skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Special shout-out to JA:DG's asymmetric multi-player missions. eg:

Team1 Goal: Take a picture of item on some desk (only one of your team has a camera), in a building guarded by NPC's.

Team2 Goal: Assassinate High Value Captive in that same building guarded by NPC's.

Neither team knew what the other's goal was, and a squad-wipe was basically a guaranteed win for your side.

It added a huge amount of uncertainty and variety to multiplayer games, as there was never an optimal strategy.

While squad-wipe was guaranteed to be a win, pursuing a squad-wipe was generally much more "expensive" of a victory than what your opponent might be shooting for (eg: eliminating or retrieving a single objective).

Other descriptions here, but I've surprisingly never found a comprehensive list of multiplayer objectives when I've gone looking for them. (I distinctly remember "eliminate merc, eliminate npc, explode item, picture item, rescue captive, rescue item, ...and much much more!")

https://steamcommunity.com/app/283270/discussions/0/55875425...
https://steamcommunity.com/app/283270/discussions/0/55875425...
Most younger people I know (obviously a biased sample) are strongly anti-suburb
Close, yet so far. Kiosk opens in fullscreen mode, no window controls. Chrome's --app opens a normal desktop window but without browser controls so that it looks like a desktop app.
I think there might be permanent changes, but I also still see a useful role for in-person meetings even for primarily remote employees. I'll 1) give an example of why I think this useful and 2) the the type of meeting I think would make sense for this purpose:

1) My group has been all remote since March. In June, we got a new boss, and we've been meeting remotely, phone conversations, etc. It worked out find. But then in August my boss needed to drop something off at my home. She came to my house, mask on, and gave me the technical documents I needed, and then we stood outside for about half an hour just talking, about family, kids, work, whatever. This meeting transformed my sense of our working relationship. A person who had been a face on a screen suddenly felt much more real, much more like a living breathing person. Of course I knew they were "real" before, but that brief in-person meeting really made a difference.

2) Normal meetings are not the appropriate format for something like. I think they should be more social, less structured in nature. Perhaps something like a once-monthly extended lunch-meeting that would just be a free flowing discussion of active projects, no agenda, just lunch & discussion. If things veer off of work topics, so be it. If the remote workers are really scattered, it could be done once every 6 months or so.

I recognize that there are personalities that don't need/want/benefit much from this sort of interaction. In those circumstances, their physical presence at meetings like this might not do anything for them, but it's a two-way interaction, and that could still be beneficial for the people they meet, if not for them.
Is it deprecated yet?
I tried to give it a shot. Tables is, for reasons I cannot understand, geo-locked.

> Tables is not yet available
> The Tables beta is currently available in the U.S.
Swift on Windows
High Engagement on Hamburger Menus
We really know very little with certainty about the ancient and classical chapters of our history. Even the medieval period is very spotty.
This actually reminds me of big miners eating small miners when it came to mining cryptocurrency.

We used to have arguments about whether bitcoin is valuable if everyone didn’t have a chance to mine.

I guess such is capitalism.
Every sufficiently complicated text editor and CI setup re-invents half of a good IDE, but worse.
In this case wouldn't pretty much any technology qualify as eventually there would be fibre back at the datacenter, even in case of 56k dial-up?

Regardless of whether it's legal it is still a scummy thing to do and a major failure from the regulators. Calling crap like cable or DSL as "fibre" not only muddies the waters (DSL performance highly depends on wire quality, so one "fibre" might be 10x faster than your "fibre" despite them both being "fibre") and makes it super hard for people to know what they're actually getting.

When it comes to speeds, how is that determined considering DSL speeds are unknown until you actually try it (and by that time you're already in a contract)? Is it just a meaningless "up to <theoretical maximum>" figure?
That's a wonderfully useful idea. And while I love that privacy.com is getting more publicity from this and will become better known and more widely used, as it's a tool I routinely tell people about, I also know the bigger they get the richer a target they become for bad actors.
As a digital nomad we almost always look at accommodation before deciding to go somewhere and it's mostly always AirBnB, since hotels don't have the facilities we need.
>"I wonder if this argument holds less weight now that people in blocks of flats in some metropolises have less interest in interacting with their neighbours than decades ago -- in Helsinki for instance it is a faux pas to speak to one's neighbours, and some even claim that politeness demands you check through the peephole that the hallway is empty before going out, so you don't bump into a neighbour and make him/her uncomfortable."

What evidence is there that people in "some metropolises have less interest in interacting with their neighbours than decades ago"? I can't speak for Helsinki but honestly the behavior you describe sounds borderline pathological. I've lived in many cities around the world and would not describe that as common.
So does this run DOS on Windows? Or DOS on Linux? Or Linux on DOS? Or DOS on Linux on Windows? Would be nice if there were an explanation in the README.
16 years ago, one of those countries met that definition for a period of 14 months.
I think silencing criticism of human rights abuses is bad. Your whataboutism does not cut it here.
This is a pretty good article that I think will answer your question: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/more-thoughts-on-the-expr... - it shows how typeclasses almost but not quite solve the Expression Problem, then goes on to use higher-kinded types for a more complete solution.
> It is common for affirmative action students to not do very well there.
Do you have any data at all for this?

