skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall those land speed guys who ride a bicycle behind a pickup breaking the wind on the salt flats. Basically eliminated air drag... and ran right into rolling friction.
I disagree and think this is changing rapidly, especially in the electronic/EDM scenes. In these arenas, a lot of careers blossom from SoundCloud, YouTube, and having other artists/DJs pick up tracks and play them in their sets. Marketing is still a factor but matters a lot less (many artists even wear masks/helmets). A quality track can (and many have been) made with just a laptop. Martin Garrix released his first hit "Animals" at age 16/17 after one his remixes was picked up by another DJ.

Additionally, music discovery has fundamentally changed because of streaming services like Spotify, as well. Just a couple of days ago there was an article on the front page of HN about how the top 40 tracks on Spotify make up a smaller percentage of the streams than even a year or two ago. Discovery features allow tracks to rise on their merit/listening stats making marketing much less important than it used to be, across genres.

With that said, it's still hard to make it. The barrier to entry has never been lower and thus there is a tremendous amount of competition and talent to contend with now. The determining factor for winning these days seems to be the ability to consistently and reliably release quality tunes over and over again.
dodgeball is solved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTizZ_XcUM
And yet the vast majority of games (probably over 99%, but that is a guesstimmate) are not exclusive to one store on the PC.

We have so many options on PC that the few exclusives can be entirely ignored.
This is a really interesting - and I think, important - question although people ruling stuff out of bounds for AI do have a habit of becoming proven wrong - the classic recent example being Go.

My assumption would be games or activities that are NOT heavily based in pattern finding, maths, statistics, categorising, memory etc.

I think it is more useful perhaps to consider the motivation for game playing which is completely different (at present) for humans/animals compared to computers.

We play because it is fun, or to bond, or to improve social status, make money, whatever.

Computers play because that is what they are told to do.
I will add: Anything Stephane Grappelli.

A traditionalist might tell you to learn the head and chord changes to the 100 most recorded jazz standards as a core basis for listening/learning. Along that line consider creating play lists that are all the same tune from different artists.
Doesn't seem that mysterious. Nazi atrocities are still in living memory, and victimized people and countries are still around. If you walk around with an "SS" tattoo, those people are (rightly) going to take it as a personal affront.

On the other hand, while people might have strong opinions about a "Molon Labe" bumper stick, there isn't anyone with Helot grandparents who raised them on stories about how terrible the Spartans were to their slaves.
There's a lot of elitism and gatekeeping in those communities. People are just starting out different and different is bad to many. I saw it a lot on Arduino StackExchange, but even more so when we got migrations from other StackEchange sites, some of those had mods and high-rep users that actively irrationally loathed the platform and it's users.
Trump loves sanctioning foreign countries – but he is terrible at it
Has the money from the heist been sustainably invested? I'd love to see it guarding the openness and availability of the internet infrastructure as a whole.
The problem is, if the jars last over a century you don't sell many jars.
I wouldn't be so sure about all of this. I just bought a copy of the You Only Live Twice soundtrack in physical CD format because my streaming provider (Spotify) only offers 3 tracks from the album. Repeat this story for anything not created in the last 20 years.

The realization that I could permanently lose access to some older media just by way of my streaming providers not caring to continue carrying the tracks has reignited my datahoarder spirit animal.

For some reason the thought of losing access to movies and TV shows is substantially less troubling to me than the thought of losing access to more obscure forms of music.
This assumes you want to install software from anywhere, or that you want your mom (who you suggested get and iPhone) to be able to install software from anywhere. For similar reasons that hardware admins don’t want you installing anything you like on company hardware, I don’t want my family installing anything they get tricked into installing on their phones.

There are other options out there where you can do whatever you want and side load, why not go use those yourself and stop demanding others be subjected to this same situation?
Most of them are nice to have components, not really necessary for your home office on budget (with exception: the Acer laptop).
That typical personality doesn't show up at all in StackOverFlow, ServerFault, Databases, WebApps, Bitcoin, Mathematics and other StackExchange communities.

Or if they show up, it's counterbalanced by a giant number of nice programmers willing to help. While on the Networking StackExchange they are the only ones.
This is false, modern cars contain equipment capable of transmitting EM waves and thus regulated by the FCC and equivalent agencies in most other countries. These regulations apply even on private property. You can not arbitrarily change that legally.

The same applies to all private houses, installing in a home a powerful transmitter to broadcast noise is certainly illegal without approval.
Yes, Magit's UI is fantastic. I also love Notmuch, which has a similar interface design and a really elegant architecture. Incidentally, Magit's developer is also a Notmuch contributor.

Emacs ecosystem is getting really good. Org, Notmuch and Magit are fantastic for personal management.
Or written other way "go public". To have liquidity for a company you need to be listed at some marketplace and be interesting enough so that people will trade tour stock.
The fact that a lot more people are participating is today's adversity.

