hope he would point them towards Iran. But the useful idiot didn't do what he was told and lied to his handlers. They probably didn't mind because the ends justified the means from his perspective. The war killed hundreds of thousands of people and we are in process of torturing the person responsible for transparency on the consequences of war.

Difficult to really say what that achieved. What was it for the US? Saving face after 9/11? If the US casually kills thousands of people not involved in the attack as impotent retaliation, you might find other terrorists that think crashing a plane into a skyscraper of innocent people is justified. The US would sabotage its reputation itself in that case. The ends justify the means, right?
Seeing how much progress has happened since then, it’s all really impressive!

The current iPhone 11 Pro seems to be locked at exactly 60 FPS and you can’t get it to drop.

Geekbench scores for your iPhone rage near 540 single core and 986 multi core. The current iPhone is 1330 and 3434 respectively. I would guesstimate that unlimited, FPS would be somewhere near 120 for the current iPhone. The app is very fast! I bet it could run on an Apple Watch!
Mine rate is fixed for 30 years, not just 5 years like Canada.
This sounds a bit like MAC from FreeBSD (and subsequently adopted and extended by macOS).
I think I will start calling all such devices microphones.
In the 7 habits of highly effective people book, this concept is nicely illustrated by a 2x2 grid with the axes "urgency" and "importance".

There are a lot of urgent but unimportant tasks such as emails or letters in Napoleon's day, and those distract from the important but less urgent work (ie your job). Obviously you need to deal with the urgent AND important interruptions, and trying to find a balance is always going to be difficult when the interruptions start coming in!
TIL if my friend had thought to postpone by weeks instead of days he might've conquered europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291990
The web is like the third matrix movie
Such problems are not solvable with money or manpower, and I don't think the Id team depends on Google engineering knowledge for GPU optimizations ;)
The Thing is that most people here belittle Web Developers but they do not have a clue what we do. At all.

In your pretty short answer you’ve already caught mistake. Let‘s see:

> And if you want to stick the header to the top you can use `position: sticky` in CSS instead of including a huge Javascript file that can do all kinds of fancy stuff you don't need.

Your „simple trick“ to avoid „including a huge javascript file“ doesn‘t work in: Opera, Chrome for Android, IE and a couple more[1]. It does work in Safari, but not as you would expect. Also, position:sticky is still a Working Draft. It is suspect to be changed at all times. Want the same functionality across all Browsers? Better use Js.

Another thing is that most people here think „huge JS bundles“ are what make websites work. These are to be used for webapps though. If you want anything more than a static site, you‘ll need JavaScript. No way around it.

[1]: https://caniuse.com/?search=Sticky
I'm surprised #1 isn't proposed more. It's not really even that radical when you consider that the Overton window now includes completely eliminating student debt.
This is obvious, until you realize that the line between company and customers(shareholders) have been blurred, creating perverse incentives.
> All obvious places may have hydro plants already, but not all hydro plants are reversible.

Hydro plants are built reversible whenever possible. The ones that aren't ("run of river") are that way because it was impractical to impound storage.
If you can rent significantly cheaper than total cost of servicing loans etc, consider investing the difference in index funds and rent as cheap as you can.

It might be a good bet, especially if speculation in housing is slowing down compared to the last 20-30 years.
Comments are actually usually a downranking factor, to try to prevent flamewar posts from staying on the front page.
Colossus Thwaites glacier in the Antarctic: vulnerability seen in new maps
> Religion and morality aren't distinct concepts

How so? They seem pretty orthogonal to me.
The entire download of the executable is less than 4MB! and the manual is 26.2 MB! :)
This comment in the article made my day:

>the US Government changes its indictment in this case about as often as Kim Kardashian changes her handbag.
The first time someone asks it's always a request. It's much cheaper for a marketing drone to send an email than it is for a lawyer to write an official demand.

It's the second time they ask that you need to worry about.
A neural network can't think, please stop cargo culting neural networks
I have a feeling you would enjoy The History of Time Travel:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07PB7BK7L/

Spoiler warning: don't read the reviews until after you watch it. And then read a few of the one-star reviews for some hilarity.

Two words: "continuity errors"