You can find one study here
https://www.epw.in/engage/article/Survey-at-an-IIT-Campus-Sh....

General category has a higher percentage of attended govt school and less private school than SC/ST. Interesting to see that is not true for OBC.
True. On the other hand, many of those past behaviors that we see as wrong for today were a big part of how we got to our present high standard of living. Doing those bad things was cheaper and faster than less bad methods.

If we are going to tell lower standard of living countries that they need to take the slower or more expensive routes to wealth instead of using the same bad ways we did, we should be using some of our wealth to subsidize those more expensive routes for them.
this is a straw man. The point is not its absolute energy consumption, but its energy consumption relative to other alternatives.

How much energy does it take to operate the current global financial infrastructure? The current global financial structure employs millions of people (who fly on planes, create waste, etc.), hundreds of millions of office square footage, data centers, etc.

Furthermore, there are cases in which consuming energy actually reduces GHG emissions, as is the case for consuming otherwise flared methane gas. See https://www.upstreamdata.ca .
The US could just extract a few key TSMC engineers, turn its facilities into a crater, and back out. I don't think anyone wants to start WWIII with China over an exiled Chinese government living on an island that's less than 200 miles from the Chinese mainland other than an occupied Taiwanese people.

I'm not even certain that the US could land a force in the area, given China's investment in defensive missile installations.
College students argue distance learning should cost less as schools charge more
It's called Insulation Resistance Testing and an electrician would typically use a device like a Megger tester.

Here's a good video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXUuuV4_sw
Well, you tell me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrsKz1py7co
Great news. Finally some counter to these anti-social regulation dodging assaults on the already fragile social contracts in cities.
>But this is "access to secrets is sometimes needed to best write a story that's in the public interest". Wikileaks, on the other hand, seems to stake out the position that "access to secrets is in the public interest". There is no focus on story, only on disclosure, and that doesn't seem to be journalistic in nature.

The blog post, and the facts, seem to give the lie to your argument.

IIUC (and this was, presumably, the point of much of the testimony related in the blog post) Wikileaks kept the government documents encrypted and provided redacted versions to news organizations for publication and analysis.

That the journalist from The Guardian (his name escapes me at the moment) and not Assange/Wikileaks published a book which provided the decryption key for the unredacted documents, points to Assange/Wikileaks attempting to control the release of information through a number of journalists, without just dumping it all out onto the 'net.

In fact, the testimony relayed in the blog post states that explicitly.

As such, I'd argue that Assange/Wikileaks attempted to act as an archive for journalists to use in presenting the leaked documents.

If that's actually the case, it's difficult to accept the argument that Wikileaks just dumped everything out there willy-nilly.
Ha -- that's the exact same thought I had. It's also coupled with the fear that if I _do_ like the product I'll just be even more disappointed.
It still blows my mind that people think race in America isn't a caste system. It absolutely is a caste system.
> People keep talking about how large debt will “ruin” the US but it hasn’t had any effect on the US and other countries.

Yet. This argument can be viewed like smoking.

I think the real question becomes what happens when the lender decides not to lend more because they realize they're never getting paid, or the call the loans and now they want what? Our businesses, our land, our children, our sovereignty?

Also as money saturates a system, it gets used on less and less productive things. We'll see the results of spending a dollar (long run) to get a nickel (today).
Accommodation cost is the primary heuristic I use for travel. I have a personal model for places to go, and I actually prefer going to places with lower prices because the most expensive places are often just tourist traps. The places with lower prices and decent amenities but fewer tourist destinations tend to be the places that I enjoy the most.
A major conflict recently broke out in my (uk, academic) organisation between two colleagues originally from India. The aggressiveness of it really stunned everyone, especially as we thought they were friends. Turns out that none of us had recognised the caste difference between them, which was how the one from a lower caste explained it. It hasn't been resolved. If the one from the upper caste was white and the other black, it would certainly have been swiftly and directly resolved. I don't really know what to do.
You should compare city center prices before/after, where maybe 1/5 of flats is/was used for airbnb and similar short term rentals.
> If you want to learn from a book, you have to play a more active role.