Access to equipment has gotten a lot easier. Access to reasonable levels of income from paying audiences has become far, far harder.
Unique integer generation in distributed systems
Hipster meme that only xml has problems. Ironically they now went full circle to yaml, which is much more obtuse than xml.
Monitoring sleep positions for a healthy rest
> Lots of people buy iPhones specifically because they are restrictive, and are therefore more robust

You can put restrictions on any phone

Even on rotary phones (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gD2hcPNWc5k/hqdefault.jpg)

The problem arise when you want (or need) to remove the locks

> . Ask an average user which experience they prefer - sourcing software for a Windows PC, or downloading an App for an iPhone.

Have you ever tried to as people if they prefer a bulldozer or a Ford Ka?

Anyway, 3d artists, just to name one, prefer Windows by far
For me it's more fascinating to think about how "science" articles regularly overstate and exaggerate weak data.
> You csn get clones in volume -- the whole dev board etc -- from China for $2 each in volume.

You can implement Dropbox with an FTP server.
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.”

~Dr. Seuss
Hmmm, I remember Epic spending quite a bit of effort to get the Unreal Engine running on Linux back in Unreal Tournament 99 times, even hiring Daniel Vogel full-time to work on it.
Glass is actually the most recyclable material with the highest difference in energy put in between new and reclaimed. I think the issue is not many plants are set up for recycling, and it is extra work to make pretty glass from reclaim glass.
ARM themselves are sponsoring work on the aarch64 Linux target. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2959

I work in arm32 daily, it works well for us. Happy to help if you need some!
It's not the same situation. I don't like exclusives either, but you still have the option to install games from other stores or publishers on your PC. The Apple situation is far, far worse.
Publish the non-financial data beforehand on a public website, where theoretically anyone could scrape and transform it into exactly the data-blocks needed for fountain recovery; but where in practice, there’s no specification for doing that, so you’re going to need exactly one particular piece of scraping+transforming software (or at least a running copy of it under test, to do a black-box reverse engineering of it.)

You could go a step further and publish that scraping+transformation software, too—on Github, even!—but just make it finicky as hell to set up, and with no documentation, either. (I would suggest writing it as a microservice architecture, split up between 1. a network of Ethereum smart-contracts, 2. a BeOS server, 3. a dongle program written for a Java Card smartcard, 4. a LambdaMOO object. Use an exactingly-frail implementation of IBM 5250 for the message bus.)

Such that, in practice, you need installation engineering support from—who else—your company.
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Like Epic’s Fortnite?
Maybe so. I think it was a novel idea to me because my intuition around profiling was formed with an assumption of delivering binaries to users, and not running server processes. (It's probably also a pre-internet bias of thinking it would be hard to get prod data, whereas profiling data from generated in a horrible enormous compile&run&profile&recompile process at least doesn't need to "go" anywhere.
> Chess beauty now is less about flashy combinations and more about qualities of a position

No it's the opposite. Since the advent of strong computer programs it has become clear that there are tactical intricacies in lots of positions that have long been overlooked by everyone, including top players. Gambits that everyone thought should not be accepted because it would give away a too strong positional advantage turned out to be winnable by clever defence moves. End games that were thought to be draws turned out to be winnable by although sometimes it would take more than 100 moves.
The bottom line is that the tactical part of chess is deeper than most people thought.
I wonder if he was silly and weird. :)

But the writings that survived the gauntlet of written history have done extremely well.

(thank you I will investigate!)
> Sweeney founded Epic Games in his parents' basement in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the early 1990s and grew the business into a $17 billion gaming empire.

Well that's one way to look at it. What made him really rich was selling out to Tencent, who just so happens to also have a mobile app store that they would love to get onto your phone.
TIL the ocean is under Jewish law
I bring mason jars and reusable produce bags to the store to buy coffee, rice, green beans and other solids. The store even ran a promotion to give away the produce bags, so a lot of people in the neighborhood have them. I agree, this might not work too well for meat, but as they say, "perfect is the enemy of good enough".
Do you mean Tier 1 support? There are just so many rust arm targets that it is difficult to make guarantees. Here is the official list if anyone is interested:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.htm...
> There were only 279 TLDs back then, or 32 TLDs if you excluded all the country code TLDs.

Arguably that's about 30 too many and really the root of this whole mess. Imho Postel, for all the good he did, in retrospect mismanaged DNS by not establising really any structure or policy, in a way that feels now bit naive/idealistic (and US-centric).

By the time ICANN took over dot-com bubble was already knocking at the door and laissez faire anything goes attitude of DNS pretty well cemented, so any drastic changes would have been difficult to accomplish.