The whole point of TFA is precisely this, combined with questions about how books might be better structured to facilitate a more active role.
Time for it to face the Google Music.
I'd count that as the win for the inhabitants if that can slow down the increase in price
Language server protocols are just re-inventing IDEs, but instead of using shared memory and interacting with the compiler directly you have to use an inefficient JSON pipeline.
Quite the entry into the field I'd say! I appreciate the sentiment. Probably need to stay away from Blind and other headline generator websites.
Hotels are high-density housing. Typically many floors, with many small units.
Microsoft Word stores XML documents inside a zip archive. There is a detailed specification of the format available: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards/...
Wait until it's common knowledge that political disposition is heritable.
Call it "whataboutism" if you must, but I think it's strange and counterproductive to ignore the elephant in the room when it comes to influence and control over popular media.
Thank you. I guess it would be a bit much to hope for more auxiliary FPGAs on such a portable device.
> My ISP charges 250 a month for gigabyte speeds

I don't even have the option for "gigabyte speeds" - consider yourself lucky.
Yeah, for me a federated system taken to its logical conclusion turns into p2p system.

SSB is neat, but ineed could use rearchitecting. I could imagine ssb-like system + handshake to work quite OK for certain things.

Thanks for info on Holochain. I've been only lurking in there and reading docs, so my understanding is rather shallow and theoretical.
I don't think this argument is really that relevant. Imo for a federated network to be successful it doesn't need to be huge, just big enough to sustain itself and keep the conversations going. Besides that the control over rules and the experience of the network that federation can provide can be beneficial. The only reason why Mastodon doesn't have an indie music server is because of the network effect of Twitter.
I have a bad habit of keeping everything I done forever online.
Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 7 points in the US overall, based on registration. Democrats are also much more likely to utilize mail-in and early voting than Republicans. Anecdotally, I know a lot of Republicans who believe COVID is a scam, won't wear a mask, etc., and so plan to vote in person as usual. These three things together, it's not at all surprising to me to see 4:1 and 5:1 ratios in mail-in ballot requests so far.
Yeah "Apple CEO undecided on remote" is a boring headline, but it would be news. To alter it to one extreme or the other is what we call "fake news", in other words, lies to get you to click.
Down the 1619 Project’s Memory Hole
The larger-scale lesson is that life has proved difficult to identify. We don't know all the inorganic paths to life-like signs. It will probably take a microscope to give definitive evidence, not chemistry.
Also hitting the 20yr mark and also never got a job via a referral but I imagine at some point in your career it’s no longer necessary and your resume speaks for itself. Nowadays as a fresh entrant I get the impression it’s pretty competitive and a referral can make a huge difference.
>The "typical" on-call - where when you are on-call you are magically on-call 24x7.

I ran the Engineering org for a startup and we had a small, 3 person Ops team that handled initial triage of events. About 75% of these issues were Engineering-related. My solution was to a) create an on-call rotation for Engineering and b) allow the Engineers to prioritize reliability work.

It sounds like a no-brainer, but I had to fight with the rest of the exec team to allow b) to happen, since it came at the expense of the product roadmap. I eventually won the fight and our nightly on-call volume went from 1-2 incidents per day to 1-2 every few months.

Vindication came about a year later when we were acquired by a large company. As part of the due diligence process (including 18 hours with me going over technical details in front of 30 senior folks from the acquiring company) we got major kudos for having a level of reliability that far exceeded what they typically saw for a company our size.
Nifty. And nifty that it was a solo pulse, not continuous. I wonder what the mechanism for that interference was?
I usually play French. Because I hate wiping the natives, and French co-exist with them rather easily. Occasional bands still attack your settlements, but are usually easily repelled. Just don't let natives get access to muskets or horses, and bring them a gift from time to time.
Semi-tangential but I think a lot of people look at that Wired article and affirm their own beliefs without reading it. Primarily, it references the Zhima score in Alipay which, at best, is a commercial reward point system, like get a free soda after buying 2 meals at Chipotle. It's nothing like the police risk score (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/police-violence-prediction-n...) or the court justice score (https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm...) we're building.

Also from Wired:
https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-score-system...
This unnecessary and unhelpful comment has no place on HN.
Not really. They don’t sell user data and the only targeted ads they have are in the News App and App Store, both of which you can opt out of targeting.
It sounds like you either know a lot more than me or a lot less than me. The PDFs I've dealt with don't store text as strings, they store it as individual characters. This left me having to write a heuristic based algorithm to group the characters into words, words into lines, lines into paragraphs, paragraphs into columns.

Again, as far as I know, there are no heuristics good enough to get that right for all values of PDF.
Wondering whether this is native or it's a pile of shit like Microsoft Teams (before you blame Electron, try it and realize that Teams is a whole other league that makes even Electron seem fast in comparison)?

The Teams-like top search bar and the "New Outlook" toggle switch at the top suggest the latter - it would not be easy to implement such a toggle in a native app but trivial in a Teams-like Electron app.
Take that, Microsoft! :D
So I'm sure you can imagine what happens in places where there isn't even an attendant to try, and the rest of the building is not other hotel guests having a potential lousy night but people's actual homes.
I was so confused by your comment, haha. "Recommendations, not autofill? They're going to recommend a credit card and address for me?"
Though 2.9MeV isn't "cold"; it's around ~3e10 Kelvin.
I haven't used Windows since Windows 7 so I wanted to give it a try. So far it has been very positive. I added all of my dev tools, git repos inside WSL2 and I'm running some databases in Docker. On Windows side I only have Visual Studio Code.

Things I miss:
- Some native apps for Mac (iTerm2, etc.)
- Some keyboard shortcuts
lmao the quoted source is from "Adrian Zenz". Typical western media propaganda piece
I was reading an account from the Roman Empire about parents begrudgingly using the imperial language while their kids grew up completely “Roman”. Then I reflected that if you go back far enough we all have a great^N parent who was in this situation.

Someone else in their reply mentioned Hawaii and the US but even Hawaii was unified by force by King Kamehameha. I’ve come to an uneasy acceptance of the fact that we’re all the conquerors and the conquered.
I’ll never do calls with India again. For some reason, the India team we had to work with refused to have a meeting at any other time than 3am west coast. Absolutely insane. Eventually, I just skipped the meetings - told them it wasn’t worth my time and to write better emails.
People don't want to live in industrial areas, or fully commercial areas either.

That's what "zoning" is for.

Maybe the city should just designate a zone / neighborhood for short term rentals and call it a day.
Just like that one engineer on your team that says yes to everything the manager does while writing the worst spaghetti code because he knows once he gets promoted/leaves for greener pastures, someone else will take care of the mess and he will be long gone by then.
This runs Linux "inside" of DOS, allowing you to exec Linux i686 binaries "inside" of a DOS terminal

I put inside in quotes because how this actually works is quite amusing (and apparently is actually how Windows 95 also works)
I'm aware of GNUnet, and been following it loosely for too long to remember. It's been around for like 2 decades?

Superficially it looks to me like bunch of theoreticians overcomplicated everything, and it will never be practical. Probably great project to advance your academic carrier though. But maybe I'm wrong.
Okular can handle basically everything for me, except for those Adobe-proprietary ones that require JS and all kinds of other dumb features that only Acrobat supports.
> Go's mediocrity is a feature

Removing complexity from the language just moves it onto the developer and end-user code, it doesn't eliminate it. Go's mediocrity is a ticking timebomb.
>Easy, as well as the financial compensation, we give them time in lieu. Two hours callout in the middle of the night, two (paid) hours given back on their next working day, or whenever they prefer, subject to availability of other staff.

I didn't note this in my post above, but I always gave time-in-lieu for any late night activity. However, the thing that REALLY worked best was allowing the Engineers to prioritize reliability. I had to fight to make it happen, but going from nightly to every couple months volumes was worth it.
Caste based discrimination is illegal. We have many programs which give preference to students and job applicants from historically oppressed castes.

Though people prefer to stay in their own groups (caste), you cant really ban that.
If you think the nine dash line is comical, you're going to LOVE the British drawn India-Pakistani border with the most important Sikh holy site in muslim majority Pakistan! After you have a chuckle at that, you can ask the native americans how much fun they had with map drawing lunatics during the colonization of the Americas.
All of this is true. But avoiding change is not just knee-jerk stodginess, either. In a large, long-lived Java codebase, the cost to test for breaks can be immense. So you've got to convince yourself that the cost to stay on the old JDK is greater than the cost of moving to a new one.

I think we can see from the Python 2->3 precedent that it's easy for new projects to adopt the new platform. That, in turn, incentivizes library maintainers to make the migration. But the only thing that will really motivate many business users to migrate is an end of support. Which, in Java 8's case, means we'll start seeing more movement as 2030 looms closer. That's an entirely rational business decision. 2030 is a long way away. Anything could happen on that kind of a time scale, including things that would render a migration past Java 8 a waste of resources, like the project being canceled or migrated off of Java entirely.
My company is fully remote and has been since before the pandemic. Our weekly team meetings alternate between actual meetings and hangouts, where we have no agenda and just catch up. We also do a fun group event every Friday (usually gaming since we're a board game manufacturer).

As companies transition to remote work on a more permanent basis, the most successful ones will develop strategies like these to foster a healthy culture in a remote environment.
To get an idea how bad it is getting, I'm an infosec advisor and most of my colleagues (and I as well) are now looking for work. Until recently, there were nowhere near as many of us between gigs as there are right now, and the effort needed to land a gig has never been so heavy. Even worse is that a lot of headhunters are also coming up dry. The only plus side I've noticed is that they don't all try to get you to meet with them over coffee to discuss gigs anymore...

At least in my neck of the woods, nearly nobody is spending budget money on infosec right now. It used to be a hotspot for gigs. Scary times. And we can expect another full year of this.
Ah, thanks. Apparently I didn't have my coffee or something. ::sheepish grin::