Essentially by leaving the legacy TLDs completely open and mostly without restrictions or hierarchy/structure their meaning was eroded away, and if the TLDs have no meaning then it's only logical to throw them away.
These aren't postings. They are downloadable files in a "misc¨ directory on a WWW server which is full of all sorts of stuff: https://www.plover.com/misc/

For actual postings, in a web-log, go and look at https://blog.plover.com/2015/08/07/ .
That’s only a problem for very very few people aka the shareholders. Everyone else wins.

It’s the standard modus operandi for most companies by now. Internalized profits, externalized costs. And there are very few products for which full lifecycle costs are included in the price.
Be the change you want to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Ugh, federal job guarantees don't work. Nothing in life is gauranteed.
The difference is the cut that Epic takes is much less than 30% - he is walking the walk rather than just talking about it.
Maybe she will, but I find it unhealthy when that is "the most important reason for me to buy records".
Yeah it's definitely Durham. I've never heard it said about Warwick.
Doing nothing is unfortunately a complete opposite of what they are doing.
> & disallow shorting.

That's a very bad idea.

> Shorting is never a long-term game and should be banned, as it never does the company any favours.

The purpose of shorting isn't to help the company.

If shorting wasn't allowed, Wirecard would've gone on for much longer. Short sellers are an important part of the market.
I was thinking of that, but it seems to me that maintaining the Store has nearly totally different set of problems.
Sideloaded Android software is treated as second class. For example, F-Droid cannot update apps in the background.
Well, I sympathize with that sentiment, and it's a valid criticism that such a system tolerated an evil for so long.

However, slavery was a much greater evil than just one country or one actor, and it ran large parts of society and was accepted or overlooked by many people across many countries for a long period. How is a system to deal with something that many, many people are ok with at the time but some people recognize is not fair / immoral?

What should a government system be set up to do to check / repudiate that? Something that many people are willing (mistakenly) to accept as normal? And, did our system do the best that could have been done (and compared to others) to fix it? And what does that system mean for other, but different, problems that may come along?

No one said it was perfect, and certainly no system has handled every issue perfectly, far from it.

The question is what should you set up as the general system that can operate and handle problems with long-run good outcomes. If a society had rapidly course corrected and fixed that problem, what would it mean for future things it rapidly course corrected and also fixed? Maybe not in a way that was good?

I may dare ask, how did your country fare by that measure? Did it tolerate slavery, and for how long? Did it accept or deal in the profits of slavery or other exploitation, or overlook it? Does it do so now, for other issues?

We're just talking in political theory, right? Sitting on our ends of the internet, theorizing. Let's talk about it. What system is better?
Another really good brief history of Minitel from the Creatures Of Thought blog -https://technicshistory.com/2020/05/17/the-era-of-fragmentat...
If Epic allowed users to create their own outfits and weapons and sell them in fortnite using the users choice of credit card processing service they'd have a lot more legs to stand on.
strtod() could also return 0 on underflow.

But to be fair, the C++17 example doesn't check for underflow or overflow either.
I don't think you know what bribe means.
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I'm not sure it can be described as a failure, it made a lot of money and provided many jobs in France (I think my father worked on it during the 80s as a telco engineer).

The last time I had to use it must have been in 1999 as the only choice to enter your college preferences. And there was "Minitel over the internet" for some time. Apparently it only closed in 2012!

Transitioning the country to the Internet was botched in a typical French fashion though.
Kinda bullshit though, it's been around for ages and in many regions there's no proper waste management.

Where I live you have to collect it separately and bring it somewhere on your own. The smaller towns next to my town oftn have this as a third/fourth bin next to general waste/paper/biological.
Unfortunately most languages (not all!) don't have a good subtype system. In C++ (or python) I can create a StockAmount class, but since this behaves like an int I have to write something like 30 operators by hand, they all have an obvious implementation but there isn't a good way to get them automatically. The I have to do the same thing with BasketItems. At least C++ lets you make a class that looks like an int, I don't know how you would do this in C, even Java doesn't have operator+ (or didn't last time I used it)

I've been thinking about writing a proposal for C++. Problem isn't easy to find something worth writing. Either it is obviously too simple to fit my needs, or it is so complex that I wouldn't accept it if I were on the committee - and this the thought exercise stage where true rigor of reasoning hasn't been applied.
Yes, it is an inherent limitation of Wayland because Wayland assumes a compositor and compositors run asynchronously to the applications that produce graphics (it could be possible to run them synchronously but then a single application could freeze the entire desktop - and even when it worked, you'd force all applications to sync with each other), meaning that what the compositor composes is based on the last complete frame it got (and while the compositor is composing its composition the application might as well be waiting, virtual thumbs twirling, with a new frame ready).

In comparison X11 doesn't assume a compositor - it can support composition, but doesn't require it. If there isn't a compositor, applications draw directly to the framebuffer and content appears as long as it is sent to the GPU (you may even send stuff faster than the monitor can keep up with - this is how you get tearing for example).

You can work around Wayland's limitation the same way you can work around it in Windows: get a monitor with faster refresh rates. As usual, better hardware is what fills the holes created by shoddy software (i got an expensive 165Hz monitor expecting to have a never-seen-before butter smooth experience on Windows - in reality what i got was more or less the experience i had back when i could disable the compositor in Windows 7).
> We should also ban single-use plastic. If costs need to go up, then let them go up. Consumers need to understand the costs of their consumption and we can’t destroy our planet so that corporations can be more profitable.

The hitch is affordability for people with lower incomes. While it is easy to be critical about single serving beverages and over packages potato chips, the vast majority of goods found in most grocery stores are packaged.
> I think most users appreciate the lack of malware on IPhones.

Do they?

What about bugs?

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15556/Apple-Iphone-Os.htm...
We don't really have tenure like in America.
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The reason is money. Labor is a lot higher in the US over Mexico. Cheaper to trash and remake vs reuse. You would need a stick or carrot in the economic cost to shift behavior. Corporations are smart, they will choose the cheaper path.
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Which would make a little bit more sense if they weren't also suing Google at the same time, but I guess at least they're going after mobile altogether at the same time.

It'll be interesting to see what happens. If they win this case (unlikely) it will cause a lot of changes. It really is an interesting case though. I see applications across multiple industries and services (Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc.) as well as Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and others.

If you can bypass the Apple App Store, I'm not finding a compelling reason that you can't bypass ANY App Store or similar product. If Nintendo sells a new console, they'll have to let you install any app store. Hell, why can't I create my own app store and publish it? Why only Epic?
Before knowing the Web, I spent afternoons after the school chatting with strangers on the Minitel, instant messaging was the big thing. Seeing the popularity of the chat feature, a lot of entrepreneurs decided to launch erotic services well-known as "Minitel Rose". People essentially spent their time (and paid a fortune) to flirt with chatbots.
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And what does that have to do with the Paris agreement, which is about limiting emissions?
I've heard college instructors use words like "Shiturdino" when teaching an intro course into microcontrollers. The dumb elitism exists even in cases where Arduino would be absolutely okay.
well the problem is that SQLException is not a good exception at all.
it actually includes the following errors:

- database connection closed
- SQLTimeoutException (o.O)
- protocol exceptions like duplicated key
- query exceptions

the problem is that some of them are recoverable but usually it's more of an hassle and duplicated key exceptions are easier to handle in app code via upsert, etc.

so basically the problems are library designer errors and not application writer errors.

checked excpetions should only be exceptions that a developer COULD handle and not ones that he can't

in C# the library designers usually create a "Result" object that has a boolean of succeded or status of enum instead of using exceptions for failures. i.e. most i/o errors are not recoverable, thus c# does not enforce you to recover from them.
> i think the guy you're responding to is thinking more in terms of when there are more jobs then devs, not the other way around.

No, I'm thinking if you pay peanuts you'll get monkeys. It is rare for a situation to stay the same after money gets involved. People make decisions based on money.
Ah, the third leg of the solutions stool: civil, government, and tech. I'd argue any culture will have a mix of all three.

For traffic accidents, there might be various applications of lawsuits, citations, and speed bumps in your town.

In the case of SaaS, we might have only one or two. For example, take LinkedIn last week, selling everyone's PII to ScribD. There might be legal issue in GDPR or CA jurisdictions. There's probably no civil one (?). There is certainly no tech one: you need your PII to be on LI so your friends can find you, because that's the value of LI. I suppose in there future there could be a tech solution here with agents representing you in the cloud, or maybe e2e homomorphic encryption, but it's surely not what drives LI's income at the moment.
Demanding infinite growth is not compatible with not incinerating the planet. You can't have both.
We're running v2 in production too; I work for a financial exchange so low latency is key.
One thing to consider is that plenty of packaged foods seal their bags with pure nitrogen to keep the humidity under control and eliminate oxygen ageing the food in storage. It's the same reason why a bag of chips can have some quite lengthy expiration date and still taste fresh when you open them but leave them sitting in your cupboards for a while and now they're noticeably less fresh. Having some sort of chip dispenser (or cereal, goldfish, whatever) would make that quite a bit harder to deal with.
You are forgetting the Additional Medicare Tax of 0.9% that kicks in at $200,000 (single) or $250,000 (married joint).

There is also the Net Investment Income Tax of 0.9% that applies to all unearned income when you hit those same thresholds, including but not limited to income that qualifies as long-term capital gains.